beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Good day to to hide any problemsI bet they land it perfectly and we won't be able to see it
“Yeah mate, landed it no bother. What fireball? Didn’t see a thing, honest”
SpaceX rockets and launches
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“Yeah mate, landed it no bother. What fireball? Didn’t see a thing, honest”
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Ooooh, here we go, 3 mins.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
They might be good with rockets but their livestream tech is shite
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
It’s gone bang again?
Dead Cat Bounce
A member of the Waffle elite.
Watching at work with no sound so did it go boom? I saw a few bits of debris fly past but no explosion.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
They lost the feed just as the engines were reigniting so that seems possible.
weltweit
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At the moment they don't seem so excellent with rockets either!They might be good with rockets but their livestream tech is shite
Crispy
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It had trouble getting all the engines lit properly during the landing flip again. It was heading so far off course, the auto destruct triggered and blew it up in mid air.
SN15 up to bat next, which is apparently full of small design improvements.
SN15 up to bat next, which is apparently full of small design improvements.
weltweit
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They are going to have to comment the auto destruct out of the code before I will fly in one!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Think they're gonna need a bigger dustpan
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Those booster recovery landings never get any less impressive. Mind boggling stuff.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
It's just how almost casual it seems now, after the explosions and near misses when they were developing them. So impressive.We don't usually get the onboard view all the way to the deck
Crispy
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NASA selects SpaceX as its sole provider for a lunar lander
"We looked at what’s the best value to the government."
There were three competitors for the contract, one was Blue Origin + a bunch of familiar names (Lockheed, Northrup Grumman etc) and the other was another consortium of less well known aerospace contractors. But SpaceX got the job. Their bid was far cheaper and their proposed spacecraft is actually flying. Not far, mind you, but infinitely futher than the competitors. If a NASA astronaut lands on the moon in the future, they'll be stepping out of one of these:
Crispy
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I did say "if"
paul mckenna
Bellend
Good job gravity isn't much. Looks a big drop from the topNASA selects SpaceX as its sole provider for a lunar lander
"We looked at what’s the best value to the government."arstechnica.com
There were three competitors for the contract, one was Blue Origin + a bunch of familiar names (Lockheed, Northrup Grumman etc) and the other was another consortium of less well known aerospace contractors. But SpaceX got the job. Their bid was far cheaper and their proposed spacecraft is actually flying. Not far, mind you, but infinitely futher than the competitors. If a NASA astronaut lands on the moon in the future, they'll be stepping out of one of these:
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Dead Cat Bounce
A member of the Waffle elite.
Possible launch of SN15 today , live stream :
weltweit
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Do you know what technology their ground and landing target sensors are?
Crispy
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Combined GPS and radar.
Probably Differential GPS - Wikipedia for landing. They'll need that sort of accuracy if they're going to succesfully catch the booster with a giant robot arm on the launch tower. No I'm not making that up.
