SpaceX landing attempt 2/GoreSat to spread it's wings after 15 years in storage 18:10 local time (23 - Polidicks

Well, it is rocket science

[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;47101907]goddamnit. I want my space fix now.[/QUOTE] play ksp, where safety issues are only obstacles to overcome in flight

[QUOTE=Jsm;47101904]Scrubbed :( Seems like it was a lot of issues, including range safety issues which are pretty major.[/QUOTE] Can you explain what they mean by range safety issues?

People in Cessna's getting too close

[QUOTE=ben1066;47101923]Can you explain what they mean by range safety issues?[/QUOTE] The Air Force's radar went down and they couldn't track the rocket. [editline]8th February 2015[/editline] So really nothing apparently wrong on SpaceX's end or with the rocket. Just a radar issue.

[QUOTE=ben1066;47101923]Can you explain what they mean by range safety issues?[/QUOTE] Sounded like the USAF's radar wasn't working which means they would be incapable of tracking it. Range safety broadly refers to the ability to blow it up if it goes wrong. (An example of this was the shuttle disaster where they had to detonate the boosters as they were flying towards the ground)

Launch pushed back to Tuesday at 6:05 pm local time due to weather concerns.

About an hour away.

[del]Is the stream up on their YT yet?[/del] Yep. [video=youtube;uq-ylPYwaA4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-ylPYwaA4[/video]

Upper level winds are no-go at the moment. If that's not cleared up, not going anywhere today.

Stream's live, probably only going to announce the scrub (if there's one).

Bah again

What a bunch of scrubs. :v:

No-go for launch...

[QUOTE]SpaceX is still tracking towards a 6:03pm ET liftoff of DSCOVR, but unfortunately we will not be able to attempt to recover the first stage of the Falcon 9. The drone ship was designed to operate in all but the most extreme weather. We are experiencing just such weather in the Atlantic with waves reaching up to three stories in height crashing over the decks. Also, only three of the drone ship’s four engines are functioning, making station-keeping in the face of such wave action extremely difficult. The rocket will still attempt a soft landing in the water through the storm (producing valuable landing data), but survival is highly unlikely.[/QUOTE] So essentially, even if the rocket launches today, there will be no landing on the barge [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] [url]http://www.spacex.com/press/2015/02/11/dscovr-launch-update[/url]

Please delay the launch again so we can have cool barge landing instead, thanks.

well guess history will have to wait a little longer

Stream UP

Link for all you 'x new posts'ers [url]http://www.spacex.com/webcast/[/url] 5 minutes to go, everything's looking good so far [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] c'mon SpaceX!

40 seconds!

It's off!

It's up, They need to burn again in 20 minutes however.

Oh wow, that shot of mission control... maybe I'm just caught up in all of the older-style ones from the movies and such but that's still amazing to see. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/rvKGOLZ.jpg[/img_thumb]

I check 3 days straight and it's scrubbed everytime. Today i was so full of work that i totally forgot. :suicide:

That shot from the ground of the second stage detaching, starting its burn and the first stage starting to turn around, then the second stage fairings coming off was great! Just wish we had seen more of the first stage turning around and starting its return burn.

[QUOTE=Alexak75;47122346]Oh wow, that shot of mission control... maybe I'm just caught up in all of the older-style ones from the movies and such but that's still amazing to see. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/rvKGOLZ.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/Py6APMh.jpg[/img] It sits in a corner of their factory. [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] That's also the first Dragon to go to space hanging above them. [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] Mission successful. [img]http://i.imgur.com/tnDslkN.png[/img] [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] [url]http://i.imgur.com/xLAwppA.gif[/url] [url]http://i.imgur.com/fGL6F8o.gif[/url] [url]http://i.imgur.com/RHJ6K8p.gif[/url]

[quote=Elon Musk on Twitter] Rocket soft landed in the ocean within 10m of target & nicely vertical! High probability of good droneship landing in non-stormy weather. [/quote] Soon! I wonder how much data they will get from the soft splashdown.

[QUOTE=OvB;47122407][img]http://i.imgur.com/Py6APMh.jpg[/img] It sits in a corner of their factory. [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] That's also the first Dragon to go to space hanging above them. [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] Mission successful. [img]http://i.imgur.com/tnDslkN.png[/img] [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] [url]http://i.imgur.com/xLAwppA.gif[/url] [url]http://i.imgur.com/fGL6F8o.gif[/url] [url]http://i.imgur.com/RHJ6K8p.gif[/url][/QUOTE] Jesus christ no wonder my page is taking forever to load, it's these fucking gifs

Maybe SpaceX should rethink the whole barge thing. The reusability numbers aren't going to add up when half their rockets get dumped in the ocean because the ocean wasn't dead calm. Maybe they need to pick out an island somewhere in the flight path.

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;47123966]Maybe SpaceX should rethink the whole barge thing. The reusability numbers aren't going to add up when half their rockets get dumped in the ocean because the ocean wasn't dead calm. Maybe they need to pick out an island somewhere in the flight path.[/QUOTE] They're building pads back at Cape Canaveral: [img]http://i.imgur.com/TSYhCTk.jpg[/img] The barge exists because NASA and the Cape don't quiet trust a brand new technology that's never been done before like a building-sized rocket flying back toward their infrastructure. They want to see SpaceX prove that they can nail a target at sea first and land the rocket. This animation is what the full plan will look like: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ca6x4QbpoM[/media] Also, there aren't many islands out there.