Quote from: Saabstory88 on 01/14/2017 05:34 pmQuote from: Hankelow8 on 01/14/2017 05:33 pmobviously have been working on de-fogging the decent camera, clear picture all the way down.Well this stage likely had a less rigorous decent regime than the GTO birds.I believe all previous decent camera videos covered all types of decent regimes.
Quote from: Hankelow8 on 01/14/2017 05:33 pmobviously have been working on de-fogging the decent camera, clear picture all the way down.Well this stage likely had a less rigorous decent regime than the GTO birds.
obviously have been working on de-fogging the decent camera, clear picture all the way down.
Quote from: francesco nicoli on 01/14/2017 06:12 pmdoes anyone have any clue about what kind of debris can be seen at T+5.35 (the landing sequence) on the left side of the screen? it looks like a solid piece flying away from the stage, it stays there for quite sometime going of its own downground and rotating on itself...fairing?
does anyone have any clue about what kind of debris can be seen at T+5.35 (the landing sequence) on the left side of the screen? it looks like a solid piece flying away from the stage, it stays there for quite sometime going of its own downground and rotating on itself...
Quote from: Hankelow8 on 01/14/2017 06:26 pmQuote from: Saabstory88 on 01/14/2017 05:34 pmQuote from: Hankelow8 on 01/14/2017 05:33 pmobviously have been working on de-fogging the decent camera, clear picture all the way down.Well this stage likely had a less rigorous decent regime than the GTO birds.I believe all previous decent camera videos covered all types of decent regimes.It was pretty decent of them to show the entire descent.
I think that object is a lot closer, it seems to be flipping around a lot faster than it would if it was the fairing.
Booster is tagged '29'.
Grey 29 under the legs, I thought F9-29 was AMOS-6?
Have the satellites been heard from yet? Or is that another thread?
hey - I am not sure about this, but did previous landing come in oriented so the legs are at 45 degrees?This one landed at a random angle.With grid fins, controlling rotation should be very easy, and not at the expense of anything else - but landing "straight" gives the most amount of tolerance to X-Y errors.
The first stage is very tightly roll-controlled via ACS and grid fins, as seen in the Thaicom 8 landing video below. It seems to keep itself "facing the ground" (0º pointed at earth/launch site) during reentry. However they never land in any specific orientation to the ASDS because the ASDS orientation is based purely on local wave motion.