11 satellites deployed to target orbit and Falcon has landed back at Cape Canaveral. Headed to LZ-1. Welcome back, baby!
elon on twitterQuote11 satellites deployed to target orbit and Falcon has landed back at Cape Canaveral. Headed to LZ-1. Welcome back, baby!
What are those ?I don't remember seing that on the bottom of previouses F9
Quote from: luinil on 12/22/2015 01:38 amWhat are those ?I don't remember seing that on the bottom of previouses F9That's the third leg.
Quote from: bioelectromechanic on 12/22/2015 01:15 amkept looking for ElonBet he's at the Cape...
kept looking for Elon
I see bezos got in a dig about the first stage only being suborbital
I just looked at the order of the headlines in Google News. I don't think I've given Google any biases that affect the ranking(?).- Deadly attack on U.S. forces shows the Afghan war is far from over- Hillary Clinton camp to Donald Trump: 'Hell no' on apology- Elon Musk's SpaceX returns to flight and pulls off dramatic, historic landing- Oregon woman held in Las Vegas Strip sidewalk rampage drove with license suspended
I saw this infographic (not from SpaceX) : http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=38148.msg1461581#msg1461581I know this has been discussed before with different opinion, but I very much doubt that there is a final divert manuever. If the engine fails to light, it will crash on the pad. There is no better spot for it to happen, this is where all pieces can be recovered for investigation should it be necessary. Environmental cleanup is also much easier there.There is no such thing as falling "harmlessly into the ocean", if it is just by the beach. So I don't see them aiming there, but I've certainly been wrong before.
Quote from: OxCartMark on 12/22/2015 01:43 amI just looked at the order of the headlines in Google News. I don't think I've given Google any biases that affect the ranking(?).- Deadly attack on U.S. forces shows the Afghan war is far from over- Hillary Clinton camp to Donald Trump: 'Hell no' on apology- Elon Musk's SpaceX returns to flight and pulls off dramatic, historic landing- Oregon woman held in Las Vegas Strip sidewalk rampage drove with license suspendedIn a hundred years only one of those headlines will be remembered.
Quote from: Lars-J on 12/21/2015 11:11 pmI saw this infographic (not from SpaceX) : http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=38148.msg1461581#msg1461581I know this has been discussed before with different opinion, but I very much doubt that there is a final divert manuever. If the engine fails to light, it will crash on the pad. There is no better spot for it to happen, this is where all pieces can be recovered for investigation should it be necessary. Environmental cleanup is also much easier there.There is no such thing as falling "harmlessly into the ocean", if it is just by the beach. So I don't see them aiming there, but I've certainly been wrong before. If you look at the "double streak" long exposure picture, it seems to show such a maneuver. The return streak looks shallower, as if it's walking the IIP from off shore to the pad.