It was expressly mentioned by SpaceX that Mr. Steven was out in the area today to have another try at fairing catching. Possibly the lack of any further comment after a five minutes to go call in the background sound of the webcast may indicate that it did not work this time.
On the other hand there was a time when all their first stage landings ended in explosions, and now we are surprised if they fail, so maybe they will get this one sorted one day.
While Mr. Steven did not make the hoped-for catch, and the recovery system aerodynamics were blamed rather than Mr. Steven or the basic concept, the ocean contact was quite gentle, giving the opportunity of yet more of those crazy floating on the top of the ocean photos of the fairing half in question.
Later Mr. Steven picked up that fairing half and brought it to port, allowing someone to capture this rather sinister photo showing Mr. Steven in port, with net-less catcher arms prominent, and the "missed" fairing half rather less prominent, but easily found at the intersection of the arms.
I do not post very often but after after reading this, I thought it could be of general interest to Einstein users that China is working on launching three satellites for 2030 for the purpose of Gravitational Wave Detection.
Mr. Steven has nice lines,
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Mr. Steven has nice lines, i.e., a pretty boat. Hopefully it will continue to look that way after some successful retrievals.
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http://abc7.com/technology/spacex-launches-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-air-force-base/3282376/
It was expressly mentioned by
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It was expressly mentioned by SpaceX that Mr. Steven was out in the area today to have another try at fairing catching. Possibly the lack of any further comment after a five minutes to go call in the background sound of the webcast may indicate that it did not work this time.
On the other hand there was a time when all their first stage landings ended in explosions, and now we are surprised if they fail, so maybe they will get this one sorted one day.
We had a chap on our cricket
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We had a chap on our cricket team called Steven who was forever dropping catches. Perhaps Elon should rename the boat.
Richard
Going to go up
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Going to go up again
https://spacecoastlaunches.com/launches/spacex-falcon-9-crs-14-rocket-launch/
https://www.tickcounter.com/c
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https://www.tickcounter.com/countdown/532341/tess-launch
While Mr. Steven did not make
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While Mr. Steven did not make the hoped-for catch, and the recovery system aerodynamics were blamed rather than Mr. Steven or the basic concept, the ocean contact was quite gentle, giving the opportunity of yet more of those crazy floating on the top of the ocean photos of the fairing half in question.
Later Mr. Steven picked up that fairing half and brought it to port, allowing someone to capture this rather sinister photo showing Mr. Steven in port, with net-less catcher arms prominent, and the "missed" fairing half rather less prominent, but easily found at the intersection of the arms.
I do not post very often but
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I do not post very often but after after reading this, I thought it could be of general interest to Einstein users that China is working on launching three satellites for 2030 for the purpose of Gravitational Wave Detection.
https://twitter.com/HenriKenhmann/status/981207519140790272
Never get sick of that .....
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Never get sick of that ..... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I still don't understand how
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I still don't understand how they can land a mill chimney on something not much bigger than a tennis court.
Richard