Night launches are beautiful, as captured at 2:40am today by Erik Kuna on the roof of the huge VAB. The clear night unveils the beauty of the nebulae, with the Falcon Heavy upper stage on the right and the two side boosters pivoting for the return on left.
This was the most complicated SpaceX launch to date and the video feed has some incredible scenes of the boosters returning to land from the infrared tracking cameras: https://youtu.be/Vp-bX61xID4?t=2394
The side boosters previously flew in April of this year, making this the first “flight-proven” Falcon Heavy launch. They were both recovered on land to fly again. The carbon fiber fairing was also guided back to a precise landing on the ship formerly known as Mr. Steven, a first. The upper stage placed 24 separate spacecraft in three different orbits. The spacecraft include the Air Force Research Laboratory Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) satellite; the NOAA-sponsored Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC-2) constellation; four NASA experiments; and many other missions: https://www.spacex.com/stp-2
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