Falcon 9 Block 4 | TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

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18 April 2018 — NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, the 60th Falcon 9 flight. Altitude and speed through this flight’s whole climb to orbit, one reading a second from the launch webcast’s own telemetry.

■ Altitude, km■ Speed, m/sPeak 255 km · 7,140 m/s

499 readings, one a second, captured from the launch webcast’s telemetry and released into the public domain. This is the second stage’s track, which is what a webcast follows after separation — MECO is where the first stage stopped pushing. Measured on a flight that happened, not a prediction of one that has not.