Posted on 08/13/2016 8:22:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Scarcely three weeks after the mesmerizing midnight launch and landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that delivered over two tons of science and critical hardware to the space station for NASA, the innovative firm is set to repeat the back to back space feats – with a few big twists – during a post midnight launch this Sunday, Aug.14 of a Japanese telecom satellite.
In less than 24 hours, a freshly built SpaceX Falcon 9 is set to transform night into day and launch the JCSAT-16 communications satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
And some nine minutes later, the 15 story Falcon 9 first stage is scheduled to make a pinpoint soft landing on a tiny, prepositioned drone ship at sea in the vast Atlantic Ocean.
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Thanks! I’ll be watching from our yard. This is worth a short nights sleep for me.
Do you think scheduling conflicts of the landing site, forces them to land at sea?
I would have thought that they would be landing on land.
Do you think scheduling conflicts of the landing site, forces them to land at sea?
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This is a launch of a geosynchronous satellite, so the first stage will be going too fast and not have enough fuel to make it back to land.
The orbit they are shooting for determines the landing spot.
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Being a recovering aircraft egineer (CF stress analysis and flight controls) I had a job offer from Space X and Virgin Galactic.
They wanted me to move to California...Mojave to be specific. No thanks. AND, not only are these ships playthings for extremely wealthy and arrogant men, but the employees are as well. You’re a small little toy soldier to be manipulated and controlled.
They landed successfully.
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