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Spacex Launch Webcast: Formosat-5 Mission
- cjnicholls 9y agoSuccessful landing on Please read the instructions. 15 consecutive landings
- roesel 9y agoAnd as always, the live video feed of the landing was clunky :). They should nail one with a steady stream.
- jff 9y agoEvery time I've watched a landing, the video feed is janky. One might speculate that they don't want to live-stream an embarrassing failure but that seems a bit odd when it would be more embarrassing to have an explosion during launch, losing the payload. Edit: vvvv that sounds quite reasonable, you'd think they'd do something like throw a buoy 100m away to house the actual satellite link and just do wifi from the barge to the buoy.
- baq 9y agoit's vibrations that shake the sat dish so much the link gets severed. convenient for them.
- ceejayoz 9y agoNo need for speculation - the feed never cuts out on the return-to-launch-site landings. It's only wonky on the ship landings. Bouys bounce around a lot - the drone ships have special station-keeping thrusters to stay in place.
- bdonlan 9y agoThe rocket engines also put out a ton of ionized particles that can interfere with the satellite signal.
- mikeash 9y agoKeeping video feed going during the landing is way, way, way, way, way, way down the priority list. The video gets recorded, so they don't need this for analysis. It's purely a promotional thing, which is fun, but saving five seconds of the stream (even if it's an important five seconds) is only worth so much effort.
- gozur88 9y agoYou're underestimating the shock waves those engines produce. During launches you see camera footage from miles away shaking as the engines go to full power. Of course there are solutions, but they're all expensive, and SpaceX has better things to spend money on. It's not like the footage doesn't exist - we're just not getting it live.
- cjnicholls 9y agoIt wasn't their best stream, others have been better. The achievement of landing and potentially reducing the cost is enough.
- Diederich 9y ago> potentially reducing the cost Aren't we getting close to being safe to assume that this is actually true? They've already re-used a number of boosters. (:
- cjnicholls 9y agoI was playing safe, although i believe it does/will. I don't think they have publicly released prices for reuse and as such i thought it was a little too broad to state as fact.
- spookyuser 9y agoThe live feed is usually a little clunky when it's landing on the boat. The one from last week was crystal clear https://youtu.be/vLxWsYx8dbo?t=19m42s https://youtu.be/vLxWsYx8dbo?t=19m42s
- greglindahl 9y ago15 total landings, 11 of them in a row, not counting missions intended to be expendable.
- rory096 9y agoJust Read the Instructions* (sorry for the pedantry)
- huhtenberg 9y agoAhem... _Just_ Read the Instructions
- gt565k 9y agoStuck the landing right in the center.. the accuracy is just amazing
- gozur88 9y agoI'm more impressed they're able to do it with a rocket that can't hover.
- SlipperySeaCow 9y agoStill mindblowing after 15 successful landings
- mabbo 9y agoDid it sound to anyone else like they were shooting from inside the SpaceX cafeteria?
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- imaginenore 9y agoThey were supposed to attempt to land/rescue some other part of the rocket this time. There was nothing about it in the webcast.
- greglindahl 9y agoPeople speculated that SpaceX might do something interesting with the second stage, but it's just speculation. The last time it was rumored something interesting was done with the second stage -- a test of longer-duration operations on the NROL-76 mission -- nothing was said before or after.
- rory096 9y agoThat'd be the fairing, the 'nosecone' that covers the payload during launch. It wasn't shown in the webcast because it has a low probability of success (they've made several attempts so far with varying degrees of accuracy and damage) and because there's no live feed from the fairing as it descends. The aim is to get it to land in a predetermined spot in the ocean with steerable parafoils, then eventually to stick a 'bouncy castle' at that spot to soften the landing.
- hinkley 9y agoDidn't one of the mars rovers bring its own bouncy castle? Hollywood has since used that in several movies.
- rory096 9y agoYep — Pathfinder and the Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit & Opportunity) both used airbags. NASA has since switched to the 'sky crane' method for Curiosity and the fortcoming Mars 2020 rover, lowering higher-mass payloads to the ground without contaminating the surface with rocket exhaust (as with Phoenix and the Vikings).
- phkahler 9y agoThe payload fairing. No word yet.
- petetnt 9y agoSpacex launched a satellite to the space and returned back to earth safely faster than our JenkinsCI builds most of our apps.
- inetknght 9y agoI'd blame your source code more than Jenkins. Our jenkins instance runs our CI in a couple of minutes.
- InclinedPlane 9y agoNot everyone is working on projects that are little more than CRUD webapps. I've worked on code that took hours to compile even on beefy machines.
- hinkley 9y agoI got a 300k line Java app down to seven and a half minutes including unit and functional tests. What are you working with?
- tcoff91 9y agoProbably a giant C++ codebase. Our CI runs can take well over an hour. C++ compiles so damn slowly compared to Java.
- inetknght 9y agoYou should probably hire better C++ developers if it takes that long.
- wutwutwutwut 9y agoHow long should a giant C++ code base take to compile?
- jacquesm 9y agoI've seen each and every one of these and it never tires.
- johnvega 9y agoSame here. Still watch recorded in cases I missed live webcast although much less exciting. I hope ride up there within the next 20 years, hopefully sooner.
- vermontdevil 9y ago12th launch of this year. 50% increase from their prior best year. They can make it to 20.
- detritus 9y agoBoring. . Which is why it's beautiful, despite the less than brilliant connection :) Like passenger planes leaving airports, I'll never not find this amazing.
- shmerl 9y agoWhen is their low orbit ISP coming?
- tdalaa 9y agoThis is just so amazing. Just looks so effortless. Completely magical what they have accomplished in so little time. Thank you, Elon, for being so incredibly brave and persistent in your mission(s).