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Title: Space Gazette's video on the groundbreaking Falcon 9 rocket. Post by: Number One on 10/01/2015, 09:03 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBhliJA2OHI
Title: Re: Space Gazette's video on the groundbreaking Falcon 9 rocket. Post by: cowcar on 11/01/2015, 08:28 AM very cool, I thought it was only the capsule part that was to re-land itself, so shall be interesting to see how it goes...
Title: Re: Space Gazette's video on the groundbreaking Falcon 9 rocket. Post by: Z00111111 on 11/01/2015, 02:21 PM Not well it turns out...
They hit the barge, just a bit too hard. Pretty impressive though. If they can get it to work, could save quite a lot of time and money between launches. Title: Re: Space Gazette's video on the groundbreaking Falcon 9 rocket. Post by: cowcar on 11/01/2015, 06:48 PM yeah just read that... but they have another launch in a month, so "practice makes perfect" and they seem to know what caused the problem...but quite a remarkable feat of engineering if they can pull it off with regularity...
Title: Re: Space Gazette's video on the groundbreaking Falcon 9 rocket. Post by: Z00111111 on 12/01/2015, 07:01 AM Yeah, I've got a mixture of "why didn't anyone try this before" at the same time I think "this idea is dumb"...
Title: Re: Space Gazette's video on the groundbreaking Falcon 9 rocket. Post by: Damit on 17/01/2015, 07:29 AM http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/16/7555633/falcon-9-barge-landing-images-released
Title: Re: Space Gazette's video on the groundbreaking Falcon 9 rocket. Post by: Z00111111 on 17/01/2015, 11:09 AM oh. That hit really badly. They made it sound like it just hit too hard, that was at a terrible angle too. That's a fairly major failure.
Title: Re: Space Gazette's video on the groundbreaking Falcon 9 rocket. Post by: Alucard on 17/01/2015, 02:35 PM hopefully they get all the data to find out what went wrong
Title: Re: Space Gazette's video on the groundbreaking Falcon 9 rocket. Post by: Damit on 18/01/2015, 08:24 PM they know what went wrong
Title: Re: Space Gazette's video on the groundbreaking Falcon 9 rocket. Post by: Alucard on 19/01/2015, 05:01 PM well that will teach me for only looking at the pictures and not reading the article.
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