Quote from: Ronpur50 on 05/01/2017 11:32 amwhere did they get a tracking camera that good!!!???Well who's the customer, duh?
where did they get a tracking camera that good!!!???
Quote from: Ronpur50 on 05/01/2017 11:32 amwhere did they get a tracking camera that good!!!???Its always been there. My thought is there is footage of this quality of all the cape returns, and distant views of tall the stage flips going out to the ASDS. We just haven't seen them as they weren't released.SpaceX decided to show off because this time due to NRO restrictions they didn't have to pretend that 10 minutes of calmly flying and firing second stage burn was the coolest thing going on at the time
Quote from: Lar on 04/30/2017 11:18 amSlightly off topic...Hey now, off topic in the party thread means serious business. There is no serious business in the party party thread. Someone needs to report this to a moderator!
Slightly off topic...
Quote from: yokem55 on 04/30/2017 05:09 pmQuote from: Lar on 04/30/2017 11:18 amSlightly off topic...Hey now, off topic in the party thread means serious business. There is no serious business in the party party thread. Someone needs to report this to a moderator!I'm on it... Er ... wait ...I usually rail against government spying, etc, but I would like to (for once) shout out to the spies. Their secrecy (no second stage) means our glee at awesome footageAlso I would like to say that whoever first posted that "rains down in Africa" thing will be enduring my wrath. Now I've got an earworm, thanks a lot. Here's hoping you do too, gentle reader.
Smooooooth!
Was everyone else as impressed as I was with the quality of the daylight (admittedly early morning) CGI of the landing as show in the Musk Instagram video? I liked the production staff's interpretation of the instant deployment of the landing legs just before landing in a big dust/exhaust cloud.
It was the entrepreneurial vision and very large private investment of Elon Musk, as well as the execution of 100s of people at SpaceX over years, that developed this this reusable technology over the past 7+years, that are now beginning to make this all look routine.
I suspect that the tracking cameras are old NASA Shuttle-era kit that's been pulled out of mothballs for soon-to-begin Commercial Crew flights. That aside, I can see NASA wanting to help SpaceX, given that their supersonic retropropulsion data is the only game in town for that particular field right now.
That's way too interesting and informative to be stuck on a party thread.
I'm just glad that I got to watch the webcast while taking my morning shower, it was a one way broadcast, correct?