I find it absolutely hilarious that the recovered video that we fixed was in some ways better than this one!So who wants to guess what "solid surface" means?
Concrete floats, right?
Quote from: Damon Hill on 07/22/2014 10:07 pmThe remaining questions are whether a landed stage can be easily secured and economically returned. A RTLS does eliminate the time and trouble of a remote recovery.It may be that even when RTLS is the preferred option, an alternative landing site may be ready if something makes the launch site unusable - though the weather at the launch site shouldn't change much in 10 minutes.
The remaining questions are whether a landed stage can be easily secured and economically returned. A RTLS does eliminate the time and trouble of a remote recovery.
If they land down range then it's not just the return, they also have to handle the weather at that location, so they'd need to either abort a launch if there was bad weather at the down range landing site, or launch without recovery, or have 3 or 4 options so they can pick the one with good weather. Right?
Quote from: yg1968 on 07/22/2014 10:01 pmIncidentally, here is the Blue Origin patent with the sea going platform:http://www.google.com/patents/US8678321Granted March 25, 2014!That's news.
Incidentally, here is the Blue Origin patent with the sea going platform:http://www.google.com/patents/US8678321
Quote from: Sohl on 07/22/2014 07:41 pmNow all we need to do is crowd-source a deconvolution of the icing effects on the lens. No sweat, right? That would be interesting.With a reasonably consistent alteration of the picture made by that ice, I wonder whether something 'simple' like using the first image from "the landing burn begins" to create a filter to apply to the rest would work. Of course you'd need to have a clean photo or some basic template of what it should have looked like without the ice.... not so easy.In any case videographer or fx work rather than fixing the technical underpinnings as in the last video.
Now all we need to do is crowd-source a deconvolution of the icing effects on the lens. No sweat, right?
Lens iced over for the most part:
Cool. Hopefully they'll be able to address that on the next attempt to prefent it getting iced over. Be great to have a full clean video of it. Be cool if they can get a video boat out in the area too to get a nice surface video.
Going forward, we are taking steps to minimize the build up of ice and spots on the camera housing in order to gather improved video on future launches.
Quote from: wannamoonbase on 07/22/2014 07:39 pmQuote from: sublimemarsupial on 07/22/2014 07:22 pmFrom the update on the SpaceX site:"We will attempt our next water landing on flight 13 of Falcon 9, but with a low probability of success. Flights 14 and 15 will attempt to land on a solid surface with an improved probability of success."The real story here is flights 14 & 15 on LAND!! That's before the end of this year.Does this mean they have gotten precise in hitting a designated landing location?I wonder if F9R-Dev 2 is going to be needed if they keep collecting data with these flights?From the same update...At this point, we are highly confident of being able to land successfully on a floating launch pad or back at the launch site and refly the rocket with no required refurbishmentOr possibly some sort of barge.
Quote from: sublimemarsupial on 07/22/2014 07:22 pmFrom the update on the SpaceX site:"We will attempt our next water landing on flight 13 of Falcon 9, but with a low probability of success. Flights 14 and 15 will attempt to land on a solid surface with an improved probability of success."The real story here is flights 14 & 15 on LAND!! That's before the end of this year.Does this mean they have gotten precise in hitting a designated landing location?I wonder if F9R-Dev 2 is going to be needed if they keep collecting data with these flights?
From the update on the SpaceX site:"We will attempt our next water landing on flight 13 of Falcon 9, but with a low probability of success. Flights 14 and 15 will attempt to land on a solid surface with an improved probability of success."
There is the possibility that flight 14 will be to a floating "launch" pad and then flight 15 will touchdown on land. With respect to CRS-4 having a low probability of success, is it possible that it could be a repeat of Cassiope, where the rocket spins out of control due to lack of legs?Bonus: Here is the article saved for posterity: https://web.archive.org/web/20140722210143/http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/07/22/spacex-soft-lands-falcon-9-rocket-first-stage
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 07/22/2014 07:20 pmLens iced over for the most part:Cool. Hopefully they'll be able to address that on the next attempt to prefent it getting iced over. Be great to have a full clean video of it. Be cool if they can get a video boat out in the area too to get a nice surface video.
Could be both a barge and a carrier. Where's the Ranger now days?
The Aircraft Carrier might not be far off.USS Saratoga sold for scrap to Esco Marine in Brownsville Texas.Linkhttp://www.recyclingtoday.com/navy-esco-marine-scraps-carrier.aspx
Looking at the video, I was surprised at how late the landing legs deployed. Kind of thought those would have been used to slow spin but they deployed very late. Looks like those thrusters were able to null everything out. As far as the irregular flames, not so sure but wonder if there is some thruster firing there too.