Those grid finds were getting well-cooked before the rocketcam got too schmutzed up and they cut the feed.
Well, how long till next time?? They must be itching to turn it around again!
Quote from: inonepiece on 03/30/2017 10:54 pmWell, how long till next time?? They must be itching to turn it around again!Fly it again or park it in the rocket garden at KSC?If it is indeed an early and possibly non-standard Block 3, there may be no particular benefit in flying it again unless they're getting short of cores. There's going to be a point when these recovered Block 3 cores start being flown in expendable mode - if only because they're taking up valuable storage space!
It doesn't seem that long ago that people were saying they would never pull off landings let alone re-usability and yet here we are. The innovation and rate at which spacex make progress is astonishing. I didn't believe we would see humans on mars in our lifetime until I witnessed just how fast Spacex work....it's only the past couple of years that I have begun to truly believe.
Quote from: fatdeeman on 03/30/2017 11:00 pmIt doesn't seem that long ago that people were saying they would never pull off landings let alone re-usability and yet here we are. The innovation and rate at which spacex make progress is astonishing. I didn't believe we would see humans on mars in our lifetime until I witnessed just how fast Spacex work....it's only the past couple of years that I have begun to truly believe.Have I lost perspective on time or are we at just over 15 months from 1st landing to Reuse and Landing?
Quote from: ChrisGebhardt on 03/30/2017 10:55 pm"Looks like we're where we want to be!"[...]He looked at his screen for a bit and then said "good enough orbit". That 'enough' is enough to make me worry.
"Looks like we're where we want to be!"
Yeah I was just about to ask - did it not deploy a little early?
Does it look like the rocket was pitched up relative to its exhaust angle in the last ~30 seconds of its flight to anyone else?