Author Topic: SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates (Read 630122 times)

mn · « **Reply #500 on:** 02/06/2018 08:26 pm »

Congratulations to Elon, SpaceX and everyone who made this happen. (and everyone at NSF).

About them saying they lost the center core, until proven otherwise I'm going to assume they meant LOS not LOV

And to those who want to wait for mission success: The mission is successful beyond anyone's imagination regardless of what happens in 6 hours and regardless of what happens to the center core - it's not even a block 5 so who cares

northenarc · « **Reply #501 on:** 02/06/2018 08:26 pm »

Congratulations to SpaceX, the side by side core landing was like something out of a movie. Once again, they're leading the way forward.

jeffchan · « **Reply #502 on:** 02/06/2018 08:26 pm »

50 years and 3 months after the first-time success of Saturn V at pad 39A...

...Falcon Heavy says "I can do that too!" Congrats to all the employees of SpaceX!

My boys and I were glued to the big screen for the entire show - I can only imagine what the folks 50 years ago were thinking of the small, black & white images... WOW!

TetraOmni · « **Reply #503 on:** 02/06/2018 08:27 pm »

Am always lurking and not posting but damn son that is the most impressive thing ive ever experienced ^.^

abaddon · « **Reply #504 on:** 02/06/2018 08:28 pm »

Launch webcast is now up on their page:

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #505 on:** 02/06/2018 08:28 pm »

Elon Musk
‏
@elonmusk

Upper stage restart nominal, apogee raised to 7000 km. Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts & then attempt final burn for Mars.

wardy89 · « **Reply #506 on:** 02/06/2018 08:29 pm »

congratulations to everyone involved.

Just incredible, to successfully get an new rocket of the pad on the first attempt and for it to fly that well just no words to explain!

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #507 on:** 02/06/2018 08:29 pm »

Good second burn!

"Elon Musk
‏Verified account @elonmusk
28s28 seconds ago

Upper stage restart nominal, apogee raised to 7000 km. Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts & then attempt final burn for Mars."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960988527159795712

kevinof · « **Reply #508 on:** 02/06/2018 08:29 pm »

Ok, I'm still shaking, but I've stopped yelling at the tv and my heart rate has come down into the mid two hundreds. That was fan- bloddy-tastic . Great flight. Well done SpaceX.

ey · « **Reply #509 on:** 02/06/2018 08:29 pm »

Congrats to SpaceX on everyone involved on this historic, successful launch!

bad_astra · « **Reply #510 on:** 02/06/2018 08:30 pm »

The twin landing looked like something out of Colliers in the 1950's. It's really starting to feel a little more and more like what we thought this century would be like.

fthomassy · « **Reply #511 on:** 02/06/2018 08:31 pm »

What fun

Had several folks (all engineers

) in my office watching live and cheering along

Ronpur50 · « **Reply #512 on:** 02/06/2018 08:31 pm »

Launch was awesome, separation amazing and the dual landing was cool. But when the fairing separated and that red Tesla Roadster appeared and the music started....I lost it. Congrats to SpaceX!!!

Mapperuo · « **Reply #513 on:** 02/06/2018 08:32 pm »

scdavis · « **Reply #514 on:** 02/06/2018 08:32 pm »

Wow, congratulations to everyone involved -- that was amazing! Took a long time for my heart rate to come back down. What an amazing launch!

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #515 on:** 02/06/2018 08:32 pm »

I was going to say wait until we had a mission complete with the car, but sod it.....go for it. One post each of congrats!

Discussion and such to the other threads!

muomega0 · « **Reply #516 on:** 02/06/2018 08:33 pm »

Quote from: toruonu on 02/06/2018 08:13 pm

The announcer clearly states We lost the center core:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c?t=38m25s

on the countdown net.

Yes at ~38:29 "We lost the center core" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2307

Simply fabulous...Congratulations!

IntoTheVoid · « **Reply #517 on:** 02/06/2018 08:33 pm »

Quote from: RocketLab

Congratulations @SpaceX! Phenomenal achievement. #FalconHeavy

https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/960981888595709952

Poole Amateur · « **Reply #518 on:** 02/06/2018 08:34 pm »

I've patiently waited many years for this! What a wonderful day. I will never forget the sight of those boosters landing together.

Congratulations to all at SpaceX!

A huge thank you to all the contributors of NSF who so brilliantly handled the updates before and during this amazing flight.

Keeval · « **Reply #519 on:** 02/06/2018 08:35 pm »

Absolutely amazing... I was SO stressed on terminal countdown, then I just couldn't stop grinning.
I hope we hear some news about what happened to the centre core - but regardless.. Congratulations SpaceX.

Also a big thanks to NSF staff for keeping the servers up, and you guys for the great updates.