It's landing on the drone ship which is downrange.
Quote from: JoerTex on 04/18/2018 09:18 pm It's landing on the drone ship which is downrange.But (if I understand correctly).... not very FAR downrange, so either highly lofted or a partial boostback.
May be talking out of a dark place, but did fairing sep look a little more hinkey than in the past to anyone else?
Quote from: Halidon on 04/18/2018 10:56 pmMay be talking out of a dark place, but did fairing sep look a little more hinkey than in the past to anyone else?Looked five by five to me.
Is that the first time that we've seen the drone ship landing from the booster live with no loss of signal?
I would really like to know how the YouTube app on most devices manages its search results.On a quite standard YouTube app, I just entered the search phrase SpaceX TESS launch. It showed something like 30 search results -- everything from rebroadcasts of SpaceX's current feed by other websites, to recordings of the 16th's scrub, to Falcon Heavy and BFR simulations -- before it listed SpaceX's own streaming channel for today's launch.Which was listed as "SpaceX TESS launch". The *exact* text of my search phrase.You would think high-profile online content management systems like YouTube would understand that we are smart enough to realize that they're giving results that badly fit the search criteria precedence over results which fit them well. That can only mean that, 1) their search function sucks rocks, or 2) they are giving some types of providers precedence, even when their result doesn't really fit. For monetary or other considerations.You'd be surprised how many people believe it's option number 1... sigh...
I scored a last second ticket for the LC-39 Observation Gantry.
No landing bingo this time? Avoiding bad omen as all last bingos failed?
So smooth!
My Launch Central video feed was very fuzzy. The countdown timer and the progress bar text were quite illegible. I reset the feed several times. It would briefly clear up and then go fuzzy again. Whereas my simultaneous NASA TV feed was extremely crisp. I have watched well over 40 Falcon 9 launches and have never had this happen before. Anyone else?