Streetwind Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Both satellites have been deployed into nominal orbits. Mission successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceception Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Livestream over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpens Solidus Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedown Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 It's bad when they have a TLA for the end result of the first stage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Meh - they were running out of room in that hangar anyway. Oh well - more data is always good, launch rate is stepping up nicely, minimal reschedules to this launch and they got both satellites where they needed to go. Still a win in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 (edited) Edited June 15, 2016 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB666 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Just now, CliftonM said: Well that is shorter. but less explanatory, ROFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedown Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Just now, CliftonM said: Those who play this game are very familiar with this type of event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Just now, icedown said: Those who play this game are very familiar with this type of event. I know, I just thought it was funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedown Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines operating at max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceception Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Just now, icedown said: Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines operating at max. That's been said 3 times now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedown Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Just now, Spaceception said: That's been said 3 times now Sry, page jumped in way more updates than it said and I missed them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpens Solidus Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen_Heart Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Just now, Serpens Solidus said: That was quick. Wonder how they will do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedown Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 That has to be really frustrating for the team. Things are steadily getting better though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 1 minute ago, Frozen_Heart said: That was quick. Wonder how they will do that? By taking a bigger whip to the coders. Doesnt sound too difficult, I'm kinda surprised it wasn't in the software already. Throttle up the middle engine if one of the sides are bad & vice versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwind Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Frozen_Heart said: That was quick. Wonder how they will do that? Probably by throttling up the other two engines. Depends entirely on how big the thrust shortfall is. Running 5-10% above spec for two or three seconds probably doesn't faze the Merlins, especially if they shut down right after anyway. Reddit suggests that they started working on this after SES-9 already, which may have had similar issues (unconfirmed). Which is why Elon calls it "underway". Edited June 15, 2016 by Streetwind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Pity they didn't have the little drone filming the big drone like a few launches ago. That wide angle would be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB666 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 (edited) 9 minutes ago, icedown said: That has to be really frustrating for the team. Things are steadily getting better though. He's intentionally pushing things to the limit, once you establish a failure you establish a boundary, which you can improve upon or verify. There is no other reason because it appears they are not going to use any of these overstressed cores. When they used the word experimental it sounded like they were going to push the landing a little be further than previous. I think they are doing this so that they can estimate the minimum amount of fuel they need for safe return, therefore giving more capacity to the second stage. Obviously if there is underperforming engine, then they had remaining fuel either ejected or unsupplied. And like the other posters says they have two many used core at the moment to recycle and only one is from non-GTO. They've got pics, we just don't yet have them. BTW falling into the ocean is one way to cool things off, though water cannons are a much smarter approach, if you have a fuel system failure then the tanks may fill with water and your experiment ends up at the bottom of the Atlantic. Edited June 15, 2016 by PB666 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedown Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 8 minutes ago, PB666 said: He's intentionally pushing things to the limit, once you establish a failure you establish a boundary, which you can improve upon or verify. There is no other reason because it appears they are not going to use any of these overstressed cores. When they used the word experimental it sounded like they were going to push the landing a little be further than previous. Yea, but someone in the team is screaming to themselves "We just fixed that, I swear!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpens Solidus Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB666 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 2 minutes ago, icedown said: Yea, but someone in the team is screaming to themselves "We just fixed that, I swear!" Nah, they are saying 'damn we just lost some cool crash video, I hate waiting, better go play some KSP.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedown Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 (edited) Tired of the flame Edited June 15, 2016 by icedown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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