Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

[KarenRei]

They lost the communications downlink during the entry burn. I wonder if that is related to the landing failure. I noticed some smoke to the right side of the screen around the time of the landing burn starting, and then water droplets on the camera. I have a feeling stage one had a location coordination problem with the droneship.

The rocket doesn't need communications to land; it's autonomous.

I was speculating earlier that it was probably a soft landing on the water. SpaceX just confirmed this. Apparently the rocket is intact.

Probably not recoverable / reusable, but might be

Note that it's possible that the rocket deliberately missed the drone ship. It's programmed to do so if it doesn't think it can land safely . But it's also possible that it just simply missed accidentally.

 

[ktrivedi70]

They lost the communications downlink during the entry burn. I wonder if that is related to the landing failure. I noticed some smoke to the right side of the screen around the time of the landing burn starting, and then water droplets on the camera. I have a feeling stage one had a location coordination problem with the droneship.

If I recall, the default landing protocol is to 'miss' the droneship, and then change course in the last few seconds to actually make the landing. That way, if something goes wrong, it won't crash on the ship.

 

[Chickenlittle]

Falcon 9 stage 1 missed the landing on the drone ship Looks like it may have done a controlled touchdown just to the right of the camera, as you could see mist getting kicked up, then a minute later the camera got splashed.

Will be interesting to learn what went wrong.

I believe very close see smoke in picture and splash drops on ship camera

 

[Krugerrand]

They lost the communications downlink during the entry burn. I wonder if that is related to the landing failure. I noticed some smoke to the right side of the screen around the time of the landing burn starting, and then water droplets on the camera. I have a feeling stage one had a location coordination problem with the droneship.

My bet is on a more successful rogue Spacemouse mission.

 

[Freder Reeve]

Falcon 9 stage 1 missed the landing on the drone ship Looks like it may have done a controlled touchdown just to the right of the camera, as you could see mist getting kicked up, then a minute later the camera got splashed.
Will be interesting to learn what went wrong.

I'm curious if it was this part coming off @ ~ T+00:05:59 which may have thrown off the trajectory:

 

[Chocochip]

Anyone has any idea why the video link cuts off for the Starlink satellite deployment Every! Single! Goddamned time!

Edit: Since this seems to have confused several people -- I am very specifically referring to the deployment of the Starlink satellites from the second stage, NOT the booster landing on the drone ship!

 

[mutle]

I am proud of our lively democracy!
but a lot of people (maybe the most) protesting against Tesla in Germany are far-far-left or far-far-right or climate deniers, and that is something I'm not really proud of.
Strange that some "fridaysforfuture" twitter accounts like that tweet

@HambiBleibt is also promoting these Tweets on their feed, it's a group protesting against the destruction of a 10000 year old forest (Hambacher Forst) for coal digging by RWE, which I believe is a legitimate concern, and it's hurting their cause, based on the replies.

 

[Krugerrand]

I'm curious if it was this part coming off @ ~ T+00:05:59 which may have thrown off the trajectory:

Yes! There’s the Spacemouse evidence. I called it.

 

[HG Wells]

They lost the communications downlink during the entry burn. I wonder if that is related to the landing failure. I noticed some smoke to the right side of the screen around the time of the landing burn starting, and then water droplets on the camera. I have a feeling stage one had a location coordination problem with the droneship.

I have it on good authority that a large submarine surfaced next to the landing barge.
The rocket landed on the submarine and was quickly spirited away.

 

[winfield100]

I believe very close see smoke in picture and splash drops on ship camera

Satellites deployed!!
(3 more launches by before end of March for total of .....420

 

[Chickenlittle]

Anyone has any idea why the video link cuts off for the Starlink satellite deployment Every! Single! Goddamned time!

Perhaps by design? Don’t need to show how you do everything

 

[Silent Ludicrosy]

I believe very close see smoke in picture and splash drops on ship camera

Yes at T+ 8:45 theres a big splash on the right side of the screen that eventually splashes the camera.

 

[flabellina]

I'm curious if it was this part coming off @ ~ T+00:05:59 which may have thrown off the trajectory:

That's just ice build up. It happens all the time.
A couple of lauches ago flat earthers were going on with the theory that is was a mouse. Other have spaculated those flying things are aliens.
It's ice.

 

[Unpilot]

Sorry that is for sure a mouse tail....could maybe be a rat tail...a cat would know for sure.

 

[Todd Burch]

Anyone has any idea why the video link cuts off for the Starlink satellite deployment Every! Single! Goddamned time!

The intense heat of reentry ionizes the air around the spacecraft, which intereferes with radio communications. Google “Reentry Blackout”.

Edit: Sorry, misread this—thought you were talking about reentry.

 

[lklundin]

I'm german... and this show is embarrassing

I honestly think it can be ignored. At this point the police is preventing additional trespassing and those already in the trees will be carefully removed - and unlike (some states in) the USA no lengthy prison terms will be handed out. Since Tesla is in any case waiting for the OVG statement, no actual delay is taking place.
While the approach is completely undemocratic, it's still a sign that the democracy is working, since people feel free to protest.

If anything, it just means that even more people will hear in the news that Tesla is building a factory in Germany.

 

[AMN]

It could be that Taycan is using some Microsoft technology, and, Porsche probably is a large corporate customer of Microsoft. Whereas Tesla software is Linux based and probably using more Google products vs. Microsoft products.

Yeah, Züne OS.

 

[flabellina]

The intense heat of reentry ionizes the air around the spacecraft, which intereferes with radio communications. Google “Reentry Blackout”.

No, he means when Starlink satellites get deployed. And he is right. We never see the separation event, which is interesting since starlink get separated in a completely different way than normal. They are stacked on top of each other without a mount and the second stage performs a peculiar rotation maneuver. Something is happening there...

 

[j6Lpi429@3j]

Anyone has any idea why the video link cuts off for the Starlink satellite deployment Every! Single! Goddamned time!

YOU ARE WELCOME

 

[Chickenlittle]

In norther Virginia new channel (at least to me) of yahoo finance. Have seen many channels for financial news. Hate Joe on CNBC will watch Bloomberg but a new choice. Yahoo not kind to tesla but in brief watch so far not as political?