I was over to Grills. Didn’t seem too bad to me. If you come for another launch, pm me people can crash here.
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SpaceX F9 - 11th Reuse - CRS-14 - SLC-40 - Return 5/2
- Thread starter Grendal
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Sadly we lost some SpaceX fans after yesterday's launch. Read today about a family from England who came to watch the launch and died in a car crash after leaving it.
Family killed in violent crash after watching SpaceX launch ID'd
Titusville: 4 British tourists killed in crash | WFTV
Family killed in violent crash after watching SpaceX launch ID'd
Titusville: 4 British tourists killed in crash | WFTV
dhanson865
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I just wanted to share this nice graphic about the first stage delta v comparison that was made just after the CRS14 webcast and posted to reddit by Shahar603.
It shows that with that delta V the CRS14 first stage could have landed on a drone ship had one been sent out so the experimental trajectory must not have been a huge deviation from normal.
dhanson865
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Jensen on the first stage:
so it sounds like they didn't do a landing burn and just let it break up on the water / sink.
some random replies from reddit related to this
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so it sounds like they didn't do a landing burn and just let it break up on the water / sink.
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Given the last soft water landing became a hazard to navigation, I'm going with option 3 (target landing at 1km and break up on impact with water). Bonus points if they did a 180 first
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Dragon was successfully berthed with the ISS at 9AM EDT today.
Next week Dragon is scheduled to depart from ISS and head home and land in the Pacific Ocean. NASA will air the release (10:22am EDT on Wednesday, May 2) with coverage starting at 10a.m. EDT. You can view it here: | NASA
According to an article in Florida Today, this time Dragon will have a passenger, Robonaut 2. SpaceX Dragon spacecraft set for Pacific Ocean splashdown
@Grendal, any chance we can edit the thread title to reference the Dragon return date to catch people's attention?
According to an article in Florida Today, this time Dragon will have a passenger, Robonaut 2. SpaceX Dragon spacecraft set for Pacific Ocean splashdown
@Grendal, any chance we can edit the thread title to reference the Dragon return date to catch people's attention?
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Good idea. Added a comment on the first post as well. From now on, on these CRS and later Commercial Crew I will create an extra line for recovery of Dragon 1's, Dragon 2's, and the names of passengers.
Hadn't realized there was a robot up there, nor since 2011. Looked it up and thought I'd share the link to NASA's webpage for it.
Robonaut2
Robonaut 2 Technologies Available for Licensing. In the 9 years it's been up there, robotics has certainly come a l-o-n-g way. Makes me wonder what SpaceX and Elon's AI projects will come up with for a Starman2 version. Surely something must be in the works.
Robonaut2
Robonaut 2 Technologies Available for Licensing. In the 9 years it's been up there, robotics has certainly come a l-o-n-g way. Makes me wonder what SpaceX and Elon's AI projects will come up with for a Starman2 version. Surely something must be in the works.
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