Agreed. That is incredible. It highlights a lot of things that I missed in the original version. The leg delay was really hard to see and the bounce-hop on landing. This makes that crisp and easy to see.
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Agreed. That is incredible. It highlights a lot of things that I missed in the original version. The leg delay was really hard to see and the bounce-hop on landing. This makes that crisp and easy to see.
Hans Koenigsmann | SpaceX, Exploration through Innovation | NEAF Talks
Not a lot of new stuff but there is a video he shows of the CRS-8 landing that was not put out by SpaceX before. It's another on rocket sequence to the ASDS. It happens at 56:15.
Not a lot of new stuff but there is a video he shows of the CRS-8 landing that was not put out by SpaceX before. It's another on rocket sequence to the ASDS. It happens at 56:15.
Wow, cool! Incredible how the camera lens cracks, twice, from the stress of re-entry. You're right, hadn't seen that view before of that particular landing, the first successful landing on OCISLY. Thanks for finding that.
This is the CRS-8 version. The camera lens cracked due to the heat of re-entry. The other orbit to ASDS video was on Thaicom 8. SpaceX probably dumped the CRS-8 video because of the cracked lens. Though similar, they are two different moments.
Sped up video of the Falcon 9 first-stage landing during the THAICOM 8 mission on May 27, 2016.
On the Thaicom 8 video, it was just debris. On the CRS-8 video in the Hans piece the lens cracked twice.
So what happened, I think, is they tried to do a separation and follow the booster to the ASDS on CRS-8 and dumped the footage because of the cracked lens. They repeated the idea on Thaicom 8 and used a tougher lens. That worked so they posted the video of it.
