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SpaceX launches and lands first stage back on Barge.

Started by Dingo, April 09, 2016, 07:18:10 AM

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Dingo

Today is a day that will go down in history.

Full video clip HERE

See the landing HERE

See the full story HERE


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Mike Mitchell

The first stage looks wild returning that fast and on quite a bit of an angle.  :shock
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Dataman

Amazing but I still do not understand why they want to land on a small floating platform when they can land it anywhere.  ??? Why add complexity?
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Mike Mitchell

I think it's a shorter trip launching and returning the rocket from the equator. I suspect the equator launch will come later.
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Dingo

In December I think they landed it on land.  It all has to do with the entry back from space where.

I found this
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Some say that the barge would be much farther from the launch site and would allow the first stage to follow a mostly unpowered ballistic trajectory with some correction. However, it doesn't -- it has a boostback burn. This is because ultimately SpaceX wants to RTLS. Thus, they want to test a full, reversing boostback burn -- but can't for safety reasons. The difference between this partial reversing burn and a full burn are, relative to the entire first stage prop budget, small.

Still not sure but safety would be a concern with it falling on populated area.


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chooka03

A follow up to this - Space-X successfully launched a previously-used rocket! A first.
They also recovered a $6 million nose fairing for the first time.

This is the sound of people who love their job. (something I'll never know)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsZSXav4wI8

Pretty impressive to watch the countdown and launch. :crazy (From about 17min)