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SpaceX is doing it again

Post by RegisterMe » Mon, 16. Nov 20, 01:20

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by red assassin » Mon, 16. Nov 20, 10:58

Had to be up early so didn't get a chance to watch live, but I watched the critical bit this morning. Looks like there was a minor issue with the propellant heaters on Dragon after launch, but all resolved pretty quickly. Otherwise smooth as ever.
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by Mightysword » Mon, 16. Nov 20, 18:15

It was supposed to happen ealier but delayed because of storm. I'm a bit of a surprise though, usually if they miss the ideal window where things line up they have to wait a few days for the next launch. With perfect alignment it takes about 8h for the craft to reach the ISS from launch, but apparently due to this delay they'll have to stay in orbit for over a day before they arrive at the station.
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by RegisterMe » Tue, 8. Dec 20, 23:33

And again.

Fingers crossed!

Edit:- Here you go - https://multistream.co/p/bb8N9zP6r54/SN8_Multistream

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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by RegisterMe » Tue, 8. Dec 20, 23:37

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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by red assassin » Thu, 10. Dec 20, 00:01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap-BkkrRg-o
Holy crap! Watch the last 12 minutes or so of that if you didn't catch it live. Absolutely stunning.
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by Vertigo 7 » Thu, 10. Dec 20, 00:04

yeah, that explosion was something to behold lol. Who's excited to go take a trip on a rocket ship?! :lol:
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by RegisterMe » Thu, 10. Dec 20, 00:19

That's a hella expensive hobby!

Still, I thought it had all gone wrong during the launch, so the fact that it actually attempted to land was impressive.

Bet they got loads of data.
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by red assassin » Thu, 10. Dec 20, 00:27

According to their tweets, everything went smoothly until a low head tank pressure caused the hard landing. We were watching and had a few "is that *supposed* to be on fire?" discussions when they were doing the engine cutoffs and tank switches though!
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by esd » Thu, 10. Dec 20, 04:30

red assassin wrote:
Thu, 10. Dec 20, 00:27
According to their tweets, everything went smoothly until a low head tank pressure caused the hard landing. We were watching and had a few "is that *supposed* to be on fire?" discussions when they were doing the engine cutoffs and tank switches though!
Same with me and the kids! Let them watch it before bed. That was great!
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by Gavrushka » Thu, 10. Dec 20, 09:10

Just read that they'd anticipated only a 30% probability of success before the mission launched. Thing is, you just know they're gonna carry on blowing things up (safely) until they get it right. Gonna be good viewing. :)
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by RegisterMe » Wed, 3. Mar 21, 16:38

And again:-

https://multistream.co/p/j82iAYqlPTD/r_ ... ultistream

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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by RegisterMe » Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:12

Couple of minutes till the next launch attempt. Fingers crossed :).
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by RegisterMe » Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:23

Blimey. It did it.

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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by RegisterMe » Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:31

And then lol.

Damn I wish I could afford this for a hobby :).
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by red assassin » Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:36

Landed it and blew it up - it's the perfect spectator outcome, really!

edit: I love the flight stages display on the NASASpaceflight.com stream: https://i.imgur.com/YHN8wlT.png
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by RegisterMe » Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:46

red assassin wrote:
Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:36
edit: I love the flight stages display on the NASASpaceflight.com stream: https://i.imgur.com/YHN8wlT.png
I'd not noticed that :lol:

EDIT: that is a post from a random watching the stream, not a post by anybody associated with NASA etc.
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by Axeface » Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:49

I called my wife over to watch this live and said "Wanna see a spaceship blow up?", it landed fairly ok (I knew it was a bit hard) and was sitting like the leaning tower of piza, but it landed. She walks off disappointed...
Yeh she missed it ;p

It was incredible though, and they let it right itself at 500m, in freefall!? Thats insane it managed it at all.

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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by RegisterMe » Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:53

SpaceX is the living embodiment of try, fail, learn, try again, repeat.

They deserve a lot of respect for that.
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Re: SpaceX is doing it again

Post by red assassin » Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:53

RegisterMe wrote:
Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:46
red assassin wrote:
Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:36
edit: I love the flight stages display on the NASASpaceflight.com stream: https://i.imgur.com/YHN8wlT.png
I'd not noticed that :lol:

EDIT: that is a post from a random watching the stream, not a post by anybody associated with NASA etc.
Yeah, to be clear. NASASpaceflight.com is an independent news site, not a part of NASA. (Starship itself has little to do with NASA, for that matter.) But they do great coverage of these test flights, and don't turn their livestream off right before it blows up, unlike the official SpaceX one!
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