Quote from: longboard1210 on 02/06/2018 10:18 pmSo tesla is very lightwieght no front brakes fitted sugests they have the bare min to keep it looking like a carElectric cars brake through the motor..Called regenerative braking.
So tesla is very lightwieght no front brakes fitted sugests they have the bare min to keep it looking like a car
Just FYI: The Blue Danube Waltz is a great song to play while watching the live Starman feed.
Some people figured out the TLEs of the FALCON HEAVY/TESLA: https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/961016772391563265Would help answer the question if the refire will happen in night / be visible from the surface (click link and read replies to get a link to a mapping of it; I do not link it here because it will crash the site it's on, already very slow).
I do like the large & friendly Don’t Panic sign on the dashboard. I am sure Mr Adams would approve.
Elon Musk news conference update: NET 6:45pm ET.https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/961015865503289346Hopefully they'll get a stream out, seems really like an anticlimactic thing to not stream it as well.
Final burn will occur over Ecuador, at night local time. (9:45 pm Eastern time, but I don't know what time that is in Ecuador.)
While watching the SpaceX launch video stream after the fact, I noticed a printed script on the desk at time 38:52. They were talking at the time about the center booster and drone ship. Curious, I took a screenshot, flipped it, and tried to enhance the script. It appears to be a script for if the rocket had exploded on the pad. Glad they didn't have to use it! What I can make of it is:It appears we have had some sort ofexplosion on the pad pile......a....... to ........... but ...... thiswas a test ........ so this is ...... not preferred but .. entirelyunexpected. We're going to take aquick break and thensee if we can get more information...hang tight and we'll be right
Quote from: Doesitfloat on 02/06/2018 10:22 pmQuote from: longboard1210 on 02/06/2018 10:18 pmSo tesla is very lightwieght no front brakes fitted sugests they have the bare min to keep it looking like a carElectric cars brake through the motor..Called regenerative braking. Still have disk brakes the regenerative braking cant stop a car on its own! btw 20 years in hybrid/electric cars
Quote from: Star One on 02/06/2018 09:43 pmI do like the large & friendly Don’t Panic sign on the dashboard. I am sure Mr Adams would approve.Would you believe...... a car in space?
Keeval posted one in the updates thread:
Quote from: inonepiece on 02/06/2018 10:33 pmKeeval posted one in the updates thread:Thanks, I actually thought I was in the update thread for some reason, anyway for cross ref someone else figured out ABC has a link too: http://abcnews.go.com/live click the spacex conf at the bottomThis is one of those moments where I'm watching a car in space on one monitor and the geniuses who put it there about to talk. Really exciting time in space history. Apparently all the national news is opening with the FH launch.
I thought the outer cores had titanium grid fins while the center core had aluminum ones. It could have been too hot for the aluminum and one of them failed, making the center core too unmaneuverable.
Quote from: joshcryer on 02/06/2018 10:46 pmQuote from: inonepiece on 02/06/2018 10:33 pmKeeval posted one in the updates thread:Thanks, I actually thought I was in the update thread for some reason, anyway for cross ref someone else figured out ABC has a link too: http://abcnews.go.com/live click the spacex conf at the bottomThis is one of those moments where I'm watching a car in space on one monitor and the geniuses who put it there about to talk. Really exciting time in space history. Apparently all the national news is opening with the FH launch.That link is dead. Page doesn't exist.
