9 days from now, going for a water landing again!
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/8/107...ding-announced
Put up sticky note on my Monitor at work to remind me of Jason-3. This is going to be as equally important as the last landing was. Having both a barge and land option is critical for the overall success of the long term re-usability. Hype intensifies.
Is it wrong of me to wonder more about what sort of XKCD links Bezos and Musk will use after this event?
They're using the barge again mainly because this is the last of their Falcon 1.1s, which don't have enough fuel to reliably send cargo into orbit and then turn around and make it all the way back to land. The barge allows a shorter return path. Supposedly if they do land this one and it's in good shape, it will be the first to be restored and reused.
Jason-3 launch off Vandenberg schedules for 1:42 PM EST / 11:42 PST (2 Hours from this post). Barge landing attempt in the pacific. Please look forward to it.
http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
Everything is go, fingers crossed. T-10min
Heavy Fog at pad. Barge looks wavy as fuck with ~20 ft waves. Not looking good lol...
....did i just hear them right? the drone barge is named Just Read the Instructions?
FUCKING NASA LOL I LOVE YOU
that's a Culture ship name!
I'm pretty sure that's SpaceX's doing.
Right. still, fucking lawl
East Coast Landing Barge is called Of Course I Still Love You I think. Let's go landing!!!
Damn satellite
SpaceX twitter still standing by for the status of the stage 1 landing
Word is crash is confirmed. Some pointing out to the red/orange glare from the drone feed right before it cut off. No Dice.
As we would have learned by know if it had landed.
ah shit, was really hoping they'd do it. barge looked like it was rocking quite a bit, though.
First stage on target at droneship but looks like hard landing; broke landing leg. Primary mission remains nominal → https://t.co/tdni53IviI
that's not bad!
also stream is back up (it was down for me for a while, idk if it was for you guys too?) and this music reminds me of FTL. To the point where I'm wondering if it might actually be from something similar.
Elon on Twitter: However, that was not what prevented it being good. Touchdown speed was ok, but a leg lockout didn't latch, so it tipped over after landing.
SpaceX Twitter: After further data review, stage landed softly but leg 3 didn't lockout. Was within 1.3 meters of droneship center
Elon said that even on land it probably would've fallen.