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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...
But 2/3 is impressive! Seeing the simultaneous landings had me in tears!
Elon over there landing rockets on drone ships, I'm over here finishing a new photo app. Elon over there going to Mars, I can't even get this dang app to build. Might be time to move.... http://www.spacex.com/careers
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I mean, I understand, but it still puts a damper on the "Team Humanity" vibe. :/ Same as when the SpaceX team were chanting "U!S!A!" at one of the Falcon launches.
(Hope this doesn't come across as petty.)
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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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c&feature=youtu.be...
If it were two different cameras we'd see two different landing pads. In the end of the video both feeds are coming down on the northern pad.
Edit: Here's the sat image from december with notes added https://imgur.com/a/u6sLs
Yet another incredible show from SpaceX. At this point, if they said they were going to build a football stadium on Europa, my only question would be when does it open. But I couldn't help but laugh at the fact that they can launch a massive rocket on the first try and land (at least) 2 cores, but the camera STILL cuts out on the drone ship.
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?
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I do find that super weird. You would think one of the nearby ships would have a feed as well no?
There aren't any nearby ships, for obvious safety reasons. Plus, any nearby ships would have the exact same issue - where exactly would you "feed" to, when any ship that far out is going to be using a commercial satellite data feed (ie, very slow and unreliable)?
To your second question, how about a camera on a boat closer in with a hard line to a boat farther out with the satellite connection? You act as if sending a video feed is an unsolvable problem despite them beaming living video through the rest of the mission when they are in space.