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  • #52
    padyjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭padyjoe


    Spot on Stage 1 landing. And the video feed didn't drop that much this time, the onboard camera clearly showed as the engine touched down on the target.
    My mind blown. This never gets old. Me very likey rockets! :-)


  • #53
    Hmmzis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭Hmmzis


    The lack of ablative coating on the new titanium grid fins helps with keeping the camera lens clean. The previous fins used a white thermal protective coating over the aluminium that got blasted off during reentry (hence the 'ablative' in the description) and deposited right onto the camera lens.

    Looked like a hard landing, the legs appear to be very compressed and there is very little clearance from the bells to the deck. Given the state of the seas there it's impressive that it landed at all! The roll in the video was the worst I've seen on a Falcon landing so far.


  • #54
    Ghost Train
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    I guess this was Fridays landing

    https://twitter.com/CaliaDomenico/status/878341451532218368


  • #55
    Hmmzis
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    Ghost Train wrote: »
    I guess this was Fridays landing

    https://twitter.com/CaliaDomenico/status/878341451532218368

    Nope, that's an old one (CRS-8?). The latest two haven't been released yet. Also, I don't think they had airborne cameras for the landings this time. That's usually done by NASA chase planes for NASA missions (CRS, respectively).


  • #56
    Ghost Train
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    Hmmzis wrote: »
    Nope, that's an old one (CRS-8?). The latest two haven't been released yet. Also, I don't think they had airborne cameras for the landings this time. That's usually done by NASA chase planes for NASA missions (CRS, respectively).

    Well that explains why sea looked rougher. Probably saw the video before myself


  • #57
    Stan27
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    Really getting to the stage where all rockets are expected to land now.
    Regarding the rocket that was disposed last Monday, the new version block 5 comes at the end of the year, there should be no more wasted falcon 9 cores.


  • #58
    Stan27
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    Heavy launching November !!!


  • #59
    josip
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    X-37B away before Irma.

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/07/spacex-us-air-force-shuttle-mission


  • #60
    Capt'n Midnight
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    josip wrote: »
    X-37B away before Irma.

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/07/spacex-us-air-force-shuttle-mission
    It took a long time , but the USAF finally got their Dyan-Soar after manned space was given to NASA :)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-20_Dyna-Soar


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  • #61
    josip
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    I just read that they're going to remove the landing legs from the Falcon 9.
    ...with its perfection of its Falcon 9 first stage landings to the point where the next mod of the rocket will eliminate the landing legs


  • #62
    SuperTortoise
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    Just watched the latest Elon presentation on the Spacex channel on YouTube, awe-inspiring!

    They have actually started building BFR already!


  • #63
    Thargor
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    SuperTortoise wrote: »
    Just watched the latest Elon presentation on the Spacex channel on YouTube, awe-inspiring!
    Cringe-inducing at the same time, the constant pauses for applause and the smugness, it was a bit nauseating.


  • #64
    Kuva
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    SuperTortoise wrote: »
    Just watched the latest Elon presentation on the Spacex channel on YouTube, awe-inspiring!

    They have actually started building BFR already!

    Is it not shrinking in size?


  • #65
    SuperTortoise
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    Slightly smaller that the version proposed last year, they seem to have settled for the latest design.

    Whats interesting is they plan to remove the landing legs and land the stages directly back on their launch platform, will need immense accuracy.


  • #66
    ricimaki
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    The CRS-13 launch has got some really good footage of the Booster separating, boost-back burn and landing. I'd recommend looking at around the 18:20 mark of this video. Don't think ground camera's ever caught that in as much detail before.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPHbqY9LHCs


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  • #67
    Beeker
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    ricimaki wrote: »
    The CRS-13 launch has got some really good footage of the Booster separating, boost-back burn and landing. I'd recommend looking at around the 18:20 mark of this video. Don't think ground camera's ever caught that in as much detail before.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPHbqY9LHCs

    I have to say that was a great launch and recovery. Can't get enough of these launches.
    Check out the NASA footage below. fantastic close up view of the stage one landing burn and sonic booms starting at 07:48. Magnificent :)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDQ3Y9iPARY


  • #68
    Thargor
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    Beeker wrote: »
    I have to say that was a great launch and recovery. Can't get enough of these launches.
    Check out the NASA footage below. fantastic close up view of the stage one landing burn and sonic booms starting at 07:48. Magnificent :)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDQ3Y9iPARY
    Ha, look at the dolphin @ 00:24, hope it wasnt too loud for him.


  • #69
    josip
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    Won't be long now.

    https://newatlas.com/elon-musk-falcon-heavy/52711/


  • #70
    Nate--IRL--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--


    That footage of the Stage separation and the Stage 1 doing a U-turn mid-flight was amazing.

    Nate


  • #71
    Beeker
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    josip wrote: »
    Won't be long now.

    https://newatlas.com/elon-musk-falcon-heavy/52711/


    Can't wait for this, should be quite the show :)


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  • #72
    Thargor
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    Look at this launch footage, its straight out of science fiction, also a car crash:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7wbSwTuEk


  • #73
    namloc1980
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    Musk's red Tesla being encapsulated in the Falcon Heavy:

    elon-musk-tesla-roadster-falcon-heavy-7.jpg?1514392998


  • #74
    namloc1980
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    Fully stacked Falcon Heavy on the launchpad.

    FH-3.jpg


  • #75
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,329 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Comparison shot between FH and STS for scale

    aaa23.jpg


  • #76
    Stan27
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    is the exact launch time out yet ?
    really excited !!!


  • #77
    MOH
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    Stan27 wrote: »
    is the exact launch time out yet ?
    really excited !!!

    Three hour window starting at 18.30 GMT, from what I can find.
    Anyone know of any TV coverage?


  • #78
    Firefox11
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk338VXcb24


  • #79
    Sabre0001
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    Test flight today

    https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/960910705808609280

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960915618865274880

    🤪



  • #80
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    Streaming starts at 18.30 (GMT) on SpaceX.com

    They're using youtube, so in case of any bandwidth capacity issues on the SpaceX site, direct YouTube link
    (You've no idea how hard it was not to throw a rickroll in there)

    [edit] Launch delayed to 19:20 "due to upper level wind shear".
    Although there's one report saying 19:50, but I think they misread a tweet.
    (Window closes at 21:30 so if it's not launched by then it's postponed to 18:30 tomorrow)

    [edit2] Launch now 20:05 earliest (based on the SpaceX webcast page). Window closes at 21:00, not 21:30.


  • #81
    Jawgap
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    Delayed until 20:05.

    Live feed from the pad



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  • #82
    MOH
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    8:45PM now. That's pretty much last chance before tomorrow if the window closes at 9


  • #83
    Water John
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    No, there is another hour onto that. We are at GMT.


  • #84
    Capt'n Midnight
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    http://www.spacex.com/webcast says
    Live in 91 minutes for the video feed


  • #85
    pleas advice
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    live feed should start in about 5 mins


  • #86
    irishgeo
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    live now t- 20mins


  • #87
    4068ac1elhodqr
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    T-12, Will it be visible from Europe after takeoff?

    Saw something here just minutes (7 or maybe 17 I think) after launch, a few years ago,
    think it was a ISS docking thingymajig.

    958,793 watching the utube live feed.


  • #88
    Itssoeasy
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    Johnathan Moldy Joker wrote: »
    T-12, Will it be visible from Europe after takeoff?

    Saw something here just minutes (7 or maybe 17 I think) after launch, a few years ago,
    think it was a ISS docking thingymajig.

    958,793 watching the utube live feed.

    ISS docking thingymajig ? The shuttle you mean ? And no it won't be visible over Europe.


  • #89
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Now comes the tricky bit......


  • #90
    lord lucan
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    That was feckin awesome!!


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  • #91
    IanOBo
    Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭IanOBo


    Amazing!!!


  • #92
    IanOBo
    Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭IanOBo


    Amazing!!!


  • #93
    Capt'n Midnight
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    SLS really, really looks like a white elephant now.


  • #94
    Pat Dunne
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    Marvellous stuff!


  • #95
    ricimaki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭ricimaki


    https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/960980313173196800

    Now that's impressive!


  • #96
    Water John
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    That was magnificent. Don't know if the main thruster landed vertically but so many coordinated parts to the launch. The two boosters landing in synch, must be nearly impossible.
    Great nights viewing.


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  • #97
    irishgeo
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    wow just wow. going back to visit cape Canaveral in April. cant wait. i doubt the space x platform is on the tour anymore though.


  • #98
    brevity
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    That was amazing. The synchronized landing was like something from Iron Man.

    What happened the main thruster?


  • #99
    4068ac1elhodqr
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    Water John wrote: »
    That was magnificent. Don't know if the main thruster landed vertically but so many coordinated parts to the launch. The two boosters landing in synch, must be nearly impossible.
    Great nights viewing.

    Indeed for 2million on a single utube live-feed, millions more on other networks, channels and sub-channels.

    Get ready to pack the bags for Mars. Someone said you can grow potatoes up there, on the red soil. (subject to a few atmospheric modifications, and special poly tunnels).


  • #100
    Jawgap
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    brevity wrote: »
    That was amazing. The synchronized landing was like something from Iron Man.

    What happened the main thruster?

    Lands on a barge/drone ship out at sea.


  • #101
    irishgeo
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    the lack of updates suggests it didnt make it.


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