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« Reply #2520 on: February 06, 2018, 04:24:05 pm »
2 boosters down on the pads, perfect landings. Core stage appears to have destroyed the drone ship and itself, of course.

One Tesla Roadster, playing Ground Control to Major Tom, with "Don't Panic" on the screen, is in space.
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« Reply #2521 on: February 06, 2018, 05:48:09 pm »
Still crazy to me that they can land those boosters.
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« Reply #2522 on: February 06, 2018, 05:55:10 pm »
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« Reply #2523 on: February 06, 2018, 06:06:41 pm »
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Quote from: MaximumZero on October 26, 2012, 11:28:55 pm
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« Reply #2524 on: February 06, 2018, 06:26:15 pm »
Incidentally they said they lost the feed from the barge, not that they lost the barge itself.
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« Reply #2525 on: February 06, 2018, 06:40:05 pm »
What's Musk trying to do, sell Tesla to aliens, or start working on a space traffic jam?

Still, that tandem re-entry landing of the side boosters was a job well done. Don't know if the second stage booster made it though.

EDIT: Heh, perhaps the Tesla is a preparation for the next SpaceX surprise, when they pull off a mission to successfully retrieve it from space.
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« Reply #2526 on: February 06, 2018, 06:44:47 pm »
What I'm hearing suggests that the core stage is lost. Is there some problem with the orbiting stage(s) as well?
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« Reply #2527 on: February 06, 2018, 06:50:26 pm »
No, I meant the core, not the second stage, sorry. Orbiting car and second stage are fine. I wonder how the space car will keep sending livefeed.
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« Reply #2528 on: February 06, 2018, 07:05:10 pm »
Inb4 the starman turns out to be Musk in a crazy attempt to enter history books as the first man to drive to mars thus becoming a living testament of the power of memes and the distances people go in order to make them as dank as possible.
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« Reply #2529 on: February 06, 2018, 07:07:28 pm »
Nah, Musk is giving a press conference now. Core module did crash into the water with 300mph, sadly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KORTP545vAc
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« Reply #2530 on: February 06, 2018, 07:25:38 pm »
Watching that, I love how they keep asking him boring numbers questions and he just insits on rambling on into tech speak every time. I'd love to see the expressions on their faces, knowing that he'll give them an answer but they have to listen to all this geek nonsense before that.
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« Reply #2531 on: February 06, 2018, 07:30:20 pm »
Yup, didn't get the core relit.
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« Reply #2532 on: February 07, 2018, 05:31:50 am »
Quote from: martinuzz on February 06, 2018, 07:07:28 pm
Nah, Musk is giving a press conference now.
What if that's an android double! Secret side-project, freeing up him for the Musk2Mars Mission!
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« Reply #2533 on: February 07, 2018, 05:55:00 am »
Another brilliant comment I read went along the lines of: "Getting rid of a body on a live broadcast and getting cheered for it, that Musk is really something else"
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« Reply #2534 on: February 08, 2018, 05:23:24 am »
apparently falcon heavy's second stage burned too long. Now projected to cruise for several months before entering the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter.

Experts believe that the intense radiation of this region will cause degredation of the organic components of both the car and the suit, and speculate that the car could literally fall apart.

Assuming we still get camera feeds and telemetry from the second stage at that location, the weathering could be interesting to record and observe.
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