SpaceX Teams Up With Twitter To Provide New Views Of Rocket Launch

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SpaceX launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites from the Vandenberg Space Force base in California earlier today. The mission took 47 Starlink satellites to orbit in a night time launch that saw the paunch pad lit up by the flame of the nine Merlin 1D engines firing up to take the payload to orbit. It marked SpaceX's 42nd launch for the year and 241st overall mission. The mission came just four days after SpaceX had launched its previous mission with an Indonesian satellite, as it marked the firm's adherence to a rapid launch cadence that has so far placed it on track to launch one hundred missions this year.

While the mission itself was a standard SpaceX launch, today was the first time that SpaceX teamed up with Twitter to provide multiple views of the event. Ever since the firm's chief Mr. Elon Musk has taken over the social media site, Twitter has significantly upgraded its video streaming platform. The platform now allows users additional features, typically found on video streaming sites like YouTube, such as toggling video speed.

While SpaceX simultaneously streams its launches on both Twitter and YouTube, today was the first time that it used Twitter to provide multiple views of the Falcon 9 rocket. These were from a variety of cameras that SpaceX itself uses to keep track of its vehicles during launch, and they included a view from a camera placed on the first stage Falcon 9 booster, a camera placed inside the second stage, another placed on SpaceX's drone ship in the Pacific Ocean and a view from inside the first stage that typically shows the first and second stages