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XKCD
XKCD
05:11
But listen, if getting your car out from under the pile is REALLY important to you, we do have an axe you can borrow.
 
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Space Exploration Meta
Space Exploration Meta
16:39
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kim holder
kim holder
17:51
thespaceshow.com/content/listen-live
kara.fast-serv.com:9192
^The Space Show on progress in fusion power
currently on... better late than never :P
geoffc
geoffc
18:26
@kimholder SpaceX SES-9 Take 5 today 6:30PM EST
SES-9 Full Webcast
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SES-9 Technical Webcast
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kim holder
kim holder
heheh - thanks for the included tech support :)
i did catch on to go to the spacex youtube channel for the new link now, which is good.
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Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
22:43
landing attempt is still a go?
kim holder
kim holder
22:57
@BrianLynch SpaceX tweet: 'One hour from 6:35pm ET launch window for SES-9. Continuing to watch upper-level winds spacex.com/webcast '
oh - landing... i assume so, they say it's policy now
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
Cool, I assume they don't scrub because landing conditions are no good (well I think they did that for a previous launch but I assume not for SES-9 since they have been waiting so long)
TildalWave
TildalWave
23:18
sup bronies? :)
SpaceX went live with webcasts, still the pajama tho
when are they supposed to start with hosted webcast?
kim holder
kim holder
they say in 5 min, according to twitter
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
it's at least running as a title card right now
TildalWave
TildalWave
OK they're starting it
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
hey no hold at the moment!
TildalWave
TildalWave
T-8:45 min
kim holder
kim holder
23:26
gee, i'm 20 sec behind
refresh fixed that
TildalWave
TildalWave
cam on OCISLY is gonna be live
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
yes
looked a bit wet though
duzzy
duzzy
Well it's on water.
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
pfft no excuses
duzzy
duzzy
They should have someone on board with a towel and a mop.
kim holder
kim holder
23:28
and a suit of armor
duzzy
duzzy
like... an Iron Man suit?
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
haha
kim holder
kim holder
yeah, not sure what kind of armor would actually work. better to jump overboard at the right time
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
do they also have the drone that deploys from the barge?
TildalWave
TildalWave
dunno, not very likely because of distance to clear it
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
23:31
hmm thought I read they had a quadrotor that deploys
duzzy
duzzy
Could you imagine if the rocket hit a drone and failed the landing because of it?
TildalWave
TildalWave
military launches from VAFB have the big drone with tracking cam tho
T-3 min.
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
ah gotcha, this angle? youtube.com/watch?v=GeIHJ-i7yVk
TildalWave
TildalWave
dunno what they used for that
T-20 sec.
duzzy
duzzy
Finally!
Russell Borogove
Russell Borogove
23:36
go baby go
TildalWave
TildalWave
max-q
Hennes
Hennes
aye.. was typing that
duzzy
duzzy
separation!
Hennes
Hennes
MECO
TildalWave
TildalWave
this cam now looks like from a military drone... looks like, doesn't have to be tho
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
23:43
NOOOO
it fell on the camera
duzzy
duzzy
That looked like a failure.
Anyone know what happened?
Russell Borogove
Russell Borogove
cheering?
oh that might be seco cheering
duzzy
duzzy
Maybe I should be watching the one with people talking.
Russell Borogove
Russell Borogove
no real news there.
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
it looked like it was off to the left-hand side of the view
Russell Borogove
Russell Borogove
23:45
yeah.
the anticipation is killer :/
TildalWave
TildalWave
user image
check that noctilucent trail at the background, beautiful
duzzy
duzzy
That's really cool.
Russell Borogove
Russell Borogove
The primary mission seems to be, uh, nominal as fuck, though.
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
Isn't that a good thing?
Russell Borogove
Russell Borogove
Yup.
Spaceflight101live's twitter feed said "stage 1 FTS is safed", which is a really weird datum
Antzi
Antzi
23:52
oh missed the launch :(
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
SpaceX is really good at hitting the drone ship, not so good about stopping there.
I watched about the last minute of it.
duzzy
duzzy
It stopped.
kim holder
kim holder
hope they have lots of other cameras, because they definitely lost one
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
Lost the feed, but they said that was expected.
If nothing, they should have a helicopter in the area...
Antzi
Antzi
What happened?
TildalWave
TildalWave
23:55
user image
doesn't look to me like it was on target
kim holder
kim holder
looked like it landed off to one side, but the live shot only lasted a few seconds and it hadn't actually touched down
yeah, that looks like not on the ship
Antzi
Antzi
Ah thanks
Russell Borogove
Russell Borogove
Which is just weird. It's still burning, so presumably it has full control, and they've demonstrated crazy precision the last three (?) tries.
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 Jason-3 Barge Landing Attempt - Failure
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It does look like at best it hit the edge of the barge.
kim holder
kim holder
stilll awfully precise
duzzy
duzzy
23:59
Not precise enough, unless you're looking at a different barge.
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
If that's the case, this is the least precise landing since they started using barges.

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