SpaceX Falcon 9 FT Launch of CRS-8. First Stage Ocean Landing Successful

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Zaph said:
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so smooth
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I thought this would be a fitting reaction gif. I remember watching the live stream of that event as well, and legit tearing up when they succeeded. Man I love science.
 
Do not underestimate how big this is - landing at sea basically validates the entire Falcon Heavy reusable financial model. They needed to show they can land a core FH stage downrange on an ASDS. They did it. Superb.
 
jotun? said:
I think the plan is they'll send people out there to weld some caps over the ends of the landing legs to keep it stationary

Balance shouldn't really be a big problem though, because its center of gravity is actually very low. Slipping off is probably a bigger concern than tipping over
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Thanks that makes sense, the fuel is almost all gone I suppose when it gets back down and that's most of the initial weight?
 
jotun? said:
I think the plan is they'll send people out there to weld some caps over the ends of the landing legs to keep it stationary
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Yep. They'll check the integrity of the legs, and spot weld weld everything down for the return.

Dan27 said:
Do not underestimate how big this is - landing at sea basically validates the entire Falcon Heavy reusable financial model. They needed to show they can land a core FH stage downrange on an ASDS. They did it. Superb.
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Yep. It's THE key to making the FH product financially viable in the long term for commercial flight. And without that, you don't get the FH (or BFR) for Mars missions.
 
I LOVE how excited they got on stream. I love how they were screaming and shouting and cheering.

It made me tear up a little. Those kinds of moments are what people live for.
 
William said:
Thanks that makes sense, the fuel is almost all gone I suppose when it gets back down and that's most of the initial weight?
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Yeah, the fuel is something like 94% of the first stage mass at launch. At landing most of that is gone, and most of the dry weight is in the engines at the bottom
 
Kickz said:
Musk mission accomplished with Tesla and SpaceX.

Now please I needs the Hyper Loop
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Musk wants the whole world driving electric cars. He also wants SpaceX to go to other planets, primarily Mars. And he wants solar panels to be used by every household.

Much work to be done.
 
Next step, getting at least 30% of rockets landed and getting FH to space.

Thank you Elon, you completely disrupted the space industry and we are seeing progress we haven't seen in decades.

What a time to be alive.
 
We're living in the greatest era of advancement of space flight since the launching of Sputnik and the landing of Apollo 17.
 
PjotrStroganov said:
Damn, missed the live stream. YT enables me to set a reminder but I never get the reminder:(

Great achievement!
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Check a few posts up - SpaceVids have clips up but it's in potato quality right now

SpaceX will have plenty of HD clips up soon. They're busy hugging right now.
 
Dan27 said:
Check a few posts up - SpaceVids have clips up but it's in potato quality right now

SpaceX will have plenty of HD clips up soon. They're busy hugging right now.
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Thanks but I got those. SpaceX also posted the recorded stream on YT. It's just that they usually post some reminder thingy before the event and it just doesn't seem to be able to remind me. Should I get the reminder via mail?
 
That was amazing. So smooth almost effortless.
It send shivers down my spine.

Great work by the great people at Space X
 
Huge congrats to the SpaceX team. I imagine they were under a bit of pressure to succeed after BlueOrigin stuck their ground landing. Landing on a barge in the ocean is obviously an order-of-magnitude higher difficulty though and it's an amazing achievement.
 
elite09 said:
Next step, getting at least 30% of rockets landed and getting FH to space.

Thank you Elon, you completely disrupted the space industry and we are seeing progress we haven't seen in decades.

What a time to be alive.
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Everyone interested in this disruption should watch Dan Rasky's talk on YouTube...

Some highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNvqiFRw0FY
SpaceX hates Meetings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHuT7r38Es
SpaceX, the start-up, hated requirement documents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm5FegKLssE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yit0FvjDtkw
Software Start-up Mentality vs. Military-style Mentality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV4acTB0yYQ
Blue Origin - Building a spacecraft "backwards"
 
Pristine_Condition said:
Everyone interested in this disruption should watch Dan Rasky's talk on YouTube...
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Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywp6dnJeufw&list=PL6vdik5frDGVL4USjKgYkJoOb76_7sdkS

They're excellent videos.

However, SpaceX is going to keep on growing and they'll find it harder and harder to maintatin that free-wheeling startup mentatlity. Young engineers who can work 18 hour shifts will become middle-aged engineers with families. Teams of 15 will become teams of 150. It will be very interesting to watch them mature.
 
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