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Here is some glorious drone footage of the landing:
Wrong link.Here's my footage:
Did you see or hear it Thunder Chicken?
Here's my footage: SpaceX CRS-10 Launch and Landing Up-Close Footage - YouTube
Have you noticed (at 26:29 of the hosted webcast) a couple of...objectspassingzipping by...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giNhaEzv_PI&feature=youtu.be&t=26m28s
What do you think they are?
What are the qualifications required to present a show like this?
It may be because English isn't my native language, but I think this guy needs some KSP experience. (I suspect Orbiter would be a fair few bridges too far)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giNhaEzv_PI&feature=youtu.be&t=29m43s
What are the qualifications required to present a show like this?
What did he say that was inaccurate?
Height adjustment burns aren't performed vertically ("away from the center of the Earth").
The launch was at 6:30 AM their time, so it's understandable if the presenters were tired and made mistakes.
:huh:
If you are tired that early in the morning, you should go to bed earlier. Yes, that is a very boring way of life, but my experience shows, that it is better to be awake when you are doing your work.
Well, Musk is rumored to overwork his employees. So who knows how late they were working the previous night.
Technically, he did not specify which direction the burns were in but how the spacecraft moves with respect to Earth. Then he called the phases burns.
The launch was at 6:30 AM their time, so it's understandable if the presenters were tired and made mistakes.
Looks like there are still issues with the Falcon Heavy.
Having sent the Dragon on its way, the Falcon 9 second stage was set for a very brief re-start of its engine for a retrograde deorbit maneuver, placing it on a sub-orbital arc intercepting the dense atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, south west of Australia. After crossing the Atlantic, the second stage passed over the English Channel, flew north of Paris and traversed Europe in just six minutes. The 12.6-meter long rocket stage then passed over Lebanon and Syria, heading to the south east over Saudi Arabia still bathed in sunlight before entering orbital night over the Arabian Sea east of Somalia.
Visibility of the rocket stage extended as far north as the Caspian Sea with favorable nighttime viewing for much of Iraq, Kuwait, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Various videos of the event show the the Falcon 9 second stage as a fuzzy object due to gas around the vehicle from its cold gas thrusters and engine chilldown sequence that had been underway by that time. At one point, the object can be seen ejecting a plume of gas toward its direction of travel, representing the start of the vehicle’s retrograde deorbit maneuver.
And an off-topic news. Does anyone know this?
In 2016, debris from a second stage that had been left in orbit after a GTO launch rained down over Indonesia, causing damage to property on two small islands, illustrating the importance of safely removing rocket stages from orbit whenever possible.