Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
Raining, not looking good for today. Trump just landed there, he will insist they launch.
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
Launch was postponed.
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
Nah, he may have asked for it to be postponed. Now he can just hang out in Florida at his place until Saturday. Win win for him.
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
Strategery.....
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Absolutely! Play golf, eat junk food, and say shit that will further reflect his stable geniusness.
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All systems are nominal....
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
Launch goes off well. However, one curious note is that just as the booster was about to land, the video goes out. Comes back on and the booster is sitting on the barge. Wouldn't be that noteworthy, but the exact same thing happened last time. Either they feel they can't show the landing live to keep it a secret on how it does it, or they didn't actually land it... again. Very fishy.
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From April 2019. FF to 1:28 to watch video cut out...
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Or third choice: the feed went out.89Hen wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 1:00 pm Launch goes off well. However, one curious note is that just as the booster was about to land, the video goes out. Comes back on and the booster is sitting on the barge. Wouldn't be that noteworthy, but the exact same thing happened last time. Either they feel they can't show the landing live to keep it a secret on how it does it, or they didn't actually land it... again. Very fishy.
We have far-shots of the rocket landing on a barge, and close-ups of the ground landings. They look to be the same mechanism.
Occam's razor.
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Like I said, if this was the first time it happened, it wouldn't be noteworthy. If it's a video problem then WFT? They can build a rocket, launch it into space, have the booster land on a tiny barge, but they can't figure out how to make the video feed work? I guess it's low on the priority list, but they can't find one engineer to work on the problem?
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
Awesome launch! Good for Musk. Look forward to a successful docking tomorrow.
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
Play some golf, bill the taxpayers $3,000,000...don't get no better'n that
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I’m betting there’s a technology that Musk doesn’t want to showcase. Vertical landings aren’t new ur there could be something proprietary here that SpaceX doesn’t want to share.∞∞∞ wrote:Or third choice: the feed went out.89Hen wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 1:00 pm Launch goes off well. However, one curious note is that just as the booster was about to land, the video goes out. Comes back on and the booster is sitting on the barge. Wouldn't be that noteworthy, but the exact same thing happened last time. Either they feel they can't show the landing live to keep it a secret on how it does it, or they didn't actually land it... again. Very fishy.
We have far-shots of the rocket landing on a barge, and close-ups of the ground landings. They look to be the same mechanism.
Occam's razor.
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
Musk will be the next Trump.
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I don't understand. We literally have multiple videos of this thing landing on the barge, including on-board footage. We also have a close-up of landing semi-successfully (lands, then one of the legs collapses and it tips over). Why go all conspiratorial on such a minor item?Ibanez wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 5:26 pmI’m betting there’s a technology that Musk doesn’t want to showcase. Vertical landings aren’t new ur there could be something proprietary here that SpaceX doesn’t want to share.∞∞∞ wrote:
Or third choice: the feed went out.
We have far-shots of the rocket landing on a barge, and close-ups of the ground landings. They look to be the same mechanism.
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Google: troll∞∞∞ wrote:I don't understand. We literally have multiple videos of this thing landing on the barge, including on-board footage. We also have a close-up of landing semi-successfully (lands, then one of the legs collapses and it tips over). Why go all conspiratorial on such a minor item?
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
Live docking now:
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
If we are ever going to fight off Alien and Predator we are going to have to figure out how to dock faster
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Watching the NASA channel now, taking a guided tour of the space station.
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
The better question is why not just have the live feed be that one from another barge or heli? Why broadcast a feed that you know will cut out at the only important moment of the broadcast? Imagine showing a hockey game from a goalie cam that goes out any time a puck is actually shot.
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WOW. I never would've thought of this. You're right, though.
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
Seriously
If Elon’s eggheads can figure out how to land all those boosters on boats and shit, you’d think they could design a docking mechanism where you can just pull up, bump into the hatch, throw it open, and leap through the door with your fuckin lightsaber
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If Elon’s eggheads can figure out how to land all those boosters on boats and shit, you’d think they could design a docking mechanism where you can just pull up, bump into the hatch, throw it open, and leap through the door with your fuckin lightsaber
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Re: Space X Falcon Heavy scheduled for test launch today
CID1990 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 8:03 am Seriously
If Elon’s eggheads can figure out how to land all those boosters on boats and shit, you’d think they could design a docking mechanism where you can just pull up, bump into the hatch, throw it open, and leap through the door with your fuckin lightsaber
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I'm sure we can, but it's probably a limitation of the two-decades old ISS than the capsule itself.CID1990 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 8:03 am Seriously
If Elon’s eggheads can figure out how to land all those boosters on boats and shit, you’d think they could design a docking mechanism where you can just pull up, bump into the hatch, throw it open, and leap through the door with your fuckin lightsaber