SpaceX Falcon Heavy set for launch tonight

[Arthur]

Also trying to get confirmation on core landing.

 

[DTBA]

ai

 

[Kosmik]

 

[DTBA]

https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2271 landing for the people that want to watch it again XD

 

[Arthur]

It was on 6 Feb 1971 that Al Shepard became the first man to play golf on the moon.

 

[Kosmik]

Sounds like the centre was lost. Still amazing achievement. 2/3 cores and a succesful payload deployment, thats a heck of a win.

https://twitter.com/ccnppro/status/960986366371942405

 

[DTBA]

Sounds like the centre was lost. Still amazing achievement. 2/3 cores and a succesful payload deployment, thats a heck of a win.

https://twitter.com/ccnppro/status/960986366371942405

other people are saying that was the signal feed that was lost man

 

[Kosmik]

other people are saying that was the signal feed that was lost man

Yep, bit ambiguous at the mo but still a great success.

 

[midnightcaller]

Anyone know what was the thing in the payload called the “ark” ?

Something about storing information and sending it into space ?

 

[Kosmik]

Something else to say, in all the sci-fi books I ever read, they never mention the ability to land an re-use boosters. That is such an amazing tech that will help us reach the stars so much quicker.

 

[Arthur]

Ja, we saw the signal loss just before core landing. Still no clarity on whether core made it down intact.

 

[Kosmik]

Anyone know what was the thing in the payload called the “ark” ?

Something about storing information and sending it into space ?

Think of voyager disks, basically a digital record of mankind.

SpaceX has revealed that the rocket will be carrying another couple of things, as well as the car and its passenger, known as Starman. One of them is from the Ark Project, which will send a hardy piece of data into space – presumably in the hope that one day aliens or distant humans could stumble across it ...

 

[biometrics]

Anyone know what was the thing in the payload called the “ark” ?

Something about storing information and sending it into space ?

Heard it as well. Some organisation recording info on long life media. Something like that.

 

[Vrotappel]

Brilliant!

 

[DTBA]

seeing the 2 side booster land like that damn son :wtf:

 

[acidrain]

seeing the 2 side booster land like that damn son :wtf:

Yeah crazy how in sync they were.

 

[Arthur]

So far into the mission, absent confirmation of the core landing, it's reasonable to conclude that it was lost.

 

[Brawler]

 

[Voicy]

Live feed of Starman in the Roadster orbiting Earth.

[video=youtube;aBr2kKAHN6M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M[/video]

 

[Blu82]

From the looks of it the core tried to sink the drone ship.

The center core was only able to relight one of the three engines necessary to land, and so it hit the water at 300 miles per hour. Two engines on the drone ship were taken out when it crashed, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a press call after the rocket launch.

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