SpaceX is doing it again
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SpaceX is doing it again
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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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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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And again.
Fingers crossed!
Edit:- Here you go - https://multistream.co/p/bb8N9zP6r54/SN8_Multistream
Two minutes and counting....
Fingers crossed!
Edit:- Here you go - https://multistream.co/p/bb8N9zP6r54/SN8_Multistream
Two minutes and counting....
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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.
Holy crap! Watch the last 12 minutes or so of that if you didn't catch it live. Absolutely stunning.
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yeah, that explosion was something to behold lol. Who's excited to go take a trip on a rocket ship?!
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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.
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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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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Same with me and the kids! Let them watch it before bed. That was great!red assassin wrote: ↑Thu, 10. Dec 20, 00:27According 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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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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And again:-
https://multistream.co/p/j82iAYqlPTD/r_ ... ultistream
Lift off in about 50 mins as of my writing.
https://multistream.co/p/j82iAYqlPTD/r_ ... ultistream
Lift off in about 50 mins as of my writing.
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Couple of minutes till the next launch attempt. Fingers crossed .
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Blimey. It did it.
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And then lol.
Damn I wish I could afford this for a hobby .
Damn I wish I could afford this for a hobby .
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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
edit: I love the flight stages display on the NASASpaceflight.com stream: https://i.imgur.com/YHN8wlT.png
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I'd not noticed thatred assassin wrote: ↑Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:36edit: I love the flight stages display on the NASASpaceflight.com stream: https://i.imgur.com/YHN8wlT.png
EDIT: that is a post from a random watching the stream, not a post by anybody associated with NASA etc.
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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.
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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SpaceX is the living embodiment of try, fail, learn, try again, repeat.
They deserve a lot of respect for that.
They deserve a lot of respect for that.
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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!RegisterMe wrote: ↑Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:46I'd not noticed thatred assassin wrote: ↑Thu, 4. Mar 21, 00:36edit: I love the flight stages display on the NASASpaceflight.com stream: https://i.imgur.com/YHN8wlT.png
EDIT: that is a post from a random watching the stream, not a post by anybody associated with NASA etc.
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