SpaceX Tuesday...

[scubadude]

I liked the fuel floating around after 2nd stage CO, never seen a shot like that from a launch before!

[Eric Mc]

NASA placed cameras in the stages of their Saturn Is and Vs back in the 1960s and broadcast the images live - 50 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL-Oi9m2beA

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

and broadcast the images live - 50 years ago.

Not quite Eric - the cameras were in recoverable pods ejected after the stage burned out

[Eric Mc]

They looked like TV images to me.

[MartG]

They were grainy like a TV image due to the way they were filmed. With the technology of the day ( i.e. film cameras ) they couldn't site a camera inside the tank as there would be no way to eject it, so they used a fibre optic cable to get the image from inside the tank to the camera in its pod. The graininess/lines come from the way the multiple fibre cores were packed in the cable

[Eric Mc]

Thanks.

There is imagery of the Pegasus satellite deploying its panels in flight around 1964. I presume that WAS TV imagery?

[MartG]

Yes, that was TV

[scubadude]

Eric Mc said:

NASA placed cameras in the stages of their Saturn Is and Vs back in the 1960s and broadcast the images live - 50 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL-Oi9m2beA

That is also very cool and I hadn't seen it before, nor did I know about the ejectable cameras used on the apollo missions.

I wonder what other obtuse camera angles I've missed before are? :-)

[Eric Mc]

I used to wonder how they got this iconic bit of film. This is from an ejectable camera too -

[MartG]

scubadude said:

I wonder what other obtuse camera angles I've missed before are? :-)

There is footage taken inside the Saturn 1 interstage as the S-IV second stage separates - I don't think it's on youtube though

[scubadude]

Eric Mc said:

I used to wonder how they got this iconic bit of film. This is from an ejectable camera too -

Is that the interstage ring that gets a good flaming as it drop off? As you say- classic shot, in a world of GoPro's and live from space video its sometimes hard to explain to people how amazing these shots are.

[MartG]

Footage of SA-5 staging at around 5:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DisJ4EyFdiw

Lots of similar footage ( longer and better quality ) on this DVD http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spacecraft-Mighty-Saturns-...

Edited by MartG on Thursday 5th March 10:30

[Caruso]

Looks like the next attempt at a barge landing is now scheduled for the 10th April.

http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/03/21/spacex-swaps-...

"Technicians will affix landing legs to the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket due for launch April 10, allowing the booster to aim for a vertical rocket-assisted touchdown on a barge northeast of Cape Canaveral."

[Caruso]

Now planned for 2033 GMT on the 13th.

[London424]

They're lookong to land the one that launches tonight...really hoping they pull this off.

[jonny142]

London424 said:

They're lookong to land the one that launches tonight...really hoping they pull this off.

Will that be show live too .or only the launch ?

[Eric Mc]

They haven't attempted to show the landings live. The main reason is that the launch coverage is provided by the NASA TV facility at the Cape. The landings have nothing to do with NASA so they aren't providing cameras or transmission equipment.

[jonny142]

Eric Mc said:

They haven't attempted to show the landings live. The main reason is that the launch coverage is provided by the NASA TV facility at the Cape. The landings have nothing to do with NASA so they aren't providing cameras or transmission equipment.

Thanks for the info Eric

[Caruso]

The landing platform is in position.

[fadeaway]

Thanks for posting Caruso - I'd missed that they were having another go at handing it

From their website, lift off is schedule for 21:33 and they should attempt landing the first stage at about 21:42 (UK time)

They are going to land one of these, and that's going to be very, very cool

Good luck SpaceX!