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SpaceX |OT| Reusable Rockets - To Mars!
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I hope they include some sort of plaque to explain just how it got where it's going. You'd hate someone 10,000 years from now spending time on a PHD or something trying to solve the mystery.
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Pretty sure the plan is to show footage of the Earth getting smaller behind the Starman driving nonchalantly his Space Roadster. Hard to top that.
On another note: does anyone who can plan on doing a dedicated thread for this launch? I think this maiden flight really deserves it!
On another note: does anyone who can plan on doing a dedicated thread for this launch? I think this maiden flight really deserves it!
Looks like the roadster will have adriverpilot :D
that's going to be so weird to find in orbit when humans are long dead and gone
I doubt it will ever be found, but I'm reminded of something like an alien in a little spacecraft in a pod from Alien.
"The pilot of this red spacecraft appears to have died and decomposed, leaving only a strange monochromatic exoskeleton. Fascinating!"
Wait, that Tesla is going to float in empty space by itself, not inside some rocket? If so, that is fucking amazing. Hope they get good photos. Where will that be?
From most speculation, it'll still be connected to the second stage (further strengthened by the fact that the camera mounts in the photos Elon posted are mounted to the second stage). It being separated is possibly just artistic license.
I got the Closer package at Kennedy for Tuesday for my girlfriend and I. Hoping it's a go for launch or it gets pushed back to the weekend if it's scrubbed, cause I don't have any other days off this week.
If this works AND they can rig up a camera and radio on the car, it would be so amazing. It's just hard for me to imagine it all working and the camera actually pointing back towards the earth, instead of the car randomly spinning or something.
It would make more sense if the car is still attached like the above poster suggested.
Looks like the roadster will have adriverpilot :D
This can't be a coincidence:
Gonna be a big fat No I would suggest, given it's not going to Low Earth Orbit.
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The trajectory is due East, so no. It's generally only ISS missions around sunset/sunrise that are visible from Europe.
Samantha Masunaga of Los Angeles Times takes a deep dive into the heavy launch market, which has changed substantially since the Falcon Heavy was first announced in 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-falcon-heavy-20180205-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-falcon-heavy-20180205-story.html
What is sad is that aliens will never be able to hear the music unless they take the car to somewhere with an atmosphere. :(
Normally in a window they will target the second the window opens. If there's any issues on countdown they can recycle it - but they're limited to the supercooled fuel that they load.
There's a large possibility that once they start fuelling it, it'll be the first second or a 24hr scrub. Their priority in this launch is not destroying LC39A - so they'll want to be very conservative.
The second stage should have the telemetry to send the photos back, which the car alone won't. So it's possible that it'll remain attached to the 2nd stage as long as the 2nd stage has the batteries and antenna to send photos back to earth (which isn't that long :( ) and then once it can no longer send data back, they separate them. Of course, at that point it's basically irrelevant - no one would ever know if they'd done it or not.
I'll be watching Twitter as well as the broadcast that starts an hour before the launch window opens
So hyped for this today. Another massive leap forward in our space exploration (a big leap after decades of steps back, but I'll take it). If this goes according to plan there should
be some amazing footage from every phase of the launch. There is something that resonates so deeply with me about the symbolic absurdity of a car drifting off into space with Earth in its rear view mirror.
be some amazing footage from every phase of the launch. There is something that resonates so deeply with me about the symbolic absurdity of a car drifting off into space with Earth in its rear view mirror.
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This one'll do I think.
It won't actually go anywhere near Mars. It'll just go as far as Mars orbit, but not in the right direction to intercept or even align with its orbital place. It's like proving you can theoretically score a home run by hitting the ball over the stands behind you.
It was delayed again to 2:20pm EST. From how previous launches of various rockets have gone, I'm personally guessing it will end up scrubbed today, and they're doing repeated delays just to see if they can figure out some last-minute issue.