If it encounters a stalled vehicle in the flightpath, will the rocket's autopilot bring everything to a halt or just ram into the back of it?
Brody Cook
I guess it'll ram the back of it. Even if the autopilot cut the engines the rocket keep it's velocity.
Justin Bennett
Damn, Elon is 2 for 2 on shitty "autopilot" designs.
Andrew Sullivan
That's one hour from now, correct?
Grayson Gomez
Wait never mind that's 3 hours, I'm retarded
Jaxon Morris
No it should be 3 hours
Jonathan Stewart
Who cares about some rocket? It won't affect any of us directly, unlike the new EVGA GTX 1080.
Sebastian Barnes
Are you dumb m8?
Carson Bailey
yes.
Dominic Thompson
Landing attempt from last time. I hope to see something similar youtu.be/LHqLz9ni0Bo
Jeremiah Bennett
Faked, they played the launch footage in reverse
Ian Nelson
Kek Some people actually believe that
Kevin Hernandez
if it was in reverse the exhaust would be flowing back in to the rocket, not outward
Sebastian Hill
>/x >/out >/lgbt >/gullible goym
Robert Rodriguez
>look at this video >the angle is impossible! >the horizon is too far above the platform!
when will musk stop selling us bullshit?
Camden James
Edited in by cgi.
John Scott
>what is adobe after effect >what is tracking in video compositing
plz
Levi Powell
So much this good goy
Julian Adams
lets see if it gor s into theat big old blue sky up there real fuckin far away. shit. i want to see it and will eatch the daht! dha dah dah dah dah dah!!!!
Jaxon Jackson
It'll be a night launch so we won't see shit for the landing
Parker Carter
don't they launch everything from florida?
William Stewart
They can't launch whenever and whereever they want. The satellites needs to go in a specific orbit so they will launch from cap Canaveral at 21h40
Grayson Russell
I live in Sarasota, almost directly across the state from CC maybe I'll be able to see it going through the air
Benjamin Morgan
It's a platform on the sea.
Michael King
5:40pm (local time in florida) is considred night?
Cameron Anderson
Oh yes you're right I'm dumb
Christian Long
Fuck, too late for me here in Western Europe. Will have to rewatch tomorrow
Matthew Sanders
Can someone please PM me if it crashes? I have to go to my wife's son's basket ball game.
Zachary Ward
Fucking kek
Camden Walker
What do you suggest it should do? Try to flip over?
Jeremiah Perez
>Fucking kek Is this funny to you? Do you think this is a fucking joke?
is there an another stream? could it just be that the youtube one isn't workting?
Cameron Foster
where is the spacecraft going?
Benjamin Davis
This shit always happens when I actually have the time to watch and they have to scrub that shit for the day then the next time I hear about it they already launched and finished up. I should just stop trying to watch this shit.
Nicholas Baker
...
Nathan Campbell
10 minutes have passed, whats happening?
Dominic Morgan
to spaaaaaaaace
Isaac Diaz
uranus
Elijah Nelson
Supersynchronous orbit iirc.
Easton Rogers
Those are the official stream from spacex. There's maybe one on nasaTV tho It's launched one a super-synchronous geotranfer orbit. The satellite will boost itself on the good orbit on its own.
Tyler Cook
78.5° East
Adam Perez
nice trips, and pls tell me that again but in not super complex scientific talk
Brayden Lewis
to infinity and beyond
Benjamin Anderson
Geostationary transfert orbit* fml
Parker Scott
>The satellite will boost itself seems pretty stupid? how much fuel does it take to stay in orbit? is the rocket to big not to smash anything else?
Charles Hernandez
Please can someone answer my question
Levi Nguyen
IT LAUNCHED
Alexander Robinson
how do you know? the stream is not live
Jordan Moore
>how much fuel does it take to stay in orbit? stationkeeping at high, geosynchronous orbits are cheap
Jonathan Bennett
most (90%+) of a satellite's launch mass is fuel for orbital insertion and stationkeeping
Blake Morgan
No the rocket doesn't have enough fuel to boost the satellite all the way up It's easier to let the satellite boost itself and once the satellite is on the right path it doesn't take that much fuel to boost it on the good orbit
>murphypak >supergeo...symphmphs. seven fourty. Lass sure knows her stuff.
Gabriel Rivera
Isn't is partly because launches aren't perfect so it's better to give the payload the fuel for final placement rather than load more fuel onto the rocket?
I need to get Kerbal Space Program again.
Bentley Clark
Delayed for another 1:33
Kevin Gomez
1:33Hr to go
Levi Brown
The rocket fuel can't stay for long in the tanks, it's liquid oxygen. The satellite use hypergolic fuel, aka fuel that doesn't boil up
Brandon Bennett
the same amount of fuel in the final payload will give more delta-v than in the booster stage, though there's a limit
Austin Morgan
One thing is that it takes a relatively long time to coast to the orbital insertion point, and most launchers aren't designed to function that long. Also most launcher motors can't be restarted that often.
Whereas the payload motors by necessity (for stationkeeping) use hypergolic (i.e. self-starting) fuel and are design for decades of functioning.
Isaiah Harris
It also depends on the type of fuel tho.
David Watson
yeah, hypergolic fuels tend to be less efficient
Ryan Thompson
yeah, hypergolic fuel used for stationkeeping typically has fairly low Isp
however all this is changing with electric propulsion becoming more and more the norm for payloads, with the drawback that it takes months for GEO insertion
Nathan Bell
fml
Indeed. When you need moar Δv, you can arrive to a point where it's cheaper to put it into a later stage. Dragging a mostly empty second stage into geosynchronous orbit is far more expensive than expanding the third stage (which is in this case the payload).
Easton Ortiz
>how much fuel does it take to stay in orbit? none
Leo Clark
Wrong. It's not KSP faggot you need to correct the orbit over long period of time. A satellite has a lifespan of 10 to 20 years depending on the design
Brandon Perez
In theory, if the Earth were a perfect sphere and there was no moon, sure.
In reality, for GEO it's some 40-50 m/s of delta-V per year.
>>how much fuel does it take to stay in orbit? >none There's still a faint wisp of an atmosphere up there, light but not negligible. Also, you have to make corrections to cancel perturbations by the rest of the solar system.
Isaiah Reyes
Only 10-20? How many sats are we launching per year?
Several per month, not all of those are commsats for GEO but still quite a few.
For SpaceX over half the launches are to GTO and they're doing 1-2 per month nowadays and rising.
Leo Nguyen
not as much as the sailboat blasting through LEO that is the ISS
Adrian Gomez
A lot, there's a shitton of satellite in orbit but space is so fucking big the only thing that matters are the debrits left in orbit that can cause collisions. Satellites in GEO have close to no chance of colliding.