"By Land and Sea"
Truck would jack-knife WAY before then. Trucks with trailers are meant to pull, not be pushed.
That why when pulling a trailer, you have to slow carefully. And keep it straight as much as possible while braking.
Ideally the trailer has brakes, and those brakes decelerates the trailer more than the truck brakes decelerate the truck.
Wait, I took this as a serious possibility.... without even getting into how the Falcon booster would collapse under its own weight if fully fueled and only supported near the ends as it is when horizontal.....
Anyone else wondering exactly how fast that truck could go if that bad boy was started as it rolled down the road?
6,806kN at sea level , 162s burn time. Assuming they could keep it attached and they had enough runway, I think the bearings would burst into flames just before the rubber flew apart.
Did I count right? I counted 102 wheels!!
I just read that the next launch and landing attempt will be early May for a Japanese satellite JCSAT-14. The launch window is 1:22-3:22 AM.
If that holds I guess I'll just have to read about it the next morning.
Also, the launch will leave less fuel in the first stage than last time so the landing will be one of the risky ones. Coming in fast and braking hard.
C'mon George dig up some Falcon info, it's been a week since an update and some of us are going through SpaceX withdrawal.
SpaceX is targeting a 1:22 a.m. launch next Wednesday, May 4, of a Falcon 9 rocket and Japanese communications satellite.
SKY Perfect JSAT, Japan's largest satellite operator, and the Air Force's 45th Space Wing confirmed the launch date.
Liftoff is targeted for the opening of a two-hour window at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 40.
The mission aims to send the company's JCSAT-14 spacecraft, built by Space Systems Loral, to an orbit 22,300 miles above the equator.
The satellite is designed to provide TV programming and broadband services in Japan, Asia, Oceania, Russia and the Pacific region for at least 15 years, replacing an older satellite called JCSAT-2A.
The mission is the first of two that SKY Perfect JSAT has booked on*SpaceX's Falcon 9, to be followed by JCSAT-16.
The launch comes nearly a month after a SpaceX for the first time landed a Falcon 9 rocket's*first stage on a ship down range in the Atlantic Ocean, during a successful launch of supplies to the International Space Station.
SpaceX will again try for a landing at sea, although the company has said this mission to a higher orbit will pose a bigger challenge than last month's trip to a low orbit.
What I'm really chomping at the bit to see is the Falcon Heavy. I sure hope it flies this year.
Elon would correct you, it is a "ship" since it has engines! Haha, I though itwas funny that he made that very clear at the post-landing news conference.
I hope they stick the "hot" landing.
What I'm really chomping at the bit to see is the Falcon Heavy. I sure hope it flies this year.
The landing for this may not be a "hot" one, not like SES-9. Just won't have as much extra to make use of as CRS-8 did.
SpaceX has released a video of the CRS-8 landing, shot from the ASDS Barge Of Course I Still Love You.
But .. its more than that.
See the circle with arrows in the upper left corner of the screenshot above? For the video, put your mouse cursor over one of the arrows, then press the mouse button briefly to rotate the view up to 360 degrees.
Yeah, they shot this with a 360 degree camera (multiple cameras in a frame, shooting various directions, software stitching camera views together to look like 360)
[video=youtube;KDK5TF2BOhQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDK5TF2BOhQ[/video]
SpaceX on next landing attempt: booster "will be subject to extreme velocities and re-entry heating, making a successful landing unlikely."
SpaceX is pushing back the launch until Friday at 1:21AM ET
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