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SpaceX Iridium-1 Webcast [video]
- MicroBerto 10y agoBullseye landing of Stage 1! This is always so inspiring to watch live
- mwambua 10y agoWe live in exciting times!
- dankohn1 10y agoAmazing to keep the video feed through the full first stage flight and landing!
- hcrisp 10y agoI asked my 3-year-old how old she would be when landed in a rocket, and she said, "Um, 6?". Pretty optimistic.
- pacaro 10y agoLast night, while reading about planets before bed, my 2 1/2 year old said "get dressed, put shoes on, go to Mars"
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- FLUX-YOU 10y agoSome very inspiring video. Smooth from separation to landing.
- rrmm 10y agoIs this the first time the live video/split screen feed has followed stage 1 all the way down? I remember them releasing a time lapse after the fact, but I don't recall them showing it live.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoYes it is.
- Analemma_ 10y agoHeh, I signed on just in time to see the landing. Smoothly done once again!
- mabbo 10y agoThe countdown on the YouTube feed says "X minutes to live", but that's actually to liftoff. The feed usually starts 20 minutes earlier.
- nickjarboe 10y agoHere is the technical webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WimRhydggo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WimRhydggo Lots of good information on reddit (/r/spacex).
- blhack 10y agoMuch better, thank you!
- popobobo 10y agoThis is very exciting. But somehow sad to me at the same time. I don't wanna explain my feeling.
- dankohn1 10y agoYeah!
- sidcool 10y agoBoth stages looking great so far. Stage 1 landed perfectly. I was worried after the earlier explosion with FB satellites. This worked perfectly. Great job SpaceX. I wish to see Elon Musk's expressions right now.
- rrmm 10y agoThe weird thing is that fueling the vehicle was the worrying part not the landing.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoSchweeet! I really liked that they now have a complete launch to landing video of the first stage, from the first stage. Congrats SpaceX team and welcome back to active flight operations!
- tehabe 10y agoNow we have to wait if the Iridium people can also celebrate.
- sigmar 10y agoHere's a video of just the first stage landing for anyone that missed it: https://streamable.com/la9m7 https://streamable.com/la9m7
- ggregoire 10y agoThat's absolutely amazing. Thank you!
- the8472 10y agoyou can also seek backwards in the technical live stream[0]. they have uninterrupted footage of the first stage all the way from orbit to touchdown. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WimRhydggo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WimRhydggo
- Tarrosion 10y agoI feel incredibly...relieved. Whatever you may think of Elon Musk personally, SpaceX work environment, SpaceX vs. Blue Origin, Kessler syndrome, etc., etc., it seems pretty clear that SpaceX's work with reusable space vehicles is a huge step forward for general human spaceflight, and I'm glad to see them successfully return to flight.
- cant_see_wc 10y agoI just see a video of a spinning earth (with the count-up timer on top), no actual content. Anyone else having this issue? Any idea how to solve it?
- Narishma 10y agoThere's nothing to solve. There's just nothing happening right now until satellite deployments. You can see the timeline at the bottom.
- ygra 10y agoBetween launch/separation/landing and satellite deployment is a long coast phase of the second stage. That's what you see there. You can go back in time, though, to more interesting moments, or start watching at the very beginning.
- caconym_ 10y agoCongrats to the SpaceX team. I'm looking forward to buying my ticket to Mars... after the kinks are worked out. ;)
- Fuzzwah 10y agoI was skimming the recorded webcast and it seemed like the stream was stopped before they confirmed that all 10 satiltes were successfully deployed. I chased down confirmation via this tweet: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/820348655613800448 https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/820348655613800448 > Successful deployment of 10 @IridiumComm NEXT satellites has been confirmed.
- Animats 10y agoVery nice. Space-X is back in business. Now Space-X needs to catch up on their launch manifest and make some money. When they're not launching, they're not making money. They're about a quarter billion dollars behind from the pause in launches. Iridium alone has six more launches in the backlog. They don't put dates on their launch manifest any more; the constant slippage is too embarrassing.[1] The first Falcon Heavy launch is supposed to be this spring. That was originally planned for 2013. There are at least three revenue Falcon Heavy launches in the queue. The crewed Dragon launch has slipped to 2018. The Brownsville launch site isn't scheduled to be used until late 2018. Maybe 2017 will be the year Space-X starts to catch up. As a business, this is about launching in volume. [1] http://www.spacex.com/missions http://www.spacex.com/missions
- michelb 10y agoIt's almost like it's rocket science...Slow and steady beats fast and faulty.
- sprucely 10y agoAnyone else notice the tumbling object ahead and to the left that appears at about 34:38? https://youtu.be/tTmbSur4fcs?t=2078 https://youtu.be/tTmbSur4fcs?t=2078
- nialv7 10y agoLikely to be the fairing.