Rocketry General Thread

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Wonder what @xamino is up too?

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Woo, forums back!

https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.esper.net/?nick=SpaceX_guest|?#SpaceX

Fingers crossed all goes well

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3 hours

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Delayed until tomorrow: http://mashable.com/2015/12/20/spacex-launch-livestream/

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I’m here, no worries, I’ve been locked out of my real account, see here. :smiley:

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Webcast is live in just over an hour! Wool woop! 100 minutes until launch

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The webcast can be watched here:

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

Edit: THE FALCON HAS LANDED!

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First stage landing…effing awesome

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That was so awesome!

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They did it. Incredible. Now off to bed… :stuck_out_tongue:

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Incredible!!
I also really liked that they made the whole webcast very entertaining to watch!

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…and the news articles are already hot off the press

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I’ve been waiting so long to see that. Super excited for SpaceX. Can’t wait to work there!

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long exposure of the pads

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WOOHOOO! That was amazing!

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All that’s left is to refurbish it and launch another payload with it.

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Just in case you don’t know, that is rather unlikely. SpaceX will probably run extensive tests on the booster and then test it to destruction to see how much reliability they can expect from a returned stage.

Although the fans are hoping that they’ll refly the stage for the Dragon v2 in flight abort… :smiley:

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I really like this video that Elon tweeted not long after the successful landing of the stage 1 booster:

Edit: old video link stopped working

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I’d like to add to the awesome videos/photos

Edit: Plans for this stage are static fire for data and then they’re going to keep it for a momento. It will not fly again.

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