Spacex launch, stage landing

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Exciting stuff, Spacex will launch a capsule to ISS and later try to land one of the stages vertically on ship platform. In coming years this technology can lead to 100 fold cheaper launches (due to re-usability) , the possibility for more complex missions.

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Cargo continues the trip to ISS, as to first stage:
Elon Musk: "Rocket made it to drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/553855109114101760

This is what's considered soft-landing. Although far more lighter than Falcon 9:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkItO-0a4[/ame]
 
how is that even possible? They got some crazy fucking math going on the there.
 
i really don't understand how elon musk can go from programmer to rocket scientist to car engineer
that guy is fucking brilliant
 
Good news:
"Grid fins worked extremely well from hypersonic velocity to subsonic, but ran out of hydraulic fluid right before landing."

"Upcoming flight already has 50% more hydraulic fluid, so should have plenty of margin for landing attempt next month."

i really don't understand how elon musk can go from programmer to rocket scientist to car engineer
that guy is fucking brilliant
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Agree. I enjoy watching his interviews, the way he thinks and solves problems.
 
dmnEPC said:
how is that even possible? They got some crazy fucking math going on the there.
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If you think that's nuts, look at what it took to land a probe on a comet. Multiple gravitational slingshots off Mars and Earth to land on a comet travelling as fast as 135,000 kmh. The mothership traveled 6.4 billion kilometers over 10 years to rendezvous with and land it's probe on a body no more than 4 km across.

That's some math that should do your head in. That is some crazy crazy shit.
 
Fatbat said:
If you think that's nuts, look at what it took to land a probe on a comet. Multiple gravitational slingshots off Mars and Earth to land on a comet travelling as fast as 135,000 kmh. The mothership traveled 6.4 billion kilometers over 10 years to rendezvous with and land it's probe on a body no more than 4 km across.

That's some math that should do your head in. That is some crazy crazy shit.
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And then being humiliating by a bunch of ignorant vaginas.

(just sayin, let us never forget...)























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