Ooh Ouch Owie

"For Sweden" (rallybeetle) 02/06/2018 at 19:18 • Filed to: SpaceX, Space, Falcon Heavy, Spacelopnik

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300 mph water impacts are bad for rockets, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . But that’s the launch contractor’s problem.

MM54 > For Sweden 02/06/2018 at 19:22

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Just about any sort of 300mph impact is bad - especially with something heavy, like an ocean.

I sort of suspected it was lost when there was no “it’s okay guys!” announcement within the hour of the launch

For Sweden > MM54 02/06/2018 at 19:22

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big if true

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > For Sweden 02/06/2018 at 19:22

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doh... hokay.. some kinks to be worked out still

but on the whole that was a pretty damned impressive showing

For Sweden > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/06/2018 at 19:28

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The system still works perfectly for sending payloads to orbit.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > For Sweden 02/06/2018 at 19:33

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im just saying it didnt work perfectly mate... im impressed as all hell by the results they got

user314 > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/06/2018 at 19:33

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Yeah, since this was a test flight they used an older block 4 Falcon for the center stage. The future FH flights will use block 5.

For Sweden > user314 02/06/2018 at 19:45

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“You know, if this Block 4 crashes, we get a huge insurance payout.”

“Go on...”

Chariotoflove > For Sweden 02/06/2018 at 19:52

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So the whole thing did as well as any conventional booster system. It just failed the return landing part. More work to do, sure, but this still counts as a validation of the system, I would think.

wafflesnfalafel > For Sweden 02/06/2018 at 21:47

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I will never forget the shots of the side boosters coming down in tandem..

user314 > For Sweden 02/06/2018 at 22:24

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 On the upside, SpaceX has a functioning anti - ship ICBM.

For Sweden > user314 02/06/2018 at 22:52

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my god

For Sweden > wafflesnfalafel 02/06/2018 at 22:52

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Think of how many hours were spent making sure they would land at the same time, and not a few seconds apart.

wafflesnfalafel > For Sweden 02/06/2018 at 22:57

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pyrotechnic ballet