SpaceX - the big show tonight

[Hbk69]

Let us not forget the science fiction writers of the past, they influenced generations of kids to become budding scientist's, who went on to develop space flight.

Scientists

 

[Roker Mackem]

That was amazing to watch. My son thought it was worth waiting a couple of extra days to see it.

He's already excited about watching it dock with the ISS tomorrow.

Imagine what it'll be like when there's a launch to return to the Moon, or the first manned mission to Mars.

Imagine a Mars landing man. Would be incredible.

 

[Urban Silverback]

Imagine a Mars landing man. Would be incredible.

Would love to see this in my lifetime.

 

[anth]

There's nobody manning the ISS now is there? The first thing they will need to do, is give it a good dusting and clean.

ISS has never been unmanned. People are needed on board to keep it running. There has not been a manned launch from the US in 9 years, but there have been plenty from Russia in that time.

 

[chelt_mackem]

Would love to see this in my lifetime.

I'd just be happy with any mission that takes us outside low Earth orbit. Another lunar landing would be amazing to witness.

 

[skullmeister]

That was amazing to watch. My son thought it was worth waiting a couple of extra days to see it.

He's already excited about watching it dock with the ISS tomorrow.

Imagine what it'll be like when there's a launch to return to the Moon, or the first manned mission to Mars.

Todays technology as well, HD live coverage

 

[the dude]

Well that was tremendous. Perfect landing on OCISLY as well.

How do they do that? Is it remotely piloted back down?

 

[tunstall birdman]

ISS has never been unmanned. People are needed on board to keep it running. There has not been a manned launch from the US in 9 years, but there have been plenty from Russia in that time.

Cheers, I just heard the other day, that there had not been a manned rocket launch in a decade. They never mentioned it was just the USA.

 

[skullmeister]

How do they do that? Is it remotely piloted back down?

Its an amazing feat of technology, this is a previous one

 

[Kevj]

Cheers, I just heard the other day, that there had not been a manned rocket launch in a decade. They never mentioned it was just the USA.

The reporting was very US centric. I thought that was a little bit ironic considering Musk is South African.

 

[tunstall birdman]

The reporting was very US centric. I thought that was a little bit ironic considering Musk is South African.

It was an American news station like. That makes sense what you say. Twats

 

[anth]

How do they do that? Is it remotely piloted back down?

no remote at all, they do it all themselves. Other than it acquiring the GPS signal the booster does it all itself. Fun fact, the trajectory aims it to miss by about 100m, if all is going well it' does s a dog leg kick to bring it back in line. This is done to protect the very expensive drone ship from a busted 70m tall booster hitting it at terminal velocity.

 

[neiluk1985]

Ah he is class, only 5 year old so he was really excited watching that, that’s him as Santa in my avatar

Imagine what’ll it’ll be like when he’s watching the first crewed launch to Mars with his kids

 

[the dude]

Its an amazing feat of technology, this is a previous one

That's nuts, surely someone must be remotely piloting otherwise they'd have no idea where it would land.

Edit. @anth answered. It's amazing.

 

[Kevj]

It was an American news station like. That makes sense what you say. Twats

I watched the NASA live stream on YouTube and the number of times that America was quoted was too much. FUCK YEA USA.

That’s not to detract from the event itself and the scale of what has just been witnessed.

 

[skullmeister]

That was amazing to watch. My son thought it was worth waiting a couple of extra days to see it.

He's already excited about watching it dock with the ISS tomorrow.

Imagine what it'll be like when there's a launch to return to the Moon, or the first manned mission to Mars.

2024 for the moon again

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/artemis/NASA: Artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/artemis/Artemis is the name of NASA's program to return astronauts to the lunar surface. We are going forward to the Moon to stay.

www.nasa.gov

 

[Urban Silverback]

How do they do that? Is it remotely piloted back down?

Not really sure. Two or three fuel burns to correct the trajectory, which is a ballistic profile, like a big arc, each subsequent burn corrects the path more accurately. They know roughly where it's gonna land initially, it's like hoying a big ball over a field, ballistics. I'm not sure if they have such remote control over the final landing, I don't think so.

no remote at all, they do it all themselves. Other than it acquiring the GPS signal the booster does it all itself. Fun fact, the trajectory aims it to miss by about 100m, if all is going well it' does s a dog leg kick to bring it back in line. This is done to protect the very expensive drone ship from a busted 70m tall booster hitting it at terminal velocity.

There we are, Anth knows the details.

 

[tunstall birdman]

That's nuts, surely someone must be remotely piloting otherwise they'd have no idea where it would land.

Edit. @anth answered. It's amazing.

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[anth]

Not really sure. Two or three fuel burns to correct the trajectory, which is a ballistic profile, like a big arc, each subsequent burn corrects the path more accurately. They know roughly where it's gonna land initially, it's like hoying a big ball over a field, ballistics. I'm not sure if they have such remote control over the final landing, I don't think so.

pretty accurate. For these landings, there are two burns. They know the arch the booster will take so know where to position the landing barge (OCISLY). The booster shuts off its engines then separates from the payload. It used some cold gas thrusters to spin round so it is travelling engines first. When it starts to hit the atmosphere they do a burn to slow it down. This is usually from 3 of the 9 engines. Without it would travel through the atmosphere too fast and burn up. They they do a landing burn which I described above, regarding the dog leg kick.

The only difference in the past has been for falcon heavy or cargo missions to the ISS. For those they have so much extra spare fuel, they can literally turn the booster round, refire the engines and send it back to where it took off. That is called a boost-back burn, then the same as above is done.

 

[Urban Silverback]

pretty accurate. For these landings, there are two burns. They know the arch the booster will take so know where to position the landing barge (OCISLY). The booster shuts off its engines then separates from the payload. It used some cold gas thrusters to spin round so it is travelling engines first. When it starts to hit the atmosphere they do a burn to slow it down. This is usually from 3 of the 9 engines. Without it would travel through the atmosphere too fast and burn up. They they do a landing burn which I described above, regarding the dog leg kick.

The only difference in the past has been for falcon heavy or cargo missions to the ISS. For those they have so much extra spare fuel, they can literally turn the booster round, refire the engines and send it back to where it took off. That is called a boost-back burn, then the same as above is done.

The dog leg is new to me. Utterly fascinating, but makes perfect sense. Thanks for that Anth.