SpaceX Tuesday...

[Blackpuddin]

Some events make you proud to be British, American or whatever. Very occasionally an event will happen that makes you proud to be a human being. This was one of those rare events.

[FurtiveFreddy]

Eric Mc said:

Start your own thread and stop polluting this one.

and take Yipper with you please.

[anonymous-user]

What Musk and his SpaceX team has done is to make this space launch exciting enough to capture the attention of the public and start to make space exploration be talked about in the wider populace again

In 2017 there were 90 orbital launches from Earth

How many of them were mentioned on the headlines of news channels around the world? None.

But this one is one of the top stories of the day

Hopefully that brings more brainpower and more carefully targetted funding into space exploration again

Who knows what that could bring? I don't, but I do know it is worth doing.

[menguin]

CraigyMc said:

Toaster said:

Eric Mc said:

I essentially ignore Toaster on here as he is, to put it mildly, a negatively minded, cantankerous old moaning Minnie.

I've had enough of people like him to be honest.

Let him denigrate all he likes. This is a marvellous event and there will be more to come from SpaceX and the Falcon Heavy - of that I am sure.

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"People like him" Who exactly do you think you are, and what makes you think and feel you can make such a nasty comment......Those who have opposite views to you are not dirt on your shoes, it is OK to think this is just more junk humans have placed in space.

I am also proud to think differently to you Eric and not be suckered in by hype and hysteria it was a triumphant launch but why the space junk.

I completely agree on this point.

With Eric.

Shove off Toaster.

Seconded. "People like him" - everyone on every forum presents their own opinion. That was Eric's opinion - one shared by many, it seems

[valiant]

Isn’t it ph perceived wisdom to fit winter tyres when temps fall below 4c?

No wonder it’s spinning all over the place.

Tsk tsk Elon...

[GTEYE]

Perhaps someone can answer....why is it that the Tesla in apparently low earth orbit looks so much further out than the ISS...ie the Earth looks relatively small?

I'm not suggesting its been faked but it does look kind of odd.

[SystemParanoia]

GTEYE said:

Perhaps someone can answer....why is it that the Tesla in apparently low earth orbit looks so much further out than the ISS...ie the Earth looks relatively small?

I'm not suggesting its been faked but it does look kind of odd.

It wasn't in Low earth orbit!

It was sent out to an apogee of over 7000km before the 3rd burn

[MartG]

FurtiveFreddy said:

Eric Mc said:

Start your own thread and stop polluting this one.

and take Yipper with you please.

[CraigyMc]

GTEYE said:

Perhaps someone can answer....why is it that the Tesla in apparently low earth orbit looks so much further out than the ISS...ie the Earth looks relatively small?

I'm not suggesting its been faked but it does look kind of odd.

Because the ISS is in low earth orbit, around 410km up.

The Tesla was in GTO, 7000 or so km up, before it fired again and is now heading for an area of space between Mars and Jupiter.

[GTEYE]

CraigyMc said:

GTEYE said:

Perhaps someone can answer....why is it that the Tesla in apparently low earth orbit looks so much further out than the ISS...ie the Earth looks relatively small?

I'm not suggesting its been faked but it does look kind of odd.

Because the ISS is in low earth orbit, around 410km up.

The Tesla was in GTO, 7000 or so km up, before it fired again and is now heading for an area of space between Mars and Jupiter.

OK thanks, noted!

[SystemParanoia]

Has anyone got any more info on the Arc they've stowed in the boot ?

[MartG]

[anonymous-user]

CraigyMc said:

If this was NASA, they've have spent 30x as much, they'd not have tried to recover anything and if the block of concrete had made low earth orbit, it'd have been considered a success, and completely ignored by everyone outside of NASA.

That's a bit far fetched a statement when NASA recovered the solid rocket boosters from every shuttle launch and reused them.

[Burwood]

I thought that re entry and landing was friggin awesome. Congrats to Space X.

[MartG]

jsf said:

CraigyMc said:

If this was NASA, they've have spent 30x as much, they'd not have tried to recover anything and if the block of concrete had made low earth orbit, it'd have been considered a success, and completely ignored by everyone outside of NASA.

That's a bit far fetched a statement when NASA recovered the solid rocket boosters from every shuttle launch and reused them.

But the lower than planned Shuttle flight rate meant that the cost of recovery & refurbishment ( inc purchase, running, maintenance, and crew costs for the recovery vessels ) actually outweighed the cost of the SRBs themselves. Recovery was only continued as halting it would have had political implications - and there are no plans to recover the SLS SRBs.

[Gargamel]

https://gfycat.com/InfinitePointlessDeviltasmanian

Found this.

[MartG]

Useful information gained on the extended 3rd burn - the length of burn before fuel/lox depletion will tell them how much Lox boiled off during the coast period, which will be useful for working out propellant load for future missions

[weeboot]

Sorry if this has already been posted, but find some headphones and watch this.

https://youtu.be/ImoQqNyRL8Y

Smarter every day, binaural microphones, falcon heavy. Quite incredible.

[Eric Mc]

And that's the whole point of flight testing. The only way to find out certain things is go fly. You can only simulate and model to a certain extent.

[The Wookie]

MartG said:

Genius!