This is happening at the Cape tomorrow

[osu_orangestreak]

I cant wait to watch from my front yard:

 

[osuengineer]

I’ll be watching via webcast

 

[osu_orangestreak]

I want to drive over to watch it but they are expecting 100.000 people.

 

[The Duke]

We drove past the launch pad a few weeks ago, got a nice peek at the Falcon Heavy. Looking forward to seeing if the Tesla makes it back in one piece!

 

[osuengineer]

SpaceX webcast up on YouTube on the work monitor. I’m giddy, and I’m not even an aerospace guy.

 

[CowboyPhil]

That was impressive. The 2 boosters landing side by side within 10 minutes of launch was crazy impressive.

The Tesla with the "Spaceman" was pretty funny. I don't think he's coming back for a really long time.

 

[OSUIvan]

and they landed almost in sync, was so impressive!

 

[osuengineer]

Beautiful coordination. Impressively well-produced on the webcast.

 

[mseabolt]

and they landed almost in sync, was so impressive!

That was great

 

[osu_orangestreak]

I loved the sporting event/party atmosphere at Space ex. They were loud and rowdy.

 

[Ostatedchi]

Did the core successfully land on the platform?

 

[OSUIvan]

Did the core successfully land on the platform?

From The Verge ... "The center core then broke away from the vehicle’s upper stage, but it’s not yet clear whether it landed as intended on one of SpaceX’s autonomous drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean. "

 

[OSUIvan]

Only one of the center rockets went off so it crashed into the ocean at 300 mph


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...alcon-heavy-rocket-middle-core-failed-landing

 

[EvilPOKES]

That was cool, but man I don't want to sound tinfoil hatish....but that landing looked really odd to me live. And, why the extra engineering for that? Cant parachute them back or anything?

 

[osu_orangestreak]

Take off the hat

 

[EvilPOKES]

That was awesome!

 

[Rulz]

The center section return failure wasn't a big deal. Hey weren't going to be reusing that anyway. It would have been cool, and I suspect their purpose in engineering the return is for a possible cost cutting measure over the life of the program, and perhaps they might sell tickets for a protected "pod" on board the boosters to propel average joes up for a thrill? I don't know.

Anyway, it was a spectacular event and I'm surprised it didn't have more publicity. Guess since no one got fondled or it didn't say "Trump" down the side of it, it wasn't worthy of more media coverage. And I say that, but perhaps they did cover it more. I had no idea about the launch time (although I had heard of the plan) until I got the alert on my phone.

I just wonder how long the cameras will be in operation/recording on the Tesla.

 

[purkey]

the landing is the coolest thing about it. Who woulda thought? Seems to be much tougher and expensive than several other options.

 

[CowboyPhil]

I believe the main reason for landing the boosters is for quick turnaround launches. I believe I read that they could be ready to launch again in as little as 2 weeks where shuttles were months between launches.

 

[SquinkY5786]

I believe the main reason for landing the boosters is for quick turnaround launches. I believe I read that they could be ready to launch again in as little as 2 weeks where shuttles were months between launches.

Cost savings the name of the game

 

[CowboyPhil]

Cost savings the name of the game

Agree. Time is money. Also, reusability would be yuuuge savings compared to fishing crumpled metal out of the ocean.

 

[CBradSmith]

Estimated savings to put something in space using reusable rockets such as these is very large.