Posted on 06/15/2023 1:22:29 PM PDT by Hojczyk
SpaceX achieved a major milestone on Monday: landing its 200th rocket. This feat occurred just eight minutes after SpaceX launched its latest rideshare mission called Transporter-8. The rocket, which launched for its ninth flight, blasted off from Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying with it 72 small satellites as part of a rideshare program.
SpaceX captured the occasion in high-definition video, which features a view of the booster returning to Earth only a few miles from where it launched. The fiery touchdown marked the 200th landing for SpaceX.
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Whatever technology SpaceX has developed to land those booster rockets should never be shared with anyone, outside of the USA.
The ability to land the boosters and reuse them, saves an incredible amount of money, the technology must be fairly difficult to reproduce since no other company or nation that launches rockets has been able to duplicate it.
I’m in awe of the technology. I know it’s real, but it just doesn’t look real.
China is working on this in a fanatical fashion. They desperately desire this technology, and their own testing has yet to succeed. I suppose they will eventually figure this out, or outright steal it.
There are many reasons that China fawns over Musk when he visits. China will either steal that tech, or buy it if their own efforts continue to underwhelm.
I never get tired of seeing them land one
200th launch? Pshaw. NASA could have done that.........40-50 years ago.
Reusable rocket? Housefeathers. NASA said that was Buck Rogers shite. Unless one of their pet contractors(Lockheed Martin Corporation, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman) got a contract with the usual Cost Plus and open deadline and lots and lots of kickbacks. Then maybe it could be accomplished by late in the 2090s and with several trillion dollars. Several several trillion dollars.
200th launch? Pshaw. NASA could have done that.........40-50 years ago.
Reusable rocket? Housefeathers. NASA said that was Buck Rogers shite. Unless one of their pet contractors(Lockheed Martin Corporation, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman) got a contract with the usual Cost Plus and open deadline and lots and lots of kickbacks. Then maybe it could be accomplished by late in the 2090s and with several trillion dollars. Several several trillion dollars.
Elon makes the impossible look easy.
Missed the center by about 3m. Amazing. 50’s scifi realized.
ELON just HIRED a 14 yer old kid who just completed COLLEGE-—8 years ahead of time.
#2 The clintons and bidens and Loral company would sell it to our enemies in a heartbeat.
SpaceX is launching, and almost always recovering, an orbital launch at a rate faster than once per week.
NOBODY else comes anywhere close to their operational tempo.
I think every SpaceX launch is broadcast is some manner or another, you have to know every US adversary is watching trying to figure out exactly how SpaceX does it.
What’s amazing now, is the idea of launching, landing and reusing an orbital booster was a crazy idea at one time, now it seems routine and yet, no one has been able to duplicate it.
They'll need access to the sensor network, the computers, the software, and the Merlin engines ...
They won't get there overnight. SpaceX didn't ...
They'll also need a ton of money and an army of really clever engineers.
Still, one of the biggest hurdles in a challenging engineering project is simply knowing that it can be done.
Oh ... another interesting aspect of this:
SpaceX crashed a bunch of Falcon-9 boosters before finally getting it right. All of those were successful missions in the sense that the paying customer’s payload got placed in the correct orbit.
On a barge at sea, no less. Amazing!!
To me, this is more entertaining than the lift off and space station docking.
Whatever technology SpaceX has developed to land those booster rockets should never be shared with anyone, outside of the USA.
If Bubba were President, the chinks would already have it.
Perfect scene rendition of 1950’s sci Fi movies.
And the Poindexters said it could never be done
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