Unobscured Vision Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 Trying to find the live Conference, or at least a video of it. Reading bits on NSF ... and yeah. Gonna be an interesting year. Musk: Falcon Heavy is a "high-risk" flight. Calling it "Falcon-27" sounded too scary. And booyah on S2 reuse ... we knew that would be the next boogeyman to vanquish at SpaceX. Going to be 24x the difficulty that an S1 recovery is. There's a LOT more that happens more quickly and at way higher energies (12~24x, to be exact). If anyone can pull it off it'll be them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share Posted March 31, 2017 (edited) (SES CTO) Martin: After SES-8, I predicted [aerospace industry] people would be shaking in their boots, and they are today. Ya damn skippy they are!! FB stream from earlier Unobscured Vision 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share Posted March 31, 2017 (edited) YouTube mirror of the FB presser stream SALSN 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted April 4, 2017 Author Share Posted April 4, 2017 Hello.... May have sustained damage at some point; landing, retrieval etc., but then without the "bouncy castle" this is like the early Falcon 9 water landings. More pix, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bguy_1986 Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 I've never really heard anything about Optimus or whatever they are calling it now. Did that work well? Any pictures or video of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beittil Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 I don't think it was even on board, they didn't use it that's for sure. Won't either for couple more months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted April 4, 2017 Author Share Posted April 4, 2017 They're still working on it. Should see action a few launches from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted April 4, 2017 Author Share Posted April 4, 2017 Unobscured Vision and bguy_1986 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DocM Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 SpaceXer Patrick Adkins posted to the FB group that booster Falcon 9 #0021-2 will be placed in front of the SpaceX Launch Control Center at KSC. SALSN and Unobscured Vision 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) Landing video! https://www.instagram.com/p/BSfJDjMFzwR/ flyingskippy, Unobscured Vision and SALSN 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingskippy Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 That's some sturdy landing gear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Yup,w something like 30 tonnes dancing across that deck Youtube version Unobscured Vision 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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