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Author Topic: SpaceX sticks another landing  (Read 16711 times)

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TopNotch

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Re: SpaceX sticks another landing
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2018, 09:10:31 pm »
The NRO launch was scrubbed for today. They'll try again tomorrow.
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Re: SpaceX sticks another landing
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2019, 11:47:38 pm »
There was some talk today of a SpaceX something.  Didn't hear the details.

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Re: SpaceX sticks another landing
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2019, 10:13:09 am »
They launched a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket 2:30 am Tuesday with 24 satellites on board. Some of the satellites were DOD, and this mission was a step in getting approval for the Falcon Heavy to launch more serious DOD missions. The two side boosters landed back at Cape Canaveral. The center core was to land on a drone ship but missed it. It nearly had to go into orbit itself in order to get the second stage in orbit with most of its fuel still there. The second stage needed enough fuel to change course several times to distribute the various satellites in their appropriate orbits. This was actually the most difficult mission SpaceX has taken on to date, and they aced it, except for center core recovery. All satellites were delivered successfully.
Edit: One of the 24 satellites was from Georgia Tech. :)

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Re: SpaceX sticks another landing
« Reply #18 on: June 26, 2019, 06:04:47 pm »
Edit: One of the 24 satellites was from Georgia Tech. :)

That part is pretty cool.  My dad was part of the team that developed one of the spacecraft.  Geminii, I think.

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Re: SpaceX sticks another landing
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2021, 08:46:38 pm »
Well, they stuck that last landing, sortof.

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