Don TLR
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Hey it looks like maybe the car has Autopilot... am I seeing space lanes there? Wonder what the speed limit is.
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Those are the legs of the tripod mounted to the hood for the camera facing Starman..
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Hey it looks like maybe the car has Autopilot... am I seeing space lanes there? Wonder what the speed limit is.
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If you read the youtube comments (which is usually a bad idea) you can see that they say: "They are using a fisheye lens camera, that's why the earth looks round".Wonder how the Flat Earth community is going to explain these images.
Thanks, I just watched it again and you are right, my apologies. This time, from the very start of the webcast showing the feed from the side boosters, I could clearly see they were in fact different feeds whereas in the original webcast they looked oddly identical. I was just taking the webcasts hosts word that they were not the same.The latest video has been corrected to show the correct feed in the lower rigt frame. You can by the date/time-stamp (missong on the original). It's also obvoius during landing that the landing pods are different. The original (live) was incorrect.
Please tell me if I’ve got this right: the reason for the center core recovery failure was that 2 of the 3 engines did not re-light for the re-entry burn because there was not enough TEA/TEB left to light them up. So and the core was lost. The core hit OCISLY at about 300mph and disintegrated, taking out two of the droneships four engines. Elon said if they are able to recover any video footage of the landing from the droneships onboard cameras they will post it.
I can’t tell when they were planning on using OCISLY again. It is going to need major repairs! I want to see video of the impact.
So why did the center core run out of TEA/TEB? It was doing the usual number of engine starts for an ASDS recovery, I would assume.
Please tell me if I’ve got this right: the reason for the center core recovery failure was that 2 of the 3 engines did not re-light for the re-entry burn because there was not enough TEA/TEB left to light them up. So and the core was lost. The core hit OCISLY at about 300mph and disintegrated, taking out two of the droneships four engines. Elon said if they are able to recover any video footage of the landing from the droneships onboard cameras they will post it.
I can’t tell when they were planning on using OCISLY again. It is going to need major repairs! I want to see video of the impact.
So why did the center core run out of TEA/TEB? It was doing the usual number of engine starts for an ASDS recovery, I would assume.
Please tell me if I’ve got this right: the reason for the center core recovery failure was that 2 of the 3 engines did not re-light for the re-entry burn because there was not enough TEA/TEB left to light them up. So and the core was lost. The core hit OCISLY at about 300mph and disintegrated, taking out two of the droneships four engines. Elon said if they are able to recover any video footage of the landing from the droneships onboard cameras they will post it.
The center core of FH is different from a standard F9 core, quite different. Presumably, there was an error, or something didn’t work correctly on this center core, which is the first time they’ve run a center core.
In the post launch press conference, Elon said that the information he had at that moment — which he emphasized could be incorrect — was that the stage hit the water about 100 meters from OCISLY at about 500kmh and fragments of the disintegrating rocket hit it and caused the damage.Did it hit OCISLY or did it hit the water near OCISLY and damage it due to the explosion?
Just to confuse things further. But I'm glad they updated the video to insert the correct feed for the other booster.The latest video () has been corrected to show the correct feed in the lower rigt frame. You can by the date/time-stamp (missong on the original). It's also obvoius during landing that the landing pods are different. The original (live) was incorrect. Access the video from Falcon Heavy Test Flight | SpaceX.
There's likely no rush to release any possible video of the center core impact. I'll bet it gets stored for a future blooper montage. I'm okay with that. The media coverage yesterday was 100% favorable, in some cases almost giddy about the performance of the FH. For the the most part the fair weather Space fans I spoke with yesterday loved describing the indelible image of the dual boosters touching down. That's positive and sticky. They had no clue about the fate of the center core. Release the video now and jerks like Shelby from Alabama will say something stupid again about SpaceX, while making sure to tout his wonderfully disposable ULA rockets.He said if they can recover any video from the OCISLY onboard cameras they will make it public.
Random speculation: either the speed caused the engines to be hard to start thus taking longer/ more TEA/TEB, or their wasn't enough loaded, a leak reduced quantity available, or it was contaminated with oxygen.
Note: link is from 2013. Not related to FH.
Weird! Your message claims to quote mine, but quotes ccutrer's message. (406)Is this bad or
better than expected?
The TEA/TEB boiled off into space because the center stage went higher than any prior falcon 9 first stage. New scenario never been done before something happened they hadn't planned for.
Why did it happen on two engines, but on one? Random event seems unlikely. Perhaps human error: It was prepared for single engine landing.The TEA/TEB boiled off into space because the center stage went higher than any prior falcon 9 first stage. New scenario never been done before something happened they hadn't planned for.
Weird, would have expected the container to be pressurized/ sealed. How much lower was the pressure than typical? Or was it due to time?
I don't know, it was just an additional possible answer. We aren't sure if they didn't load enough because it burned more than expected, or if it boiled away, or if it froze and wasn't available to use.
I'm sure we'll get the answer eventually but I'm holding onto the boiled away hypothesis until I hear otherwise.