Launching humans into space again from America - Space X

[Brian Fantana 6690]

28 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Further launches of starlink. 

This is the one I've been watching. I live in an area where the best internet service I can get is LTE-based which is actually surprisingly good (lower latency than cable, but bandwidth is 40-50Mbps at best) but disconnects you a few times a day when you get handed off to a different band randomly, though it's usually only a few seconds, annoying for working remotely though.

True low latency high speed satellite internet would be awesome if they can pull it off.

[Biff Tannen 45743]

On 5/30/2020 at 2:23 PM, Ths71 said:

https://iss-sim.spacex.com/


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Fuck that's hard.

[Bone3421 716]

I wonder if it smells bad in the capsule/station.  I mean, if you were in micro gravity would you try to use a fart to propel yourself?

There was a thread on reddit where some very smart people did the math and came to the conclusion that the fart wouldn't have enough force to propel you

Years ago if someone wants to try and find it

[Paper_jam 835]

On 5/30/2020 at 3:23 PM, Ths71 said:

https://iss-sim.spacex.com/


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Argh its just killing me that the controls are not pilot-style (reversed in pitch). Down arrow should make you pitch up, and vice versa. Maybe I should try my joystick but I'm guessing this does not support joystick control.

Also I don't see any visual indicator of your translation thrust setting/intensity. Without that it's hard to keep track of how the thrusters are set. 

 

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5 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Fuck that's hard.

"Alex, what is a phrase that has never been uttered by South Austin's mom?"

[Pato del Muerto 52608]

5 hours ago, Bone3421 said:

There was a thread on reddit where some very smart people did the math and came to the conclusion that the fart wouldn't have enough force to propel you

Years ago if someone wants to try and find it

What if you just need more mass being expelled?

[Braff Zacklin 13665]

12 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

What if you just need more mass being expelled?

More beans, Mr. Taggart?

[APMP 688]

Contact. Capture.

Surely somebody mentioned it already, but worth watching again in 4K HDR. Reminded me of one of my favorite space movie scenes.   

 

 

 

 https://youtu.be/onVhbeY7nLM

 

 

[Jersey Man10 3546]

And the first stage landing:
 
 

This is from 2016 not Saturday. There’s no official footage yet.

[NaTeWHO 852]

ISS passing overhead around 10:27 if interested. Coming from NW to SE. Cool to have the kids see where the SpaceX mission ended up.

Link

[UTexasFight 9530]

ISS passing overhead around 10:27 if interested. Coming from NW to SE. Cool to have the kids see where the SpaceX mission ended up.
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Yep saw it last night and again tonight
Pretty cool

Or as my buddy said when I sent him a blurry pic of it tonight:

“Man. So there are dudes floating around eating dried ice cream and drinking Tang in that fucking dot right now. Wild “

[Wally Fairway 5587]

 

 

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Team America.  And Japan.  Around 6:27 PM is the launch this evening.

 

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Info on the 4-member crew

https://www.spacex.com/launches/index.html

 

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Only a million or so people watching.  Has it already become that mundane?

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@RamjetFDO how is everything looking from anything you are hearing?

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Opening some kind of valves, they are a go, should be launching at 6:26-ish.

Kids are watching, here's hoping everything goes okay.

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3 minutes, shit retracting, getting ready to launch.

[Sbbruin 21894]

Light this bitch

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10 seconds hell yeah

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Still can't get over how fast that thing rises, compared to Shuttle/Apollo.

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Would be awesome to be there for a night launch.

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First stage separation.

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Man, we had a great shot of them landing on the barge, then cut away.

Wish they should show inside the capsule, but I completely understand why they don't.

[Goofyboy 3297]

Stage 1 landed safely.

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First stage landed on the drone ship.

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Those boots look like freaking Wellies.

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2nd stage separation is successful.

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Japanese astronaut has been up on a Shuttle, Soyuz, and now Dragon.

He needs to go to Vegas after he gets back.

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[Lurch 5931]

Just ran down to our beach to watch... something I’ve failed to do for our three years here in Jacksonville Beach. Did not disappoint! Gorgeous orange plume could be seen on horizon approx 15 seconds after liftoff and watched it until about 70* when clouds blocked it. Then saw stage 1 burn down almost dead East for about 15 seconds.

Easily one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen

[atomheartbevo 89809]

2020, lot of disruption, some of it positive:

SpaceX: We have now launched twice from American soil, with no problems.

Russia/Soyuz, Boeing: 

Apple:  We are building our Macs with our own CPUs, and performance is phenomenal.

Intel: 

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[NAVY 6747]

This launch system is soooo cool 

[washparkhorn 9939]

Nicely done again, SpaceX. Now get us to Mars.

[Francisco 2.0 32430]

 

 

[Sbbruin 21894]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

2020, lot of disruption, some of it positive:

SpaceX: We have now launched twice from American soil, with no problems.

Russia/Soyuz, Boeing: 

Apple:  We are building our Macs with our own CPUs, and performance is phenomenal.

Intel: 

And the Dodgers and Lakers won championships.  

[smuggs 9353]

13 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

Nicely done again, SpaceX. Now get us to Mars.

 

[SquishMitten 10440]

Finally got the kids to watch one. They were only mildly impressed, but it’s a start!

[RPM 26355]

Was asleep when they launched, but just watched it on YouTube. Very cool. I got a little nervous watching the S2 booster engine pulse, but I guess that's normal.

[washparkhorn 9939]

Let's light that candle! 

SpaceX will be conducting a 10 km test flight of their SN9 prototype vehicle. This flight will be a repeat of the largely successful SN8 test flight, with some possible minor flight profile changes. SN9 will lift off from Boca Chica, Texas under the power of its three Raptor engines.

The Raptor engines will shut off one by one during ascent to decrease loads and acceleration on the vehicle.

At apogee, the single Raptor engine still burning will initiate the vertical-to-horizontal flip before shutting off. SN9 will make use of its body flaps to keep it stable during descent.

Prior to landing, SN9 will ignite two of its Raptor engines to reorientate itself back into a vertical position and perform a propulsive landing.

 

 

[Willfully Horn 8050]

Launch time still TBD?

Theres a talking head on the feed. Is that new?

[Captainant 27791]

2 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Launch time still TBD?

Theres a talking head on the feed. Is that new?

There's a few amateur outfits covering the launch - there's usually a few options if you click around the recommended live vids to find another one

Launch time is a loose 2P CT (roughly 30 minutes from this post time)

[washparkhorn 9939]

about 2 minutes to launch.

 

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[washparkhorn 9939]

Sweet - big boom (not unexpected)

[Willfully Horn 8050]

I love this stuff. So cool.

[CycleTex87 2981]

Kind of fun.  Like when I was a kid with Estes rockets.

[washparkhorn 9939]

two engines scheduled to start up at landing; it appears one candle didn't light properly.   They have the data (success).

Fail early and often.  

[Captainant 27791]

This is some pretty extreme engineering iteration and testing in a live environment. It's crazy that they're firing, throttling, shaking, and yanking engines around all while it's being autonomously controlled and flown by the craft itself.

Goddamn that is some good ass future bullshit