SpaceX Falcon Heavy
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Neat article tracking the genesis and development of Spacex which points out some "new" thinking that everyone but the government knows about.
https://qz.com/281619/what-it-took-...frog-nasa-and-become-a-serious-space-company/
https://qz.com/281619/what-it-took-...frog-nasa-and-become-a-serious-space-company/
Tesla is on its own heading to mars. The rocket was supposed to boost it to the right trajectory, then let it go, to drift the rest of the way. From what I have seen, they missed the correct trajectory and it will end up in the asteroid belt. It has no way to correct since it’s just floating and it’s course is now set
Probably will bump a large asteroid sending it back to earth to kill is all!
Tesla is on its own heading to mars. The rocket was supposed to boost it to the right trajectory, then let it go, to drift the rest of the way. From what I have seen, they missed the correct trajectory and it will end up in the asteroid belt.
Probably will bump a large asteroid sending it back to earth to kill is all!
Electric cars, the death of all humanity!
You could see the final boost last night from the Southwest. I guess it was around 7:30 MT. I missed it but saw videos of it and people were going crazy thinking it was an alien UFO. The videos were pretty cool though. Amazing that we could see that from so far away.
One of the coolest things in science and space I have ever seen. It is amazing to think that in the very near future we could witness a Mars landing.
I saw one and Matt Damon did awesome on Mars. Maybe if he had some SpaceX stuff it would have gone differently.
I sat mesmerized seeing it and when the boosters landed perfectly it was awe inspiring. Can't wait to see what they bring next.
I saw one and Matt Damon did awesome on Mars. Maybe if he had some SpaceX stuff it would have gone differently.
I sat mesmerized seeing it and when the boosters landed perfectly it was awe inspiring. Can't wait to see what they bring next.
This stuff fascinates me too but I'm still kind of confused.
Didn't it take like a year for the Mars Rover to get to Mars? How did SpaceX get the Tesla there in like half a day? They were just going that much faster?
Didn't it take like a year for the Mars Rover to get to Mars? How did SpaceX get the Tesla there in like half a day? They were just going that much faster?
Has a long way to go, it's far from there yet, it's still pretty close to earth, as you can see from the live feed. It's just on it way.
Also, it's rotating as it goes, so you can see the earth and then the direction it's heading.
I was asking based on a tweet from Musk last night. The present tense he uses made me believe the line was the actual roadster.
He must be meaning this will be its eventual path.
The tesla isnt there yet. its still close to earth. its on an escape trajectory currently. It will still take like 2 months to get to where mars would be if they timed it correctly. And since it didnt matter they just blew past mars orbit and will make it to the asteroid belt orbit.
Edit: to slow to respond. The tweet you see is the path its on with its current trajectory.
If some of you haven't played it yet. I would recommend playing Kerbals Space Program. Will shows you how hard it is to get to space and to hit targets like the moon and Mars.
Gotcha, yeah, that is just the path. They just know from telemetry what the eventual path will be and they overshot Mars. I am surprised they didn't include a little something for a chance at course correction. Then again, I'm no rocket scientist, so I don't know what all that involves.
Going to Mars would be cool, but in some ways, I almost like it better that a car is going to join the asteroid belt.
Also makes me think, if there is other intelligent life out there, what they would think if they ever came upon this thing floating in space. Throws a real mind screw out there in a way. Everyone always imagines us coming across intelligent life as some kind of research vehicle or something that gives us a path to find them. What if though, what we find, we spend years researching and reverse engineering, only to find out it was the aliens' version of a rich guy's gag of sending his favorite toy into space.
"Hell, I even thought I was dead. But I found out I was just in Nebraska."
--- Little Bill in Unforgiven
Huge feat to land those two. Even 20-30 ft isn't a problem. The majority of the mission was a huge success. The 300 mph crash landing part obliterating the booster is a problem. Granted I know it's a drone ship but what if it wasn't off by 20-30 feet. It's a pretty big oops that isn't being talked about.
I know many of the goals were impressive and achieved. They foreshadowed this oops in media coverage. That alone is very impressive too.
If they'd have sent up a replica of the Millennium Falcon, it would have been perfect.
No one's really talking about it because the sum total of the launch process was a huge success. You aren't going to make any progress in space exploration without some problems, as they are testing the limits of new technology, and even mistakes help them learn.
Considering the problems that attended the Mercury, Gemini & Apollo programs (not to mention the two shuttle disasters), one booster failing to land where it was supposed to on an initial launch is peanuts. No loss of life...just equipment. Time to recalculate, that's all.
Exactly. I believe 17 Americans have died in the space program so a little setback like a lost rocket booster that was anticipated to likely be lost anyway might not even qualify as a blip.
