SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - Let's Get Restarted In Here Party Thread

[Comga]

Here is another video, with some more knowledgeable adult (& kid) commentary: (the quality is so-so, but you can clearly see the 1st stage as a separate dot, and the fairing halves become visible halfway through the video)

You have to love the comments from the kids.
"Spacecraft are worth like $68.5 million dollars."
"The boosters are bigger than your house. If one fell on your house it would totally destroy it."
(He should remind the Chinese of that.)

[mlindner]

Here is another video, with some more knowledgeable adult (& kid) commentary: (the quality is so-so, but you can clearly see the 1st stage as a separate dot, and the fairing halves become visible halfway through the video)

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You have to love the comments from the kids.
"Spacecraft are worth like $68.5 million dollars."
"The boosters are bigger than your house. If one fell on your house it would totally destroy it."
(He should remind the Chinese of that.)

I think one of the (3?) kids was the one actually doing the filming.

Few other funny quotes:
"It's probably going to fall somewhere over by NASA" "What's NASA?" "Uh, the space center."
"I hope one falls on the house <garbled> then I [could] get it and put it in my room." "You could not fit that in your room." "The boosters are bigger than your house. They're almost as big as that street. It's way too big to keep."
"If I was you I would sell that booster. I mean, space stuff has gotta be worth a lot of money. I mean, the space ship is worth like 68.5 million dollars."

I wonder where he picked that random number from, heh. Surprisingly close to SpaceX quoted price.

[Rocket Science]

Here is another video, with some more knowledgeable adult (& kid) commentary: (the quality is so-so, but you can clearly see the 1st stage as a separate dot, and the fairing halves become visible halfway through the video)

You have to love the comments from the kids.
"Spacecraft are worth like $68.5 million dollars."
"The boosters are bigger than your house. If one fell on your house it would totally destroy it."
(He should remind the Chinese of that.)

If you ever read Sun Tzu “The Art of War” you would get a peek into the Chinese philosophy/psychology and their level of concern... 

[Chris Bergin]

Here is another video, with some more knowledgeable adult (& kid) commentary: (the quality is so-so, but you can clearly see the 1st stage as a separate dot, and the fairing halves become visible halfway through the video)

You have to love the comments from the kids.
"Spacecraft are worth like $68.5 million dollars."
"The boosters are bigger than your house. If one fell on your house it would totally destroy it."
(He should remind the Chinese of that.)

That is great!

[ugordan]

That is great!

1:35 "I see four lights falling off"

There....Are...FOUR....Lights!

[edkyle99]

"If I was you I would sell that booster. I mean, space stuff has gotta be worth a lot of money. I mean, the space ship is worth like 68.5 million dollars."

I wonder where he picked that random number from, heh. Surprisingly close to SpaceX quoted price.

When I was that age, I knew the names of every U.S. astronaut, how much thrust was produced by an F-1 or J-2 engine, how much Gemini or Apollo weighed, etc.  It makes me very happy to know that there are still kids out there similarly inspired.  It helps to have an Apollo program or, in this case today, being able to watch SpaceX launching "Falcons" and "Dragons" from one's own back yard.

 - Ed Kyle

[edfishel]

Ed -
I completely agree with you.  I also was inspired in 1957 by International Geophysical Year which ran until December, 1968. Then we had Sputnik which greatly affected me and many others.  Glad to see this interest in young people.

[luinil]

New forum record of online users

And we didn't get any new L2 subscribers during that period! #DoingItWrong.

Me paying the hosting invoice tomorrow....

Well, you got one, some days later 

[ChefPat]

That is great!

1:35 "I see four lights falling off"

There....Are...FOUR....Lights!

I wonder how many of us "True Geeks" caught that reference?

[DigitalMan]

That is great!

1:35 "I see four lights falling off"

There....Are...FOUR....Lights!

I wonder how many of us "True Geeks" caught that reference?

The gentleman in question was here at the Orlando Shakespeare theater a while ago.  I was soooo tempted to ask him how many lights did he see, but there were folks with real questions.

[ClayJar]

That is great!

1:35 "I see four lights falling off"

There....Are...FOUR....Lights!

I wonder how many of us "True Geeks" caught that reference?

How many?  I'm told five.

Congrats to SpaceX, SES, Orbital, et al.

[Chris Bergin]

Still going to write a follow up article (I've actually started it) on this mission, covering an outline of how it went and what's to come for SES-8. Burned out for the week, so early night, work is a half day Sat morning and then spend Saturday afternoon to write it up, seen as my football (soccer) team isn't playing this weekend

[savuporo]

Few other funny quotes:
"It's probably going to fall somewhere over by NASA" "What's NASA?" "Uh, the space center."
"I hope one falls on the house <garbled> then I [could] get it and put it in my room." "You could not fit that in your room."

Donnie Darko 2 - instead of CFM56 you will have a Merlin 1D

[Avron]

here is another home video.. gets good 2/3 of the way .. keep an eye on that first stage

[Jakusb]

here is another home video.. gets good 2/3 of the way .. keep an eye on that first stage

Such as shame they stopped tracking the first stage. 😔
It is definitely one of the best shots of how it is firing Its thrusters.

[parham55]

here is another home video.. gets good 2/3 of the way .. keep an eye on that first stage

At 4:55, is that downward firing plume larger than the others?

[neoforce]

here is another home video.. gets good 2/3 of the way .. keep an eye on that first stage

At 4:55, is that downward firing plume larger than the others?

from Chris's article at http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/12/ses-8-success-trajectory-future-spacex-possibilities/ we know there was a stage 1 restart in addition to the altitude control thrusts:

The CASSIOPE mission also involved the first “boost back” test of the first stage, while sources note there was also a boost back test during the SES-8 mission, or at least the restart of the first stage post staging.

But we don't know when in the flight profile that restart happened.

Before we had that info from Chris, When I saw this video I thought I saw a relight and posted on the SES discussion thread at http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=24469.msg1128828#msg1128828 Start reading there and you will see that Jim and cambrianera convinced me it was the light playing tricks.  They have a lot more experience than I could ever imagine, so I assume all you see in that video is the control thrusters and reflections from the sun.

I would love Space-X to release information about what they actually did post separation on the SES flight, but so far that news hasn't been released.