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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I know. It is amazing how far we have come that they can even design it to operate that way. Thanks for sharing PKIDelirium!
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Join Date: May 2004
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Scott Manley explains it well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH1nyPIvLjI giggity |
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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And another one. At 23:20 is the best video of the 1st stage recovery landing that I've seen so far. Very well done.
I watched a video somewhere about the timing required for that landing burn. It literally has to be *exact*, because without the fuel and payload, that single Raptor engine will send the first stage right back into the sky unless it shuts down exactly as the landing legs touch down. Any longer and the thing re-launches! - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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The fact that these landings on drone ships have become routine still blows my mind.
I remember the first few where it missed, or fell over, etc... and it was so close, yet seemed so far away. Now? It's basically guarantee that these things are being recovered (when possible) What a crazy and great time to be back into the space race. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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There were two failed droneship landings earlier this year, both on Starlink launches. One was the one I used before to describe the safety trajectory for booster landings, which lost the center engine late in ascent, was unable to carry out the entry burn properly and subsequently disintegrated, and the other was similar to CRS-16's landing abort just off the Cape from the ground LZ, which experienced a problem and automatically steered away from the ship during the landing burn, performing a "soft landing" in the ocean. That one, like CRS-16 remained almost entirely intact but was too far offshore to tow back, so they brought in a ship-mounted crane from the Morehead City port (generally the closest port to the landing areas) to scrap it where it was.
Other than that, I don't even remember when the last droneship landing failure was. Two Falcon Heavy center cores missed but those involved the first two flights ever of Falcon Heavy and it was questionable if they'd be able to land them. The third Falcon Heavy center core landed successfully, but unfortunately the "roomba" robot carried on the drone ship to come out and anchor the booster to the deck hadn't yet been fitted to be compatible with Falcon Heavy, and it fell over in rough seas. They made some limited edition souvenirs for employees out of the landing legs and lower engine/fuel line section that was left on the deck after the rest broke off and fell off the platform. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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And DM-2 has come to a close. Dragon has splashed down, recovered onto Go Navigator, hatch opened, and Bob and Doug have come out of Endeavour.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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They had a bunch of Florida Man fishing boats getting up close too. NASA had apparently only requested one CG cutter for the entire landing zone and one CG helicopter to bring the crew back from the recovery ship after the fact.
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Join Date: May 2004
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EDIT: Coast Guard: 12 boats is enough to overwhelm us. https://twitter.com/MilesDoran/statu...087424/photo/1 giggity Last edited by Quagmire : 2020-08-02 at 20:04. |
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meh
Join Date: May 2004
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Last year SpaceX got a water tank to fly. This year a grain silo takes flight.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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And that was with a SINGLE Raptor engine that wasn't attached on the centerline because the engine mount is meant for three, in a tri-config like the Shuttle's main engines were. Just wait until they get to the three-engine high altitude flights...
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Join Date: May 2004
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I’m looking forward to seeing 31 Raptors going with Super Heavy.
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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How awesome is that? |
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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SpaceX is such a funny company. I'm watching this video and it's so funny that they have all these random projects just scattered all over the ground. Like, they're building prototype rockets outside with crap littered all over the place. And then they're launching this crazy metal can into the air and the rocket blast is blowing debris all over their projects.
And these are the guys that are having all this success and are gonna send some suckers to Mars. What. The. Hell? - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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The launch and testing area is actually a mile or two from the manufacturing area, so the actual fabrication and assembly doesn't get blasted. The only thing being built actively in that area is a new, much beefier launch mount since they're getting ready to start prototype on the Superheavy booster (and also probably tired of having to rebuild the erector-set ones that Starships break on every test, lol)
Meanwhile, on my Mini's bookmarks in Safari, I found this link from 2008 where a lucky dude got the mother of all Space Shuttle behind the scenes tours, LOTS of photos in this thread: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-t...lots-pics.html |
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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This is a great, sped-up video of the launch and landing of a Falcon 9 booster.
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Man, that is still amazing to watch.
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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What are those bits you can see spinning away at around 43s and 50s?
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meh
Join Date: May 2004
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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Aha. I assume they will eventually sublime away, so not cause a "space junk" issue?
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I was actually wondering the same thing but forgot to ask.
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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I was struck all emotional-like a few minutes ago while watching the Space-X Dragon capsule dock with the International Space Station.
No, not because this represents a new chapter in enterprise space travel, but because I saw the Baby Yoda doll floating around the cabin. ... |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I saw that too.
The way this is. |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I totally missed that. I read about it, but need to find the video of it so I can see it. I think it is really cool that they manage to do something like this going into space. I mean, it used to be all business.
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I remember back in the early 80's, those first several space shuttle missions, I'd see footage of them on Good Morning America playing funny songs from Mission Control to wake the astronauts up. I always thought stuff like that was so cool. Everything just went right and I was so into all that (following the launch, missions, watching the landings live on CNN or whatever, etc.).
And then 1986 happened. Last edited by psmith2.0 : 2020-11-17 at 11:54. |
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