All three digital cameras survived nearly 12 million pounds of thrust from 28 remaining working Raptor engines from the original 33. However the ballistic impacts of bowling balls to base ball chuncks of OLM concrete took out every tripod and destroyed two Go Pros.
To walk away from this historic launch attempt with digital photos and three working cameras is a miracle. SpaceX security and PAO personnel said they saw one of my orange ammo boxes in the debris but it might take a week to recover them.
Congratulations to the extremely hard working SpaceX team for the milestones reached in this test flight. They will have a lot of work repairing the pad but they will fly again.
Photos by Scott Schilke for spacenews.lu and space-news.es
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