SpaceX F9 - JCSAT 18/Kacific 1 - SLC-40

[SMAlset]

SpaceX broadcast over and guess we’ll have to watch Elon’s twitter feed to see about the fairing catch.

 

[SageBrush]

SpaceX broadcast over and guess we’ll have to watch Elon’s twitter feed to see about the fairing catch.

I'm curious about this too.

In the past has no news been no news, or bad news delayed ?

 

[MichaelP90DL]

SpaceX says the fairing recovery ships barely missed recovering the halves of the nosecone. And said they are working to pull them out of the water for possible reuse. Source: @Spacex on Twitter.

 

[e-FTW]

SpaceX says the fairing recovery ships barely missed recovering the halves of the nosecone. And said they are working to pull them out of the water for possible reuse. Source: @Spacex on Twitter.

Yup, shame!
But I can imagine plenty of weather related things can make this in some respects much harder than catching a rocket on a rocking drone ship.
But hey, they’ve done it once already!

 

[MichaelP90DL]

Yup, shame!
But I can imagine plenty of weather related things can make this in some respects much harder than catching a rocket on a rocking drone ship.
But hey, they’ve done it once already!

I'm sure they'll solve the problem. And I wish they'd stream video of the recovery attempts. I try to never miss a SpaceX launch.

 

[SageBrush]

Can we blame poor Aero design and crappy diesel engines of the boats ?

Surely a Tesla boat can be as agile as say ... a dolphin out for a stroll ?

 

[Nikxice]

Not sure why this stuff bothers me, but it does anyway.
A SpaceX rocket lost its nose cone during an otherwise successful launch in Florida
I emailed the B I author pointing out her total focus on an experimental fairing recovery, while perhaps purposefully failing to acknowledge another spectacular booster landing on a rocking drone ship in the Atlantic.

I'm aware that Tesla and SpaceX often gets bashed by the media and it's suspected that Elon's lack of advertising can be a contributing factor. Mixed feelings, but sometimes I think it might be worth calling them out on their click bait articles.

 

[ecarfan]

Not sure why this stuff bothers me, but it does anyway.
A SpaceX rocket lost its nose cone during an otherwise successful launch in Florida

It bothers me too. The article title is fundamentally misleading.

I find many Business Insider articles replete with errors and distortions, and stay away from that website.

 

[bxr140]

Stupid SpaceX. Can’t even catch a ‘nose cone’. Dummies.

Related, in the running for BI understatement of the year: “It's not unusual for rockets to lose their nose cones...”.

 

[Cosmacelf]

Stupid SpaceX. Can’t even catch a ‘nose cone’. Dummies.

Related, in the running for BI understatement of the year: “It's not unusual for rockets to lose their nose cones...”.

Now that’s just sad.

 

[e-FTW]

Pretty sure BI is now a full-on content farm with minimal staff and lots of auto-generated content. Maybe even some tasks by Mechanical Turk.

Meanwhile in the real world, this was the first attempt at catching both fairing halves!

Alternative headlines to bring us back to happy:
“SpaceX narrowly misses historic dual-fairing catch”
“SpaceX one small step closer to 100% reusable space rockets”
“SpaceX, bored with landing rockets attempts to catch both halves of fairing on 19th ISS re-supply mission” [Ed: too long! Cut that kid!]

 

[bxr140]

Now that’s just sad.

To be fair, I hadn’t considered the possibility that BI is including hobby rockets vis a vis their assessment of a launch operator’s attempts to recover ‘nose cones’.

Really, what self respecting kid doesn’t valiantly hunt around the field to un-lose that Estes nose come?