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Woohoo. All good so far, including landing. Just waiting on satellite deployment. B1046 booster is good for launch #3. It will probably be the first booster to ever do a third launch. Go SpaceX.
Who knows? They need to examine it. 2+ months make the most sense. That's what it took for this first B5 reuse and I'd expect the same sort of time frame.
Who knows? They need to examine it. 2+ months make the most sense. That's what it took for this first B5 reuse and I'd expect the same sort of time frame.
e-FTW
New electron smell
Wow, there was a second before MECO where we saw a city lit up in the night (Orlando? The whole East Coast?) and what might have been aurora in the high atmosphere. I'll have to watch the replay and screen grab.
If the administration and NASA won't keep the ISS going forever, can I rent a room up there? I mean, can't be much more expensive than renting out here in San Francisco.
If the administration and NASA won't keep the ISS going forever, can I rent a room up there? I mean, can't be much more expensive than renting out here in San Francisco.
Nikxice
Active Member
These landings never seem to get old, except for the predictable last second breakup of the video. Funny how the SpaceX team in the background voiced their oohs and aahs perfectly in sync with the gaps in the video feed.
Second engine startup soon. Completed and shut down.
Earth views.
And deployed successfully.
Earth views.
And deployed successfully.
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Adm
Active Member
I couldn't believe it when Elon predicted this, but these lauches become really boring. It is a good thing, but man... I might watch the next Falcon Heavy launch or the first launch of BFR, but I am done with these flawless lauches and landings. 
e-FTW
New electron smell
Turns out that was lightning. Right as the grid fins were deploying. Pretty amazing:
Chris B - NSF on Twitter
I noticed something during stage landing that I had not seen before: at T+8:22, a few seconds after the camera view from OCISLY was shown, the camera was angled up to see the stage coming down, so much that the deck of OCISLY was not visible, and then as the stage descended the camera angle was changed to show the deck. In other words, the camera angle was moved remotely. I was excited to see that. Pretty sure that is new.
Interestingly, less than 12 hours after launch, they are rolling in a brand new Block V for the next mission! I suppose if you have a big enough fleet, it gives you leeway in turnaround time.
Chris G - NSF on Twitter
If and when they start reusing these Block V boosters 3, 4, 5 times, the whole "reusable rockets aren't economical" thesis is really going to fall apart.
It’s already fallen apart. Months ago. Even the US Congress has now realized that reusable launch vehicles makes sense.
SpaceX posted a picture of the booster landing on the drone ship. It's the second picture. We missed this because of the vibration drop out.
SpaceX on Instagram: “Falcon 9 lands on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship and returns to port after delivering the Merah Putih satellite to…”
SpaceX on Instagram: “Falcon 9 lands on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship and returns to port after delivering the Merah Putih satellite to…”
Thanks, but when I clicked that link I only saw a single photo of the stage on the ASDS back at port. Where is the photo of the booster landing?
e-FTW
New electron smell
I wonder how much those engineers are geeking out over how close to dead-center the landings are.
Am sure someone has a millimeter-scale database...
Thanks, I missed the arrow to advance to the next photo. Not a heavy Twitter user.
