After 13 years, the US gold launcher LC39 has once again interpreted the double arrow in the same frame.
Due to the different shooting angles, the two rockets look very different in size. But it's all real photos. In fact, the two arrows are 2.7 kilometers apart.
●Coordinates: Cape Canaveral, Florida Kennedy Space Center LC39A, 39B
● Protagonist: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket/manned dragon spacecraft VS. NASA lunar arrow ship combination SLS/Orion
● Falcon 9 rocket / Manned Dragon spacecraft (F9 / Dragon)
○The height of the arrow boat is 65 meters
○ Takeoff thrust 1.7 million pounds (771 tons of force)
○ Maximum capacity of 22.8 tons in low Earth orbit (consumable launch)
○ Both stage rockets/Dragon ships can be reused (stage 2 rockets and Dragon ship trunk consumable type)
○ Round-trip manned space missions to and from the International Space Station
○ Cost per mission $220 million
● NASA Lunar Arrow Ship Combo: Space Launch System + Orion Spacecraft (SLS/Orion)
○The height of the arrow boat is 98 meters
○ Takeoff thrust 8.8 million pounds (3991 tons of force)
○ Maximum capacity of 95 tons in low Earth orbit (consumable launch)
○ Manned spaceflight missions to and from the moon
○ Cost per mission $4.1 billion
SpaceX Mission: Axiom 1 (Axiom-1/Ax-1)
This will be the world's first full-staff private manned spaceflight mission to the International Space Station; the world's first five-hand rocket (B1062.5) to perform a manned space mission; and the first three-hand manned spacecraft (Endeavour C206.3) to perform a manned space mission.
Note: Axio-1 is SpaceX's private manned spaceflight series of missions carried by Axiom Space, and will operate at least four missions over the next two years: Ax-1, Ax-2, Ax-3, and Ax-4. The Ax-1 was launched at 11:27 EST on April 8 (23:27 Beijing time on April 8) for a 10-day mission to the International Space Station.
NASA Mission: Artemis 1
This will be the first unmanned test flight of the U.S. lunar return program, the Artemis mission; the first space launch system (SLS) + Orion spacecraft (Orion) mission around the moon; the first return to the moon since the Apollo 17 mission on August 28, 1972; and the first reactivation of the 39B launch site since the first (single launch) of the Ares I-X rocket on October 28, 2009.
Note: Artemis 1 is the first launch of the Re-Moon program and the first test flight of the SLS/Orion Arrow ship system. Launch no earlier than June 6 is planned for a circumlunar flight lasting approximately 26 days.
● The double arrow is 13 years apart from the frame
F9/Dragon, SLS/Orion two sets of launch systems occupy LC39A and B at the same time, standing facing each other, ready to go. This is the second time that the US gold launcher LC39 has staged a double arrow in the same frame after 13 years. You know, the American Apollo era, the space shuttle era is not uncommon, the launch busy season is often LC39A, B double arrow standby, ready to fly.
Until 13 years ago, in May 2009, the two space shuttles last occupied the golden launch position at the same time, when the Space Shuttle Endeavour stood on Launch Pad 39B and the Space Shuttle Atlantis stood on Pad 39A, preparing to fly into space for a Hubble telescope maintenance mission.
● U.S. gold launch bit LC39
LC39, full name Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, is located at Cape Canaveral Base in Florida, USA, with two launch pads: LC39A and LC39B. It was the launch pad where Saturn 5 was launched during the Apollo moon landings, where 12 manned space launch missions were launched, and where the space shuttle was launched during the space shuttle era. The superposition of historical honor and the glory of today.
LC39A: As the number one golden launch site in the United States, Kennedy Space Center 39A, SpaceX has been leased from NASA since the end of 2014 for a period of 20 years. First launched in 2017, it has become the highest launch site in SpaceX's Lucky Index. As of April 7, 2022, a total of 45 Falcon series rockets have been launched, 100% of which have been successful, including SpaceX's most important and glorious N launches: 5 launches of the Crew Dragon spacecraft (DM-2, Crew-1/2/3, Inspiration 4; 3 launches of heavy eagle rockets). Since the first launch of Saturn V in 1967, there have been a total of 139 launches here (12 saturn V, 82 space shuttles, 42 Falcon 9, and 3 heavy eagles). The 140th launch mission (Ax-1) is coming soon.
LC39B: As a sister launch pad to LC39A, it is also used to launch Saturn V, space shuttles, manned space missions, etc. To date, a total of 57 launches have been made, including 53 space shuttle missions, the first of which was the launch of the Saturn V Apollo 10 mission on May 18, 1969, and the last launch was the only mission of The God of War 1-X on October 28, 2009. In the future, it will be the only launch home of the Artemis series of missions. Artemis 1 is set to be launched, for a total of 58 missions.