Spacex Launch Webcast: Formosat-5 Mission

roesel wrote: post #4

cjnicholls wrote: post #2

Successful landing on Please read the instructions. 15 consecutive landings

And as always, the live video feed of the landing was clunky :). They should nail one with a steady stream.

Every time I've watched a landing, the video feed is janky. One might speculate that they don't want to live-stream an embarrassing failure but that seems a bit odd when it would be more embarrassing to have an explosion during launch, losing the payload.

Edit: vvvv that sounds quite reasonable, you'd think they'd do something like throw a buoy 100m away to house the actual satellite link and just do wifi from the barge to the buoy.

Re: Spacex Launch Webcast: Formosat-5 Mission

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Post by Dimitris » Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 7:06 PM UTC

mabbo wrote: post #6

Did it sound to anyone else like they were shooting from inside the SpaceX cafeteria?

yes, thought exactly the same!

Re: Spacex Launch Webcast: Formosat-5 Mission

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Post by cjnicholls » Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 7:06 PM UTC

roesel wrote: post #4

cjnicholls wrote: post #2

Successful landing on Please read the instructions. 15 consecutive landings

And as always, the live video feed of the landing was clunky :). They should nail one with a steady stream.

It wasn't their best stream, others have been better. The achievement of landing and potentially reducing the cost is enough.

Re: Spacex Launch Webcast: Formosat-5 Mission

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Post by baq » Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 7:07 PM UTC

jff wrote: post #7

roesel wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And as always, the live video feed of the landing was clunky :). They should nail one with a steady stream.

Every time I've watched a landing, the video feed is janky. One might speculate that they don't want to live-stream an embarrassing failure but that seems a bit odd when it would be more embarrassing to have an explosion during launch, losing the payload. Edit: vvvv that sounds quite reasonable, you'd think they'd do something like throw a buoy 100m away to house the actual satellite link and just do wifi from the ba…

it's vibrations that shake the sat dish so much the link gets severed. convenient for them.