Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: BenLurkin
Any word of a 1st Stage Landing attempt?????
2 posted on 06/26/2015 5:48:58 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Robe

Last I heard — they are thinking it will never be feasible with this rocket.


3 posted on 06/26/2015 5:50:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: Robe

Yes they will try again to land they have not given up. I received a SpaceX email discussing this today!


4 posted on 06/26/2015 6:08:03 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: Robe

Like you, I REALLY wanna see that..!!

Really rooting for that.


6 posted on 06/26/2015 6:14:23 PM PDT by gaijin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: Robe; gaijin

A newly released video of the last attempt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcTOTeoaafU


8 posted on 06/27/2015 2:59:13 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: Robe; gaijin

Here’s why I think there will be a successful landing tomorrow:

From The why and how of landing rockets.

http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/06/24/why-and-how-landing-rockets

A description of the last landing attempt and what went wrong:

Last-second tilt aside, the landing attempt happened pretty much exactly as planned. Shortly after stage separation (when the second stage leaves the first stage behind and goes on to carry Dragon to orbit), cold gas thrusters fired to flip the stage to reorient it for reentry. Then, three engines lit for a “boostback burn” that slows the rocket and brings it toward the landing site.

The engines then re-lit to slow the stage for reentry through Earth’s atmosphere, and grid fins (this time with much more hydraulic fluid) extended to steer the lift produced by the stage. Our atmosphere is like molasses to an object traveling at Mach 4, and the grid fins are essential for landing with precision. The final landing burn ignited, and together the grid fins, cold gas thrusters and steerable engines controlled the vehicle, keeping the stage within 15 meters of its target trajectory throughout the landing burn. The vehicle’s legs deployed just before it reached our drone ship, “Just Read the Instructions”, where the stage landed within 10 meters of the target, albeit a bit too hard to stay upright. Post-launch analysis has confirmed the throttle valve as the sole cause of this hard landing. The team has made changes to help prevent, and be able to rapidly recover from, similar issues for the next attempt, which will be on our next launch—the eighth Falcon 9 and Dragon cargo mission to the space station, currently scheduled for this Sunday.


9 posted on 06/27/2015 3:09:02 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson