SpaceX Tuesday...

[CraigyMc]

MartG said:

They may have to swap the worms too...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-464387...

In the 1960's, Pink Floyd played live in the background on UK TV as the moonlandings happened.

Now, with spaceX, this seems appropriate; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bDY0DfEjmo

[Eric Mc]

Some nice amateur footage from yesterday's launch -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCnG7zfsdok

[RobDickinson]

MartG said:

They may have to swap the worms too...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-464387...

Fresh space worms.. Mm...

[Beati Dogu]

LOL idiots. What a weak-ass reason. NASA would rather delay a launch than send some intern round to a local pet shop for supplies.

[RobDickinson]

It probably needs a whole procurement process involving 12 committees and the Senate...

[Beati Dogu]

Yes, that'll be why. We've seen the best of NASA this week with InSight & Osiris-Rex, but they really do drop the ball badly sometimes.

[Polite M135 driver]

Since the mice are for a scientific experiment it’s quite likely that the diet of the mice is controlled for comparison to other experiments already done or to be done on earth. So it’s probably not the case that NASA are idiots and that any old food would do.

[V8LM]

Caused significant problems for the worm experiment though. At least the tomatoes were launched successfully on Monday (EuCROPIS) so maybe the mice can eat them?

[MartG]

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

[Eric Mc]

What was going on with the 1st stage?

[MartG]

Looked like it started to tumble, and has apparently come down in the sea

[Eric Mc]

It seems it hit the water rather than the landing pad.

[Beati Dogu]

That was a new rocket too.

Pity they did an "Arianespace" and bottled the coverage when it started to go wrong.

[Baron Greenback]

Good landing! always amazed to see the km/h contantly increasing to us very silly numbers! Wonder how many miles per gallon is it getting currently 26,000km/h!

Edited by Baron Greenback on Wednesday 5th December 18:36

[MartG]

Beati Dogu said:

That was a new rocket too.

Pity they did an "Arianespace" and bottled the coverage when it started to go wrong.

Yup - onboard video will have been lost due to loss of signal when the stage started gyrating, but there should have been ground based cameras ( unless they were all fixed and just pointed at the landing pad )

No doubt amateur video will soon surface

[MartG]

Can't see the actual landing, but...

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

[Beati Dogu]

The flight computer fought like a tiger to bring it down. What a superb engineering job.

Edit:

"Grid fin hydraulic pump stalled, so Falcon landed just out to sea. Appears to be undamaged & is transmitting data. Recovery ship dispatched." - Elon Musk

Edited by Beati Dogu on Wednesday 5th December 18:42

[MartG]

Update from Elon

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/10703860621642...

Admits cutting video was a mistake, and says it will be released

[Eric Mc]

I've just cancelled my booking for the first Spacex suborbital hop to Australia.

[Beati Dogu]

You can swim can't you Eric? Where's your sense of adventure?

Hopefully they'll be able to fish it out. Remember this one back in January, that was deliberately ditched in the Atlantic:



They ended up getting the Navy or Coast Guard to scuttle it. Ironically they'd withheld the drone ship from it for use with the Falcon Heavy a week later. The center core of which ran out of lighter fluid and ploughed into the sea not far off the port bow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnMRXRlx8JM