SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Thread - CRS-20

[Anonymous No.11446963]

FAREWELL DRAGON 1, FAREWELL CRS CONTRACT, ALSO WINDY edition

WHEN: Friday, March 6 11:50 PM EST / 4:50 UTC
STREAM: https://www.spacex.com/webcast [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MkcWK2PnsU]
NASA STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
Probability of weather delay: 40% [https://www.patrick.af.mil/Portals/14/Weather/L-1%20Forecast%206%20March%20Launch.pdf?ver=2020-03-05-112837-310]
Backup launch date: Saturday, March 7 11:27 PM EST / 4:27 UTC

Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida (East Coast)
Booster number & previous flights: B1059.2 [CRS-19]
First stage landing: Yes, on landing pad LZ-1
SpaceX press kit: https://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/crs-20_mission_press_kit_1.pdf
Dragon number & previous flights: C112.3 [CRS-10, CRS-16]
Payload: Science and research equipment, other supplies
Payload mass & destination orbit: 1977 kg (total cargo); International Space Station (400 km @ 52°)

Payload information:
>https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-20_mission_overview.pdf
>https://www.issnationallab.org/launches/spacex-crs-20/

Stats:
This will be the 50th landed first stage, 33rd booster reflight, and 82nd Falcon 9 launch. It is the 5th SpaceX launch of 2020.

>CRS-20 is the twentieth and final mission to the International Space Station that SpaceX will fly for NASA under the first Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract.
This is the LAST flight of Dragon 1!

[Anonymous No.11446964]

Godspeed Dragon 1

[Anonymous No.11446973]

>Rocket will land in highest winds ever at Cape Canaveral tonight. This is intentional envelope expansion.
Per Elon Musk.

[Anonymous No.11446974]

So is the Dragon 2 going to replace the Dragon 1 in commercial cargo?

[Anonymous No.11446980]

not science or math. just kidding if the board were about science and math it would be pretty gay

[Anonymous No.11446985]

>>11446974
there are two types of Dragon 2, a crew version and a cargo version
the cargo version doesn't have the superdraco escape engines
and yes, it'll be replacing Dragon 1

[Anonymous No.11446987]

Mission audio stream is live

[Anonymous No.11446988]

>>11446987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iif96DchxXo

[Anonymous No.11446991]

>>11446988
incredibly enjoying this buzzing noise and nothing else
thinking about going down to the beach to see if I can see the upper stage or boostback burns (I'm near Savannah to visit my parents) worth it?

[Anonymous No.11446992]

>>11446974
Interesting note that if the Crew Dragon test in May is successful, it will be the only time that a Crew Dragon and old Cargo Dragon will be docked at the same time at the ISS

[Anonymous No.11446994]

>>11446974
Yep. Can be reused 2 more times than D1 (5 times). More room onboard. Don't have to berth, can dock directly (no Canadarm used). Also I think they can use the access arm to late-load rather than having the stack go horizontal at the pad? Anyways, lots of improvements.

[Anonymous No.11446997]

>>11446992
Crew Dragon and Dragon 1 were docked together during Demo-1

[Anonymous No.11446999]

hi frens how many people are we sending to mars today? i haven't seen any launches yet this is my first time

[Anonymous No.11447002]

>>11446999
zero
this launch is full of toilet paper and rats for the ISS

[Anonymous No.11447004]

>>11446991
That's like 400km away, not sure if you'd be able to see the stage 1 return. But I'd watch either way, you'll see it in the air for sure

[Anonymous No.11447008]

>>11447004
I think there are clouds in the area
hmmmmmmmm

[Anonymous No.11447010]

>>11446999

[Anonymous No.11447011]

>>11447002
And skittles

[Anonymous No.11447012]

>>11446963
Hardware
>piss filter
>next-gen toilet
>water dispenser
>hydrogen sensor
>spare science shelf
>rat houses
Research
>Adidas® Boost™
>european vaccum lab
>stronger space shower
>organ chips
>cardiac stem cells
pretty okay payload I guess

[Anonymous No.11447016]

Upper Level Winds in 30

[Anonymous No.11447018]

>>11446999
and this

[Anonymous No.11447032]

>>11447004
okay, I'll go
anybody else on Hilton Head I'll be down at Burkes Beach, come say hi

[Anonymous No.11447034]

>>11447012
>Adidas® Boost™

[Anonymous No.11447039]

Stream has started

[Anonymous No.11447042]

LIVE

https://youtu.be/1MkcWK2PnsU

[Anonymous No.11447041]

[Anonymous No.11447043]

NASA and SpaceX just went live. Remember to watch both at the same time! sometimes NASA uses great telephoto lenses

[Anonymous No.11447045]

funky!

[Anonymous No.11447049]

>>11447043
NASA:
https://youtu.be/CAacLfMhUvE

[Anonymous No.11447053]

Everyone time SpaceX does the streams I remember when they said years ago how they were gonna stop once launches became regular or something. Can you imagine that?

[Anonymous No.11447057]

>>11447053
They're already re-using the same patch for Starlink missions, and not bothering to put a logo on the fairing. We're getting close

[Anonymous No.11447059]

HYPE

[Anonymous No.11447066]

>>11446973
Thank you.
NOW PLS POST SPACE QTS!

[Anonymous No.11447067]

>subtle dig a boeing

oooh hoo hoo hoo

[Anonymous No.11447070]

>>11447067
What did they say? I missed it.

[Anonymous No.11447074]

>you are now remembering the Bangabandhu propaganda video

[Anonymous No.11447075]

> Jessi comes on

<3

[Anonymous No.11447078]

3/8 is pretty far from half

[Anonymous No.11447079]

NOO DONT JINX IT AGAIN

[Anonymous No.11447081]

man night launches are so a e s t h e t i c

[Anonymous No.11447082]

>50th booster landing
jinxed again

[Anonymous No.11447087]

>>11447081
I like the ones at dawn that create those crazy looking plume lights

[Anonymous No.11447088]

White chick is
>THICC

[Anonymous No.11447097]

Cafeteria noises in Hawthorne

[Anonymous No.11447098]

>>11447088
alt chick is cute too desu

[Anonymous No.11447101]

I BELIEVE IN HER

[Anonymous No.11447102]

Going to buy Adidas kicks this weekend thanks NASA very cool

[Anonymous No.11447104]

>>11447098
Yea, Jessi is good to go.

[Anonymous No.11447106]

RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT

GOD SPEED DRAGON

[Anonymous No.11447109]

>>11447087

[Anonymous No.11447111]

>>11447034
>Дpaкoн 2 docks with the ISS
>bandit radio starts playing on the intercom

[Anonymous No.11447114]

>Jessie dressed the same colors as Falcon 9
>Both are THICC

[Anonymous No.11447115]

Engine wiggle!

[Anonymous No.11447116]

>>11447101
Can't wait to see her sopping wet.

[Anonymous No.11447117]

So if the SpaceX stream is hiccuping for me I should just don't bother, right? Last time it never unfucked IIRC so I guess it's NASA's for me.

[Anonymous No.11447121]

>>11447117
Just go on YouTube settings and lower the resolution option so it doesn't buffer

[Anonymous No.11447122]

>>11447101

[Anonymous No.11447123]

>>11447117
works on my machine

[Anonymous No.11447126]

>>11447121
NASA's defaulted to 720p60 and it's flawless though. Routing is fucking black magic.

[Anonymous No.11447130]

>>11447126
ok so then watch that one

[Anonymous No.11447131]

1 MINUTE
>1 MINUTE
1 MINUTE

[Anonymous No.11447133]

G O

[Anonymous No.11447134]

>>11447123
Yeah, I know it's a problem on my end or at most with some node in the path close to my end.

[Anonymous No.11447137]

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[Anonymous No.11447141]

>>11447126
>He didn't get in the Starlink Alpha test group

[Anonymous No.11447143]

MAX Q

[Anonymous No.11447148]

great views on the NASA stream

[Anonymous No.11447149]

God damn these visuals

[Anonymous No.11447150]

WEW M-Vac gettin toasty.

[Anonymous No.11447152]

UFO UFO UFO UFO
who else saw it?

[Anonymous No.11447153]

>>11447149
should be great pics from Earth

[Anonymous No.11447154]

Did you guys see that ring of metal on the end of the Mvac that fell off right after stage separation?

What is that? Why do they do that?

[Anonymous No.11447155]

50th landing coming up
>we hope

[Anonymous No.11447156]

>>11447152
Post time and screenshot.

[Anonymous No.11447160]

>>11447154
tensioner, keeps it from wobbling during launch. don't need it in space

[Anonymous No.11447161]

Used to be able to see up close launches growing up on the space coast but still cool to see night launches from further south where I live now.

[Anonymous No.11447162]

>>11447155
dubs confirm

[Anonymous No.11447166]

>>11447154
>What is that?
A stiffener. It stiffens the end of the vacuum optimized nozzle.

>Why do they do that?
Because that big nozzle is abit fragile without the pressure of the exhaust on the inside. So the ring is needed before the engine is turned on. But since the ring isn't needed while the engine is running, the ring is left to get pushed apart by the ehaust.

[Anonymous No.11447168]

HERE WE GO

[Anonymous No.11447169]

>>11447156
it was between T+ 3 and 4 minutes

[Anonymous No.11447170]

Nighttime entry burns are always aesthetic as hell.

[Anonymous No.11447172]

LANDING BURN S O O N

[Anonymous No.11447173]

whoa, you can see the streetlights from orbit!

[Anonymous No.11447177]

WEW LAST MINUTE LEG DEPLOY

[Anonymous No.11447178]

fucking nailed it again

[Anonymous No.11447179]

FIFTY
I
F
T
Y

[Anonymous No.11447180]

Radical

[Anonymous No.11447181]

Right on the dot!

[Anonymous No.11447182]

NOMINAL LANDING CONFIRMED!

[Anonymous No.11447183]

Dead center

[Anonymous No.11447184]

F I F T Y

[Anonymous No.11447185]

50

[Anonymous No.11447186]

DAMN IT BOEING SNIPER! STOP SLEEPING ON THE JOB!

[Anonymous No.11447187]

fucking based

[Anonymous No.11447189]

THIS CANT BE HAPPENING

IM IN CHARGE HERE

[Anonymous No.11447190]

50 landings x $40mil per rocket, that's 2 billion dollars not dumped into the ocean?

[Anonymous No.11447191]

>>11447169
You mean T+3:11? That's the Dragon's nosecone being discarded.

[Anonymous No.11447192]

goodbye dragon 1, you did good

[Anonymous No.11447197]

>>11447190
That's almost a whole SLS launch!

[Anonymous No.11447199]

time to scour the twitters for sonic boom videos

>>11447190
first stage cost of production is like 20mil

[Anonymous No.11447200]

Farewell Dragon 1

[Anonymous No.11447202]

Love a nice landing.

[Anonymous No.11447203]

Remember 50 landings ago when they said it couldn't be done?

kek

[Anonymous No.11447204]

lol i bet a lot of spacex people are getting shitfaced tonight, well deserved too

[Anonymous No.11447206]

Is back burn common now? First time I've seen it, they don't want to risk a water landing for the 50th milestone?

[Anonymous No.11447208]

>>11447203
>If the Shuttle can't do it, then some startup can't do it.
I remember...

[Anonymous No.11447212]

>>11447206
Pretty common on the CRS missions because those have high fuel margins.

[Anonymous No.11447213]

>>11447206
RTLS is done whenever they can. They've been forced to to ASDS landings sometimes, like when the pad was contaminated after the Demo-1 capsule exploded or on the West coast with seal mating season

[Anonymous No.11447214]

>>11447200
Don't say goodbye until it reenters later this year.

[Anonymous No.11447215]

>Elon playing around with the Starship during the launch
>Just tell me when the launch is done I'm busy working on real shit

[Anonymous No.11447218]

>>11447206
It just depends on the mission. For heavy payloads or payloads that are going to geostationary orbit they don't have enough leftover fuel to do the full boostback burn.

[Anonymous No.11447219]

>>11446963
Good job! Amazing to watch

[Anonymous No.11447220]

NASA having some post-launch discussions live:

https://youtu.be/CAacLfMhUvE

[Anonymous No.11447224]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1236156567449305089
envelope expanded

[Anonymous No.11447225]

Heh, the Audio stream still has a live map:
https://youtu.be/Iif96DchxXo

[Anonymous No.11447226]

>>11447101
Now post Hayabusa grill.

[Anonymous No.11447230]

>>11447226

[Anonymous No.11447232]

>>11447224
EXPAND
DONG

[Anonymous No.11447233]

So why didn't they pick a better launch time to match orbital inclination with the ISS? Aren't they gonna have to waste a bunch of energy on an anti-normal burn to compensate?

[Anonymous No.11447234]

>>11447230
NEATO!

[Anonymous No.11447235]

>>11447233
precession, bro

[Anonymous No.11447236]

>>11447233
I believe the blue line is the "next" path of the same orbit, not the target of the current ISS orbit. Both orbits off Dragon and ISS are on the grey line.

[Anonymous No.11447238]

>>11447230
>>11447226
Hayabusa a good girl.
pls post link to the video.

[Anonymous No.11447239]

SpaceX guy talking on NASA stream now

[Anonymous No.11447241]

>>11447239
seems like an Asok type
also people don't forget, post launch conference coming up with Hans and company

[Anonymous No.11447242]

>>11447226

[Anonymous No.11447244]

>>11447241
>It's another Hans smiling and giggling while trying to maintain a serious look episode

[Anonymous No.11447246]

>>11447226
>>11447242

[Anonymous No.11447250]

>>11447244
>it's another media people always ask two questions in one even though they're always told to only ask one question episode

[Anonymous No.11447252]

>>11447224
This makes my envelope become the big envelope

[Anonymous No.11447257]

>>11447242
>>11447246
She's coming home...

[Anonymous No.11447258]

>>11447252
Expand fairing.

[Anonymous No.11447261]

Thank you Dragon Version 1, very cool!

[Anonymous No.11447264]

>>11447032
IT WAS FUCKING AMAZING
BEAUTIFUL CLEAR VIEW, VISIBLE ALL THE WAY UP, FROM HORIZON UNTIL THE SECOND STAGE PASSED AROUND THE CURVE
BEAUTIFUL CLEAR VIEW OF STAGE SEPARATION
10/10 WOULD RECOMMEND

[Anonymous No.11447266]

>>11447242
>>11447246
;_;
:)

[Anonymous No.11447268]

>>11447264
Good stuff anon. Cherish the moment

[Anonymous No.11447285]

Our little girl

[Anonymous No.11447290]

>>11447285
MUST PROTECC

[Anonymous No.11447294]

Reminder.

Also, rockets.

[Anonymous No.11447297]

>>11447246
Reminds me of this video that I now refuse to watch because I find it terribly sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

[Anonymous No.11447301]

>>11447264
Saw it in saint Augustine, was kino af

[Anonymous No.11447310]

>>11447258
The race is on!

[Anonymous No.11447319]

>>11447310
Longer.

[Anonymous No.11447336]

>>11447319

[Anonymous No.11447339]

>>11447336
Why wouldn't this work

[Anonymous No.11447343]

>>11447339
Elon?

[Anonymous No.11447344]

>>11447336
Oops. Wrong image.

[Anonymous No.11447347]

>>11447339
it'll fall over
also, bending moments would snap it in half

[Anonymous No.11447348]

>>11447336
Stop that,my pretend gf might see that.

[Anonymous No.11447364]

>>11447348
What is she gonna do? Deduct your social credit points?

[Anonymous No.11447412]

Late to the party, but that was worth getting up early for and having a decent breakfast with. End of an era and beginning of a new one.
Now to enjoy my coffee.

[Anonymous No.11447525]

>>11447412
why is it the end of an era?

[Anonymous No.11447538]

>>11447336
>>11447344
>Has science gone too far?
>This accidentally becomes a space elevator.

It was his master plan all along.

[Anonymous No.11447593]

>>11447525
Well, end of the Dragon 1 era, isn't it?

[Anonymous No.11447611]

SpaceX funeral services when?

F9 and a D2 could fling a lot of corpses into the sun.

[Anonymous No.11448068]

>>11447593
perhaps we should wait till it splashes down

[Anonymous No.11448073]

>>11447611
No it couldn’t. It takes more delta/v to drop into the sun than it takes to leave the solar system

[Anonymous No.11448099]

>>11447344
>>11447336
how did you post the same image twice?

[Anonymous No.11448106]

>>11448068
Final launch of the Dragon 1 nonetheless and it was a successful one.

[Anonymous No.11448384]

>>11448073
that's what bi-elliptic transfers are for

[Anonymous No.11448386]

>>11448099
I did a "favor" for a mod.

[Anonymous No.11448410]

>>11448386

[Anonymous No.11448412]

>>11448410
Dude, this is a blue board.