Just a few minutes ago they posted the third burn was successful and showed an orbital projection that goes almost out to Ceres' orbit in the asteroid belt. Elon tweeted "Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt."
Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt.
A graphic of the flight sequence:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960915618865274880
Interesting note, they are planning for fairing recovery also.
Just a few minutes ago they posted the third burn was successful and showed an orbital projection that goes almost out to Ceres' orbit in the asteroid belt. Elon tweeted "Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt."
Is there a link to where it is right now? I'm assuming this is a projected path, and not it's actual location (at the asteroid belt), right?
It looks like they put the upper stage into a yaw spin for the coast period. Id think roll would be simpler if youre trying to distribute solar heating. I wonder if they did a flat spin purely for the video feed.
A roll spin will put the propellants to the cylindrical walls of the rocket, whereas a yaw or pitch spin will put it to the tank domes or bulkheads. This way, there should be less heat exchange via the outer skin of the rocket (LOX evaporating and RP-1 freezing has been mentioned by Elon during the press conference). But this is probably only one of many trade-offs.
Reinhard
Is it just me or is anyone else baffled why Musk chooses to put one of his cars into space and not something else that
would maybe benefit mankind. I know it's his money and he can stroke his ego any way he wants, but cmon, really.
Sure it was a great step forward in space travel but a car? Stupidest thing ever.
And now for THIS. Video shot by someone using a telescopic lens to get a great long range view of FH al the way to booster sep. Then after sep, showing the boostback burns. Later, the re-entry burns (the 1-3-1 type engine ignition/shutdown sequence). The telescopic view was so tight that as the boosters got close, one went out of frame so the camera stayed on one for the landing burn and landing.
[video=youtube;59pY74ZhQ50]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59pY74ZhQ50[/video]
Is it just me or is anyone else baffled why Musk chooses to put one of his cars into space and not something else that
would maybe benefit mankind. I know it's his money and he can stroke his ego any way he wants, but cmon, really.
Sure it was a great step forward in space travel but a car? Stupidest thing ever.
My guess (and that's all it is) would be that anything that would "benefit mankind" would have cost a great deal of money (on the order of millions of $$) and no one would want to invest that kind of cash on a venture that even Elon Musk put at a 50-50 chance of failure. Most likely, as a test article, the payload would have otherwise been a chunk of concrete and steel, or a container full of sand. Given that, then why not have some fun with what your "dead weight" looks like?
I hope we eventually get video of the core augering in. Probably a spectacular blooper reel entry. I read that the debris splash took out two barge thrusters and showered the deck with debris.
I understand that in the short term Musk doesn't want such video out there... It would be seized upon by sensationalist media as a failure, competing with the main story of a glorious success if the mission. I'm sue the loss of that core resulted in great data to reduce chances of subsequent center core loss.
Is it just me or is anyone else baffled why Musk chooses to put one of his cars into space and not something else that
would maybe benefit mankind. I know it's his money and he can stroke his ego any way he wants, but cmon, really.
Sure it was a great step forward in space travel but a car? Stupidest thing ever.
Is it just me or is anyone else baffled why Musk chooses to put one of his cars into space and not something else that
would maybe benefit mankind. I know it's his money and he can stroke his ego any way he wants, but cmon, really.
Sure it was a great step forward in space travel but a car? Stupidest thing ever.
I was uncertain about launching the Roadster until I saw the live images. I was strangely moved by them. If that doesn't stir your imagination, nothing will.
... they just got low on the TEA/TEB.
Watching the landings I thought of Arthur C Clark
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
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