SpaceX successfully lands 2nd rocket on ocean barge

[Hamartia Antidote]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...cex-rocket-just-stuck-its-landing-on-a-barge/

The rocket stuck the landing — but even the man who owned it hadn’t felt good about its chances.

As the primary stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fell back toward the Atlantic early Friday morning, it came down toasty. The rocket’s powerful engines had blasted into sub-orbital space, depositing the second stage and a Japanese satellite that now sits some 23,000 miles up. Despite the heat, the first stage did not blow up when it landed on a robot barge, named “Of Course I Still Love You,” whichfloated in the dark off the coast of Florida.

Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive of SpaceX, had previously put the odds of not crashing at a coin toss, at best. This brings SpaceX’s total sea landings to two, following the private spaceflight company’s successful mission in April. (Four previous sea landing attempts went down in flames.) Because this particular rocket was traveling farther and faster than the prior success, a landing was “unlikely,” SpaceX wrote on YouTube before the successful sea landing.

Landing confirmed. Second stage continuing to carry JCSAT-14 to a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. pic.twitter.com/HfHI5cwoYX
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 6, 2016​

SpaceX is part of a larger push toward commercial spaceflight, which includes Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin. (Bezos also owns The Washington Post.) Blue Origin has landed rockets as well, though its efforts are focused on lower passenger flights rather than orbital payloads like SpaceX.

By reusing the primary rocket stage, SpaceX hopes to slash the price of delivering payloads to space, which currently costs NASA about $10,000 per pound. The first reused Falcon rocket stage is set to launch later this year, part of an ambitious flight schedule that’s supposed to culminate in rocket aimed at Mars in 2018.

Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018. Red Dragons will inform overall Mars architecture, details to come pic.twitter.com/u4nbVUNCpA
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 27, 2016​

In the meantime, as Musk wrote on Twitter, he “may need to increase size of rocket storage hangar.”

 

[jamahir]

who's the cutie??

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

who's the cutie??

A Falcon 9.

 

[jamahir]

A Falcon 9.

ahem, rockets, water ships etc are male or at least 'it'.

i meant the cutie talking excitedly after the rocket landed.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

ahem, rockets, water ships etc are male or at least 'it'.

i meant the cutie talking excitedly at the end.

Can't find any names.

 

[jamahir]

Can't find any names.

mr. musk seems to get all the lovely ladies.

this one and i have watched sarah lacy's interview of him... sarah is so lovely in a old-fashioned style.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uegOUmgKB4E

sarah went gaga on him in that interview.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

Wow.

Just wow. The private sector could do much better than the money swindling, bureaucrat laden government ever could.

There is much to learn from this.

 

[jamahir]

Wow.

Just wow. The private sector could do much better than the money swindling, bureaucrat laden government ever could.

There is much to learn from this.

not the private sector by itself... india, china and japan are full of private sector companies and lot more money than elon.

for example, mukesh ambani, the indian businessman with that 27-storey ugliest house in the world, is worth 21+ billion, and he had started 'ambani aerospace' some years ago with supposedly india's "top most" aerospace scientists, but nothing came of it.

simple human genius is different from just having money privately.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

not the private sector by itself... india, china and japan are full of private sector companies and lot more money than elon.

for example, mukesh ambani, the indian businessman with that 27-storey ugliest house in the world, is worth 21+ billion, and he had started 'ambani aerospace' some years ago with supposedly india's "top most" aerospace scientists, but nothing came of it.

simple human genius is different from just having money privately.

Im sure there are a lot of former NASA people in SpaceX.

The sad truth of it is that Government workers the world over are less inclined to excel or be efficient. In Sydney where I live local government council will take months to complete minor road works whereas private contractors complete the work much faster and better.

Government people just do enough to keep their jobs and play politics for promotions.

 

[jamahir]

Im sure there are a lot of former NASA people in SpaceX.

sure but if some more nasa people are taken into isro and cnsa, will they be able to recreate another spacex??

The sad truth of it is that Government workers the world over are less inclined to excel or be efficient. In Sydney where I live local government council will take months to complete minor road works whereas private contractors complete the work much faster and better.

Government people just do enough to keep their jobs and play politics for promotions.

that is true.

but i will give a different side to this : in most private sector companies, whether the private road/construction contractors you mention or whether a mnc company like ibm, there is no employee security and people can be removed suddenly at the management's whim and fancy mostly because there is no employee union and the companies don't really add to a better society when looked at in a big-picture way.

it is not magnanimity and overflowing of generousness that drives private sector employees to do faster work but the resident fear of their employment being precarious.

so we can't generalize.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

sure but if some more nasa people are taken into isro and cnsa, will they be able to recreate another spacex??



that is true.

but i will give a different side to this : in most private sector companies, whether the private road/construction contractors you mention or whether a mnc company like ibm, there is no employee security and people can be removed suddenly at the management's whim and fancy mostly because there is no employee union and the companies don't really add to a better society when looked at in a big-picture way.

it is not magnanimity and overflowing of generousness that drives private sector employees to do faster work but the resident fear of their employment being precarious.

so we can't generalize.

Ha, it is this fear that propels people to perform and excel above their peers.

An iron rice bowl type of employment for government workers tend to induce indolent, lazy and carefree behaviour.

Private sector is harsher but is more representative of the human world. Government work is socialism for the elite, their friends and relatives at the detriment of society as a whole who have to scrape by in a dog eat dog world.

Bro, your ideals of Jamahir is incompatible with the human world. People are too flawed for your ideals and I hope that you realize that the human mind is ruled by primal instincts masked in 'civilized' delusions of superiority. My gorilla tribe exhibits the virtues of peace and socialism better than humans ever can.

 

[jamahir]

Ha, it is this fear that propels people to perform and excel above their peers.

An iron rice bowl type of employment for government workers tend to induce indolent, lazy and carefree behaviour.

Private sector is harsher but is more representative of the human world. Government work is socialism for the elite, their friends and relatives at the detriment of society as a whole who have to scrape by in a dog eat dog world.

Bro, your ideals of Jamahir is incompatible with the human world. People are too flawed for your ideals and I hope that you realize that the human mind is ruled by primal instincts masked in 'civilized' delusions of superiority. My gorilla tribe exhibits the virtues of peace and socialism better than humans ever can.

oh well, allow me to reply on this elsewhere and another time.

let's keep this thread to discussing this latest achievement of spacex and the cutie at 0:40 mins in the op vid ( @Zibago @django @BDforever ).

@Levina , a thread where we can agree.

 

[T-72M1]

so we can't generalize.

rich

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Wow.

Just wow. The private sector could do much better than the money swindling, bureaucrat laden government ever could.

There is much to learn from this.

When the Falcon Heavy takes off in November lots of governments are going to be embarrassed. Not only about the payload capacity but also when 3 parts of it come back to land.

Falcon Heavy thrust will be 5.1M lbf at liftoff -- twice any rocket currently flying. It's a beast...
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2016​

https://www.inverse.com/article/151...werful-rocket-in-the-world-what-will-it-carry

And that rocket is small compared to their next ones.

 

[django]

oh well, allow me to reply on this elsewhere and another time.

let's keep this thread to discussing this latest achievement of spacex and the cutie at 0:40 mins in the op vid ( @Zibago @django @BDforever ).

@Levina , a thread where we can agree.

She looks like a lovely tennis player type, nice blonde hair and bubbly personalty with smile to make a mans legs go weak.