SpaceX Falcon Heavy (updates & maiden flight)

By DocM
in Science News & Discussion

 Share

Recommended Posts

Grand Master

Slugsie

Posted
Posted
Just now, CrashGordon said:

That was pretty spectacular. The two side boosters landing at near the same time, incredible. I wondered how landing on a platform floating in the ocean with waves was gonna workout. Still, very impressive.

SpaceX have done it a bunch of times, so it's certainly possible.

Grand Master

TrevorLahey

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, CrashGordon said:

It may not have gone so well this time, have to wait to see.

I doubt it had anything to do with the waves though.  It looked pretty calm out there.  I wonder if it came down too hot, but the video made it look like it might have exploded at it got close to the ship.  Hard to tell though.

Grand Master

CrashG

Posted
Posted (edited)
25 minutes ago, bguy_1986 said:

I doubt it had anything to do with the waves though.  It looked pretty calm out there.  I wonder if it came down too hot, but the video made it look like it might have exploded at it got close to the ship.  Hard to tell though.

I've only seen the SpaceX feed and the cam went down before it showed anything. If that was the only thing that went wrong, it's still a great achievement.

 

Now back to watching some Starman footage :)

  • TrevorLahey
  • Like 1
Grand Master

Blue-Vision

Posted
Posted

AHHHH MAHHHH GAWWWDDD!!! 

 

(STONE COLD!! STONE COLD!! :D :rofl:)

 

Actually, Brownsville could start doing some of the BFS "hopper" testing if it's ready by next year, he said. Either that or ship-to-ship.

Mentor

anthdci

Posted
Posted
9 minutes ago, Unobscured Vision said:

AHHHH MAHHHH GAWWWDDD!!! 

 

(STONE COLD!! STONE COLD!! :D :rofl:)

 

Actually, Brownsville could start doing some of the BFS "hopper" testing if it's ready by next year, he said. Either that or ship-to-ship.

And I t can go to space WITHOUT the booster?!!

  • Blue-Vision and DocM
  • Like 2
Grand Master

Blue-Vision

Posted
Posted
2 minutes ago, anthdci said:

And I t can go to space WITHOUT the booster?!!

Yep. 25~35t of payload, too. :yes: On Mars it can do it with practically a full manifest, on Earth it can do it with 25~35.

Grand Master

ATLien_0

Posted
Posted (edited)

My parents were saying that its weird seeing this much excitement again over space flight. The sort of energy around these SpaceX launches especially today is very reminiscent to those of the early NASA launches. Very incredible achievement today!

Edited by wv@gt
  • DocM and CrashG
  • Like 2
Community Regular

+rdlenk Subscriber²

Posted
  • Subscriber²
Posted

Heck of a day. I got back out on the ITL Causeway. Was awesome.

 

 

 

Pretty rowdy crowd on the causeway, plenty of profanities. Some even shouted me. =D

This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Posts

    • Microsoft OneDrive is getting a simple yet much needed feature

      By excalpius · Posted

      All I want is a way to turn off the Copilot AI suggestion crap in OneDrive that doesn't break OneNote, etc. -- as the current Account setting change option does...
    • Politically funny images of the World

      By PsYcHoKiLLa · Posted

    • Here is the new Surface Laptop Ultra wallpaper in high resolution

      By TarasBuria · Posted

      Here is the new Surface Laptop Ultra wallpaper in high resolution by Taras Buria Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, its brand-new high-end laptop powered by NVIDIA's brand-new RTX Spark processor. As usual, Microsoft gives each new device a unique wallpaper, and the Surface Laptop Ultra is no exception. While the device is not publicly available yet, somebody has already extracted its wallpaper, giving everyone a chance to get a piece of the upcoming laptop in its full-resolution glory. The Surface Laptop Ultra has a very dark, abstract wallpaper that resembles the stock wallpapers in Windows Server, albeit with much less color. Having this dark, grim wallpaper highlights the laptop's mini-LED display and its ability to cut off parts of the screen's backlight to achieve OLED-like black levels. However, if you also like light wallpapers, we made a white version by simply inverting its colors. You can download both wallpapers below (click the image, right-click it, and select "Save as"): The Surface Laptop Ultra is expected to launch later this year. Microsoft is not revealing full details yet, including the price. However, Microsoft confirmed up to 1 petaflop of AI performance and RTX 5070-level of GPU performance. The heart of the laptop has up to 20 CPU cores and 6,144 GPU cores. Additionally, Microsoft and NVIDIA boast high CPU efficiency for all-day battery life. As for the display, it is a 15-inch mini-LED display with a pixel density of 262 ppi and a maximum brightness of 2,000 nits. Of course, not everyone needs this amount of power, and certainly not everyone can afford it. For those who need a more affordable device, Microsoft is also preparing the next-generation Surface Pro powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite processor. Weeks ahead of the announcement, details about this computer were leaked by a retailer. Do you like the Surface Laptop Ultra's stock wallpaper? Share your thoughts in the comments. Image provided by @nextgenos2026 on X
    • Governments are ruining the internet to protect kids but there is a much better way

      By WaltC · Posted

      From all that I've read on the subject--not that much, really--it looks to me like companies and parents are trying to protect themselves from children using their parents accounts to run up giant bills, sometimes in the thousands of dollars, and the first the parents know about it is when they get sued... Internet companies have been sued for tailoring their ads to children, which is kind of old news. My belief is that policing starts at home with the parents, and the reason that so many laws that can't be enforced are being passed is because parents are eschewing their responsibilities, claiming not enough time, not enough knowledge, etc. Giving kids cell phones sans Internet connectivity is a good place to start--confine Internet activity to PCs in the home that the parents regulate. My kids are all grown and gone, I'm happy to say... They have their own kids to worry about.
    • AI Chart Understanding Breakthrough: MIT-IBM Dataset Lets Small Models Beat GPT-4o

      By +TRS-80 · Posted

      ChartNet’s 1.7 million synthetic samples let compact open-source models outperform GPT-4o on every chart task   A team from MIT and the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab has built a training dataset that solves one of the most persistent gaps in enterprise AI: the inability of even the best commercial models to reliably read a chart...... https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317752/20260604/ai-chart-understanding-breakthrough-mit-ibm-dataset-lets-small-models-beat-gpt-4o.htm  

  • Recent Achievements

    • One Month Later
      nothanks earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • One Month Later
      B2Proxy earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • One Year In
      MadMung0 earned a badge
      One Year In
    • Week One Done
      jefred earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Apprentice
      JoeyNeo went up a rank
      Apprentice

  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      475
    2. 2
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      233
    3. 3
      Skyfrog
      79
    4. 4
      FloatingFatMan
      68
    5. 5
      Michael Scrip
      58
    Show More

  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!