When the sats deployed a piece of hardware separated from them and then they drifted away. I had not seen that before. Is that a new mechanism?
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SpaceX F9 - Starlink 7 - SLC-40
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Nikxice
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That landing was noticeably outside the circle, but it still had some room to spare. Amend the old horseshoes and hand grenades joke to add drone ship booster landings.
It's new in that they showed us. Previously, we had never seen that part of the deployment.
e-FTW
New electron smell
I know! I thought they were intentionally hidden from view because they are proprietary.
It was pretty cool to see it operate. It really is a tension rod! Neat design.
e-FTW
New electron smell
Yup, exactly. It is the tension rod they use a release mechanism and to keep them together, and integrated until that release point.
e-FTW
New electron smell
Pretty darn cool to get uninterrupted video of the landing!
Replay here, at T+8:26:
Replay here, at T+8:26:
Yeah! Although I was a little concerned around T+7:26 when there were these spark-like things and we lost the video signal from the booster. But it all ended well!
Bruce.
e-FTW
New electron smell
Those are a pretty common occurrence and definitely exciting to see. The booster is punching through the thicker atmosphere and causing all kinds of sparks and fiery bits. Good times!
e-FTW
New electron smell
On to that tension rod.
If you get distracted by a shiny object rotating in and out of view (remember the second stage had a slight barrel roll going at that point to help deployment) you might miss the base of the tension rod slowly moving up and out of its base (in blue):
If you get distracted by a shiny object rotating in and out of view (remember the second stage had a slight barrel roll going at that point to help deployment) you might miss the base of the tension rod slowly moving up and out of its base (in blue):
Oh that landing.. It simply doesn't get old.
dhanson865
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just to be clear the one you linked to is from November 2019
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e-FTW
New electron smell
Yeah, that one was great since it was in the day time, and we had lost all hope of getting video, and it came back just as the stage landed.
(4th landing for 1048, may it R.I.P.)
Ben W
Chess Grandmaster (Supervised)
I went to spacex.com and clicked the livestream link from there. The "DEMO-2" text went away shortly before the launch.
Just went back to check the replay. (Again through spacex.com.) Now the bottom text is even worse
More tests are happening. I believe, unless the plan changed, that all the satellites on Starlink 9 will have the sun shade.
For this mission SpaceX used JRTI to recover the booster instead of OCISLY. I knew that JRTI had been moved to Florida from the West Coast but don’t recall it being used before to recover a booster launched from Florida. Was this the first time for that?
Does SpaceX plan to use both drone ships at the same time in an upcoming FH launch? I think I read that somewhere but now can’t find it. Apologies if that question diverts this thread into an off topic area, please move this post to the appropriate thread if that is the case. Thanks.
Does SpaceX plan to use both drone ships at the same time in an upcoming FH launch? I think I read that somewhere but now can’t find it. Apologies if that question diverts this thread into an off topic area, please move this post to the appropriate thread if that is the case. Thanks.
As regards the user terminals, SpaceX is building them in-house, and they've been advertising related jobs for quite a while. I think they should be able to iterate early builds quickly and at least get them to the private beta stage.
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