Bobby Shafto | SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch: April 1st, 2024 @bobshafto | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
This was the launch of Starlink Group 7-18 from Vandenberg SFS, aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster. Launch began at 1930 PDT, 1 April 2024.
My location was on Point Loma's Luscomb's Point, at Sunset Cliffs.
Coordinates: 32.725250, -117.258167
Height: approximately 30 ft
Distance to Vandenberg Launch Pad Facility: approximately 233.7 miles.
First capture of the rocket from my position in San Diego near sea level can be seen about 1 minute after liftoff. (1:08)
At that moment, the vehicle had already ascended to an altitude of about 9 kilometers (about 30,000 ft).
The first inset video, positioned in the upper right hand corner at the start of the video, is the SpaceX video feed, streamed live by @SpaceflightNowVideo with SpaceFlightNow narration.
The second inset, initially in the upper left, is the simultaneous webcam feed by @805Webcams from a camera positioned above Avila Beach, north of the Vandenberg Space Force Base launch facility.
Coordinates: 35.18213392816902, -120.74300974111436
Height: approximately 600 ft
Distance to Launch: approximately 38.7 miles
Camera used: Panasonic Lumix FZ-2500
Manual focus was, unfortunately, not as sharp as it could have been.
This is a re-upload of an earlier video with some minor edits.
This was the launch of Starlink Group 7-18 from Vandenberg SFS, aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster. Launch began at 1930 PDT, 1 April 2024.
My location was on Point Loma's Luscomb's Point, at Sunset Cliffs.
Coordinates: 32.725250, -117.258167
Height: approximately 30 ft
Distance to Vandenberg Launch Pad Facility: approximately 233.7 miles.
First capture of the rocket from my position in San Diego near sea level can be seen about 1 minute after liftoff. (1:08)
At that moment, the vehicle had already ascended to an altitude of about 9 kilometers (about 30,000 ft).
The first inset video, positioned in the upper right hand corner at the start of the video, is the SpaceX video feed, streamed live by @SpaceflightNowVideo with SpaceFlightNow narration.
The second inset, initially in the upper left, is the simultaneous webcam feed by @805Webcams from a camera positioned above Avila Beach, north of the Vandenberg Space Force Base launch facility.
Coordinates: 35.18213392816902, -120.74300974111436
Height: approximately 600 ft
Distance to Launch: approximately 38.7 miles
Camera used: Panasonic Lumix FZ-2500
Manual focus was, unfortunately, not as sharp as it could have been.
This is a re-upload of an earlier video with some minor edits.
