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Ah 10:40PM GMT.
UTC is the same as UK time
Weird seeing such a big fat rocket sat there with no 'scaffolding'.
I'll be out of beer by 22:40. It had better launch and land or explode 😜
retrorick
Full MemberUTC is the same as UK time
Only in winter... UTC is GMT all year round.
Weird seeing such a big fat rocket sat there with no ‘scaffolding’.
Odd isn't it? Looks like it's sitting on a coffee table.
There's a character in the Neal Stephenson novel Seveneves which is clearly Musk. The book is brilliant btw, well worth a read.
It looks like something out of Flash Gordon TBH. It will either work fantastically or explode. Bonkers tech !
Only in winter… UTC is GMT all year round.
I thought that might of been the case but I didn't want to embarrass myself by writing it down wrong 😃.
Nearly out of beer 😭
Neal Stephenson novel Seveneves
Ordered myself a copy.
Looks like the delay was caused by a light aircraft getting within launch range. FFS.
Attempt 3. T-2
Suns getting in my eyes ☹️
That's ace
Don’t want to take my eyes off it. Amazing.
Needs a bit of telemetry.
Very impressive though
So close!!!!!!
Bit of a heavy landing!
Wow
Didn’t disappoint
Kaboom!
Needs work 😉
Not much left!
That was awesome 🔥
so close though, and the take off looked so smooth
Nice explosion. I wonder if they had put a few more litres of fuel in it they could of lit the engines to land a little earlier 🤔
Bit of gaffa tape and it will be fine
Couldn't believe it when it turned to land. A few hundred feet earlier, it would have been OK. Bet the next flight it's perfect.
Top stuff. I really enjoyed that with kno constant commentary.
I’m going to watch The Martian now. I need a space fix.
I wonder if they had put a few more litres of fuel in it they could of lit the engines to land a little earlier 🤔
It was a lovely smooth flip from horizontal to vertical but yeah, it did look pretty late and, by that point, very low altitude
The 3rd engine didn't re light for the landing by the looks of it? Probably the one that switched off on ascent?
Wow, that was close to perfection. I would say it massively outperformed expectations as a test flight. The stability of that throughout the flight, especially the descent was amazing!
Looks like not all the raptors fired on the landing, and one maybe flamed out. But it hit the middle of the pad!
I think it lost 2 on the way up, and only 2 re-lit on the way down.
Elon tweeting already, sounds like it was tank pressure and the raptors did their job
Planned on having 2 on the way down, but didn't look to be running right.
richmars
Full MemberI think it lost 2 on the way up, and only 2 re-lit on the way down
Deliberately switched off and moved to the side I believe
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richmars
Full MemberPlanned on having 2 on the way down, but didn’t look to be running right
Got to be something like that. To the uneducated (me) it just looks like they hit the brakes too late, but that would be far too simple an error for the brains involved in this stuff!
I’ve had a few landings like that playing Elite Dangerous.
That was amazing to watch. Even the first flip and the way the ship descended in a stable manner before they rotated it again was incredible.
There was bigger all pressure in that for the landing. Amazing performance overall though
Great tele. A take off, flight, controlled descent the muckle big explosion!
From the Apollo stuff I've read, rockets are not so easy to turn on and off or throttle - you wonder how it would have gone if all three fired up on request.
Still cool! 🙂
I believe that those raptor engines are actually designed to shut down and refire repeatedly. It’s basically methane & oxygen lit by a spark plug
Assumed 1 engine on landing was as planned given a falcon 9 can only land on 1 engine albeit 3 can restart
Those poor kerbals 🙁
Good viewing though. Lots of succesful operations, the rotations were cool, it damn nearly makes it down and then, a satisfying explosion to close. Pretty ideal.