Muskyness aside; it is pretty impressive to watch, almost looks like the footage has been reversed.
Audio is really annoying.
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lol, how is the audio annoying? Those are literally the engineers who worked on this, one of the most difficult engineering problems in human history, having nailed it on their first try.
If you want pure rocket audio, look into cosmic perspective after a few weeks.
Their first try?
The first time they tried to catch with the chopsticks, it workes without blowing up the whole launchpad.
When they did this with the Falcon 9, it took several flights to get a landing without significant damage to the drone ship, the booster, or both.
Pretty impressive that they got it to work right out of the gate with the Super Heavy Booster
It also proves the importance of progressive integration tests even if they’re destructive. The amount you can learn by actually putting everything together is just fundamentally necessary to make sure these complex systems work.
Well, this time around, even though a different mechanism was used, they had all the Falcon experience to draw from, which shortens development.
Never been attempted before.
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Musk just owns the company, which sucks. There are clearly a lot of very talented people there who do actually work while Musk is in his K-hole.
Love the game, hate the player.
Well no dispite musk since he's well publicized to be a hinderence aide from the money he provides.
Could you link a source? I just want to believe this; I've never actually seen evidence of it.
Muskyness aside;
Out of morbid curiosity I went into the comment section for some insta posts about this. It's just full of worship for Musk, and complete disregard for the actual engineers & Shotwell.
This thread has been far more pleasant.
Indeed, it was insane! Super impressive that they got it on the first try.
As an aside, I'm curious how you found the mp4 download link for a twitter video. Is there one for every video? Are they embeddable?
Edit: It appears that they are embeddable!
This is the website, it didn't look like it was embedding into the post, so I uploaded it. Maybe it would have embedded if I waited longer.
Thanks!
Holy fuck they did it
Woke up at 5am PST to watch live. What a rush
What is the advantage if catching the rocket instead of letting it land? Less weight?
Yeah, less weight without landing legs, plus faster turn around since it's already were it needs to go.
I'm also guessing less wear of the launch/landing pad?
Presumably, though you'd get more moving parts on the catch to wear.
Absolutely amazing tech, I cannot wait to see it used more widely.
Also, I can only imagine how much better this already great advancement would be if it were to utilize rotating detonation engines, assuming it would be possible to use RDEs to land in an atmosphere with.
Amazing!
Somebody's youth wasted on Moon Cresta finally paid off.
imgur notsomuch
Is it playing for you?
nope. just showing imgurs banner
Hmm, it was yesterday. You can try the links below.
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