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starman, last name jones no doubt .
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Put that in yer pipe and smoke it, Blue Origin!
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Yep... Elon's calling for a new space race... OL J R
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Yeah watched part of the livestream press conference... he said it ran out of fuel and hit hard, might have done some damage to the landing ship. He also said that it was the boosters they REALLY wanted back, because they're equipped with the fancy new titanium grid fins-- if he had to pick a part of the rocket to blow up, it would have been the core. Now it's just a waiting game to see if the second stage will reignite after traversing the Van Allen Radiation Belts... He said that the electronics aren't specifically hardened against radiation and *might* fry, but they're optimistic that they won't. It will be several hours before the TMI burn and he said they're also worried about excess oxygen boiloff and things like that, but they're optimistic that the final burn will go off as planned... He also said that Falcon Heavy is powerful enough to launch a space probe directly to Pluto-- no flyby gravity assists needed... so it really opens up the possibilities for planetary exploration because the costs are so low for that much capability. Later! OL J R
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I think they have yet to *miss* either a drone ship, an on-land landing zone (hopefully their first Vandenberg one will occur soon), or a pre-selected landing point on the ocean surface (on the handful of occasions when they haven't programmed an ASDS deck landing, during the early tests and a few "old, used first stage throwaway flights" when it's cheaper to just let it sink). That level of landing accuracy--and the reliability of its achievement--would have made the V-2 a war-changing weapon, had the Peenemünde team been able to attain it (they would probably have considered it science fiction :-) ). Speaking of discarded Falcon 9 first stages: Has there been any word on whether GovSat 1's unexpectedly-still-floating "second launch Falcon 9 first stage" was towed back to port?
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SpaceX vs Blue Origin
SpaceX 1st to space 1st to orbit 1st to reuse booster that did more than a bunny hop 1st to stick a landing from a "real flight" 1st to stick multiple landings (today) 1st to launch, orbit, and recover pressurized cabin 1st to deliver meaningful cargo 1st to orbit a car (Only NASA has done that one!) 1st to produce 5 million lbs of thrust 1st to have 27 +1 nominal engines kicking booty Blue Origin 1st to stick a landing (by about a month, from a dinky bunny hop) 1st to reuse booster (from a bunny hop) There is no space race between the two at this point. B.O. has a lot of catching up to do. Blue Origin fanboys will claim they aren't behind because they just have different goals, but SpaceX already has the heavy lift capability to launch hardware for either company's goals.
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BTW, that exhaust plume was beautiful. There's nothing more cool than a kerosene-LOX flame twice as long at the booster, with the flame tip dancing about and just a hint of black whispy smoke to mark the ascent. No nasty SRB's to dirty things up.
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