Quote from: imjustmatthew on 12/22/2015 02:50 amIs it just me or does it looks like there's some cracking under where the landing leg was on the left side of Elon's video?https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/679145544673923072that's a wire, part of the landing leg assembly I assumein the video, we hear some quite load noises. Perhaps some drilling bolts into concrete to secure the stage with?
Is it just me or does it looks like there's some cracking under where the landing leg was on the left side of Elon's video?https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/679145544673923072
Quote from: Silmfeanor on 12/22/2015 02:52 amQuote from: imjustmatthew on 12/22/2015 02:50 amIs it just me or does it looks like there's some cracking under where the landing leg was on the left side of Elon's video?https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/679145544673923072that's a wire, part of the landing leg assembly I assumein the video, we hear some quite load noises. Perhaps some drilling bolts into concrete to secure the stage with?Could also be a multitude of machinery, from generators to pumps. Plus, my guess is they don't want to bolt it down - on the barge it made sense, for the trip, but here I think they'll just get it horizontal, no bolts required. Just my opinion, though.I agree on the "crack", though - it's lighter than the rocket skin on one side and darker on the other, looks like a protrusion rather than a break to me, so it's almost certainly a wire, especially with the squiggly shape.
Quote from: imjustmatthew on 12/22/2015 02:50 amIs it just me or does it looks like there's some cracking under where the landing leg was on the left side of Elon's video?https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/679145544673923072If you are talking about where the leg was before it was deployed, I think that is some cabling.
Quote from: Lars-J on 12/22/2015 02:34 amQuote from: meekGee on 12/22/2015 02:00 amQuote from: Lars-J on 12/22/2015 01:53 amQuote from: meekGee on 12/22/2015 01:49 amIf 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.Yes, but don't forget the rectilinear distortion in the wide angle lens. Something in the corner of such an image can look quite crooked and still be vertical in reality.Agreed. Hence my hedge... but the difference is really noticeable, and the streaks are not THAT far from each other.I also realize there's an angle change wrt the camera, irrespective of the lens effect.Still though.Here is another image, from SpaceX. It looks much more vertical from this point of view. It is coming in a bit from the side (the nearer streak is the landing), but it is hard to tell how much is from the trajectory and what is from a divert maneuver.From the "pencil landing" graphic it looked like most/all of the divert was before the landing burn, ie done by grid fins.
Quote from: meekGee on 12/22/2015 02:00 amQuote from: Lars-J on 12/22/2015 01:53 amQuote from: meekGee on 12/22/2015 01:49 amIf 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.Yes, but don't forget the rectilinear distortion in the wide angle lens. Something in the corner of such an image can look quite crooked and still be vertical in reality.Agreed. Hence my hedge... but the difference is really noticeable, and the streaks are not THAT far from each other.I also realize there's an angle change wrt the camera, irrespective of the lens effect.Still though.Here is another image, from SpaceX. It looks much more vertical from this point of view. It is coming in a bit from the side (the nearer streak is the landing), but it is hard to tell how much is from the trajectory and what is from a divert maneuver.
Quote from: Lars-J on 12/22/2015 01:53 amQuote from: meekGee on 12/22/2015 01:49 amIf 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.Yes, but don't forget the rectilinear distortion in the wide angle lens. Something in the corner of such an image can look quite crooked and still be vertical in reality.Agreed. Hence my hedge... but the difference is really noticeable, and the streaks are not THAT far from each other.I also realize there's an angle change wrt the camera, irrespective of the lens effect.Still though.
Quote from: meekGee on 12/22/2015 01:49 amIf 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.Yes, but don't forget the rectilinear distortion in the wide angle lens. Something in the corner of such an image can look quite crooked and still be vertical in reality.
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.
I'd say they nailed it...
But - if I look at the 5-pad layout they've made, it looks to me like in the future the "crash pad" will be the center pad, and the only divert will be from the center pad to the final (smaller) landing pad.
Did anyone report hearing a sonic boom from the returning stage?
Congratulations for everyone. The video and photos at the landing site have added the human aspect of accomplishment. Yet, I'm surprised the personnel are really that close to the stage for safety.
Let's all remember that this great achievement wasn't a stunt, and wasn't just a development flight. It was an actual paying flight! This flight actually benefits us here on Earth by filling out ORBCOMM's next generation constellation, tracking our food and other shipping goods all over the Earth.
Including Elon, initially, from his reported comments in the post-landing telecon.
