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Watch this badboy !!

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:20 am
by easyrider
Watch the booster (s) landing.. Go USA!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE

Re: Watch this badboy !!

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:39 am
by springer1
easyrider wrote:Watch the booster (s) landing.. Go USA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE
Unreal - When I first saw it on TV, I thought it was a computer animation......

Re: Watch this badboy !!

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:50 am
by PCX150Rider
Unreal! It's like watching a '60's Sci-Fi movie. . .except it's actually happening. :o

Re: Watch this badboy !!

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:10 pm
by Gil
I too was amazed by it. That Tesla will be on a solar orbit for billions of years. I was also proud that an immigrant is behind it all.

Gil

Re: Watch this badboy !!

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:37 pm
by you you
Incredible

Re: Watch this badboy !!

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:50 pm
by GeorgeSK
Watching the side boosters stick the landing is amazing (about 29 minutes in). Center core didn't make it, but hey, not too shabby for a test.

Re: Watch this badboy !!

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:13 pm
by Jge64
I liked the press conference that they had last night with Musk. The two big takeaways to me were the although the falcon heavy is good, but “we need to make Rockets much, much bigger....Way over the Saturn five”… Wow......

And the other was , frankly he was shocked that it went well… Because “so many things can go wrong…”

He also released the information that the center section landing was a fail, didn’t hit the barge, and hit the water at 300 mph. Oh well…still an amazing day.....

Re: Watch this badboy !!

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:36 pm
by Mel46
At 300 mph i wonder if there was anything salvageable of that center section. Remember that part of the test is to see how much they can make reusable. I was amazed and proud that the boosters landed so well. That has to be a first. So, was the center suppose to do what the boosters did, or did it have a parachute?We

Re: Watch this badboy !!

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:01 pm
by Jge64
The center was to do exactly what the land boosters did, except on a barge offshore which SpaceX has done successfully before. Not sure what failed, I’m guessing the lack of retro rocket burn.

Re: Watch this badboy !!

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:09 pm
by you you
I'm just amazed. After years of the doldrums this is science fiction. Now.

Hats off to the guy.