/sci/ - Science & Math

First daytime RTLS landing since FH!

Does this break the record for the shortest time between SpaceX launches?

>>10187206
Yep

Man these SpaceX videos videos are getting a shitload of views on yt, people are getting fucking hype for this. What is the next fun thing to look forward to? Next FH? round 4/5 reuses?

>>10187211
>blowing up S1/2 for the in flight abort
>first fairing catch
>DM-1
>Starship details

>>10187228
STP-2 on Falcon Heavy early next year?

>>10187206
>>10187207
Only if it's not delayed because of moldy mouse food or something.

>>10187323
I don't understand this meme

>>10187324
I just googled it and that's fucking hilarious

RIP launch

>>10187680
DAMMIT

>B1050.1
>B1054.1
>B1051.1

Goddamn, they just keep shitting out new boosters. It's gonna take to mid-2019 for us to see regular use of sooty, flight-proven bois.

>>10187699
Where's the forest of once flown boosters being hidden? I want to see that shit

God damn rodent food bars scrubbing my spacex launch https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/2018/12/03/spacex-crs-16-now-targeted-for-dec-5/

>>10187731
they're scattered about. Some in Texas, some in Florida, some in Hawthorn. No one big warehouse full of them.

>>10187322
That’ll be fun, it’ll be like SSO-A on steroids. Lots of payloads.

>>10187699
To ensure rapid reusability they need a stack of available boosters.

>gedi.umd.edu

cool but there is a grammatical error on that page

>>10187952
oh lol and they still think it's happening in 9 hours

Re-usability is not yet proven and likely never will be. Stop spreading misinformation.

>>10187981
>Re-usability is not yet proven
Granted.
>and likely never will be.
Allow me to laugh at you.

>>10187895
Yeah man, the 50 they have already aren't enough.

Reusability simply doesn't work. Truth hurts.

>>10187699
You are actually never going to see that because there aren't enough potential missions for that and even less contractors who are willing to put their irreplaceable work load on a used rocket to save a few million.

>>10188092
Except you know, all those contractors who already have and will continue to do so.....

how long until elon is metoo-ed?

>>10188091
They don't have 50 Block 5s.

>>10188092
>and even less contractors who are willing to put their irreplaceable work load on a used rocket to save a few million.
If it's good enough for NASA and the DoD...

>>10188092
starlink

>>10187699
I thought they wanted to mass produce block 5s now so that SpaceX can then shift those resources to ITS/BFR/Starship ASAP. The huge stock was needed in case their current/future customers don't want to jump on BFR early and they'll have ready stock to suit even expandable mission profiles.

>>10187368
>>10187099
F

>>10188189
sqekek

>american spacex very shit so incompetent they no keep mouse food in refrigerator
>meanwhile Russia flies kosmonaut with no oxygen because food not need

BASED

>>10188238
I don't think SpaceX is the one responsible for packing the food into anything other than the capsule. They are just Space-UPS.

>>10188253
Somebody somewhere will consider adding it to some senator or congressman's speech as a bullet point.

>>10188255
Adding what?

>>10188189
Oy vey, Russian mice are hacking American private companies now.

>>10188347
мышь пиcк пиcк

>>10187099
Logo literally looks like a circumcised penis.

>>10188121
he really dodged a bullet ditching heard

>>10188405
That woman is a literal succubus.
I always had the idea about musk that he was a autistic nerd with too much money, but after he pumped&dumped amber heard i have new respect for him.
He is more like a supervillain at this point.

>>10188553
Where does Grimes fit in?

>>10188555
>Where does Grimes fit in?
Never put your dick in crazy.
But musk is autistic so it levels out.

I want like a nicely formatted tldr list (but still informative) of each payload and exactly what it's going to the ISS for and who paid spacex to put it up there for retards like me

>>10188932
Bottom two links under “payload information”

>>10188115
How many contracts do they have for 2020 and beyond? 2019 will be the last year where they will have >10 launches, because the launch market move in cycles, since most satellites need replacement all ~25 years. This cycle is almost done and there wont be many launches for the next 20 years, plus 2021 and beyond Blue Origin and european, chinese and russian rockets are going to enter the market.

>>10188134
If they are going to need many dozen launches to put the sats into orbit, it will be impossible to finance.

>>10188937
who's carrying out all these student experiments

delayed until tomorrow, so Ariane 5 goes first in ten minutes.

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

>>10189247
dank
countdown in French, I like it

>>10189261
Ariane 5 is kind of... stubby?

>>10189269
liquid hydrogen needs huge fat tanks.

>>10189269
but it is nothing compared to the super stubby GSLV III from India, which had its second launch just last month.

>>10189280
she is so fucking fat

>>10189247
RIP stream

>>10189331
stream is back, it was just pinin' for the fjords

>>10189176
student

>>10189464
the students arent going on the iss
one of those things was like "evaluating mist sprinklers in space"
some astronaut is going to have to be turning on the sprinklers and taking video or recording data on them somehow else in some kind of neatly organized paper to be sent back to the high school so the students can "analyze" it

>>10188553
I unironically thought mars was over when that image surfaced.

I wonder what sort of ice cream they’re sending up this time

They always stick some in the dragon freezer for the astronauts

Update from the last launch, fairings from SSO-A are onboard Steven.

>>10190307
How many misses have they had now, even after the upgrades? I don't think they'll ever be able to consistently catch the fairings.

>>10190336
They’ve attempted a catch like 7 times? It took a bunch of tries to land a rocket too; I don’t think it’ll be much longer before they bag one.

>>10190349
Yes, but with the rockets they iteratively improved upon their previous failures, first they added the grid fins, then improved the hydraulics systems, fixed the sticky valves, and experimented a lot with the engine timings to see how far they can push with the fuel savings.
But on the other hand with the fairings, other than the bigger net and perhaps bigger parachutes, they seems to be still at the mercy of the wind directions and the skill of the boat operators.

>>10190380
you'd think that a smaller boat and smaller net would be better than a bigger net which results in slower speeds. If you get to the landing area, you should be able to catch it with relatively high precision. They seem to just be missing it by distances that are the result of a lack of mobility rather than net size

>>10189509
Why?

>>10190649
as he said, succubism. c is much more of a appropriate partner for Ol' Musky. If anything she'll accelerate Mars overall

New short Spacex video of the SSO-A booster, with some (new?) hires landing footage https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1070153362476134400

>>10190349
They're switching to letting them splash down and hosing them down back at base. Elon tweeted about this a little while ago.

>>10188553
Which Deus Ex character do you think he identifies most with? I think he would like to be Gary Savage but really he knows he's Bob Page.

>>10190696
DeBeers

>>10190707
>Reveal to De Beers that Everett could restore his body at any time but chooses not to
>Walk off and ignore his pleas for me to shut off his life support
Renegade points acquired

>>10190709
>..it's so cold...

Less than 12 hours to go

>>10190336
Less that the number of attempts they made at landing before it stuck.

The question is, will re used fairings look dirty? How will they paint the new mission logo on it?

I fucking hate this faggot.

>>10190980
That idea is better than what SpaceX is doing though.

>>10190980
That's fucking retarded, why would you not just use 4 ships instead.

>>10190998
Because they can't manuveur as fast. The net is going to be so heavy that you definetely can't do it with drones though. You will need helicopters and what you basically end up with is the same idea that ULA calls "SMART Reusability".

>>10190989
It's not and it sounds like something a 13 year old autistic kid on popsci kool-aid would wrote. SpaceX's approach may or may not work, but at least it's attemptable.

>>10190980
He's about the most onion person I know, online or irl.

>>10190980
I hope Elon blocks him for that.

>>10190696
greasel or zyme addict

>>10190980
>FOUR LARGE DRONES
>ONE HUGE NET

>>10190980
>attention whore NERDY XDD O_o youtuber
>absolute fucking retard
Revelation.

Just under 3 hours left

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esh1jHT9oTA

Any Floridaanons here? It’s worth it to try and watch; don’t get many daytime land landings.

>>10191529
TxAnon here, I can't wait for shit to start happening at Boca Chica, I hope South Padre/Port Isabel will have good viewing areas.

>>10191557
there is going to be a big amphitheater for viewing close to the launch site.

>>10191570
Nice. I'm also wondering how good a view you could get from Schlitterbahn. Imagine seeing it from the top of a water slide.

2 bongs to go

>>10189269
Most rockets are about that stubby, Falcon 9 is a tall skinny exception to the rule. It wasn't always, but when they kept upgrading the engines and wanted to add propellant they couldn't make it wider because they'd have to get all new tooling and shit so they stretched it several times.

>>10190643
>a bigger net which results in slower speeds.
the bigger net adds negligible weight to the ship, doesn't appreciably slow it down.

half a bong left
man I should really be doing my homework right now

stream is up

STREAM

STREAM IS LIVE

for alternate views, have the NASA tv stream up as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0

>>10191808
>people yammering on

I like the music better in the spacex stream.

>>10191813
the NASA cameras sometimes have better views, especially with landing

INSPRUCKER

>>10187099
14mins left!

INSPRUCKER YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
THE GOAT COMMENTATOR

>>10191815
I didn't think they landed anything from the ISS restocking stuff.

Who's the woman with voice that sounds like static?

>>10191825
I mean landing the booster
NASA has really nice telephoto lenses

>>10191819
>>10191822
still missing Ron Burgundy though

>>10191822
Everyone looks sunburnt.

>Watching a lunatic autist from South Africa with his personal space company launch rockets into orbit live on youtube
What a time to be alive

I should have driven over to the Cape today. It only takes 2 hours to get there.

>>10191831
don't forget about Grimes

American rockets are shit.

WE BEER NOW!

>>10191842
it's too bad they're also the best

>beer

>SPACE BEER SCIENCE

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.

>space beer science

Please don't blow up.
Please don't blow up.
Please don't blow up.

>this is what the ~120 billion dollar price tag of the ISS got us

>>10191855
Better than giving it our subhuman underclass or being used to blow up brown people

de-erection in progress

>>10191857
>blowing up brown people
that's what we used Shuttle for

>>10191861
oof

go babi

>hail to the chief plays on the radio in the other room

>throttle bucket

gonna be some great boost back camera views this time

I like that I could see 39A/39B from that downward view.

great tracking shots on NASAtv right now

>>10191877
shut up nigger

floaty boi

who cares about 2nd stage get back to ground cam

OH NOOOOOOO

WE SPINNAN NAO

Is it supposed to spin like that?

UNSTABLE

OH BOY

OH FUCK

Based and spinpilled

F stage 1

What the fuck did just happen?

WHATS HAPPENING

can't see shit!

wait what it still landed?

water landing

>impacted KSC

>>10191903
>>10191902
>>10191901
They stuck the landing despite the spinout

>>10191904
Successful abort to water you could say. It didn't impact the ground and blow shit up.

SUCCESSFUL WATER LANDING
JUST AS PLANNED

>>10191906
>kerbals confirmed lost

cue shillfags

>>10191908
It crashed into the ocean.

F B1050

>>10191912
But at least on water

>>10191905
UWL

>>10191886
Those goddamn o-rings again!

>>10191910
>>10191915
Water landing is full slow down vertically onto the water surface.
If it indeed is a water landing like they say (they were cheering too), then it's intact. Not ideal for recovery but definetely not crashed.

Always got to keep things interesting...

Booster reusability still not mature!!!
ULA back from suicide watch

>>10191916
>F

note: it was a brand new stage. The used stages are actually proving to be more reliable!

This will delay DM-1 and probably put a ban on return to landing site landings for the nasa pads.
Reusability is over. Time to bring back reason.

>>10191886
>>10191921
It's an omen

>>10191923
So what that means is if it was a propulsive capsule landing, the crew would have survived, though dizzy?

Look like they have fun. I want to see it too

>>10191923

Why can't nasa do this?

>promoting ur shitty rocket with the fact of being reusable
>fail literally 50% of ur landings
>still get loads of cash from ur investors and assignments
>in the meantime europe, russia and china who have way better rockets struggle to keep their programs alive

u murricans are so fucking braindead

WHY'D THEY CUT THE BFOOTAGE WE COULD HAVE SEEN IT ALL, ALL THE WAY DAWN IT WOULD AHVE BEEN GLORIOUS WHY DID THEY CUT TO THE SECOND STAGE WE KNOWS ITS THE PRIPARY MISSION NOBODY CARES WE WANT TO SEE THE BOOSTER CRASH WE KNOW ITS NO BIG DEAL TO LOSE A MOOSTER FROM TIME TO TIME PLS LET US SEE THE BOOSTER TURN ITSELF APPART THE PEOPLE WERE CHEERING IT SOUNDED REALLY FUN PLS SPACEX

>>10191935
Because they're too busy making Muslims feel good about themselves.

If it's water landing then I guess it's not RIP for titanium fins.

>>10191935
They don't have anything to launch.

Safest rockets are the Russian rockets. Be responsible, buy a seat!

Why do they even cut off the video feed? an anomaly is the best part, it's like streaming nascar and cutting off the crashes...

>>10191934
SpaceX was due for a failure, I feel they were getting to complacent.

https://clips.twitch.tv/AdventurousConcernedGazelleKappaWealth

https://clips.twitch.tv/AdventurousConcernedGazelleKappaWealth

https://clips.twitch.tv/AdventurousConcernedGazelleKappaWealth

https://clips.twitch.tv/AdventurousConcernedGazelleKappaWealth

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ELONSHILLS BTFO

>>10191938
Because of the PR, so there'd be no videos of it slamming into people.

"landing' video https://twitter.com/MHoltWFTV/status/1070384419448467457

it tried at least

>>10191932
No you ape the capsule has parachutes

>>10191930
>delay
probably
>ban on return to landing site
hell no nigga

>>10191936
If Euro rockets are so much better why don't they bid for nasa contracts?

>>10191950
>parachutes
>propulsive landing
Who exactly is the ape here?

>>10191946
It doesn't even look that bad considering how much spinning it was.

>>10191945
Mission success isn't a failure.

>>10191934
Was that faulty sensor, faulty actuator on one of the grid fins, or just a big gust?

>>10191946
Holy fuck that's amazing footage

>>10191953
is this a bait?

longer clip https://clips.twitch.tv/CleverSpineyEggPrimeMe

>>10191946
Holyfuck, that's pretty impressive considering how fucked up it was.

>>10191963
You know NASA pays Russians right?

>>10191936
>in the meantime europe, russia and china who have way better rockets struggle to keep their programs alive
That must be why Spacex has essentially captured all commercial launch contracts.

>>10191958
Well yeah but they failed to recover the booster. Better have failure now then have something happen on a crewed launch.

>>10191946
>literally went OH NO NO NO NO NO NO

>>10191946
Holy crap, that's really amazing.

>>10191967
they did because they literally had no other choice. still it makes more sense for the us to keep the money in the country and therefore rely on spacex

>>10191953
You realize most expensive shit like WEBB fly on Ariane right?

ESA don't have crew capsules so of course they can't even bid for that.

IT'S ALLLLIVEEEEE
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1070386062164283392
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1070386062164283392

>>10191965
>>10191946
A stuck gridfin, perhaps?

>>10191981
Spacex only delivers payloads

>>10191982
B1050 LIVES

EVERYONE UNDO YOUR F

ꟻ

>>10191971
It only failed due to massive cross winds. You can see white caps like crazy on the water.

>>10191954
It doesn't do propulsive landings, in the case of an abort the engines are used to pull the capsule+trunk away from the second stage, and after the engines are spent the parachute opens.

>>10191960
All of the fins were moving kind of in sync, so I don't think it was actuator, my money's on sensor.

>>10191982
Yesss

Saw the launch from a hill up close on base. We were stupefied.

>>10191982
Was this the first time this slow grid fin deploy was implemented? It smelled fishy.

>>10191982
And it still kept control of itself and landed intact. That gents is some impressive engineering and coding.

>>10191986
Because they were cheaper for that and because it's jobs in USA.

>>10191938
are you happy now?

>>10191982
he is alive and speaking guys!!!!

>>10192000
WANT TO SEE IT PLS ELON

>>10192000
Great news!

>>10191997
yeah, that's some impressive control engineering. Can't imagine the sort of PID network they have

>>10191982
There's a chance they can reuse it still. But, rapid cooling like that, who knows.

B1050.2 is habbening

>>10191991
I said ***IF*** you faggot. I know NASA didn't want it.

IF IF IF IF IF

>americans can't even land a rocket
XAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA

>>10192017
Musk is African.

>>10191988
ꟻ

>>10192013
in-flight abort test just received a new volunteer

>>10191991
>my money's on sensor.
My money's on not enough gas for cold thrusters, else they would have eliminated the roll.

>>10192021
Cia scum is cia scum no matter country. All shit.

So we finally get to see the landing fail-safe scenario work. And no Big-Bada-Boom™.

ꟻ F ꟻ F ꟻ F ꟻ F ꟻ F ꟻ F ꟻ F ꟻ F ꟻ F ꟻ F ꟻ F |_|_

>>10192024
it took a lot of time for the computer to figure out what the hell to do once the grid fin was detected to be hard cranked over to one side. 100% they could have landed it on LZ-1 if there was more landing burn margin

>>10192029
yep, this is why it initially aims for the water. only at the last minute does the trajectory shift over to land

damn, they really could have saved this one!

>>10192024
This. I didn't see them trying to counteract the rolling or tilting.

>>10191990
one of the grid fins failed

>>10192036
It just stopped spraying.

>>10192000
Elon was probably PISSED that they cut away from the landing

new tweet:

always good to chisel away at failure modes like this

>>10192035
Crazy to think that if it initially aimed for the pad it might have still landed safe

>>10192024
He already said the hydraulic pump for the fin actuators stalled, the core had no control over the fins for the majority of the descent

>>10192040
SCOTT MANLEY HEAR

>>10191971
Landing the 1st stage doesn't matter for crewed missions either.

>>10192024
Cold-gas thrusters wouldn't really have that big of an effect this deep in the atmosphere. Once it's completed entry the grid fins and the rocket's angle of attack become the primary forces acting on its flight path.

what is with SpaceX and valves etc getting stuck? It's their most common failure modeI it seems

>>10192047
HULLO

>>10192040
>ballerina Falcon 9 landings will never happen again
:(

>>10192043
Nah, it was too fucked, and without a water landing everything might have been fire.

Further proof rocket reuse is not only impossible but outright dangerous. This rocket could have easily impacted urban area and caused incredible loss of life. Further work and research on such outright harmful technologies must immediately be ceased and as worried citizen of the world I hope the corrupt capitalist american government will listen to reason and act immediately for the benefit of all.

>>10191953
If that's not a bait, it's because they literally can't. JWST is a special case (the launcher is the participation of ESA for the mission).

>>10191995
Pretty sure it's always the case

>block five falcon 9 is the last iterati-

HELLO, GRID FIN PUMP HERE WITH A FAILURE

>>10192054
>This rocket could have easily impacted urban area and caused incredible loss of life.
Which is why it was launched over water. It could not have "easily" impacted an urban area because there was no urban area to impact.

Go home Jeff, you're drunk.

>>10192054
fuck off christian

>>10192051
FLY SAFE

>>10192015
Yeah sure the booster didn't blow up so a human cushioned in a crash seat probably would make it. But it doesn't make sense for the capsule to be in that situation and to behave in the same way a booster would

>>10192054
>This rocket could have easily impacted urban area and caused incredible loss of life.
the trajectory does not go over land until the final landing burn and even then there's no one near the pads.
Bad troll too obvious 2/10 made me reply.

boom

>>10192054
dont worry they have a mechanism to shoot it to the edge of the world where it will just drop off back into space, together with some vaccines

>>10192054
hello Bruno

>>10192040
Damn Scott Fucking Manley, asking a question to Elon Musk and getting an answer, that's a momentous occasion in the history of the exploration of both space and memes (assuming they haven't interacted before)

>>10191990
>needs interstellar docking music

>>10192088
funny bro

>>10191965
Made it into webm

>>10192073

>>10192051
>what is with SpaceX and valves etc getting stuck? It's their most common failure modeI it seems

COTS parts I guess.

>>10192097
nice and slow

we fucked?

>>10192143
Yes. This is why aerospace companies use aerospace grade parts and not >>10192123

>>10192081
He gets answers from Elon routinely

SpaceX can will eat Boeing's dust when it comes to Commercial Crew. The flag on the iSS is ours and there's nothing you can do about it now.

>>10192097
I was right up close and I can tell you that prior to the burn it was tumbling waaaay harder

>>10192167
How's that hypergols leak treating you? :^)

>>10192167
>The flag on the iSS is ours and there's nothing you can do about it now.

just stand on your pile of money and reach up and grab it

>>10192170
Not an issue and NASA agrees. Lets see what the reactions to this CRS-16 disaster will be instead.

>>10192176
Yeah haha, that capsule sure didn't get to space

>>10192176
>"Disaster"
>Primary mission objective completed
>Booster ditched into the ocean as designed when it detected it was out of spec, and still maintained bulk control the entire time.
Yeah, real disaster there.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1070399755526656000
Pretty amazing how much control it regained.

>>10192211
I was really confused when I heard cheering on the audio. Like WTF, if it crashed there wouldn't be cheering, but there was no way it could recover from that spin for a normal landing.

>>10192123
it wasn't a valve, the hydraulic pump stalled apparently. The engine steering is powered independently of the grid fins, by the engine's own turbopump, so it wasn't affected by the other stalled pump.

Plan for a fix is to add a redundant pump and the lines needed to hook it up.

It demonstrated very badly implemented FTS that failed to terminate an out of control rocket booster heading towards Cape Canaveral. NRO was correct in deciding not to allow return to landing site on the last SX flight. Unnecessary high risk to ground infrastructure and personnel.

Boeing intern btw and I will be calling people to hear their opinion on this.

>>10192211

maybe they should park the barge by the LZ just in case next time

>>10192226
>Boeing intern

>>10192226
>It demonstrated very badly implemented FTS that failed to terminate an out of control rocket booster heading towards Cape Canaveral

it demonstrated exactly what it was supposed to do. initial target - just offshore. if things are ok, adjust trajectory at last second. if not, try to land in the water

>>10192211
You can see how that one grid fin is way out of whack. And it (almost) corrected itself with engine vectoring? Holy fucking shit.

>>10192097
That's fucking amazing. It actually almost regained control when it lit the engines

>>10192226
Oldspace corporate bootlicker go drink hydrazine you worthless faggot.

Who cares if the booster exploded? They barely reuse any, anyways.

>>10192211
>that gimbal spin

>>10192257
That there hydrazine is good stuff, y'all can have ya some, right there next to the lemonade!

So is the party balloon next?

>>10192226
FTS is disabled when landing is approaching to avoid damage. It did exactly what it should

>>10192276
he's said that they've given up on the upper stage recovery in order to focus on BFR dev

update from 45th space wing
>Today’s CRS-16 mission saw a successful launch but a non-nominal landing. At this time, there are no public safety or health risks posed and the recovery of the booster is underway. We appreciate all public cooperation while the recovery is completed.
>Brig Gen Schiess
>non-nominal landing
wew

>that vector discrepancy
sexy

>a space rocket crashed
we live in the future for sure

>>10192261
It didn't explode retard, it's currently floating in the ocean intact.

>>10192327
somebody go swim out and touch it

What's great is how boeing shills are calling this a failure when the 'failed' booster is currently still alive and transmitting whereas any of the competition's boosters wouldn't have even survived reentry :^)

post-launch press conference starting soon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0
come watch

>>10192343
it's a pretty great failure either way.
>SpaceX learns about a new failure mode; upgrades F9 to be more robust against it (redundant pumps)
>get a "free" 1st stage to use for wacky experiments or whatever
>acquire useful telemetry from that sort of high-energy semi-uncontrolled re-entry to possibly improve the landing algorithms

>shills are actually forced labor interns
you can't make this shit up

>>10192352
wild video too

>>10192088
Pretty fucking tired of your shit.

Hans updates:
dragon healthy
S1 went through entire safeing sequence (vented tanks)
flight computer continued to run
will tow it into the harbor

>>10192176
>Lets see what the reactions to this CRS-16 disaster will be instead.
Where do all the boeing rockets land again?

according to Hans, F9 even knows where buildings are; so if it *has* to smash down on land it can avoid places with people
neat

>>10192301
>non-nominal landing
Well it did land pretty much perfectly. Just on a random place in the water.
"non-nominal" seems about right.

>>10192327
Won't it sink?

>>10192395
it's a big metal tube full of helium, dude

>>10192395
nah it's a big aluminum tube without much fuel in it, so it's quite light

>>10192395
Nope. By that point its essentially a metal and carbon fiber balloon full of helium and a small amount of propellant.

>>10192404
Don't the engines allow water in?

>>10192411
no

>>10192416
Huh. Well then.

booster landed 2 miles offshore according to Hans

>>10192422
Zoom and perspective are one hell of a drug:
>>10192327

no delays anticipated will the schedule due to today's issue

>>10192395
Not unless it breaks open and water starts to flood it.

>>10192416
Nope, fuel valves are closed by then.

>>10192411
The engines are not straight pipes to the propellant tanks. The water won't get past the pintle injector, but even if it did it would have to flow all the way through the cooling channels and into the pump impellers, then up through the feed lines into the main tanks, all while passing a multitude of valves along the way.

>>10192354
>>shills are actually forced labor interns
>you can't make this shit up

is this what they do while they wait for clearance?

>>10192395
Last time this happened I think they had to sink the rocket because it was a navigation hazard. I hear they had to blow it out of the water from a plane!

>>10187099
>approximately 8:00 pm Dec 7 a Delta IV Heavy will launch from Vandenberg

My body is ready. Im going to head to the top of a parking structure near me and watch that thing in the distance.

>>10192475
They had to blow it up because they could not get it to vent the tanks, and until it vents the tanks it cannot be approached. This core however has already vented its tanks so there should be no issue in recovering it, at least in terms of safety.

oh thanks Scott Manley for the clickbait title

"SpaceX showed today that they have a leg up on the competition."

IT LANDED

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1070446975642812416

>>10192702
wow, that last bit where it snorted fire/vented fuel was great

>>10192702
Clearly we need a 1x1mile landing area
That was clearly survivable. Or as the anon suggested, stick an ASDS our there just in case and have it be the secondary landing srea

Why don't' they just land it in the water every time? Why even bother with the complex landing stands if they can just yank it from the water all the same?

>>10192732
ships are expensive, getting rockets off ships is expensive, parking lots are inexpensive.

>>10192634
It's official: the first orbital-class rocket to visit a Blue Origin launch pad is a Falcon 9...

>>10192740
holy fug you're right
We should all message and congratulate them on the successful visit.

>>10192226
>Boeing intern

Well this was an exciting launch.
Next one is on the 18th with a GPS sat; no recovery unfortunately

>First launch in ages that I missed because doing other shit
>This goes down

REEEEEEEEEEEE

How much you guys want to bet the failed component is a 3rd party COTS piece that failed below it’s listed spec? I doubt this was a MTBF issue.
Just wondering how much fault lies in SpaceX’s side of things

>>10192818
No recovery? I thought all launches were being recovered from now on?

>>10192226
The rocket aims for the water then if in control, diverts to the landing pad during the last burn. This happens for both on land and at sea landings from what I've read

Wow amazing how the engines could stabilise the spin like that, if this had been above land rather sea it would have come down totally find despite the failure of a critical component. This really shows how ridiculously further along SpaceX is compared to all these other retarded cost+ contractor cunts.

>>10192378
Or we all doomed when skynet takes over

>>10192874
Customer request for max performance. Costs extra, still

>>10192899
what's that failure look like?

>>10192900
Parabolic re entry, same as any other expendable rocket

>>10192904
do they do video from it as it burns up?

>>10192905
Nah, but those videos do exist. None publicly available

>>10192909
booooooo

>>10192488
It’s a big boi for sure

Fingers crossed. Thoughts and prayers.

>>10192081
Elon usually answers him and everyday Astronaut cause they are usually the persons not asking dumbass questions at his press conferences.

>>10192732
Salt water sucks.