SpaceX launches rocket from Cape Canaveral after Hurricane Nicole

today’s booster is flying for its 14th time previously having supported Dragon’s first crewed demonstration mission. The radar start constellation mission Sirius XM seven and 10 previous starlink missions, if you look closely at this rocket, you see that we don’t have any landing legs here or grit fins. In fact on this first stage and that’s because we won’t be attempting to land this first stage today. Today’s mission requires additional propellant that we would normally use for recovery and so we’re going to be using that propellant to take the payloads to orbit. Now moving up above the first stage, we’ve got our second stage that has *** single merlin vacuum or m back engine that ignites shortly after the first stage will separate and it’s the second stage that will carry the intelsat Galaxy 31 32 satellites to orbit the payload for today’s launch are enclosed inside the 17 ft diameter payload fairing which is that nose cone structure at the very top of the second stage. It’s made of *** carbon composite material and it protects the satellites as we make our way to orbit. Will jettison those fairing halves approximately three minutes into the flight. And both of those fairing halves are flight proven having both of them flying for their fifth times. Will be attempting to recover them after separation on *** recovery vessel named bob. Lastly that large trust structure next to the vehicle is called the transporter erector or the T. E. We use it to roll the rock it out to the pad and raise it to its vertical launch position. Now the T. E. E. Routes vehicle fluids power and telemetry from the ground systems to the rocket and that continues until Falcon nine switches over to internal power and clears the pad. Now. You might be able to see it there. We’ve begun to open the clamp arms around the second stage That’s in preparation for transporter erector retract And that’s where the T. E. will begin to slightly back away from the stage to clear the way for liftoff at T zero hydraulic systems. There’s *** call out therapy strong back retract the at t minus zero. The hydraulic systems will actually pull the T. E. Further away, clearing the way further for Falcon Nine’s liftoff. And you can see there the tv making *** small angle with the first stage. You also may have heard some call outs there that we’ve begun pressurizing the stage in preparation for to retract. So we began pressurizing the system. We use *** helium pressuring on the on Falcon 9 to pressurize the tanks. At this point in the countdown, we are nearly fully loaded with about *** million pounds of RP one fuel that the type of refined kerosene and liquid oxygen on the vehicle. We just heard the call out there that liquid oxygen loading is complete on the first stage. We’ll hear *** similar call out for liquid oxygen loading complete…