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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,055 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Launch scrubbed due to weather. Next opportunity Saturday at 22.07 Irish time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,573 ✭✭✭✭josip


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Launch scrubbed due to weather. Next opportunity Saturday at 22.07 Irish time.

    They postponed because of the overcast sky over Ireland?


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,055 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    josip wrote: »
    They postponed because of the overcast sky over Ireland?

    Yeah, sound lads at Spacex.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    06/03/2017 21:42

    T-minus 25 minutes and counting.

    https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/06/01/spacex-crs-11-mission-status-center/


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    launch now live on http://www.spacex.com/webcast

    and it's raining here :(


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭refusetolose


    how long before it pass over?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Touchdown of stage 1


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    5 mins ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,055 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Didn't see it. Clear sky but think it was still a bit too bright to pick it out.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    Beautiful view of it passing over from Waterford. Always a thing of beauty. :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭padyjoe


    I've never thought of spotting it in the sky over here. I give it a try next time.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,398 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine




  • Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Stan27


    padyjoe wrote: »
    I've never thought of spotting it in the sky over here. I give it a try next time.

    Neither did I. I thought with the curvature of the earth it would be impossible. The payload usually goes over mid Africa I think


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    Stan27 wrote: »
    Neither did I. I thought with the curvature of the earth it would be impossible. The payload usually goes over mid Africa I think

    It depends on the payload. No launch is visible from Ireland because as you point out the curvature of the earth blocks any view towards Florida, either way the launch itself is well over long before it reaches Ireland. What we see is the payload after separation from the rocket in orbit passing overhead. A lot of the launches from Florida with satellites do head southeast towards the equator so will pass over Africa but payloads for the ISS launch northeast placing the satellite into an orbit that passes over Ireland.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,354 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Beeker wrote: »
    It depends on the payload. No launch is visible from Ireland because as you point out the curvature of the earth blocks any view towards Florida, either way the launch itself is well over long before it reaches Ireland. What we see is the payload after separation from the rocket in orbit passing overhead. A lot of the launches from Florida with satellites do head southeast towards the equator so will pass over Africa but payloads for the ISS launch northeast placing the satellite into an orbit that passes over Ireland.

    did we not see the external fuel tank and shuttle over ireland a few years back.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,848 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Yep, we've seen resupply missions chasing the ISS loads of times aswell, it happens.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭padyjoe


    Falcon9 going again in 8 minutes with a comm satellite!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭JackieChan


    Broadcasting live on SpaceX channel on youtube now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭padyjoe


    Stage 1 has landed on the droneship already. Some achievement. Again. :eek:


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


    That was one toasty landing! Doesn't look they will be able to try out the 'roomba' this time. The engine bells look like almost touching the deck of OCISLY. Can't wait for the on-board footage from the barge to be released.

    Next one Sunday from Vandenberg.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭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! :-)


  • Registered Users 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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,950 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train




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



    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).


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,950 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Stan27


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Stan27


    Heavy launching November !!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,573 ✭✭✭✭josip




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    josip wrote: »
    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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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,573 ✭✭✭✭josip


    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


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