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- inv0
http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
Tonight it will happen! Launch in ~40 mins
- imagineallthepeople0
- (not spacex)monospaced
- I was sent this earlier, by a complete non-nerd friend. BO's PR dept is fucking useless - I've not seen this on ANY of my feeds today, otehrwise.detritus
- I saw it on Wiredmonospaced
- wow. they did it! how much?uan
- SpaceX has yet to pull this off.monospaced
- https://www.youtube.…nb
- (better vid)nb
- inv0
What spacex is doing is way different. They are sending much heavier stuff to orbit (vs just space/ straight up) and landing. Requires 10 times the speed, 100 times the energy.
Also, they already acheived "suborbital" flights and landings, just not as high...
- Should say earth orbit and beyond (mars etc with the new falcon heavy)inv
- inv1
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COku…
Looks like something from a Stanley Kubrick production!
- All that's missing is the PanAm logo.face_melter
- Nothing says innovation...
like a Nike swoosh logo!utopian
- inv0
- detritus0
oh. shit?
- what happened??inv
- Looked like it blew up.islandbridge
- I think it blew. Need to rewind, but there was some weirdness no the nose around MaxQ, a wee while before.. whatever happened.detritus
- Around 1:14, when the noise interference kicks in, there are two bright points on the nose cone.detritus
- inv1
http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
Abort test for the Dragon v2. Live now!
- moldero0
- GummiWorms for lips.iCanHazQBN
- which lips? doesn't matter, I'd eat them both.moldero
- i shared an elevator with her onceGnash
- was dumbstruckGnash
- Sexist.omahadesigns
- you shared an elevator with her once? omaha is right, you ARE Sexist!moldero
- I would have stopped breathingmoldero
- detritus0
Perhaps not exactly the right thread for this, but Jeff Bezos' somewhat secretive rocket company, Blue Origin, released a well-produced reel showing one of the development test flights.
The rocket itself looks fucking cool, if quite dildo-like...
- More detail here..
https://www.blueorig…detritus - why is it so small? is this the amazon guy?CygnusZero4
- It's a development flight and it has a very specific VirginGalactic-esque usage scenario. And yes, the Amazon guy.detritus
- More detail here..
- ESKEMA0
- or a gig ass parachute like they already use on their smaller applications and land it in the desert and not a small ass target like an expensive ocean platformmoldero
- parachute will only work if there's an atmosphere to provide drag, and that's not the case on most planetsmonospaced
- i see penis and vaginaset
- detritus0
the one complicating aspect of all this is the droneship, or rather the swell and oceanic gusts it's subject to. I'd wager it would be a lot easier to achieve on terra firma where all the reference points on the ground are absolutely static and expected to be so after a successful landing.
- I think thats the ultimate goal, not to do this on the ocean.CygnusZero4
- Makes you wonder though, theres plenty of places on land to test this. So why arent they?CygnusZero4
- Testing.detritus
- They launch from Florida and there aren't many available land masses to the east they could do. They've secured a landing pad from the air force for the future.detritus
- Also, they started with land testing, just not from live sub-orbital launches. https://www.youtube.…detritus
- And as if by magic..
http://www.defensene…detritus
- inv0
- that wasn't the last one, they perfected the landing sincemonospaced
- lol @ perfected. it crashed again.CygnusZero4
- I've seen video of it landing perfectly thoughmonospaced
- CygnusZero40
Ok so the point of this is to launch people into space, send them on their way, then bring this back to Earth to be reused. I get all that, what I dont get is the way they are trying to accomplish this, but firing a rocket at the bottom of a very tall and thing structure, while its descending.
Picturing this in my head before I ever saw them try this, I envisioned it wobbling and toppling over, and thats exactly what keeps happening. I get that there is very smart people trying to make this work, but the possibility is there that it will never work, because the idea itself it doesnt seem feasible at all.
I just have to believe there has got to be a better way to do this. Im not getting paid to sit around all day and come up with idea, but what theyre trying right now is not something I would get hung up on for too long before starting to experiment with other methods. Just like NASA, its not impossible for SpaceX to head down the wrong path. All Im saying is what they are trying seems super crazy and silly to me.
- Consider trying to land on a planet without our atmosphere, and it makes a lot more sense.monospaced
- I imagine this is a small step to find efficiencies in refueling until we can stop relying on this here on Earth and move the whole process offworld.zenmasterfoo
- Also, not only is it feasible, they're really close to perfecting it, and have actually landed it successfully.monospaced
- Until that time we need to stop wasting so much ($$) on unrecoverable rockets and repurpose what we can as often as possible (i.e., land them)zenmasterfoo
- THe whole point of this is to make it repurposablemonospaced
- detritus0
Aye, I was thinking about something like a sling or a harness that could pop around and envelope the top, or something, once landed, however..
there are two main reasons not to:
• it really should just be able to work on its own
• as mono keeps pointing out, all of this dev has an eye on mars, where there can be no expectation of infrastructure at the landing site- true, but in the meantime, they could fucking reuse the rockets with a simpler system already, and keep investigating structureless ways..ESKEMA
- they could improve it until the net would not be needed anymore.ESKEMA
- Sure, i suspect they just think they're a lot closer to a successful attempt, is all.detritus
- I think they are too.. That landing was really close on the spot...ESKEMA
- CygnusZero40
Btw I think Musk is a genius. He isnt a guy that got lucky, fell into some money and started up some random business. Hes trying to find ways to move humanity forward which is pretty amazing, but hes not the only one running SpaceX. Its a big company now and there are investors. For them to find out they dumped fortunes into this, and for them to just realize this idea isnt working and they have to start over on something else, that wont sit well with anyone, so I just hope they are pushing on with this crazy idea because they actually think they can make it work, and do it reliably, not for political reasons.
- He's trying to get to space to find our creators and ask them for longer if not eternal life for himself and the founders of google.zenmasterfoo