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Wait a minute...I watched the livestream and saw the booster land on target. What are you guys talking about? The webcast host stated the booster landing was successful.
Am I in the wrong thread? Can’t be based on the date/time of your posts.
After the booster anding the host said the sat deploy would be at about 45 minutes post launch. I stepped away for about 15 minutes to do other stuff, now watching the webcast showing the usual animation. It’s T+35 minutes. But the SpaceXNow app states the sats were deployed already.
Wait a minute...I watched the livestream and saw the booster land on target. What are you guys talking about? The webcast host stated the booster landing was successful.
Am I in the wrong thread? Can’t be based on the date/time of your posts.
After the booster anding the host said the sat deploy would be at about 45 minutes post launch. I stepped away for about 15 minutes to do other stuff, now watching the webcast showing the usual animation. It’s T+35 minutes. But the SpaceXNow app states the sats were deployed already.
Wait a minute...I watched the livestream and saw the booster land on target. What are you guys talking about? The webcast host stated the booster landing was successful.
Am I in the wrong thread? Can’t be based on the date/time of your posts.
After the booster anding the host said the sat deploy would be at about 45 minutes post launch. I stepped away for about 15 minutes to do other stuff, now watching the webcast showing the usual animation. It’s T+35 minutes. But the SpaceXNow app states the sats were deployed already.
Any idea what the debris was in my second posted photo (#21)? Space debris or some cabling that came off the first stage? You can zoom in on the photo.
It looked the usual distance away to me. I think that separation is farther than it might appear due to a lack of reference points and the extreme wide angle view.I might be mistaken but during stage separation the first stage seemed to be exposed to more of the second stage back blast than usual. This might have caused problems with the plumbing for the grid fins.
If I recall with any accuracy, the booster aims beside the landing objective until very late in the decent; and adjusts to the target after everything checks out. My guess is something wasn't perfect so it self-aborted.
I hope we find out what really happened.
I recall hearing that explanation (the initial target is off to the side of the drone ship) when the center core of the first Falcon Heavy was lost.I know they do that for a land landing, but do we know for sure they do that for an ocean landing?
Yup. They aim for the ocean, and then if all is well the booster does a translation maneuver to hit the bullseye.If I recall with any accuracy, the booster aims beside the landing objective until very late in the decent; and adjusts to the target after everything checks out. My guess is something wasn't perfect so it self-aborted.
I hope we find out what really happened.