Gotcha. You may have also noticed that the camera feed from the booster dropped out just before landing. That's because as it descends, it drops below the horizon from the telemetry tracking station at the Cape. First stage telemetry is tracked from the Cape, and second stage to orbit is picked up by both ground stations further along (in this case, Wallops Island, Virginia) and from our Tracking and Data Relay Satellites in geosync orbit. All the in-capsule camera foootage came from the latter, but since first stage telemetry is no longer vital after it separates, they don't devote any bandwidth to that via TDRS. Clear?

We also did see the 2ns stage separation, but it was a brief view and they went to it about a second after it happened. There were a few shots of the Dragon as it floated away that were really cool, too.


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