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SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST)
- kibwen 9y agoI'm curious how the realized design that's launching today compares to the Saturn V. This article from 2016 implies that the Saturn V has three times the payload capacity, but that the Falcon Heavy is twelve times cheaper to launch (adjusting for inflation), implying a fourfold advantage in cost efficiency: https://www.universetoday.com/129989/saturn-v-vs-falcon-heavy/ https://www.universetoday.com/129989/saturn-v-vs-falcon-heav...
- tempay 9y agoThat's assuming you expect cost to scale linearly, which isn't obvious to me?
- slimshady94 9y agoSo why exactly would it orbit the sun for a billion years?
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoNo significant forces are expected to interfere with it and disturb the orbit enough to make it hit another object.
- FLUX-YOU 9y agoElon should issue challenges to go interfere with it to promote space development. $1mm if you can rendezvous. $2mm if you can put a drink in the driver's cupholder.
- gremlinsinc 9y agoDoubt the incentive would be worth the cost... $1mm for something that might take $100m in R/D and resources to accomplish.
- genkaos 9y agoFollowing the same logic XPrize wouldn't exist.
- mrep 9y agoProof that it could have gone to mars but also in a very stable orbit with little chance of hitting an object and infecting it with human biology that is on the tesla.
- blhack 9y agoDoes anybody have a link to the technical webcast?
- njarboe 9y agoThe technical webcast is RIP for the general public. If you want to find lots of info about SpaceX events, the reddit sub spacex is quite good.
- sosuke 9y agoI love the landing pad boat name "Of course I still love you"
- interconnector 9y agoIt's based on a ship from the Culture novels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cult...
- marksomnian 9y agoTheir second pad is named "Just Read The Instructions"
- blhack 9y agoOver a MILLION live watchers on this youtube link. Is that a record for youtube?
- arnaudsm 9y agoFelix Baumgartner had 8 millions live viewers on YouTube in 2012
- giarc 9y agohttp://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/15/business/la-fi-tn-felix-baumgartner-skydive-youtube-20121015 http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/15/business/la-fi-tn-fe... Looks like the skydive from space received 8 million.
- myth_drannon 9y ago2.3 million
- briffle 9y agoThey seem to really be struggling with the load, or at least my local cache server..
- agumonkey 9y agoSame here.
- agumonkey 9y agoAlso the first time I see a multi camera video.
- spike021 9y agoAmazing.
- icebraining 9y agoYeah, especially those two boosters landing simultaneously - I still have a smile on my face :)
- zhan_eg 9y agoThe text on the dashboard of the Tesla - Don't panic.
- ourmandave 9y agoThe Telsa with a spacesuit in it reminds me of the opening scene of the 1979 Heavy Metal corvette re-entry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWMPe3wF9jQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWMPe3wF9jQ
- agumonkey 9y agonot an investment advice -- Elon M.
- nodesocket 9y ago🇺🇸 USA!!! 🇺🇸 USA!!! 🇺🇸 USA!!!
- flormmm 9y agoNASA needs better Marketing.
- lsh123 9y agoHe/they did it!
- lovehashbrowns 9y agoWatching those two boosters land together was freaking amazing!! Well worth the watch if anybody missed it. :)
- gordon_freeman 9y agodid the CORE land as well? And what about the Roadster? They did not show those.
- typicalbender 9y agoThey showed the roadster, no news on the center core yet it seems.
- GraffitiTim 9y agoThey did show the Roadster, it's in space now. The cameras on the drone ship cut out so they're still waiting to find out if CORE landed. The two boosters landing simultaneously was breathtaking. Photo: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/960980119312453632 https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/960980119312453632
- huhtenberg 9y ago> they're still waiting to find out if CORE landed They most certainly had another set of eyes next to the drone ship, so they already know. It's just us who's waiting to find it out.
- haxiomic 9y agoLive stream of the roadster in space is up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
- adventured 9y agoWhat a show indeed. Incredible.
- tobijkl 9y ago
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- rvo 9y agoJust, wow. That simultaneous landing was magical.
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- giarc 9y agoIn a hundred million years, someone or something is going to find that car and be really confused.
- jedberg 9y agoI’m willing to admit that even as a 40 year old man I still cried when she cleared the tower. That was beautiful.
- mwambua 9y agoWhat happened to the center 1st stage though?
- gdubs 9y agoWow, just witnessed history. The landing of the Falcons was seriously thrilling. David Bowie coming on as the payload headed towards its destination got me, have to say. Congrats to everyone here from SpaceX – what an accomplishment.
- qume 9y agoThose rockets landing at the same time beats any scene in any sci-fi movie ever made
- artur_makly 9y agoSo what's left to confirm?
- weej 9y agoUnbelievable. The simultaneous booster landings were incredibly impressive feat. Outstanding launch and spectacular landings! Screen shots from live feed: https://imgur.com/a/gh410 https://imgur.com/a/gh410
- jeroen 9y agoCan anyone tell me what the object moving through the right of the screen is at T+9:58? https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2392 https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2392
- cjnicholls 9y agomini roadster. it was an easter egg.
- jeroen 9y agoI don't know if you will be reading this, but the easter egg is on the dashboard of the Roadster. ( https://youtu.be/ROnomVVQ2cU?t=453 https://youtu.be/ROnomVVQ2cU?t=453 ) So it has to be something else.
- kylemh 9y agohttps://i.imgur.com/HkPOzEH.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/HkPOzEH.jpg?1
- agumonkey 9y agoThe marketing stunt is gonna be at the top for while.
- typicalbender 9y agoSounds like they lost the center core (might just mean the signal its not clear), hell of a showing though the team should be really proud of the accomplishment. https://twitter.com/stevewdavens/status/960984330943258624 https://twitter.com/stevewdavens/status/960984330943258624 Original audio from the webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_tWbjFIGI&feature=youtu.be&t=2304 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_tWbjFIGI&feature=youtu.be...
- giarc 9y agoThat's a guy with 18 followers, tweeting to SpaceX. I'd wait for official word.
- typicalbender 9y agoFair point, updated with a link to the original audio from the webcast. Was just trying to give credit to where I found the source.
- FLUX-YOU 9y agoHe was certainly right about 2/3rds chance of success. 2 out of 3 ain't half bad.
- dmix 9y agoSomeone noticed there was a camera feed on the mission control wall that shows the Center Core's drone ship, after the smoke clears no ship can be seen: https://twitter.com/Darkphibre/status/960990105581240321 https://twitter.com/Darkphibre/status/960990105581240321 9:00 into the feed, it's likely the core either missed or failed to land properly. Although the screen is partially out of view.
- Corrado 9y agoCenter core loss confirmed : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=-B_tWbjFIGI&t=2304 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=-B_tWbjFIGI...
- huhtenberg 9y agoSo much for their constant deferrals to the "signal loss" due to "drone ship vibration" and other phony reasons. It sounded weird on all prior occasions, but at least now it's obvious that they have a steady feed at all times, just censoring it. What I don't understand why they think they need to lie in the first place. Just cut the damn feed and say "the control cut the feed". All these cutesy giggles, Oh's and Ah's, "we are hoping to get it back soon" when the commenters are clearly looking at the live feed themselves [1]... this is just wrong. [1] https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2326 https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2326 - see the timing of them saying "Oh" and the smoke clearing off the drone ship.
- Corrado 9y agoI think it's interesting that all of the Space X control team seem so young. My memory of the Apollo missions were that all the controllers were old farts who had been with NASA for at least 20 years. Maybe its because I was very young at the time and now I'm older. Or maybe it's because you had to work for 20 years to be a controller at NASA and Space X is just not that old (yet).
- Maybestring 9y agoNASA was 11 years old at the first Apollo landing. Younger than SpaceX is now. Maybe there were some NACA old hands around though.
- iliis 9y agoLive view of Starman in orbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M