They lost the center core: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_tWbjFIGI&t=2307 But 2/3 is impressive! Seeing the simultaneous landings had me in tears!
Lost, or lost video feed?
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#172Sounds like they lost the center core (might just mean the signal its not clear), hell of a showing though the team should be really proud of the accomplishment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_tWbjFIGI&feature=youtu.be...
That could just mean they lost the feed.
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#173There was a strange part of the video near the end where they show the car floating through space, and suddenly a background image pops in for a second: https://imgur.com/a/ZyVqK Any idea what that was? EDIT: I think it's a replay of the capsule opening that initially contained the car, just spliced in at a weird part of the video.
They were looping the fairing deploy. The "background image" you see is the inside of the fairing: https://www.instagram.com/p/Be3m_LNgOYY/?taken-by=elonmusk
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#174And I have to deploy a few web services tomorrow, woohoo... Elon has created a vision for generations to come, that is why today is so historic.
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#175Sounds like they lost the center core (might just mean the signal its not clear), hell of a showing though the team should be really proud of the accomplishment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_tWbjFIGI&feature=youtu.be...
"We lost the centre core" at 38m27s
https://youtu.be/-B_tWbjFIGI?t=38m27s
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#176I could've done without the constant clapping and screaming on the webcast. Kinda took away from the experience for me.
There's a non-hosted webcast which, I believe, is just rocket footage.
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#177That 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?
It sounds like it was lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_tWbjFIGI&feature=youtu.be... Although there hasn't been an official statement by SpaceX yet, and whoever said "we lost the center core" could have just been referring to the video feed from the drone ship.
The quote from the video is: "We lost the center core."
For those like me unfamiliar with the terminology used in this context, is this wording reserved for situations where the rocket is destroyed or could it also mean they lost contact/video feed with the center core?
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#178Anybody saw the 'Don't panic' thing on the Tesla? Made me chuckle, they sure have a sense of humor.
I absolutely love that Musk is putting a car into Mars orbit. Assuming mankind doesn't have an extinction event (or dark ages event), it is extremely likely we'll populate the solar system over the next millenia. In 200 years, Martian children can look up in the sky and know that one of the quickly moving visible satellites is a hilarious, old-Earth car. Depending on how accessible orbit is from planets over the next couple hundred years, it could very well be some sort of space station museum.
Or, imagine we hit a dark age and bounce back, and this event is lost to history. Five hundred years later we manage to get some people to Mars orbit and they find a fucking car in a capsule with a little mannequin stuffed into it flinging around the planet at hundreds of kph.
All while it's blasting David Bowie over their radios.
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Wow, thanks for the contribution.
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#180Does anyone have a "top-down" view of the Roadster's (planned) orbit? I've read that it's on a Hohmann transfer towards Mars's orbital neighbourhood but haven't seen a diagram.