SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches • Hacker News Board

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by DaiPlusPlus » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

buildbuildbuild wrote: post #61

Love that SpaceX’s own team shoots, announces, and switches the live production in-house rather than hiring a production company. Also love seeing machinists side by side cheering with software engineers, standing by a mission control which is placed feet from where engines are assembled on the shop floor. Open company culture well-executed. Congratulations to all there!

It’s like that at BlueOrigin too. I visited twice (they gave me a job offer but withdrew it after I got badmouthed by a reference, gah). They have an avionics software engineering room right next to where they assemble the engines.

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by jagger27 » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

leetrout wrote: post #67

pikchurn wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They were not the same video feed.

They said in the broadcast they weren't but when it got close to the ground you could tell they were the same feed. https://i.imgur.com/WXQEsKo.png https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=37m49s

You can see the flame from the other booster.

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by outworlder » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

Double landing of reused boosters. No matter how you slice it, it's quite a feat.

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by noonespecial » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

Remembered watching an old Star Trek film where the Cochrane character wouldn't launch without playing "Magic Carpet Ride" on the way up and thinking that space travel could never ever be so glib...

Well played Mr. Musk. Well Played.

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by slfnflctd » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 9:13 PM UTC

I stopped everything and set aside time to sit and watch the whole thing. It was like seeing magic made real, only better, rapturous. Very emotional launch.

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by jfarlow » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 9:13 PM UTC

aphextron wrote: post #15

zhoujianfu wrote: post #3

There was something doubly awesome about the two falcons landing at the same time right next to each other!

Can confirm this was the greatest thing I've ever witnessed in my life. https://youtu.be/AGPH_i0ZlyM?t=56

I've not smiled so hard in quite a while :)

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 9:13 PM UTC

skykooler wrote: post #80

MBCook wrote: post #57

So the car is supposed to be in an Earth-Mars orbit. It it stable or is it designed to fall to earth at some point soon (say one or two orbits)?

According to SpaceX, the orbit could potentially last for a billion years if the timings work out.

Source? I was poking around for the orbit's parameters last night...

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by pikchurn » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 9:14 PM UTC

post_break wrote: post #95

pikchurn wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't find that surprising. The communication link back is presumably by satellite since it is in the middle of the ocean, and probably a directional antenna because of the high bandwidth. You have any good suggestions for having a reliable connection via directional antenna on a flimsy barge that a rocket is landing on in this middle of the choppy north Atlantic?

Keep the camera and antennas on the boat instead of the platform with a zoom lens?

What boat?

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by sangnoir » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 9:14 PM UTC

djaychela wrote: post #16

That was like watching a sci fi film when the two cores landed.... I watched it with my mother (who is 80!), and she said it was as significant as the moon landing. Do we know the fate of the centre core yet?

> Do we know the fate of the centre core yet?

I might be reading into something that's not there, but the presenters (I didn't get their names) acted like they received surprising news in thier monitors at 39:03[1] just as they were about to report on the drone ship landing.

Dude: "We've just gotten confirmation..."

Lady: "oh!"

Dude: "Oh"

Lady: "[laughs] We are waiting to hear what happens..."

1. https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=39m5s

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by ABS » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 9:14 PM UTC

johnohara wrote: post #98

nafizh wrote: post #14

Anybody saw the 'Don't panic' thing on the Tesla? Made me chuckle, they sure have a sense of humor.

Saw the don't panic. Wondering if they packed a towel.

of course they did :-)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/936782477502246912