Well Crap!
Lost the center core
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The center core was only able to re-light one of the three engines necessary to land, and so it hit the water at 300 miles per hour. Two engines on the drone ship were taken out when it crashed,
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the difficult they do right away.
the impossible takes a little while longer.
.........................Meanwhile, the upper stage seems to be doing just fine. After launch, Musk tweeted that it had successfully ignited its engine and raised its orbit as intended. Now the upper stage will spend about six hours coasting through space — a move by SpaceX to demonstrate a tricky orbital maneuver for the US Air Force. That coast will take the rocket through regions of intense radiation that surround Earth called the Van Allen belts, where it will be pelted by high-energy particles. If the vehicle is still operating as it should by then, the upper stage will do another engine burn, putting the car on its deep-space path to Mars’ orbit.
Musk did it . Rocket successfully done its job.
I was watching this live .
true..but the 'center core' was supposed to LAND on the barge. Not crash into it at 300mph.
back to the drawing board on that.
Well, it didn't go completely without a hitch... but all things considered, pretty impressive.
Saved two boosters and put the largest rocket in history into space.
The old Saturn-V's just splashed down and became wreckage.
wreckage I think not. At 300 mph it scattered across the ocean floor creating a vest ecosystem for our ocean life. That Elon Musk, an explorer, entrepreneur and now an environmentalist !
yup...when you consider that NO ONE has landed an orbital rocket before and re used them. Except for SpaceX and they're doing it all the time. I'd say it's pretty impressive.
nobody bats 1000
Unfortunately missed the live launch but thank goodness for DVR! Seems like Musk is always running into some road blocks lol
innovate, adapt, overcome
and sell FLAMETHROWERS
take THAT
Road Blocks..
So it didn't launch without a hitch; that's too bad. But the upper stage did get to where it was supposed to go.
Certainly, less trouble than Apollo 1. (RIP)
THINK ABOUT IT THIS WAY.... it was a complete success from the standpoint that this was the first launch of the BFR(BIG FUCKING ROCKET), OR Falcon Heavy as it is referred to publicly, the launch went as expected 100%, the failure of the core to "land" on the return pad was somewhat expected, well to be honest it was half expected to blow up on launch... but i'll count the data they got from the core crash as a success. think about it, they work out some kind if kink with each launch...and the more they fix prior to manned flights the better. I think musk, and Space X are doing it right by doing these unmanned test flights to fix the bugs.... and just think of the miles that tesla's gonna have by the end of the year....
Isn't Falcon Heavy and BFR two different machines?
IDK...i thought they were the same vehicle. But to be honest i'm not really up on Space X, or Elon Musk..