SpaceX Falcon 9 - CRS-8 Dragon - April 8, 2016 - UPDATES

[cscott]

Would be cool to see a video pr release showing all the attempts (particularly the last one - if it was spectacular), finally followed by the success.

Check the video of Ms Shotwell's last talk (it's online) -- she had exactly the compilation you're looking for, minus the last two flights (which hadn't occurred yet).  Fairly certain that her next speech will include the whole thing, she said it was her favorite part of the presentation.

Ob. Congrats: watched this live with my son in the backseat, eating up my high speed t-mobile data quota, while my wife was driving us up to Vermont for a weekend camping.  We launched our own model Falcon 9 on Saturday, but nothing beat the excitement of watching that big bird land at sea at that moment.  As the smoke cleared my 3-year-old son said, "I have that boat!". Yes, yes indeed --- I'd made him a model of it months ago.  He finally figured out what it was for: landing rockets on!  And then he said, "It didn't fall over!"

It's possible he was a little disappointed at that.

[Kabloona]

And for those who haven't seen it yet there's a great fan-made landing montage video here:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=40016.0

[ugordan]

Astronaut Tim Peake caught this image a couple of days ago:

Given that it's near the terminator and the launch was in the afternoon and that the trail is too thin and horizontal, I'm left to surmise that this isn't the launch ascent plume but the 2nd stage reentry and breakup trail.

EDIT: Yes, I believe this checks out. The image metadata gives 2016-04-08 22:40:43 (UTC?) as image time. At that moment the station was at the point shown in image below (courtesy ISSTracker). The CRS-8 reentry area shown as well, originally posted here.

At that time, Australia's east west coast was just entering sunrise so this image looks toward the morning terminator and the stage was moving away from the camera's point of view during reentry.

[CameronD]

For the record, the CRS-8 first stage has reached the safety of Port Canaveral:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=40002

[HIP2BSQRE]

Now there are over 700 viewers watching it...

[Lars-J]

SpaceX has put some new landing pictures on their Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex

[catdlr]

better late than never.....

Launch Pad - SpaceX - CRS8 04-08-2016

USLaunchReport

Published on Apr 15, 2016
Here are five separate cameras we set up at the pad and from the VAB. SpaceX CRS8.

[catdlr]

some more ground launch videos....

SpaceX Falcon 9 / Dragon CRS-8 Remote Launch Videos

Published on Apr 16, 2016
SpaceX Falcon 9 / Dragon CRS-8 Remote Launch Videos

©2016 Matthew Travis / Zero-G News




EDIT 4/17:  Updated Video Link.

[Rebel44]

360 View of First Stage Landing on Droneship

[Lar]

This is still an update thread, notwithstanding the relaxation to allow one congratulatory post per. Bunch of stuff splitmerged to discussion and a duplicate post removed

[acsawdey]

This discusses a waiver SpaceX requested for CRS-8 having to do with ship-borne impact hazard but also mentions the previous ASDS landings and a USAF evaluation of the overall launch hazard.

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/05/10/2016-09685/waivers-of-ship-protection-probability-of-impact-requirement

[FutureSpaceTourist]

Bump for 4th anniversary of landing and landing playlist 

https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1247974402739724288

Four years ago today, Falcon 9 landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship for the first time. Additional Falcon landings footage → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBQ5P5txVQr-Q68JtHuTTBWldX2psIqA1