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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #201 on: 05/11/2018 08:24 pm »
Landed near K-11!
Seas are calm.
Odd are we have a winner (who is not me).
What kind of wastrels would dump a perfectly good booster in the ocean after just one use?

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #202 on: 05/11/2018 08:37 pm »
My eye-ball is J-18 region ... not me either. :P
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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #203 on: 05/11/2018 08:54 pm »
I think that the booster landed near I-20.

Just a guess.
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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #204 on: 05/11/2018 09:08 pm »
There will be a winner! Looking for a high angle shot coming back into port, as the rocketcam was on the fritz for touchdown.

Definitey to the "upper" side of the circle, looking slightly "left" of center though.

Making it look easy when its anything but!

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #205 on: 05/11/2018 09:37 pm »
Doesn't matter where it is now... it's where it is when it comes back into port, remember?

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #206 on: 05/12/2018 06:50 pm »
Doesn't matter where it is now... it's where it is when it comes back into port, remember?
With the octograbber in action, it's unlikely it will move much.

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #207 on: 05/12/2018 06:59 pm »
Doesn't matter where it is now... it's where it is when it comes back into port, remember?
With the octograbber in action, it's unlikely it will move much.

Dear fellas on the barge,
Nudge it over to J-22 and I will end you 5 dozen of my daughter's regionally famous sugar cookies.
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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #208 on: 05/13/2018 11:27 am »
Not funny, I just thought...

What happens if SpaceX really starts pushing the stage as part of octograbber operations.

It would be kinda a downer if every landed stage ends up in the exact same spot (perfectly centered on the barge for safety reasons) every time she sails into port.

We wouldn't be able to tell anymore where she landed, there's only 2 options. "Post landing secure position" or "not landed"
of course there'd still be variability in where she touches down, but we would have to change the rules of landing bingo and rely on difficult to conduct analyisis of landing photography.

I think it can be done, if the circles are present and we know the fish-eye correction of the camera lens, you can calculate the relative position to the circle center - and from that the square - if at least 3 leg tips are in the image frame.

But we better have that program ready by the time SpaceX starts doing this.

That would keep the Bingo alive at least until they start landing on the cradle tests.

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #209 on: 05/13/2018 12:02 pm »
In that case the group just starts asking Elon on twitter where it landed. I'm sure he will respond ;)
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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #210 on: 05/13/2018 02:36 pm »
The first time BFS lands on Mars, there won't be any human constructed reference point for Bingo.  But I guess we could use photos of craters.

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #211 on: 05/13/2018 06:47 pm »
The first time BFS lands on Mars, there won't be any human constructed reference point for Bingo.  But I guess we could use photos of craters.

Maybe. Maybe not.
In "Halfway Home" by Hugh Howey, there are robots that do the prep work. (Very little else of that story would apply)

I am sure BFR Mars will be very accurate.

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #212 on: 05/14/2018 07:14 am »
Enough of this nonsense.  It landed on J-20.  Where do I turn in my ticket?

 ::)  ;D
« Last Edit: 05/14/2018 07:15 am by Mark McCombs »
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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #213 on: 05/14/2018 07:17 am »


Not funny, I just thought...

What happens if SpaceX really starts pushing the stage as part of octograbber operations.


I doubt very much that octograbber is powerful enough to move even an empty stage...

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #214 on: 05/14/2018 07:29 am »
Electric-drive tracks. Tethered, So plenty of power to run the motors. No need for high speed so it can be geared way down. Motors are probably big enough for slow movement as-is anyways - Some guesstimates had the weight of the thing around as much as the booster itself.

Big questions are do the tracks have enough traction and can the extended grabber arms handle the high side loads.

Not saying they mean to, But it might be able to.

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #216 on: 05/15/2018 03:05 pm »
In a surprising turn of events, the booster appears to have taken off again.



Source:
@murphypak is on her way to port do a live Periscope of the return:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mnGeXaOOOvKX
« Last Edit: 05/15/2018 03:13 pm by niwax »
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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #217 on: 05/16/2018 10:42 pm »
With careful analysis of the available photographic images of the B5 booster's return aboard OCISLY a bingo winner has been determined!

After allowing a few days for rocketcam video to be released that was lost during the live broadcast  (it wasn't) and for some high angle helicopter or drone shots to emerge of the ASDS pulling into port, (none did) still images of the booster landing and a perfect side on shot of the booster standing on deck as it sailed in were used to determine the landing spot.

Given that B5s look like they will be offloaded quickly versus spending hours standing on deck and that the OctoGrabber is moved away quickly after crane lift, leaving no indications of where it was holding the booster, this method will likely become standard. Fortunately it seems fairly accurate.

So with no further ado, the winning spot was J-20 and the winner is Mark McCombs who picked the winning square 27 minutes after the game went live.

Congrats Mark on doing a Banga up job playing! PM me with a mailing address and a prize will be dispatched forthwith!

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« Last Edit: 05/17/2018 02:53 am by Helodriver »

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #218 on: 05/16/2018 11:20 pm »

With careful analysis of the available photographic images of the B5 booster's return aboard OCISLY a bongo winner has been determined!

Does that mean the Banga Bandhu bingo winner gets a bongo?

Now I really wish I had played...

« Last Edit: 05/16/2018 11:25 pm by Kabloona »

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Re: NSF SpaceX Kiss Kiss Banga Bandhu Block 5 Landing Bingo
« Reply #219 on: 05/17/2018 12:01 am »
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