Falcon 9 Orbcomm 2 - First Stage Landing in RSS

[winged]

Recreation of upcoming Orbcomm 2 mission with first stage recovery.  Falcon 9 in a new “Full Thrust” configuration is expected to depart Cape Canaveral at 20:29 Eastern time (01:29 UTC on Tuesday).

Music: Mini Solar System - Sheridan Tongue.

 

MODS:

Rocket -> Procedural Parts, Procedural Fairings

Merlin engines -> StarShine Industries

Landing gears, grid fins -> LazTek

Payload -> AIES, Proc. parts

NEBULA Decals with my own stickers

RSS, RO, RVE, Scaterrer, Trajectories

 

 

 

My planes for upcoming months are as following:

-Constellation Mars Mission

-Voyager 2

-more planes and spaceplanes in RSS

 

Edited December 21, 2015 by winged

[MrMeeb]

Now that was a nail bitingly close landing!  

[winged]

They did it!

[GeneCash]

It was really cloudy but I still saw the retro burn through the clouds. It was REALLY STRANGE seeing it going the "wrong" way after 20 years of watching launches always going up and not down.

Also, it was HAULING ASS coming back... much faster than a launch.