SpaceX CRS-8
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SpaceX rocket launch in about 3:45 hours, they are attempting a landing again
20:43:00 UTC
4:43:00PM Eastern
1:43:00PM Pacific
>CRS-8 will be the first CRS mission to the ISS since the ill-fated CRS-7, and stowed in Dragon's trunk will be BEAM; a small Bigelow inflatable module to be attached to the station. The first stage, provided the barge is go to support a landing, will attempt to land downrange on OCISLY
Streams:
[NASA TV] http://nasatv-lh.akamaihd.net/i/NASA_101@319270/master.m3u8
[SpaceX Technical] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh8V0COrrzE
[SpaceX Full/Hosted] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M
thanks for letting me know about this, seems I only find out about these launches through /g/.
>Weather remains 90% go for today's 4:43pm ET launch of Falcon 9 and Dragon to @Space_Station http://www.spacex.com/webcast
2 hours 45 minutes
>>53935430
If I'm awake I'll probably watch this. Thanks Anon!
fifth for crash
> meanwhile, at SpaceX HQ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CGwSqrGq8
sixth for a boat will scrub the launch
1 hour 45 minutes
>>53937032
Office 98 wordart tbqh
>>53937164
kek'd kinda surprised you have a win98 install/vm going on
>>53937164
Why are you using w98 in 2016 anon?
>>53937234
for situations like this.
>>53937241
sick m8
45 minutes
Im accually looking forward to this, long time since last time i watched a rocket launch live
>>53937904
me 2 lad
Thanks for the heads up OP. I always forget about these.
>>53938059
NEVER
LANDED
ON ANY
SATELLITE
>NEVER
>>53938122
wut
>>53935430
>20:43:00 UTC
20 mins from now, I love these threads, thanks OP.
>>53938279
>>53938059
>>53935504
you are welcome
stream has started
>>53938326
Do you know when the landing is? I'm only going to tune into the launch ~5 mins before because of shitty internet.
>>53938355
about 10min after launch, but during the last live streams they didn't show the landings because they either had no cameras there or something else
>>53938355
ya know, you can turn down the quality to 144p if you wanted.. surely your connection can handle THAT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M
>>53938377
first stage vibrates the signal from the barge
7 MINUTES
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4 MINUTES
3 minutes
3 minutes
3 minutes
>>53935430
>>and stowed in Dragon's trunk will be BEAM; a small Bigelow inflatable module to be attached to the station
fucking neat, I forgot all about that
inb4 HOLD HOLD HOLD
>>53935430
BLOWOUT SOON STALKER
1 MINUTE
1 MINUTE
1 MINUTE
1 MINUTE
1 MINUTE
LD GO
D
G
O
GET IN HERE FRIENDS, ONE MINUTE
It's HAPPENING
>>53938647
*NOTHING*
OH SHIT GUYS IT EXPLODED AGAIN
>>53938663
Fuck off
>>53938663
fug :--DD
no explosions
Will it land successfully?
>>53938697
we will know in about 4-5 minutes
>>53938697
no chance
>>53938708
I know, but what are the odds this time? They haven't made it for various different reasons so far, but surely another, fourth different problem can't crop up now right?
>>53938695
The landing is yet to come
>>53938708
Last time we didn't know for about one hour and it was rumors
They don't tell when they crash it
> "the red glowing tip"
:^)
Why don't they just put a hugee pillow in the ocean for it to land on?
Wow, we have aerial footage this time?
STAGE1 REENTRY
>>53938738
we never get to see the explosion live though,
the live feed from the barge always cuts out.
IT FUCKING LANDED
HOLY FUCKING SHIT THEY DID IT THE ABSOLUTUE MADMEN
sheeeeeit
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
IT LANDED!!!!!!!!
HOLY FUCKING SHIT HE FUCKING DID itt "!!!!
That was fucking awesome
STUCK THE LANDING FUCKING NOICE
IT'S A GREAT DAY!
BLOWJOBS FOR EVERYONE!
HOLY SHIT!
Why is Elon Musk so perfect?
USA USA USA USA
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USAUSA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
THEY FUCKING DID IT!!!! IT FUCKING LANDING!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!!!
So Musk landed a rocket a rocket on an autonomous ship, and just bought a decommissioned nuclear plant.
Hollowed volcano when ?
ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK ELON MUSK
t..they..they did it.
>inb4 ship tips over or sinks
Amazing...
>Rocket about to land
>Cuts to "smoke"
>Rocket is now stable on the launch pad
Fake
no fucking way
Holy fucking shit. The absolute mad man actually did it. We're watching history in the making lads.
>>53938857
JEWSA
JEWSA
JEWSA
...
>>53938857
that's your shitty connection then, i've seen it all
>>53938857
fuck off retard
https://twitter.com/ReutersLive/status/718543233123389440
>>53938879
>>53938886
gullibles thread
>>53938857
>launch pad
muh dick
>>53938899
>implying
>>53938917
thanks anon, was about to ask where the webms at.
>>53938900
ULA shill detected
>tune in to spacex stream
>just as it ends
Why do I always miss these.
>>53938917
mfw they left autofocus on.
>>53938933
You realize you can rewind to any point in the youtube stream, right?
USA NOMBEЯ ONE
>>53938944
What's the point in watching when you already know what happened?
Guys?...
>>53938917
Thats so fucking nice.
GUYS WATCH OUT
>>53938933
I tuned in just in time to see it land. I was really lucky.
>>53938777
>>53938777
>>53938777
>holy trips of lucky seven
he did it what? paying them enough?
Watched this at work! Holy shit I can't believe he did it!
Shit, I was in a meeting that ran long and missed it.
Worst time zone.
noooo
>>53938933
you missed history anon
> tfw watching camera on rocket going to space at thousands kilometers per hour live
> tfw beautiful round earth
> tfw epic stage 1 landing
Just kys right now anon.
>>53938953
>some rocket scientists acquired citizenship in <my country>
>fuck yeah <my country> number one!
>>53938927
>mfw bigelow is part of united launch alliance
>mfw bigelow depends on the success of this launch to test their Piñata Introductory Space Station
>mfw ula depends on the success of this launch
Nice try Virgin
>>53938989
>>53938989
>>53938989
>>53938989
>8989
>8989
>8989
ULA fags on suicide watch
>>53938917
I think John Carmack just nutted to this.
I love how it looks like its being played in reverse, like its being pulled down to earth on a path.
>>53939088
how?
>>53939026
i didn't know mudhuts had internet
go harvest your yams or something
>>53939104
elon musk is african
>>53939088
>>53939077
happening
>>53939114
he happens to be white though.
>>53939114
He hates anything about the country after 1994 like any other level headed person.
t. white racist
>>53939114
see what a real African Space Program looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CGwSqrGq8
> nignogs
> rocket science
Am I missing something? Why do we care about SpaceX when Blue Origin has already reused a rocket THREE TIMES.
https://youtu.be/YU3J-jKb75g
>>53939196
I have a fetish for african struggle space programs
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvy2WbTeS6-9_JA_Ax-V_XQ?nohtml5=False
>>53939288
space x's landing first stage is much bigger
>>53939288
>blue origin
S U B O R B I T A L
>>53939288
Blue Origin went up and down, they never went to space, and they never landed on a fucking barge in the middle of the ocean.
>>53939329
>>53939288
they also never delivered any payload to space, while spacex is regularly flying cargo and satellites up there
>>53939321
orbit != space
neither falcon 9 first stage, nor new shepard are orbital (though f9 first stage does launch the second, orbital, stage) and both go to space.
the main difference is the maneuver itself (high speed and horizontal speed) and the fact that the f9 first stage is much larger and much heavier.
>>53938917
I feel so inferior to my fellow man watching this
>>53939288
>when Blue Origin has already reused a rocket THREE TIMES
Because Blue Origins rocket is a peice of shit. All it does is go vertical 100km or so and then freefalls.
SpaceX's first stage booster goes 200km, and carries ANOTHER FUCKING ROCKET AND PAYLOAD white it's doing it's burn.
Getting to orbit in the first place even with a really well built rocket gives you fuck all weight leftover to use for a payload. Generally about 2% of the weight of a rocket is payloads, so if you add much stuff to help it land again, you use up too much weight and it can never reach orbit. That's why no one did self landing rockets before spacex, because it's hard af.
The Blue Origin rocket is a bulky clumsy piece of shit that barely makes it to space at all, while carry almost no payload. If they EVER make an orbital rocket, it will take them about 20 years. What they did is literally child's play compared to what spacex have done.
>>53939329
it does reach the 100 km karman line, hence it reaches space.
>>53939400
forgot pic
>>53939406
That's like saying you reached the sky because you jumped.
>>53939430
It's not. 100km is the literal agreed definition of space.
>>53939446
And not touching the ground is the literal agreed definition of airborne.
meme magic pls make an accident happen
inb4 just like ur birth
>>53939446
Well why don't they change the definition to be 1km instead? Wouldn't that make it a lot easier to get to space?
>>53939456
Good point. Except that's not true at all.
>>53939429
I'm 90 percent sure this landing was done because Bezos landed his rocket a few days before their launch. I thought they didn't have FAA clearance to land on the ground but apparently they did.
>>53939430
100 km is space according to the generally accepted definition (karman line). in fact, 50km is already basically a vacuum, and 100km up you could easily do a few orbits (though they wouldn't be that stable because you'd be slowed down much more than a couple hundred km upwards).
the difference is between making the jump upwards and making the jump mostly forward and a little upwards. the first can be as high as the ISS, but you'd still fall down, pulled by 92% of gravity you feel at ground level.
>>53939465
is this a serious post?
>>53939487
I think it had more to do it being the first flight of the Max Thrust version of the Falcon. The rocket finally had enough fuel left to both successfully deploy payload and return all the way to pad with the minimal required fuel for landing.
>>53939465
We could just change the definition of space. But the definition is based on how rare the atmosphere becomes higher in the atmosphere.
>>53939487
Why would spacex be in any way concerned whatsoever with what Blue Origin is doing?
>>53939485
Point is you can play with words all you want, in the end what matters is the meaning behind it, and BO's launch doesn't even begin to compare to what just hapenned.
>>53939509
>100 km is space according to the generally accepted definition (karman line)
Yes. Good. I think everyone here knows that already.
>100km up you could easily do a few orbits (though they wouldn't be that stable because you'd be slowed down much more than a couple hundred km upwards).
Not that stable? Yeah you'd be back down in a matter of hours, days at best.
>>53939544
>BO's launch doesn't even begin to compare to what just happened.
I agree. But they did get to space.
>>53939564
Misleading at best.
>>53939571
Not even rometely. I litterally agree with you. I'm >>53939400
But they got to space. If you don't know how space is defined and get confused when people say they went to space, then you have my sympathy.
>>53939534
Because Blue Origin tried to steal SpaceX's thunder by landing their rocket. Maybe it wasn't a response to Blue Origin at all but that is just how I saw it
>>53939529
Yeah, and also they launched small cube sats
>>53939544
> Yes. Good. I think everyone here knows that already.
well, very few people, as I see even in articles on supposedly tech-oriented news sites, don't really know what orbit means and what space means. lots of them claim F9 is different because it is orbital before it comes down to land, which it isn't. you could be orbital if you built a vacuum tunnel along the circumference of the earth, and you could be not orbital if you just jumped really high without any horizontal velocity.
and yes, it doesn't mean the difference between new shepard and f9 first stage is any less pronounced. it is completely uncomparable.
>>53939606
>Because Blue Origin tried to steal SpaceX's thunder by landing their rocket
Maybe. But I doubt elon spends 2 seconds thinking about Blue Origin. He only replied to Jeff's tweet, because like the rest of the word he thought it was funny that jeff thought he had accomplished something similar to spacex.
>>53939603
To be clear I'm not arguing that they didn't literally reach 'space', I'm arguing that calling it the same as any other launch is stupidly misleading for the general public.
I'll concede that saying they didn't go to space was literally wrong, because for me "going to space" heavily implies orbit, not just reaching the line with zero ground speed.
So maybe we agree quite violently, maybe we don't.
>>53939695
>because for me "going to space" heavily implies orbit
Better shake that connotation. Because blue origin and virgin galactic plan to "go to space" a lot over the next few years.
COMETH THE HOUR
COMETH THE MUSK
If your launch vehicle isn't capable of reaching LEO, if hasn't been to space by any practical definition. If you want to do any task of use you need to *at least* be able to insert into a useful orbit.
Elon Musk is like a fusion between Henry Ford, Bill Gates and Tesla.
Goddam autistic genius.
>>53939695
As generally understood by people who aren't imbeciles on 4chan, "going to space" means the vehicle crosses the Karman line, not necessarily achieving a circularized stable orbit.
>>53940296
>Musk
>autistic
Say that to my face fucker not online and see what happens.
>>53938969
top
>>53938983
fucking
>>53939015
kek
>>53936282
I will be only one why give answer to your post.
So...
How it feel to be lonely child?Do you want cock?
>>53935430
Good luck spacex
>>53943400
too awesome! It did a little slide and bounce at the end.
I heard it came down in pretty heavy wind, which is why it was so slanted until the very end.
>1960+56
>Not using superior Soviet space technology that pioneered all space exploration
>>53944163
RUSSKI ROCKET CANT LAND
Yolo
>>53935430
How can I go from NEET to working on dank projects like this? My main technical skills are programming in C and installing Arch.
>>53945299
http://www.spacex.com/careers
http://www.atk-jobs.com/
https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/?Keyword=nasa&Location=&homeRadPublic=public&search=Search&AutoCompleteSelected=False&CanSeekStatusJobs=False
>>53938849
This. Why the fuck would it stay standing without supports? You'd think the waves and wind would knock that thing over.
>>53946676
They weld it to the deck.
>>53943413
For all his billions, poor, poor Mark. He must be the ultimate beta loser, because that's one fucking ugly chink chick.
