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Re: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates
« Reply #920 on: 12/02/2018 04:37 am »
I just watched it here in Aussie.

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Re: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates
« Reply #921 on: 12/02/2018 05:30 am »
looks like it's been pulled, even in the U.S.

Well, when I'm logged in I can still watch it, I guess because I bought it, but it looks like you're right.

A little more digging found it on US Amazon, also for three dollars: https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Inside-SpaceX/dp/B07KFZPD1N

Hopefully this one stays up.
« Last Edit: 12/02/2018 09:22 am by theinternetftw »

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Re: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates
« Reply #922 on: 12/02/2018 03:58 pm »
I posted this link in the discussion thread a month ago.  It is the same video, although region locked for USA I believe.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/watch/12e413e68c538ba79a298f709efc1607/

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Re: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates
« Reply #923 on: 02/06/2019 04:54 pm »
One year ago today we witnessed the first launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, how awesome the moments were as we saw the launch, booster sep, core sep, the double landings, and to cap it off, Starman.

And ladies and gentlemen, this is just the start.  8) ;D

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1093203708618235904
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Re: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates
« Reply #925 on: 03/02/2019 08:08 pm »
Elon Musk sent a $100K Tesla Roadster to space a year ago. It has now traveled farther than any other car in history.

Posted by Nathaniel Lee and Rebecca Wilkin

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-roadster-space-spacex-orbit-2019-2?r=US&IR=T&utm_source=reddit.com

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Re: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates
« Reply #926 on: 08/18/2019 09:16 am »
twitter.com/flcnhvy/status/1163015383663677440

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Btw, any chance SpaceX could launch a small spacecraft that could catch up to Starman & take some pics? Would be super interesting to see what Roadster & its passenger look like these days

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In a few years

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Re: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates
« Reply #928 on: 04/09/2020 01:26 am »
Newly released view of historic dual booster landing


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Re: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates
« Reply #929 on: 08/02/2020 12:09 am »
I just looked in on StarMan who is as you may recall out driving his Roadster.  Looking at the animation of his drive on Heavens Above it appears as if he’ll be driving very near Mars, close enough that I think it bears looking at. I'd guess its a 1 in 100 orbits closeness. Granted the view is from about ½ billion miles away and the time increments look to be about 2 weeks but given those qualifiers there is going to be a visual conjunction between them.  The closest time increment that I can get it to settle on is September 28th, 2020, which is pictured but you can see it’ll get much closer in the days after.

Update (Duh) As I'm composing this post to essentially ask if there's someone that can calculate the closest approach distance I adjusted the date in the Heavens Above visualizer to the closest date it'll give me and captured that image.  And I see at the top of that frame and the next one they have calculated and posted the closest approach distance.  Anyways, still interesting

Heavens Above:  https://www.heavens-above.com/Tesla.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT (scroll slider to near the end)
Rougher visualization:  https://www.whereisroadster.com/



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Re: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates
« Reply #930 on: 08/02/2020 01:08 am »
I just looked in on StarMan who is as you may recall out driving his Roadster.  Looking at the animation of his drive on Heavens Above it appears as if he’ll be driving very near Mars, close enough that I think it bears looking at. I'd guess its a 1 in 100 orbits closeness. Granted the view is from about ½ billion miles away and the time increments look to be about 2 weeks but given those qualifiers there is going to be a visual conjunction between them.  The closest time increment that I can get it to settle on is September 28th, 2020, which is pictured but you can see it’ll get much closer in the days after.

Update (Duh) As I'm composing this post to essentially ask if there's someone that can calculate the closest approach distance I adjusted the date in the Heavens Above visualizer to the closest date it'll give me and captured that image.  And I see at the top of that frame and the next one they have calculated and posted the closest approach distance.  Anyways, still interesting

Heavens Above:  https://www.heavens-above.com/Tesla.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT (scroll slider to near the end)
Rougher visualization:  https://www.whereisroadster.com/
By my calculations, at 7.4 million km, Mars would appear about a tenth the diameter that the Moon appears on Earth.
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Re: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates
« Reply #931 on: 10/07/2020 10:51 pm »
https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1313974379999494144

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Starman, last seen leaving Earth, made its first close approach with Mars today—within 0.05 astronomical units, or under 5 million miles, of the Red Planet

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