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Not 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...
Same link but this one doesn't report your click to google: https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-fairing-recove...
This really looks good for launch costs long-term. The Heavy costs $90 million per reusable launch with a 64,000 kg payload, or $1400 per kilogram.[1] Current versions of the Falcon 9 and Heavy can fly ten times with virtually no refurbishment between flights.[2] The only part they throw away is the $7.5 million upper stage.[3] Their expendable cost is $150M and they haven't really started reusing yet, so if they act…
EDIT: scratch that, apparently the recovered the fairings as well per a comment below. Neat!
I was at Kennedy Space Center's Apollo/Saturn V viewing site for this launch and it was amazing. If you ever have the opportunity to be there for a Falcon Heavy launch, do yourself a favor and go. It's quite an experience and totally worth the money.
What was amazing about it? Tell us the story.
To hear the roar of those 27 engines and feel it vibrating on your chest and the bleachers is an emotional experience. Then you can see the boosters coming back, and their entry burn and you can follow them down to their landing zones. A few seconds later you hear the sonic booms.
While all this is happening, you also have the energy of the happy crowd cheering and celebrating what humans are capable of doing.
It gives you hope and an exciting future to look forward.
I 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?
Can we finally stop having sci-fi films in which the whole outcome of the movie is solely determined on some heroic manual flying of a spaceship while simultaneously using manually aimed weapons like it's World War II?
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I guess salt water isn't that much of an issue after all?
Yea, I wish we'd get a more detailed explanation of the accounting on this. For all I knew it was totally plausible that fairings would be destroyed by sea water, and it was also plausible there'd be no damage. The part that confuses me is why they would spend so much effort trying to catch them with Mr. Steven if they are in fact serviceable after a swim. Maybe the idea is that salt-water refurbishment-and-reuse sav…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess salt water isn't that much of an issue after all?
Yea, I wish we'd get a more detailed explanation of the accounting on this. For all I knew it was totally plausible that fairings would be destroyed by sea water, and it was also plausible there'd be no damage. The part that confuses me is why they would spend so much effort trying to catch them with Mr. Steven if they are in fact serviceable after a swim. Maybe the idea is that salt-water refurbishment-and-reuse sav…
Can someone explain why reusable mode can't lift as much?
I was at Kennedy Space Center's Apollo/Saturn V viewing site for this launch and it was amazing. If you ever have the opportunity to be there for a Falcon Heavy launch, do yourself a favor and go. It's quite an experience and totally worth the money.