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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MillCreek on April 14, 2015, 04:22:36 PM
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http://livestream.com/spacex/events/3959775
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Where's the video? All I got from that link was a few still photos.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX Dragon resupply mission en route to Space Station; Falcon 9 Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival - @elonmusk
see original on twitter.com
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Elon Musk says SpaceX Dragon resupply mission en route to Space Station; Falcon 9 Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival - @elonmusk
see original on twitter.com
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Sticking the landing is still gravy at this point. They'll get it eventually. Each crash, hard-landing etc. they learn something new to change for the next one.
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Sticking the landing is still gravy at this point. They'll get it eventually. Each crash, hard-landing etc. they learn something new to change for the next one.
What they've done is impressive enough, and they seem to be learning each time.
They guided a (14 story tall!) booster onto a floating platform 300'x100'. They landed too hard this time. I'd say they're going to get this with a little more practice. Maybe two more shots.
This really seems similar to the Wright Brothers- Space X is trying to figure out how to do something never even attempted before. There's going to be some trial and error.
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And I'm sure others have already thought of this, but can you imagine what a booster like this would do for Martian colonization? Makes it far less of a one-way trip, for starters.
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Where's the video? All I got from that link was a few still photos.
Here is the recording of it: http://livestream.com/spacex/events/3959775/videos/83958146
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YouTube of the landing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhMSzC1crr0
I was cheering on that last RCS thruster at about the 10 sec mark. :laugh: [ar15]
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Oh man, that was so close.
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They will grab the golden ring eventually. They are learning with each attempt.
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Despite the fact it was technically a "failure", when the first stage fell over and exploded on the landing barge, I felt like the little kid at the end of "The Incredibles" who screams out: "THAT WAS AWESOME!"... :rofl:
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They're making steady incremental progress. That's how engineering goes.
What they're doing is really quite impressive.
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They're making steady incremental progress. That's how engineering goes.
What they're doing is really quite impressive.
At least they are trying and learning. Cutting the cost of oribital insertion is very important.
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Despite the fact it was technically a "failure", when the first stage fell over and exploded on the landing barge, I felt like the little kid at the end of "The Incredibles" who screams out: "THAT WAS AWESOME!"... :rofl:
<pedant> He said "That was TOTALLY WICKED!", not "THAT WAS AWESOME </pedant>
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<pedant> He said "That was TOTALLY WICKED!", not "THAT WAS AWESOME </pedant>
If the little kid actually said that in a Boston/New England accent, I'd probably have remembered that. =D
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Just wait till you see what they do next after they get it to land safely on the barge.
Though, I've expressed this numerals times to my friends there, there is ZERO reason to use the barge (other than the one reason they have, which I think is dumb...really dumb)....I'll let you figure it out.
The original reason for the barge is when they soft land on water, it tips over and breaks. There is a solution, it's easy, doesn't cause substantive issues, but it doesn't allow the dumb thing they want to do.