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Nice. You can see that SpaceX hit the line for the center ring. From the size of the people in other pictures, I'd guess that they missed the dead center by about 40' to 50'.
If you're interested, here's a post (from a different forum) analyzing the final location:
SpaceX CRS-8 Is Great Landing Bingo
Side note: over on the NSF forum, for each landing attempt they play "landing bingo" to try to guess where it'll end up. This one was judged to be at H-23, winning the user named "Blah" a free subscription to the paid area on the NSF forum!
And also they could have four masts around the landing area, with some cables running between them. At the push of a button the cables could wrap around the rocket holding it in place.
What happens when a rocket that is "fighting" the wind to land in the right place suddenly is behind a wind-shield? Does the sudden change in load make it fall over of move violently??What they should do if they want to continue to land rockets at sea is to get a bigger, better drone ship. Some shielding against the wind would help a lot, and they could use a surface effect type hull to reduce roll. Maybe even a big deployable keel with a tuned mass damper at the bottom.
They would really only need one shield against the wind - the dynamic positioning could continually turn the platform against the wind.
And also they could have four masts around the landing area, with some cables running between them. At the push of a button the cables could wrap around the rocket holding it in place.
Oh, I'm sure if you want a cheap oil rig, it should be easy to get a good deal. There's a bunch of them parked in fjords in Scotland and Norway. For instance these: Massive rig to spend winter in Cromarty Firth - BBC NewsI'm guessing the platforms will be old movable oil rigs,
heck there's probably going to be a fire sale on them soon...
Been looking for video from the Drone Ship cameras of the landing Has anyone else came across this anywhere?