The sad thing is that the DC-X was doing something like that 20 years
ago. NASA proved to be incompetent at producing a rocket that took off
and landed on it's tail, just as Heinlein, intended, and we lost 20 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
On 12/22/2015 12:50 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Darren, you just sabotaged my work! ;-)
Thank you!
Just last week I saw this earlier launch:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28539-watch-blue-origins-surprise-rocket-launch-and-safe-landing/
Igor
Darren Addy Tue, 22 Dec 2015 07:27:22 -0800 wrote:
If you didn't see it on the news, I watched this live online last
night and it was so impressive. It's rare to get "goosepimple moments"
in life, but this was certainly one of them:
This jumps to the return of the first stage to the landing pad:
https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4?t=32m24s
And a shot of it landing taken from a helicopter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCBE8ocOkAQ
It's like something out of a Marvin the Martian cartoon.
Here is the darkness of Stage 1 engine shutdown, followed by ignition
of Stage 2 engine:
https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4?t=25m20s
Here is the launch of the 11 satellites:
https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4?t=37m25s
Camera is on the side with 6, you don.t see the 5 on the other side
being ejected at the same time (in pairs, until the final one).
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