# Continuing discussion of SpaceX launches \[edited title\]

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**Created:** [December 22, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuing-discussion-of-spacex-launches-edited-title/741048 "2015-12-22T00:37:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
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Nothing particularly special about this mission, but they had some **great** ground photography this time:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zBxHrNIzp9w/maxresdefault.jpg "COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 Mission") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBxHrNIzp9w)

I can’t recall ever seeing stage separation from the outside with that level of clarity. Normally you just get a few overexposed pixels. Unfortunately, they cut away the outside shot at the moment of fairing deploy, but you do get to see the fairing halves spinning off.

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