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Has there been any talk of a night time booster recovery? I can't think of a reason this wouldn't be possible; I don't think the landing system uses visible wav
by vidanay 8y ago
Has there been any talk of a night time booster recovery? I can't think of a reason this wouldn't be possible; I don't think the landing system uses visible wavelength cameras (other than for human consumption).
- stronglikedan 8y ago> I don't think the landing system uses visible wavelength cameras (other than for human consumption). I can't imagine they'd taste very good. (Sorry, I couldn't resist and have karma to spare.)
- cloudwalking 8y agoToday's recovery was at night.
- antpls 8y agoLaunch of the 22th July was at night too and they recovered the first stage as usual
- wlesieutre 8y agoYep, several of them. And at least one spectacular nighttime explosions. Telestar 19 is a recent success: https://youtu.be/xybp6zLaGx4?t=1274 https://youtu.be/xybp6zLaGx4?t=1274 Landing happens at about 23 minutes, but the video connection from the drone ship drops out as usual. Link goes to an earlier time because it's neat to see the grid fins silhouetted in front of the engines at night. Here's today's Iridium-7 NEXT night landing, again without good video: https://youtu.be/vsDknmK30C0?t=1749 https://youtu.be/vsDknmK30C0?t=1749
- nicolapcweek94 8y agoFunny enough, the first landing (Orbcomm OG2 Launch 2, December 2015) was at night (well, 8:30 PM in december, close enough)!
- jandrese 8y agoIf only we had some kind of technology that could light up a dark area in the night. Maybe some kind of luminous bulb powered by flowing electrons?
- fixermark 8y agoSounds complicated. Maybe we could put a bunch of combustible fuel in a big tube and squeeze it out when we get close to the area we want to illuminate. ;)