SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 launch - CRS-6

[rolosrevenge]

They're not showing the stage 1 descent

 

[ecarfan]

First stage must have reached the surface by now. Waiting for news...

 

[Solarguy]

Oblivious of space history being made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Johan]

Webcast ending. Waiting for news on stage 1 landing... Keeping my fingers crossed!

 

[Electroman]

Clean separation of Dragon and solar panels deployed

 

[jeff_adams]

I thought I heard a female voice say something about the first stage "recovered" during the broadcast. Hope that means what I think it means.

 

[Tempus]

Tweet from Elon :Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival.

 

[ecarfan]

Favorite part of the launch narration: "We have stage one separation. Good luck stage one."

 

[ecarfan]

Tweet from Elon :Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival.

Ouch! Want photos. Bummed.

 

[austinEV]

I thought I heard a female voice say something about the first stage "recovered" during the broadcast. Hope that means what I think it means.

I heard that too. She was saying some telemetry was saved.

 

[ggies07]

Tweet from Elon :Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival.

Bah! so close......

 

[Morristhecat]

 

[rabar10]

Dragon was successfully berthed to the ISS this morning.

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The Gulf Coast of Texas is the other obvious location, which is why SpaceX is setting up a shop there; Texas is further north, though, and the Gulf is dotted with oil rigs that make a mess when they're blown up.

Quite right re: the Atlantic being a much more open, lower-risk trajectory for overflight as the rocket heads to orbital velocity. But interestingly enough, SpaceX's Boca Chica Village site in Texas is actually further south (25.99 degrees North latitude) than Cape Canaveral (28.39 degrees North).

 

[AudubonB]

Yes, I've known about the ocean-to-eastward + low latitudinal # for, well, about my whole life. Just venting about storms.


And dreaming about, say, South Point, Big Island (HI) - latitude +18.55º; one helluvalot fewer Bad Weather Days. And I know that's not an original thought, either.

 

[Robert.Boston]

And dreaming about, say, South Point, Big Island (HI) - latitude +18.55º; one helluvalot fewer Bad Weather Days. And I know that's not an original thought, either.

Kinda tricky to get the rockets to the Big Island for launch, though.

 

[RDoc]

Kinda tricky to get the rockets to the Big Island for launch, though.

They did launch at first from Micronesia, but the biggest problem was infrastructure. Elon complained about the high cost of LOx there for example. While there may be more suppliers on Hawaii, I suspect the general heavy rocketry infrastructure is a bit thin.

 

[Grendal]

They will air the release of the Dragon capsule from the ISS on Thursday at 6:45 AM EDT:

NASA TV Airs U.S. Cargo Ship Departure from International Space Station -- WASHINGTON, May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

 

[rabar10]

Splashdown -- CRS-6 Dragon returned back from the ISS today:

SpaceX Dragon completes CRS-6 mission with splashdown | NASASpaceFlight.com

 

[AudubonB]

Yippee - another successful mission.

Is 3,100 lbs of cargo a partial euphemism for garbage? (along with worms, osteocytes and SpinSat)

 

[rolosrevenge]

Yippee - another successful mission.

Is 3,100 lbs of cargo a partial euphemism for garbage? (along with worms, osteocytes and SpinSat)

No, because garbage they jettison in expendable pods that burn up on reentry. You only gentle land something you want to keep.