SpaceX Tuesday...

[MartG]

Onboard video released now

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/10703997555266...

[Beati Dogu]

Amazing. The spin had almost been cancelled out as it touched down. It took a while to fall over too.

[thetrickcyclist]

Quite awesome control authority demonstration indeed

[Beati Dogu]

Here's a tracking shot of the landing:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/10704469756428...

[AshVX220]

Eric Mc said:

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

It's OK Eric, you'll be on the bit that keeps on flying.....

[AshVX220]

From the onboard it looks like the right hand grid fin in the shot didn't deploy properly, causing the spin. Amazed how much of the spin had been reduced prior to touch down and wonder if they'd touched it down on land would it have settled and landed OK.

[Eric Mc]

AshVX220 said:

Eric Mc said:

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

It's OK Eric, you'll be on the bit that keeps on flying.....

It's not the "flying" bit that worries me. It's what happens when the flying bit finishes.

[annodomini2]

AshVX220 said:

From the onboard it looks like the right hand grid fin in the shot didn't deploy properly, causing the spin. Amazed how much of the spin had been reduced prior to touch down and wonder if they'd touched it down on land would it have settled and landed OK.

It aims for the Sea until it knows everything is 100% before changing trajectory for the landing pad.

[CrutyRammers]

Well, I'd say that's a great validation of the error handling and contingency planning.

[CraigyMc]

Beati Dogu said:

It took a while to fall over too.

Don't forget where the weight is when it's landed - the top bit is just a couple of helium-filled flasks. All the heavier kit is at the bottom.

[Beati Dogu]

It's also 155 feet tall and falls like a redwood.



The carbon fibre interstage looks damaged. It would have hit the water pretty hard and it's not pressurised of course.


https://twitter.com/KillianPhoto/status/1070781952...

[Flooble]

Still helpful to be able to examine the rocket and work out exactly what went wrong in probably more detail than just the telemetry would tell you.

[MartG]

Pics of it arriving back in port

https://imgur.com/a/gcP3l5C?fbclid=IwAR2eAgj07QUqo...

[MartG]

The one which flew from Vandenberg is back ashore - could do with a wash after 3 flights

[Beati Dogu]

^ Flight-proven you see: more reliable than a brand new one.


Meanwhile the CRS-16 Dragon capsule (itself flight-proven once before as CRS-10) quietly approaches the ISS. They should meet up at approximately 11:00 UK time on Saturday.

[Zoobeef]

I think they should add lines or stripes to it after each mission.

[Beati Dogu]

Perhaps they do, but they keep it subtle.

They paint a little ISS outline on the side of Dragon capsules once they come back.



Highlighted in red.

[Gandahar]

Nice weather there again. I got pissed on during the 3pm dog walk. No wonder the UK does not have a space program from England ( as well as the longitude as well of course)

[V8LM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyKR69nnWEk

[Gandahar]

Oops