Falcon Heavy

[USMC2010]

impressive

 

[wsuwrhr]

Damn video wont play on my pc. Fuck.,

 

[Deja_Vu]

 

[spectras only]

Damn, signal lost for the third booster's landing on the sea. The two booster's landing on land was awesome.
what happened to the third booster?

 

[SoCalDave]

Simultaneous landing of the side boosters was amazing! Waiting to hear about the center core

Heard it missed its mark...

 

[Yarder]

That was truly impressive to watch. Especially the two boosters landing almost simultaneously.

 

[fmo24]

Total game changer to land those boosters like that.

 

[LHC30]

After a lifetime of watching first Gemini then subsequent launches and landings, even the lunar landings, the booster dual landing tops all! Amazing foresight and engineering.

Definitely the future here!

 

[was thatguy]

Total game changer to land those boosters like that.

It really is. I don’t know the cost savings as compared to losing them, but it has to be astronomical!!
(Pun intended!)

Did anyone see the episode of “Young Sheldon” where 9 year old Sheldon goes to NASA to school them on recoverable boosters? They did not have the capability of engineering his mathematical solution at the time so he leaves his notebook with NASA and tells them to call him when they catch up.
Then it cuts to modern day and Elon Musk with Sheldon’s notes.
Funny as hell!!

 

[was thatguy]

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Straight up gangster.

 

[ChumpChange]

Damn video wont play on my pc. Fuck.,

I feel ya. Whatever Media5 is, I don't have it.

 

[Deja_Vu]

The video works great on firefox or chrome. IE wasn't working well

 

[mjc]

Simultaneous landing of the side boosters was amazing! Waiting to hear about the center core

Here is the best explaination i can do. Center stage was a gen 3 booster and didnt have the fuel capacity of the newer gen 5. It started down and they thought they wouldn't make so they aim for the ocean instead so as not to hurt the platform, but then realized it might make it so tried but didn't have enough fuel so landed in the ocean anyway. This is per my son who built some of the parts.

 

[JBZ]

LIVE FROM STARMAN

 

[77 SLEEK]

Got to see it on my computer at work, So cool makes me proud to be an American.

 

[77 SLEEK]

One of the rocket scientists said they were going to send up a Eliminator 28 speedster next. But nobody will give one up!!!

 

[Flying_Lavey]

Sooo goddamn awesome!! Musk is doing what the government/NASA coukdnt do and for a fraction of the $ and time of what it could do.

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[HotRod82]

To anyone "in the know"....I read many times our shuttle program was retired (as were the Russian re-usable spacecraft programs) due to the fact they had to be completely disassembled then reassembled in order to be "certified" for flight. The costs involved were actually higher than disposable rockets. So what exactly is the advantage of re-usable boosters if in fact it is more cost effective to just build a new one??

It's great to see some American rockets flying, it really bothers me that we have to hitch a ride with the Russians to get our guys to the space station.

 

[TBI]

 

[rivermobster]

Been waiting for this all day....


LOL!

 

[Flying_Lavey]

To anyone "in the know"....I read many times our shuttle program was retired (as were the Russian re-usable spacecraft programs) due to the fact they had to be completely disassembled then reassembled in order to be "certified" for flight. The costs involved were actually higher than disposable rockets. So what exactly is the advantage of re-usable boosters if in fact it is more cost effective to just build a new one??

It's great to see some American rockets flying, it really bothers me that we have to hitch a ride with the Russians to get our guys to the space station.

Because that was NASA and they haf to use $5k hammers on those components. In simple terms...... bureaucracy.

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[TBI]

Been waiting for this all day....


LOL!

 

[Stainless]

Haven’t read a single post in this thread but this is some badass stuff!
I know there is a member here that works for SpaceX, congratulations man!

 

[Kbach]

Pretty damn cool watching this today. Amazing what the private sector is capable of.

 

[WhatExit?]

Amazing! Incredible accomplishment!

I was stunned by the quality of the live video feed from the rocket - that in itself was awesome as was the telemetry and the "timeline across the bottom of the screen"

Of course nothing compares to seeing those 27 monster engines burning fuel at an incredible rate and seeing the boosters drop away and land in unison and seeing the 2nd stage (3rd stage?) exhaust cone glowing red hot.

It all was awesome!

 

[crzy2bealive]

Just got done partying with the coworkers!!!

What I'm amazing experience yo be a part of history.

How can I ever work somewhere else with this much satisfaction??

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[spectras only]

So I hear, Musk wants to send someone around the Moon shortly.

 

[rivermobster]

Speaking of satisfying...

 

[Blubyu]

Damn, signal lost for the third booster's landing on the sea. The two booster's landing on land was awesome.
what happened to the third booster?

Missed the drone ship by 320 feet. Hit the water at more than 300 miles per hour and now sits on the bottom of the ocean.

 

[spectras only]

Missed the drone ship by 320 feet. Hit the water at more than 300 miles per hour and now sits on the bottom of the ocean.

I guess that's what happens when running out of fuel controlling your craft. Musk should have used some electrical contraption creating anti gravity to aid soft landing More work to fix gremlins

 

[TomD]

...Ground control to major....

LOL!!!

 

[TBI]

Just got done partying with the coworkers!!!

What I'm amazing experience yo be a part of history.

How can I ever work somewhere else with this much satisfaction??

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Congratulations Man!

 

[JDKRXW]

Missed the drone ship by 320 feet. Hit the water at more than 300 miles per hour and now sits on the bottom of the ocean.

Not too bad when you consider that this mission would have been a success if the rocket cleared the launch pad with all the engines running before it crashed.
This was 100% totally badass in my books.

 

[Deja_Vu]

Overshot the target trajectory and the Tesla is heading to the Asteroid Belt. Awesome

 

[Tank]

• To go from "we'll consider it a success if it just clears the launch pad." to basically a successful launch, orbit and landing of rockets is pretty freakin gnarly! Next stop...MARS

 

[SoCalDave]

Bowie would be proud...

 

[wsuwrhr]

• To go from "we'll consider it a success if it just clears the launch pad." to basically a successful launch, orbit and landing of rockets is pretty freakin gnarly! Next stop...MARS

I always thought he was trying to manufacture interest into people watching the launch expecting an explosion.

 

[SoCalDave]

Because that was NASA and they haf to use $5k hammers on those components. In simple terms...... bureaucracy.

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Musk has a different approach than NASA on the whole space program in the fact that NASA spent $5k on a pen that would write in space, Musk just sent up some .10 pencils.

 

[SoCalDave]

I always thought he was trying to manufacture interest into people watching the launch expecting an explosion.

Like watching a high speed car chase anticipating the collision.

 

[Tank]

I always thought he was trying to manufacture interest into people watching the launch expecting an explosion.

Great point!!

 

[rivermobster]

Just got done partying with the coworkers!!!

What I'm amazing experience yo be a part of history.

How can I ever work somewhere else with this much satisfaction??

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My daughters boy friend's goal is to work for SpaceX. He is an engineering student over at LaVerne right now. I got him a 3D printer for Christmas, and he is making all kina stuff with it! He has already been offered positions at Disney and Edison. I'm really excited for him.

Congrats on a job well done!

 

[That Guy]

This is straight up awesome!

 

[nowski]

Space X, very impressive and a Job Well Done!!! Looks like Starman (Major Tom) traded in that tin can and is now cruising around earth in style...

Hey Rocket Man aka kim jung un take note...

 

[WhatExit?]

Even though I've seen this pic and others like it, and I knew SpaceX was sending Musk's Tesla Roadster into space atop the Falcon Heavy...

Until I saw these pics I didn't realize the plan was for the huge nose cone to come off and leave the Tesla Roadster exposed in space atop the section supporting it...

This Tesla sure looks fake, but that's because of the way colors appear in space.
On a side note, Elon Musk told reporters that, "If you look closely on the dashboard, there's a tiny roadster with a tiny spaceman."

Even Elon Musk thinks his space-cruising midnight-cherry Tesla Roadster looks weird. Musk went on to say that colors, in general, look strange in space, because "there's no atmospheric occlusion. Everything's too crisp," he said.

"It looks so ridiculous and impossible," the SpaceX CEO told reporters after the Falcon Heavy megarocket launched the car into space yesterday (Feb. 6). "You can tell it's real because it looks so fake, honestly."



THIS is what's out there in space (I admit to not knowing that would be the case before the launch) - I thought it'd be inside the closed nosecone.

First off, yes — colors do look "fuzzier" on Earth than they do in space, said Rick Sachleben, a retired chemist in Boston who is a member of the American Chemical Society's panel of experts.

When light travels through the Earth's atmosphere, it passes through air that contains particles, such as dust, soot, smoke and liquid droplets. The air also has varying densities depending on how much water it contains and its temperature, Sachleben said. For instance, the air at the top of Mount Everest is less dense than at sea level, which is why breathing at Everest's peak is challenging.

These factors — air's particles and properties — can change the way colors look on Earth, Sachleben told Live Science. "The light scatters off of those particles," he said. "When it hits a piece of dust, it bounces off of it. And then it hits another one, and it scatters off of that one." That's why "the image we see [on Earth] is fuzzier, less distinct," he said. "In space, you don't have that."

In space, there's barely anything to bend or block light. That's why pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are so much sharper than images taken from Earth-based telescopes, Sachleben said.

 

[Tank]

Even though I've seen this pic and others like it, and I knew SpaceX was sending Musk's Tesla Roadster into space atop the Falcon Heavy...

Until I saw these pics I didn't realize the plan was for the huge nose cone to come off and leave the Tesla Roadster exposed in space atop the section supporting it...

This Tesla sure looks fake, but that's because of the way colors appear in space.
On a side note, Elon Musk told reporters that, "If you look closely on the dashboard, there's a tiny roadster with a tiny spaceman."

Even Elon Musk thinks his space-cruising midnight-cherry Tesla Roadster looks weird. Musk went on to say that colors, in general, look strange in space, because "there's no atmospheric occlusion. Everything's too crisp," he said.

"It looks so ridiculous and impossible," the SpaceX CEO told reporters after the Falcon Heavy megarocket launched the car into space yesterday (Feb. 6). "You can tell it's real because it looks so fake, honestly."



THIS is what's out there in space (I admit to not knowing that would be the case before the launch) - I thought it'd be inside the closed nosecone.

First off, yes — colors do look "fuzzier" on Earth than they do in space, said Rick Sachleben, a retired chemist in Boston who is a member of the American Chemical Society's panel of experts.

When light travels through the Earth's atmosphere, it passes through air that contains particles, such as dust, soot, smoke and liquid droplets. The air also has varying densities depending on how much water it contains and its temperature, Sachleben said. For instance, the air at the top of Mount Everest is less dense than at sea level, which is why breathing at Everest's peak is challenging.

These factors — air's particles and properties — can change the way colors look on Earth, Sachleben told Live Science. "The light scatters off of those particles," he said. "When it hits a piece of dust, it bounces off of it. And then it hits another one, and it scatters off of that one." That's why "the image we see [on Earth] is fuzzier, less distinct," he said. "In space, you don't have that."

In space, there's barely anything to bend or block light. That's why pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are so much sharper than images taken from Earth-based telescopes, Sachleben said.

Thanks for posting that.

My questions are
1) How do they expect to get it back? It is coming back right? Or is it never coming back? Re-entry will burn that thing up.
2) If / when it comes back, do you think the deep freeze of space will have any adverse affects on the vehicles operational capabilities?

 

[Taboma]

So the car is going to remain attached to this base, not floating by itself ? I can't help but wonder what kind of a WTF moment it's going to be when some future expedition encounters it, long after this mission has been forgotten
Much more so, if they're not from Earth

 

[mjc]

Thanks for posting that.

My questions are
1) How do they expect to get it back? It is coming back right? Or is it never coming back? Re-entry will burn that thing up.
2) If / when it comes back, do you think the deep freeze of space will have any adverse affects on the vehicles operational capabilities?

It is never coming back. It was supposed to go into a orbit around the sun out by mars, but missed.

 

[wsuwrhr]

Dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard. As far as I know it is in orbit, until it isn't.

Launching a subsidized $250K car into space, for the fuck of it, seems to be pretty silly.

There are a number of ways to test the nosecone and payload capabilities without such a monumental waste of capital.

Brian

 

[Deja_Vu]

Thanks for posting that.

My questions are
1) How do they expect to get it back? It is coming back right? Or is it never coming back? Re-entry will burn that thing up.
2) If / when it comes back, do you think the deep freeze of space will have any adverse affects on the vehicles operational capabilities?

It's headed to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Gonna get pretty banged up.
We wont get to see any more pics cause the camera batteries are almost dead.

 

[Deja_Vu]

Dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard. As far as I know it is in orbit, until it isn't.

Launching a subsidized $250K car into space, for the fuck of it, seems to be pretty silly.

There are a number of ways to test the nosecone and payload capabilities without such a monumental waste of capital.

Brian

Billionaires love to show off like that.
The car is 10 years old already...so he got some use out of it.