SpaceX Falcon 9 launch - Jason 3 - Vandenberg

[palmer_md]

Another article about this launch.

SpaceX reveals video of rocket landing as it prepares to try with a 'drone boat' | Daily Mail Online

 

[Norbert]

So tomorrow in daylight... hopefully resulting in great videos...

 

[S'toon]

The landing barge, Just Read the Instructions. Love the name.

 

[AMPUP]

The landing barge, Just Read the Instructions. Love the name.
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Tomorrow they'll be landing on 'of course I still love you' which is the west coast sister to 'just read the instructions' which is based out of Florida.

Fingers crossed, go space X

 

[Grendal]

Tomorrow they'll be landing on 'of course I still love you' which is the west coast sister to 'just read the instructions' which is based out of Florida.

Fingers crossed, go space X

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/688577089679708160/photo/1

It looks like it is "Just Read the Instructions." They must have moved it.

The ocean seems incredibly calm in that picture. Let's hope it stays that way, and perfect weather too.

Actually, looking at the pictures of the two, I think SpaceX repainted the name on the ship. They look like two different ships to me. The one they will use tomorrow looks much larger.

A comment on the twitter feed said that the first ASDS "Just Read the Instructions" was retired. So this must be "Just Read the Instructions" Mark II/Update 2/V 2.0.

 

[FredTMC]

Anyone know if the launch will be visible along the Southern California coast? I'm in south Orange County.

Reason I ask is that I've heard the barge is off baja. Therefore the path should be past my house

 

[Norbert]

Webcast has started. Unfortunately seems very foggy at the launch location. Or is that just fumes?

 

[VolkerP]

Gathering all the kids in front of NASA.TV webcast. It is 7:30pm here and the should be in bed by now...

 

[TheTalkingMule]

It's been said a million times, but.......this is absolutely insane to have a private entity doing this.

 

[Electroman]

The video from the drone ship lost satellite connection and feed stopped just a minute before it was about to land !!!

 

[gg_got_a_tesla]

The video from the drone ship lost satellite connection and feed stopped just a minute before it was about to land !!!

Bad timing! Radio silence everywhere, on Twitter as well!

 

[doug]

Was also watching the NASA feed. You could see Elon in the back of the room.

 

[Grendal]

Twitter says that everything is fine and the webcast will resume in 40 minutes! No info on the landing.

 

[Matias]

Hard landing

 

[StephenM]

Hard landing on the first stage. Bummers. You could see the sea pitching in the video leading up to it.

 

[gg_got_a_tesla]

Hard landing on the first stage. Bummers. You could see the sea pitching in the video leading up to it.

Yup. Too bad. Bravo Falcon 9 first stage, broken leg and all!

 

[Cosmacelf]

Good news is that they were on target again. But yeah, relatively heavy seas, one leg couldn't take the stress and broke. Video to follow later.

 

[Grendal]

Well boo. They lost the first stage. It shows that the barge landing is still very hard to do. I have no doubt they will perfect it, but it might take a few more tries to get it down.

I think that you can also conclude that the last barge landing would have been successful if the landing was done on land.

 

[TTT]

I thought the legs were strengthened since the last barge failure which was due to broken leg as well. Too bad, third time a charm?

 

[Cosmacelf]

Jason-3 deployed correctly, successful mission.