Falcon 9 Flight 9 Landing Burn + Leg Deployment
Elon tweeted this and I wanted to share, one step closer to reusable rockets and reduced launch costs! This view is from a camera near the top of Falcon 9 looking down the rocket.
On 4/29/14, Bryce Salmi [email protected] wrote:
Elon tweeted this and I wanted to share, one step closer to reusable rockets and reduced launch costs! This view is from a camera near the top of Falcon 9 looking down the rocket.
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Now that the feasibility of first-stage fly-back has been demonstrated, when will it be tested for dry land recovery?
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_rnija1nOA
As stated, the goal is by the end of the year. Just to be clear, I posted this info since one of the biggest hurdles for AMSAT is launch costs and here is a clear step to reduce them. It's exciting!
Bryce
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:05 AM, B J [email protected] wrote:
On 4/29/14, Bryce Salmi [email protected] wrote:
Elon tweeted this and I wanted to share, one step closer to reusable rockets and reduced launch costs! This view is from a camera near the top of Falcon 9 looking down the rocket.
<snip>
Now that the feasibility of first-stage fly-back has been demonstrated, when will it be tested for dry land recovery?
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
Thanks for the link to that video of Elon Musk.
The part that is significant for us could be the need for Space-X to fly a demonstration flight with a reused 1st stage. He said "with no operational satellite on-board" but that's only important for high value commercial payloads.
I had no idea fuel was only 0.3% of the launch cost and that the first stage was 70%
Great interview
Thanks
David G0MRF
-----Original Message----- From: Bryce Salmi [email protected] To: B J [email protected] CC: Amsat BB [email protected] Sent: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:14 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Falcon 9 Flight 9 Landing Burn + Leg Deployment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_rnija1nOA
As stated, the goal is by the end of the year. Just to be clear, I posted this info since one of the biggest hurdles for AMSAT is launch costs and here is a clear step to reduce them. It's exciting!
Bryce
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:05 AM, B J [email protected] wrote:
On 4/29/14, Bryce Salmi [email protected] wrote:
Elon tweeted this and I wanted to share, one step closer to reusable rockets and reduced launch costs! This view is from a camera near the top of Falcon 9 looking down the rocket.
<snip>
Now that the feasibility of first-stage fly-back has been demonstrated, when will it be tested for dry land recovery?
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/04/29/first-stage-landing-video
First stage landing video is public!
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Bryce Salmi [email protected] wrote:
Elon tweeted this and I wanted to share, one step closer to reusable rockets and reduced launch costs! This view is from a camera near the top of Falcon 9 looking down the rocket.
On 4/29/2014 9:09 PM, Bryce Salmi wrote:
http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/04/29/first-stage-landing-video
First stage landing video is public!
When my daughter becomes an astronaut, I will be happy to watch her ascend to orbit on a SpaceX rocket. When she gets married, however, I will likely not hire you guys to shoot the video of the wedding :-)
-Joe KM1P
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