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[Staab]

aaaannd we have lift off !!!

 

[Disxo]

Guys, this is beautiful. ;_;

 

[Wreav]

The little fires dancing around the engines always makes me nervous.

 

[cameron]

Guys, this is beautiful. ;_;

 

[Smidget]

See it on my drive home from dinner here in central Florida.

 

[Disxo]

Ok here we go, second stage ready and the first going down.

 

[Nelo Ice]

We have lift off c'mon 1st stage come home safely!.

 

[Disxo]

Damn, that simulation made me want to play ksp haha.

 

[Crispy75]

Very nice seeing the RCS firing to turn the 1st stage round for reentry

 

[Staab]

Barge landing up next, finger's crossed, GO GO GUYS !

 

[cameron]

Awwww.

 

[Disxo]

Lmao! Hahaha.

 

[akileese]

Well, that might be ominous.

 

[Oriel]

Did it land?! Nooooooo, the feed goes.

Please land!

 

[Nelo Ice]

The suspense omg did it land?!.

 

[Crispy75]

The landing itself messes with the cameras and antennas, so we'll have to wait for confirmation

 

[Agent]

I'd say that didn't look good, but they didn't seem very optimistic it would land anyway.

 

[Mindlog]

That was close, but it looked off :]

 

[GSG Flash]

I hope the feed didn't die because it crashed....

 

[cameron]

It looked like it was off the droneship.

 

[Tempy]

Should really have a cam somewhat away from the barge as well.

 

[Head of Vengarl]

The suspense is killing me!

 

[Fireblend]

Yeah it looked a bit off to the left, but holding out hope!

 

[chaosblade]

Guessing it didn't, but it would be amazing if it did.

 

[Disxo]

This seems like a different problem, they will get some good data out of this.

 

[antonz]

Yeah the engine exhaust seemed to be appearing on the extreme left of the camera.

 

[Oriel]

I suspect pretty much all barge landings will be like this, requiring confirmation before if first stage landing was successful.

But at least the second stage and payload are now in LEO. Now we wait.

 

[Crispy75]

Hands up who's trying to spin this view round like the Kerbal map.

 

[Disxo]

Its relaxing to see this stage slowly cross the globe, has Elon said anything about the first stage?

Hands up who's trying to spin this view round like the Kerbal map.

-_-/

 

[cameron]

Replay of landing before feed was cut:
https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann/status/705902929363005440

 

[Oriel]

Hands up who's trying to spin this view round like the Kerbal map.

Coupled with the music it's quite hypnotic.

 

[ZeezbruhTV]

Did not look good, at least it made it to the barge lol

 

[Oriel]

Replay of landing before feed was cut:
https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann/status/705902929363005440

Doesn't look promising.

 

[Disxo]

Replay of landing before feed was cut:
https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann/status/705902929363005440

Cool, at least it made it to the barge!

 

[jett]

You know, this idea is looking like an abject disaster.

 

[Particulam]

Replay of landing before feed was cut:
https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann/status/705902929363005440

Definitely looks like it was too far to the left.. Exiting stuff!

 

[Wreav]

You know, this idea is looking like an abject disaster.

This is the first time (to my knowledge) that they've attempted a non-boostback landing, and to actually hit the barge is an amazing accomplishment.

 

[antonz]

You know, this idea is looking like an abject disaster.

It's not so bad. I mean obviously SpaceX would like to perfect it sooner than later but right now they have the benefit of missions being paid for them to do the tests.

They could speed up the process and absorb attempt costs but right now at least they are comfortable with limited tests done around client paid schedules.

They get this perfected and they suddenly cut mission costs significantly

 

[HellBlazer]

It was definitely left of center, but I don't know, I guess the barge is probably a bit bigger than the illuminated area? Maybe it still made it...

 

[cameron]

SpaceX Launch Status @spacexstatus
Unverified reports that the #Falcon9 first stage experimental landing was a success.

https://twitter.com/spacexstatus/status/705904216535994370

 

[Disxo]

https://twitter.com/spacexstatus/status/705904216535994370

awesome if true.

 

[Crispy75]

EDIT: I'm too slow

 

[Staab]

Being off-center is intended, they don't want it to hit the barge if the last burn isn't going to happen.
Correction is apparently done in the last seconds, here's to hoping !

 

[antonz]

It looked like it was still gonna make the barge. The question I had was more of if it was too close to the edge for leg support and it toppling over

 

[Jezbollah]

Jesus, if they landed that rocket on a ballistic approach with no boost back I'll cream myself.

 

[Oriel]

https://twitter.com/spacexstatus/status/705904216535994370

Please be true.

 

[Disxo]

Fingers crossed

 

[HellBlazer]

https://twitter.com/spacexstatus/status/705904216535994370

Where do they get this info from?

That would be amazing though. :O

 

[Jezbollah]

https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann/status/705902929363005440

^^ video footage from the barge before loss of video.

 

[Mindlog]

https://twitter.com/spacexstatus/status/705904216535994370

Well I can verify it landed successfully. Somewhere.