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Live Feed Of First SpaceX Rocket Launch Since June Falcon 9 Explosion
On June 28, everything was normal for about 2 minutes and 18 seconds when Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its latest unmanned Falcon 9 rocket tasked with delivering cargo to the International Space Station. One second later the rocket exploded.
Nasa's unmanned @SpaceX rocket explodes at start of #ISScargo supply mission pic.twitter.com/ZmJ6cNJE2Q
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) June 28, 2015
Since then there was an orbital hiatus at Elon Musk's rocket company until tonight, when in a few minutes, a new SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set to deliver 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit for ORBCOMM, a Machine-to-Machine communication and Internet of Things solutions.
The ORBCOMM launch is targeted for an evening launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. If all goes as planned, the 11 satellites will be deployed approximately 20 minutes after liftoff, completing a 17-satellite, low Earth orbit constellation for ORBCOMM.
Perhaps just as importantly, this mission also marks SpaceX’s return-to-flight as well as its first attempt to land a first stage on land. The landing of the first stage is a secondary test objective.
Update:
The Falcon 9 first stage landing is confirmed. Second stage continuing nominally. pic.twitter.com/RX2QKSl0z7
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 22, 2015
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The fuckers went to the moon in 1969, drove buggies and all that jazz...apparently.
It's not rocket science ffs.
Best of luck, Space-X!
(It's better to be lucky, than to be good, I hear.)
I agree, good-luck. Here's to the another moonshot!!
Should be no problem if you vett the cargo well. Satellites designed to monitor fictitious carbon buildup never seem to reach space. The others have a better chance.
that was very cool...first ever landing of a rocket 1st stage back on the ground. Very cool!
Buck Rogers, eat your heart out!
Fun fact: That rocket had our steel on it.
16th times a charm! (BTW, Bezos beat you Elon.)
We used to land manned rockets on the Moon, jump in our 4X4 Rover and take joy rides. True story.
Blue Origin landed their rocket back on the ground last month. SpaceX gets 2nd place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pillaOxGCo
NASA can't be very happy!
Watched it in person. I gotta admit it's one of the coolest things I've seen. The sonic boom on the way down was pretty loud.
No but it's not cheap either...
SpaceX has burned through a couple billion...
Don't like musk that much cause he's funded by . Gov. That said Godspeed on this one
All large US companies are funded by US government, all through the mechanism of pointing a gun at other countries and claiming USD is the sht. Without that power, many US companies couldn't raise so much debt.
Soon... very soon... you can get an orbital lift via New Zealand's privately-funded space program.
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/
We will be relying heavily on the element of surprise.
R.I.P satellites...
edit: Never mind. I guess We get the IoT surveillance sat-net after all.
I for one hope he succeeds. I would prefer my tax dollars going to this than about 90% of the other shit it goes to. That said, if these satellites are going to be used to spy on Americans, I hope it fucking blows up.
IoT network of satellites + jillions of 'smart', 'connected' devices = you can run but you can't hide. Of course it's gonna be used for total surveillance...
Smart Refrigerator in conjunction with smart home network: "<name>, my sensors are indicating that you have just finished drinking six beers tonight. Your doctor and insurance company have been alerted. Good night!"
Wrong! I haven't FINISHED drinking six beers. I'm only up to five, and what's left of my sixth. oh shit.
The Earth is Flat
Link and picture please...?
Nice view from here.
Wow, that was very impressive!!!!!!!!!
Epic, and looks like a successful mission as well.
Elon is a big inspiration, and before anyone whacks off about how he only done it with public money, well I'll simply say he is by far the most visionary pig at the trough then.
50 years of NASA pork didn't get us a fraction of these results!
Most of the guys at the big trough do nothing more than make money moving money around, betting against their clients, charging interest to consumers on free money handed to them by the Fed, manipulating markets, and insider trading. There is nothing wrong in my mind with the US subsidizing aerospace ventures such as this, given that the rest of the world does it with their industries.
I have to say it was impressive watching the first stage land on the pad. That is some crazy hard shit to pull off.
Bullshit. NASA proved they could go to Pluto on fraction of their classical budgets. The future just got real.
Haven't we done this thousands of times? What's different about this from all the other satellites?
Efram Cochran.
reusable 1st stage. the statelights were inconsequentialother that proof on concept and of course, spying.
They landed the booster rocket back on Earth! Usually, they're jettisoned into the ocean.
As one of the commentators said, "it's like throwing a pencil over the Empire State building, having it reverse and come back down and land on a shoe-box in a wind storm"
Just fyi, the guy who said is named Tim Urban who created the website, Wait, but Why, in case you're interested. He interviewed Musk and wrote extensively about Musk and SpaceX.
Thanks for the info, much appreciated.
Elites like watching giant penises.
sorry, but thats a gay comment. are you from europe?
hehehehe,
Please join Mars Anomaly Research Society on facebook. That way you can join the other Mars travelers. Not much to eat on mars unless your the meal.
Sound like I'm from Europe fuck nuts. Troll
if you see a rocket and think about big penises thats gay
european entertainment media compare everything to penises - not kidding
i can post some links how europe is trying to brainwash people to try out gaysex, but i doubt anyone wants to know
usually europeans do this kind of homo-jokes
Most of the Roman Senators were big cocksuckers.
That's strange, so are most of ours...
Way more exciting than his cars. Congratulations Space-X!!!!!
its boooooring if dont explodes
Anybody can shoot a rocket up. Only Elon Musk has returned one to the earth and landed it vertically. Congratulations SpaceX and Elon Musk!
lol. I guess all the rocket fuel was used to levitate the NasDark 100 futures?
WTF? Look at the M-5 chart! What a volume>less charade!!! The RSI pegged out!
Fuck me naked, "said the Unicorn emperor"...
This is about things that go up and down.
Well done...
The Chinese are always welcome. :-)
Elon Musk rocks.
Great accomplishment. WoW !
So ElonMusk has his new and improved batteries on board that won't catch fire this time?
Stage 1 of Falcon X has landed succesfully... The trip up the well just got easier and cheaper.
Call me when someone has an antigravity device/drive, that doesn't require super cooled CONDUCTORS.
whats your cell slick.
Maglev-101
This got disappeared?
Kool.
I only wanna know one thing?! When can I leave this planet?
Now I get to sound all old and wise and shit... I turned 5 near the end of the Gemini program and witnessed some incredible things for the next decade or so. Granted, this Spacex stuff is just a small taste of the amazing breakthroughs made back in the frikkin 60s and '70s for crying out loud, but good on them for bringing that candle back down in one piece. Lets see them get something up to geostationary orbit -- something I remain sceptical they will ever achieve with that launch system. They need to scale up about 5 to 10 times before they begin to even compete with the big boys.
Still, I kinda almost threw-up several times, having to watch all them kiddies acting like, well... kiddies. I will never get used to that. Gimme Gene Kranz and the boys any day.
Yes we (USA) were going to the Moon every six months there for awhile, no problem. I was 7 years old when I watched the first Apollo Moon Landing with Walter Cronkite on live TeeVee! Then the National Anthem was played and CBS (and other cia affiliates) signed off at midnight.
That was a really good post... I commend, and agree with you.
It's certainly amazing that rockets can use all that DoD extrogenous help.
When you look at how far mankind has come, and the fact that we're still using "Roman Candles" to escape Earth's atmosphere, I get a bit skeptical...
What they did with that first stage was AMAZING..give them credit...and they did it with probably 1/10,000th the budget of the "big (our nazi engineers are better than their nazi engineers) boys"..
...that being said I'm with you 1000% on the Gene Kranz comment..
I threw up in my mouth a little watching the "hosts" giggle.
that looked like my dick, hot and steaming.
Wanna see the landing video, last five seconds or so.
... it's on youtube now.
Did it hit the ceiling by any chance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fishbowl
Or was that Operation Snowglobe?
http://testingtheglobe.com/
This is exactly the kind of thing that I can't help but beat off to, like a Saturn 5 fucking misile. Fuckin' space monkeies!
Eh, well, I exploded way too early.
Fuck it.
Happy Kwanza!
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