SpaceX rockets and launches
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Crispy
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launch window opens at 23:46 for a geostationary orbit mission. razor thin margins, but they've sent out a landing barge nonetheless.
Two options for streaming, one with commentary and one that's just the raw footage and control room mic loop.
With commentary:
Without:
(both go live 5 minutes before the window opens)
Two options for streaming, one with commentary and one that's just the raw footage and control room mic loop.
With commentary:
Without:
(both go live 5 minutes before the window opens)
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
can you believe these cunts want to be burning a rocket every two weeks or so in the next two years? And it is no idle boast. They've ramped up production of the cores and everything. Making it routine, making it industry rather than project. Mental. Who would have thought that the rockets of the 21st would be private enterprise commisioned by nation states. Arg. Think what a defense budget could do if re tooled towards space
Crispy
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Limejuice
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I'm not a huge fan of SpaceX's webcast coverage.
It came live about 10 minutes before launch. I seem to remember it was 20 minutes earlier in the week, so perhaps they feel they've said it all before and it needs no further build up. But it feels grudging: as if they think people only tune in to see the damn thing blow up, and aren't interested in the science.
The heavy broadcast lifting is performed by two bearded versions of Ant and Dec, who innocently stumble over their words, and aim their explanations at Miss Moffatt's Year-3 class. "Right now Falcon is crossing the Indian Ocean. It looks really slow in this graphic, but that's because the ocean is really big..."
Then there's a long intermezzo while the craft readies for a second burn. Obviously this is far too long to fill with comment, information, explanation, or - good God - maybe a hint of the mathematics of achieving different orbital altitudes and geostationary positioning. So the feed goes dead. It says: "Nothing happening here that might blow up. Way too dull for the attention spans of the online community. That colossal 19-minute pause is only fit for broadcast transmission, where the snowbirds can go make cups of tea and replenish supplies of digestive biscuits."
Throughout the broadcast, Ant and Dec are periodically drowned out by joyous screaming and a-whooping and a-hollerin' by staff when Falcon marks a potential blow-up moment by not blowing up. This is not the practised, calm, smooth expectation of scientists seeing their carefully controlled plan being executed flawlessly by technology of relentless precision. This is Miss Moffatt's Year-3 class squealing with delight because the class gerbil's had a baby. Were I a satellite customer, or the customer's insurer, I would be checking I had the Ariane folks on speed-dial.
Then, suddenly, like the main-engine cut-off itself, it's finished. With a cursory farewell, Ant and Dec hand over web viewers back to their intense online study of 2016's Best Fails: "The burn's over. All the opportunities for explosions are gone. See you soon."
The first stage landing was covered in a flash of bright light then the colour bars. Ant and Dec more or less blanked that one. There wasn't any footage of an explosion, so nothing to talk about.
Perhaps as a commercial enterprise SpaceX feels no need to be informative more than basic PR dictates. There's little educational content. A couple of third-rate graphics which showed a the geostationary satellite positioned over the USA rather than over its planned destination. Even Ant and Dec had the grace to be embarrassed about that. It was probably just the standard graphic knocked up by the PR team.
SpaceX sells itself short. The science is nothing short of amazing. The cost of putting it out there is seven-tenths of fuck-all, so why not broadcast it professionally? As purveyors of exciting technology in search of tax dollars, why not make a pitch for the imagination of the public, not by dumbing down to our level, but by dragging us up to theirs?
Anyway, Falcon 10/10. Webcast 3/10.
It came live about 10 minutes before launch. I seem to remember it was 20 minutes earlier in the week, so perhaps they feel they've said it all before and it needs no further build up. But it feels grudging: as if they think people only tune in to see the damn thing blow up, and aren't interested in the science.
The heavy broadcast lifting is performed by two bearded versions of Ant and Dec, who innocently stumble over their words, and aim their explanations at Miss Moffatt's Year-3 class. "Right now Falcon is crossing the Indian Ocean. It looks really slow in this graphic, but that's because the ocean is really big..."
Then there's a long intermezzo while the craft readies for a second burn. Obviously this is far too long to fill with comment, information, explanation, or - good God - maybe a hint of the mathematics of achieving different orbital altitudes and geostationary positioning. So the feed goes dead. It says: "Nothing happening here that might blow up. Way too dull for the attention spans of the online community. That colossal 19-minute pause is only fit for broadcast transmission, where the snowbirds can go make cups of tea and replenish supplies of digestive biscuits."
Throughout the broadcast, Ant and Dec are periodically drowned out by joyous screaming and a-whooping and a-hollerin' by staff when Falcon marks a potential blow-up moment by not blowing up. This is not the practised, calm, smooth expectation of scientists seeing their carefully controlled plan being executed flawlessly by technology of relentless precision. This is Miss Moffatt's Year-3 class squealing with delight because the class gerbil's had a baby. Were I a satellite customer, or the customer's insurer, I would be checking I had the Ariane folks on speed-dial.
Then, suddenly, like the main-engine cut-off itself, it's finished. With a cursory farewell, Ant and Dec hand over web viewers back to their intense online study of 2016's Best Fails: "The burn's over. All the opportunities for explosions are gone. See you soon."
The first stage landing was covered in a flash of bright light then the colour bars. Ant and Dec more or less blanked that one. There wasn't any footage of an explosion, so nothing to talk about.
Perhaps as a commercial enterprise SpaceX feels no need to be informative more than basic PR dictates. There's little educational content. A couple of third-rate graphics which showed a the geostationary satellite positioned over the USA rather than over its planned destination. Even Ant and Dec had the grace to be embarrassed about that. It was probably just the standard graphic knocked up by the PR team.
SpaceX sells itself short. The science is nothing short of amazing. The cost of putting it out there is seven-tenths of fuck-all, so why not broadcast it professionally? As purveyors of exciting technology in search of tax dollars, why not make a pitch for the imagination of the public, not by dumbing down to our level, but by dragging us up to theirs?
Anyway, Falcon 10/10. Webcast 3/10.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
whoopin in the control room is traditional. Have you not seen the films?
TheHoodedClaw
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Fucking nailed the landing on the droneship. Wow.
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TheHoodedClaw
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That first stage is about the same height as a 25-storey building, and a few minutes before it was traveling at thousands of km/h in the opposite direction. *boggles*
TheHoodedClaw
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The view just as the first stage reaches the ship, from the stage itself.
That looks like a wobbly platform, to say the least.
That looks like a wobbly platform, to say the least.
Crispy
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It's a direct descendent. After congress banned further development of transhab, Bigelow Aerospace bought the IP.
coley
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It's nowt short of amazing but why such an apparently small barge? why not a retired tanker or even aircraft carrier which could even be fitted with stabilisers?They're going to need a new hanger to store them all in if they carry on like this
Crispy
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It's not that small really - about the size of a football pitch. And compared to those other options, they're cheap. The positioning thrusters can hold it within a few metres of a GPS location, and the rocket can hit within a few metres of a GPS location. No need for it to be any bigger, really.
