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[Jezbollah]

Elon tweets:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/743096769001578498

Ascent phase & satellites look good, but booster rocket had a RUD on droneship

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/743097337782763521

Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines operating at max.

 

[cameron]

Another tweet:

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
Upgrades underway to enable rocket to compensate for a thrust shortfall on one of the three landing engines. Probably get there end of year.

Primary mission was a success, so yay for that!

Edit: VVV That is a beautiful.

 

[ultratruman]

last shot of Earth from the webcast, just after final separation.

 

[Jezbollah]

^^ stunning shot.

 

[Daggoth]

Gorgeous shot.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is the most amazing phrase

 

[GTI Guy]

last shot of Earth from the webcast, just after final separation.

Looks flat to me!

 

[East Lake]

http://i.imgur.com/3Mtwouy.png

last shot of Earth from the webcast, just after final separation.

Looks fake. I've studied sensor dynamic range and that's clearly not possible with current cameras. Also they forgot to add land on that digital earth.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Looks fake. I've studied sensor dynamic range and that's clearly not possible with current cameras. Also they forgot to add land on that digital earth.

More of that round Earth garbage

NASA is a joke but these guys are on another level

Let's take another look at this garbage

 

[blu]

Valuable lessons learned - landing-thrust redundancy will be most handy on those Mars missions.

 

[cameron]

SpaceX ‏@SpaceX
Second of two satellites being deployed into proper orbit with today's launch

https://vine.co/v/ilu1U0J3ETU

DEIMOS IMAGING @deimosimaging
@elonmusk droneship does look ok 40 minutes after #RUD as seen from our #DEIMOS2 Good luck for next landing @SpaceX!

Needs some zoom and enhance.

 

[Lunar FC]

We are hopefully going to get video of the RUD?

Edit: Just saw Musk's tweet:

Landing video will be posted when we gain access to cameras on the droneship later today. Maybe hardest impact to date. Droneship still ok.

 

[cameron]

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
Turns out the landing was not as fast we thought, but still hard enough to destroy the primary airframe and accordion the engines

Twitter video (in link) from trailing vessel:

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
Looks like early liquid oxygen depletion caused engine shutdown just above the deck

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
As mentioned at the beginning of the year, I'm expecting ~70% success rate on landings for the year. 2016 is the year of experimentation.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/743602865516646402/pu/vid/640x360/B5mElg6kp_rcfGaB.mp4

Through the smoke, you can see it fall over at the end.

 

[Gallbaro]

Twitter video (in link) from trailing vessel:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/743602865516646402/pu/vid/640x360/B5mElg6kp_rcfGaB.mp4

Through the smoke, you can see it fall over at the end.

That is still so god damn impressive.

 

[HellBlazer]

That's too bad, looks like it was really close.