Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/23/2019 at 09:00 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Merlins aren’t just for Mustangs.

Explanation : Twenty seven Merlin rocket engines are firing in this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of a Falcon Heavy rocket. Derived from three !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! first stage rockets with nine Merlin rocket engines each, the Falcon Heavy left NASA’s Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A on April 11. This second launch of a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! rocket !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! the Arabsat 6A communications satellite to space. In February of 2018, the first Falcon Heavy launch carried !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Designed to be reusable, both booster stages and the central core returned safely to planet Earth, the boosters to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station landing zones. The core stage landed off shore on autonomous spaceport drone ship !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

Astronomy Picture of the Day

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > ttyymmnn 04/23/2019 at 09:09

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Firepower isn't magic. It's just a bigger gun.

facw > ttyymmnn 04/23/2019 at 09:25

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The core stage landed off shore on autonomous spaceport drone ship Of Course I Still Love You . 

And then fell off in rough seas before it could be secured. One of these days they’ll get the whole thing down.

3point8isgreat > ttyymmnn 04/23/2019 at 09:32

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I really hope that when/if we find some other propulsion system to get us to space, it has the same level of theatrics to it.  It’s neat having machines that are mind bendingly powerful and let you know it.

user314 > facw 04/23/2019 at 10:02

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There is a bot on the flattops to hold onto the boosters, but it hadn’t been modified yet for the FH boosters. They were planning on manually fastening the booster to the deck, as they had with the early F9 flights, but the rough seas made that impossible. As it was, the booster only fell over:

It’ll never fly again, but at least they can salvage some parts. 

ttyymmnn > facw 04/23/2019 at 10:13

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I watched a video of the Arabsat launch and booster recovery. It truly is amazing to me how those two boosters can land with such accuracy and at the same time, upright no less. 

user314 > ttyymmnn 04/23/2019 at 10:23

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SpaceX is obviously using a better version of self-driving software than Tesla...

Cé hé sin > ttyymmnn 04/23/2019 at 10:55

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That’s true. They were used, in amongst other plane s, the Lancaster.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > ttyymmnn 04/23/2019 at 11:00

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wafflesnfalafel > ttyymmnn 04/23/2019 at 22:07

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Also Merlin power -