Falcon start with Polish satellite

I’ve just watched SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket liftoff. It took 64 small satellites (called cube sats) to Earth’s orbit. Among them was one that I witnessed being born over past few years. My two friends (@maciejt_nowak and @mandrek44) were part of a team that wrote the code for one of the first polish satellites (I think it’s the 4th one?). There was also hardware team from Warsaw University of Technology, overseeing this whole PW-Sat2 project.

Falcon went into space, released second stage with payload and then landed safely on the “Just read the instructions” droneship (nice name, right?). All as expected. What a time to be alive!

See you space cowboy!

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