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by pikchurn 3054 days ago
They were not the same video feed.
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They said in the broadcast they weren't but when it got close to the ground you could tell they were the same feed.

https://i.imgur.com/WXQEsKo.png

https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=37m49s

You can see the flame from the other booster.
Agree, same view of the flame of the same booster, indicating it's the same camera on the same booster... the glare shows up in both feeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c&feature=youtu.be...

If it were two different cameras we'd see two different landing pads. In the end of the video both feeds are coming down on the northern pad.

Edit: Here's the sat image from december with notes added https://imgur.com/a/u6sLs

They were two feeds from two cameras on the same rocket.

Since they are on the same rocket, you see them land on the same pad.

The rockets have redundant cameras, and through a probable misconfiguration we saw two feeds from two cameras on one rocket.

Those are not at all the same. You can see different parts of the ground. You can even tell that the source of the right stream was really to the left of the other one.
You'd think it would be easy to tell. I mean, you see the other booster ignite in both views, which means they have to be looking toward each other - in opposite directions. I don't know about you, but when two people look in opposite directions they tend not to see the same things.
They are the same video streams: https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2268

Wasn't intentional, but oops.

at least at the landing they were, take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c&feature=youtu.be...