SpaceX posts one (now two) frame of landing video

[Peartree]

Today Elon Must posted this photo of the 1st stage of the recent Falcon 9 launch which resupplied the ISS. That first stage was to attempt a flyback and landing in the Atlantic. Musk and SpaceX claimed success but due to heavy seas video from the recovery ships was not possible. However, the video from the stage itself will soon be available. Today Elon posted this photo on Twitter:

This is one frame of cleaned up video from the first stage landing. According to Elon's tweet, the full video will be posted to the SpaceX website tomorrow.

Retweeted by SpaceX
Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 7h

Partly cleaned up frame from rocket landing. Full stream posted on https://spacex.com tmrw pic.twitter.com/3c754LVYVK

 

[Peartree]

And another...

Elon Musk says the full video will be posting "shortly."

These guys know how to build suspense.

 

[marcusSRG]

So cool!!!!

 

[Marc_G]

Think he used an 808 keychain can and masking tape?

 

[mpitfield]

Think he used an 808 keychain can and masking tape?

No fish were harmed in the landing of this rocket!

 

[B787_300]

Now the full video has been posted

 

[luke strawwalker]

Now the full video has been posted

What?? No link??

That was unkind...:wink:

Later! OL JR

 

[Peartree]

What?? No link??

That was unkind...:wink:

Later! OL JR

Hey, I just got up!

SpaceX has posted two videos. The video is badly degraded. I imagine from the bad weather, etc. during the landing at sea as the first stage transmitted the feed to a circling aircraft. The first video is the raw feed and its pretty much a mess. The second is the SpaceX media team's best attempt (so far) to clean up the data but it isn't much better (at least to me). The stills seem to be the best frames in the bunch.

Raw footage:

[video=youtube;7m8H8OlJ3o8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8H8OlJ3o8[/video]

"Cleaned up" footage:

[video=youtube;er66BActC4E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er66BActC4E[/video]



Interestingly, if you go to the SpaceX website here: https://www.spacex.com/news/2014/04/29/first-stage-landing-video

Elon Musk invites anyone to assist in restoring/enhancing/cleaning up the raw video if they have the skills to do any better. All of the raw data can be downloaded by anyone. It will be interesting to see if crowdsourcing this repair/restoration will produce better results than their own in-house experts.

 

[Mushtang]

Think he used an 808 keychain can and masking tape?

After seeing the footage... no, I don't think he had anything as good as an 808 and masking tape.

 

[Peartree]

On a related note, SpaceX has scheduled the next launch (Orbcomm satellites) for May 10th. If they keep that schedule, it will be only 22 days after their last launch.