#4248127 - 04/08/16 09:20 PM
SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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#4248139 - 04/08/16 09:54 PM
Re: SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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Watched it on Fox News.....great job. A difficult thing so I hear. When they first started out, I didn't have much hope for them. But it seems they're going to do well. Very good, for all of us, IMO.
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#4248153 - 04/08/16 10:25 PM
Re: SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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Very cool, congrats to the Space-X team! But..."Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship? What a name. Sounds very like the names the sentient spaceships in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels give themselves. RedToo.
My 'Waiting for Clod' thread: http://tinyurl.com/bqxc9eeAlways take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.Elie Wiesel. Romanian born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor. 1928 - 2016. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C.S. Lewis, 1898 - 1963.
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#4248244 - 04/09/16 04:54 AM
Re: SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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That's correct, both drone ships are named after Banks' AI ships in Player of Games, "Just Read the Instructions" and "Of Course I Love You".
And yeah, that's how you stick the landing.
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#4248268 - 04/09/16 09:02 AM
Re: SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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#4248279 - 04/09/16 10:11 AM
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... But..."Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship? What a name. Better than "Keep off the grass"
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#4248438 - 04/09/16 10:43 PM
Re: SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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Why land on a bouncy barge? It's less distance for the rocket on its return to earth. Less distance equals less fuel needed.
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My 'Waiting for Clod' thread: http://tinyurl.com/bqxc9eeAlways take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.Elie Wiesel. Romanian born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor. 1928 - 2016. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C.S. Lewis, 1898 - 1963.
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#4248441 - 04/09/16 11:12 PM
Re: SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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Why land on a bouncy barge? It's less distance for the rocket on its return to earth. Less distance equals less fuel needed.
RedToo. Huh? I'm defiently ain't no rocket scientist to understand that one.
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#4248443 - 04/09/16 11:26 PM
Re: SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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Why land on a bouncy barge? It's less distance for the rocket on its return to earth. Less distance equals less fuel needed.
RedToo. Huh? I'm defiently ain't no rocket scientist to understand that one. The rocket follows a ballistic trajectory heading east ('cos the rest of the stuff in orbit goes around in that direction, because it's easier to launch). To land on... land, you need to reverse the trajectory on your way down to go west, do a split-s if you will... and since rockets can't glide or do acrobatics very well :), all you can do is fire the engine in the appropriate direction. Also, I believe that's the plan in the future, to land on solid ground, but they don't have the pertinent clearance yet to do so until they probe it works well and it has a low probability of killing people due to miscalculations/failures.
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#4248444 - 04/09/16 11:28 PM
Re: SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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Straight(ish) down to the barge after stage separation vs return to launch site. I knew a rocket scientist once upon a time. The pitching and rolling barge does add another factors or two to the problem though...as in luck. edit: yeah what Roadrunners nemesis said... Beep Beep
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#4248462 - 04/10/16 01:32 AM
Re: SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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it would be pretty flipping cool to have a nice moon base in place, wired up by cisco so its on the internet, not sure how the moon could keep real time internet connectivity, it could be its only 300ms away by reponce time?
how far away is the moon if it had a lazer line of sight ip connection? Laser takes about 2.5 seconds to leave Earth, bounce from a reflector on the moon's surface, and return to Earth. Kinda high ping, but probably usable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment
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#4248472 - 04/10/16 02:36 AM
Re: SpaceX Nails Landing at Sea!
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Meh, the Internet problem will get solved after the first wave of settles realize they are stuck on a lifeless rock for months without po... erm, "entertainment".
When you're feeling sad, just remember that somewhere in the world, there's someone pushing a door that says "pull".
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