Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 FT - ORBCOMM-2 - Dec. 21, 2015 (Return To Flight) DISCUSSION  (Read 1360690 times)

Offline Mapperuo

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Offline Lars-J

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Is there a rocket involved in all of this somewhere?  They even missed the retract.

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Apparently poll was at T -38:00 before even prop load? I'm not sure I heard that right.
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Alright, finally the good stuff.

Offline Seer

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What are the chances of mission success and landing success? Probability of 1. I would say is 90%. Prob of 2 is 33%.

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A dig at straight up and down "Space tourism kind of thing"  ;D
« Last Edit: 12/22/2015 12:37 am by Ohsin »
"Well, three cheers to Sharma, but our real baby is INSAT."

Offline Ohsin

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Holy mother of god ! They DID IT!
« Last Edit: 12/22/2015 12:41 am by Ohsin »
"Well, three cheers to Sharma, but our real baby is INSAT."

Offline Damon Hill

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Yes, they did.  Eat your heart out, Jeff Bezos.

Offline Elmar Moelzer

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Congrats SpaceX on a successful launch AND landing! All is left is the deployment :)

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OUTSTANDING!!! Well done SpaceX!!!

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Wauw! Speechless.. Tears of joy!

Offline luinil

What a return to flight !

Congratulations SpaceX, you made us a nice Christmass present !

Offline TJL

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WOW!!  Way to go SpaceX!!!

Offline Colman

That was the most awesome thing that ive seen in a long time...They really did it and I and you all got too see it live.. Here's to the future..We all get to go to space... :)

Offline abaddon

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Looks like the webcast will end before the S2 relight.  So I guess we will wait for twitter to confirm that it too hopefully goes off as planned.

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Congratulations for success of both ORBCOMM mission as well as 1st stage landing!

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HOLY MOTHER^&*ING $@#(!!!

WTG SPACEX!  Congratulations on history!

Congratulations ORBCOMM!

Time for my celebratory vodka shot, WOOOOOOOOOO!
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Wow, soooo awesome :P ;D
« Last Edit: 12/22/2015 01:02 am by SwissCheese »

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I haven't been this excited in a long time. I feel like when I was a child watching the first moon landing. Congratulations to Elon Musk and all the SpaceX team on your successful return to flight with the enhanced Falcon 9 V1.1a, as well as the history making first landing of a orbital rocket stage. So cool so proud. Loving it!!!!
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them" Galileo Galilei

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