Author Topic: All Falcon 9 Landings, side-by-side (Read 5459 times)

jclishman · « **on:** 02/21/2017 02:50 pm »

Hey again NSF!
I noticed that SpaceX has now completed 8 landings of the Falcon 9, which is a nice round number.
So I decided to put together a little video to celebrate!
It's not too long, so I hope you like it!

stcks · « **Reply #1 on:** 02/21/2017 03:00 pm »

is the easter egg the quick transparent overlay of the OG2 sats pre-sep?

jclishman · « **Reply #2 on:** 02/21/2017 03:37 pm »

Agh! That would be a frame that I missed.

The easter egg isn't nearly as obvious as that!

AncientU · « **Reply #3 on:** 02/21/2017 03:45 pm »

EM looking out the glass window at :40, center frame as backdrop to guy in white T-shirt fist-pumping(?)

PahTo · « **Reply #4 on:** 02/21/2017 03:57 pm »

What is the approximate landing weight of S1 when doing an RTLS? I believe this version/rating of the Merlin 1D is about 180,000 thrust/lb, so it must be somewhere S of that...
Thanks!

Ronpur50 · « **Reply #5 on:** 02/21/2017 04:10 pm »

Oh, that is too cool! I am sharing this! Thank you!

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #6 on:** 02/21/2017 04:12 pm »

Well they said it couldn't be done on viable orbital missions, so there's eight in the face of those people!

Great stuff. We really should work on more mash ups and such. It's usually the thing that gets newbies hooked and before you know it they move from "rocket goes up, and rocket goes dooooown???" to regulars thinking they know better than Jim about payload integration processing.

FalconCamera · « **Reply #7 on:** 02/21/2017 05:16 pm »

Super cool, this will only be better after the next landing when you can complete the octaweb

Oersted · « **Reply #8 on:** 02/21/2017 06:22 pm »

That was way too busy for me..

S.Paulissen · « **Reply #9 on:** 02/22/2017 03:54 am »

Quote from: PahTo on 02/21/2017 03:57 pm

What is the approximate landing weight of S1 when doing an RTLS? I believe this version/rating of the Merlin 1D is about 180,000 thrust/lb, so it must be somewhere S of that...
Thanks!

Gerstenmeier (sp?) Was quoted as saying ~30k kg as its starting its landing burn.

meekGee · « **Reply #10 on:** 02/22/2017 05:14 am »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 02/21/2017 04:12 pm

Well they said it couldn't be done on viable orbital missions, so there's eight in the face of those people!

Great stuff. We really should work on more mash ups and such. It's usually the thing that gets newbies hooked and before you know it they move from "rocket goes up, and rocket goes dooooown???" to regulars thinking they know better than Jim about payload integration processing.

From heresy to gospel...

Semmel · « **Reply #11 on:** 02/22/2017 07:54 am »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 02/21/2017 04:12 pm

Well they said it couldn't be done on viable orbital missions, so there's eight in the face of those people!

Great stuff. We really should work on more mash ups and such. It's usually the thing that gets newbies hooked and before you know it they move from "rocket goes up, and rocket goes dooooown???" to regulars thinking they know better than Jim about payload integration processing.

Quote from: FalconCamera on 02/21/2017 05:16 pm