Every single time I watch a successful SpaceX launch I get chills and also get so excited. Congrats to everyone who has worked on this.
SpaceX nails triple booster landing after satellite delivery
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#12Large existing discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19639965
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#14Big fan of making technical spacecraft manoeuvres sound like cool skateboard tricks.
I'm more impressed by the booster landings though :-) Seeing a launch/landing in-person is on my bucket list.
I saw the live stream yesterday and when the two side boosters landed side-by-side synchronously it was almost as if it was out of a movie. We are living in the future!
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#15I wonder what emergency procedure is in place in case the landing is off-course. Does it blow itself up?
As an addendum to that, if one accidentally lands in my back yard, can I keep it?
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#16Not only that, but apparently they recovered both fairings: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
So 5 out of 5...
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#18Here's the video cued up to the booster landings: https://youtu.be/TXMGu2d8c8g?t=1643 with the main core landing a few minutes later.
If it's not obvious, the main core landing was much harder this time around, because of how fast it was going due to the two boosters imparting a lot of extra speed on it before they separated. If you think about it, it'll have somewhere between 1x and 3x the velocity of a normal Falcon 9 core
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#19I wonder what emergency procedure is in place in case the landing is off-course. Does it blow itself up?
As far as I understand, the Flight Termination System is safed before the landing burn. It's more dangerous to have it potentially still active after landing. So at this point it can't blow itself up anymore.
Until the last moment it also doesn't target the barge itself, but slightly to the side. Only very shortly before landing does it correct the target to the actual landing position. So in most cases it would simply hit the water instead of anything else when there is a major issue.