NSF SpaceX Starlink L7 B1049.5 "Deck Trek V: The Final Frontier " Landing Bingo

[pb2000]

Man, we were really close to ending up on an empty square.

Preliminary triangulation shows that we did!   That's usually about 90% correct. Final judging will happen when we get close up pix on port return! Interesting times!

Yep, looks like N-27. Better than all the other no winner scenario's I suppose.

[Helodriver]

Deck Trek V: The Final Frontier, No booster had survived passing through the Great Barrier to a fifth landing, failing while going where no booster had gone before.

That is until B1049.5 succeeded where the last had tried and died! It was a well off center landing, with the booster visibly skating along the deck for quite a distance before stopping, but a good landing is any landing that the booster comes back in one piece upright. That kind of slide keeps the game interesting! 

Sailing in aboard the newly recommissioned Just Read the Instructions, this booster has entered the realm of the Undiscovered Country with more flight time than any other orbital class rocket booster in history.

There to meet JRTI and 1049.5, the Cape Canaveral space paparazzi, photographing the vessels from every angle including some gorgeous aerial shots by Matt Jordan and Steve Marr of Next Horizons Spaceflight that eliminated the need to do any complicated sea level triangulation of booster landed position. The aerials, plus the shot from SpaceX's ASDS video aboard during landing allowed position and orientation determination with extreme accuracy, confirming the initial place assessment from the SpaceX video.

Without further ado, the winning square was N-27 chosen by NOBODY AT ALL! The first time this has happened for an intact landing!

Via the rules of the contest, in this event the winner is the person who chooses the closest square to the landing spot, and in this case the spot immediately to the "left," N-26 is in closest proximity and is winner by default, so niwax has won this round! Congratulations! Get in touch via message and a suitable SpaceX artifact prize will be enroute!

N-26

ASDS Landing Bingo Will Return - Maybe with a direct winner next time! 

[tyrred]

Congrats niwax!

[niwax]

Well that's a nice surprise. After finally getting a center square last time, the booster decides to join me in the middle of nowhere.

Thanks to everyone for organizing the landing bingo. And welcome back JRTI, of course.

[CJ]

Congrats niwax!

I got close, if by "close" we mean on the same ASDS.

Thank you Helodriver, and all who run the Landing Bingo!

[atsf90east]

Darnit, missed it by one square!  Congratulations Niwax!