Re: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

I think one of SpaceX's issues is the attempt to land at Sea. Though given their launch site that may be their only option. On 1/17/2016 5:25 PM, Darren Addy wrote: SpaceX had another successful launch & satellite deployment today, but had a leg lock failure when trying to make the 1st

Re: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

They're saying one of the landing legs failed to lock in place; possibly due to ice. Elon Musk said "they" think ice came from moisture that built up due to the launch taking place during a heavy fog. I don't think it was where they were attempting to land, so much as where they launched from.

Re: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

On 1/17/2016 5:25 PM, Darren Addy wrote: SpaceX had another successful launch & satellite deployment today, but had a leg lock failure when trying to make the 1st Stage's upright landing on a drone ship in the ocean. They have yet to pull that one off. If you want to get a glimpse at the

Re: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

SpaceX had another successful launch & satellite deployment today, but had a leg lock failure when trying to make the 1st Stage's upright landing on a drone ship in the ocean. They have yet to pull that one off. If you want to get a glimpse at the optomistic entrepreneur attitude, look no farther

Re: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

On 12/22/2015 1:20 PM, Darren Addy wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:11 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: 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

OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

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

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Actually their issue seems to have been with their engines, and that technology hasn't changed all that much in 20 years, we're still using designs from the 50's and 60's in most cases, manufactured in Russia... On 12/22/2015 1:20 PM, Darren Addy wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:11 PM, P.J.

Re: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

Russian engines are no longer an option, thanks to Congress, unless one procures a waiver. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/without-russian-rocket-engines-america-will-rely-even-more-on-spacex http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-ula-spacex-idUSKCN0S22Y920151008 Interestingly, SpaceX doesn't

Re: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

While Blue Origins' accomplishment was also impressive, it is nowhere near as ambitious a project as the one SpaceX is doing. Blue Origin wants to take people (not payloads) to the edge of space (not orbit itself). More...

Re: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:11 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: > 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

Re: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

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,

Re: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

15 6:10 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome I watched this live online last night and it was so impressive. It's rare to get "goose-pimple moments" in life, but this was one of them: This jumps to the return of the first stage to the landing p

OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

I watched this live online last night and it was so impressive. It's rare to get "goose-pimple moments" in life, but this was 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:

OT: SpaceX last night was simply awesome

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