Author Topic: LIVE: Falcon 9 Flight 1 Maiden Flight - June 4, 2010 (Read 499347 times)

vt_hokie · « **Reply #580 on:** 06/04/2010 06:59 pm »

How about that! Congrats to all involved!

NavySpaceFan · « **Reply #581 on:** 06/04/2010 06:59 pm »

I have to say well done to the SpaceX team, good show so far!!!

William Graham · « **Reply #582 on:** 06/04/2010 06:59 pm »

I'll reserve celebrations until third-party orbital elements are published.

sandrot · « **Reply #583 on:** 06/04/2010 06:59 pm »

w00t!!! Hats off to SpaceX... and to NSF for coverage, of course.

Avariel · « **Reply #584 on:** 06/04/2010 06:59 pm »

Most impressive.

Congratulations SpaceX!

kkattula · « **Reply #585 on:** 06/04/2010 06:59 pm »

SpaceX Rocks!

TexasRED · « **Reply #586 on:** 06/04/2010 06:59 pm »

Great launch, congrats to F9 team!

iamlucky13 · « **Reply #587 on:** 06/04/2010 06:59 pm »

Quote from: Nick L. on 06/04/2010 06:54 pm

Roll seems to be accelerating...

Accelerometer or gyro developed a bias maybe?

Very weird. Other than that it seemed very stable.

Regardless, huge congratulations. I don't think I took a breath for several seconds before the start of and several seconds after the finish of staging.

ar-phanad · « **Reply #588 on:** 06/04/2010 07:00 pm »

This is an absolute triumph.

Jesse

jimvela · « **Reply #589 on:** 06/04/2010 07:00 pm »

Congratulations to all of the folks at SpaceX!!

Liss · « **Reply #590 on:** 06/04/2010 07:00 pm »

Well done SpaceX, thanks for the report. Waiting for TLEs now.

Lars_J · « **Reply #591 on:** 06/04/2010 07:00 pm »

Quote from: racshot65 on 06/04/2010 06:58 pm

Is this test over, is the capsule going to do anything in orbit ?

The capsule will stay attached to the 2nd stage, but they will probably test Merlin-Vac re-ignition. But I seem to recall reading that the 2nd stage/capsule was only going to stay in orbit for a few orbits.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #592 on:** 06/04/2010 07:00 pm »

Congrats to SpaceX. However, I remain concerned that Obama will tout this as anti-shuttle propaganda. Hopefully they will keep the STS-135 option on the table.