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  • Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭IanOBo


    Amazing!!!


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


    SLS really, really looks like a white elephant now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,000 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    Marvellous stuff!


  • Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭ricimaki




  • Registered Users Posts: 21,066 ✭✭✭✭Water John


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


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭brevity


    That was amazing. The synchronized landing was like something from Iron Man.

    What happened the main thruster?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭ Johnathan Moldy Joker


    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).


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


    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.


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


    the lack of updates suggests it didnt make it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭brevity


    irishgeo wrote: »
    the lack of updates suggests it didnt make it.

    Yea, this is what I think as well.


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


    probably trying to figure out what went wrong with the core before releasing the video?


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,066 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Seemed to make it, but possibly did not land vertically.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,099 ✭✭✭John mac


    crashed and burned i recon,,
    dual landing was great , as is the man in the tesla.
    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--




  • Registered Users Posts: 12,752 ✭✭✭✭Encrypted Pigeon


    Need to listen to some Bowie to cap it off now.


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



    2 out of 3 aint bad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Tim the Enchanter


    That was fantastic. Sitting here watching with the kids, eldest lad (9) says can you pause it i need to go to the toilet, says i, this is no movie lad, this is actually happening!!! 'Cool'. The visit to the toilet was paused!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,066 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Yeah, remember the moon landing, when I was 12. These are memories that trigger a lifetime interest. Nice family memory for you too.


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


    Excellent result......who'd have thought it possible a few years ago.

    Over to Bezos to beat that!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭emo72


    no footage of the landing on the barge?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Tim the Enchanter


    emo72 wrote: »
    no footage of the landing on the barge?

    Looks like it was lost as above!! A shame but i think a result they may have taken before launch.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭greedygoblin


    Looks like it was lost as above!! A shame but i think a result they may have taken before launch.

    Yep, seems it didn't make it...

    https://twitter.com/falconheavycore/status/960987698646327296


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



    thats a parody account.


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


    Centre Core lost...
    They've landed them before so no biggie. Nothing to prove there, but it would have been nice.

    But three cores taking off together and flying at different throttle levels and separating, that's new.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Tim the Enchanter



    That's a brilliant image. Almost unbelievable.


  • Registered Users Posts: 39,366 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Jesus that was unreal. That seemed to go as well as could be expected.

    SpaceX have kicked on in a big way now IMO.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭greedygoblin


    They seem to have a live feed of the upper stage up and running.



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


    Falcon Heavy in a throwaway configuration can put 63.8 tonnes into LEO. But it will cost a hefty surcharge on the reusable cost of $0.09Bn.

    The much delayed SLS will only do 70 tonnes at first :eek:

    And it's been delayed till December next year, or 2020 or never.

    So far there's been $31Bn spent on re-inventing Apollo and the prospect of another $3-4Bn a year for the foreseeable future ?


    How can NASA justify SLS now ?
    It's a one trick pony, and not a trick that often needed.


    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-nasa/nasa-delays-debut-launch-of-23-billion-moon-rocket-and-capsule-idUSKBN18833L
    By the end of the next fiscal year on September 30, 2018, NASA will have spent $23 billion on the rocket, capsule, launch site and support systems, according to an audit by NASA’s Office of Inspector General.

    That excludes $9 billion spent on the mothballed Constellation lunar exploration program, which included initial development of the Orion and a second heavy-lift rocket.

    Initially, the SLS rocket, which uses engines left over from the space shuttle program and shuttle-derived solid rocket boosters, will have the capacity to put about 77 tons (70 metric tons) into an orbit about 100 miles (160 km) above Earth.

    Later versions are expected to carry nearly twice that load.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,099 ✭✭✭John mac


    440939.png
    new desktop ..
    :)


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