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Originally Posted by Donger
I'd like to learn more about how the first stage does a veritable about face. I presume that staging happens around 60 miles or so, and probably a few thousand MPH?
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This graphic gives you the basic gist at least:
As for the speeds, some geek on the SpaceX subreddit crunched all sorts of numbers from the launch...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=2057127134
According to the video, boostback started at 3:50 (230 seconds), so that would put it around 98km (58 miles) out and at about 1600m/s (3600 mph).