Live rocket launch

[Peco4321]

Fingers crossed 

[Mr niall]

Brilliant, finally caught one!

[Stub Mandrel]

So why not recovering the  first stage?

Not many things as cool as a SpaceX stage 1 landing on a drone ship!

[johnfosteruk]

3 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

So why not recovering the  first stage?

Is it because it's already been reused once?

Edited January 31, 2018 by johnfosteruk

[Paul M]

Looking good so far!

I guess there is no 1 stage recovery because so much of the vehicle is taken up by a large second stage to gain Geostationary orbit as compared LEO vehicles that don't need so much, err...ooomff!! So smaller 1 stage?

[Stub Mandrel]

1 minute ago, johnfosteruk said:

Is it because it's already been reused once?

They want to recycle them many, many times.

[johnfosteruk]

Just now, Stub Mandrel said:

They want to recycle them many, many times.

fair point. Paul might have the answer.

[Peco4321]

Always good to see a successful launch. Here's some screen shots as it happened. 

[Sp@ce_d]

Gosh, when I think back to watching Apollo as a kid this is amazingly clear coverage & in colour

[Paul M]

Just now, Sp@ce_d said:

Gosh, when I think back to watching Apollo as a kid this is amazingly clear coverage & in colour

There is some utterly spectacular high definition video of Apollo launches on YouTube. Nothing will ever tingle my spine in the same way as a Saturn V launch. 

Fill your boots, while remembering 3 blokes were sat on top of this thing!

 

[johnfosteruk]

Payload deployment:

[Stub Mandrel]

Apparently next week Falcon Heavy will send Musk's Tesla Roadster into Mars orbit...

[Peco4321]

I cannot wait for this tomorrow, 18:30 UK time. 

https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/05/falcon-heavy-demo-flight-mission-status-center/

 

 

[johnfosteruk]

Cannot wait. To keep us occupied in until then here's a nice summary of why it's taken so long to get to where it is, if you don't mind the OTT outfit.

 

[Peco4321]

Launch delayed 2 hours ?

[Stub Mandrel]

Now going live:

http://www.spacex.com/webcast

 

[johnfosteruk]

[Alien 13]

Nice, go Elon 

Alan

[johnfosteruk]

This is such a great view 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2018 by johnfosteruk

[Alien 13]

Four minutes  

Alan

[johnfosteruk]

Outstanding

Don't panic!

 

[laser_jock99]

That was impressive!

 

[johnfosteruk]

The future has landed

 

[Paul73]

That was deeply impressive!

Putting the car into space. What great marketing.

Paul

[Stub Mandrel]

Awesome.

That was the most amazing launch since Apollo, notwithstanding the Shuttle.

They have finally made something that counts as a real spaceship, rather than just a rocket.

Next step is a shuttle.

I wonder if the central booster made it?