Today's Rocket Launch / Elon Musk evil genus?

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[fsu1jreed]

Love how they came down in unison. So freaking cool. 2 of the 3 aint half bad.....

Baby steps.

How long is it going to take the roadster to get to its closest point to Mars?

And if the green line is the projected orbit, why does it stop 2/3 of the way back to earth? Is the the end of the green line past our computations?

I highly doubt he would bring it back to Earth.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

Baby steps.



I highly doubt he would bring it back to Earth.

Im not suggesting their going to bring it back to earth, just wondering why they stopped projecting the green line orbit 2/3 of the way. It's like they are saying "who knows wtf is going to happen after that" and "it's so distant in the future, we won't gaf anyway".

Also, do you how long its going to take to get close to mars? Im really interested in that orbits timeline and wished they displayed it on that graphic.

 

[fsu1jreed]

Im not suggesting their going to bring it back to earth, just wondering why they stopped projecting the green line orbit 2/3 of the way. It's like they are saying "who knows wtf is going to happen after that" and "it's so distant in the future, we won't gaf anyway".

Also, do you how long its going to take to get close to mars? Im really interested in that orbits timeline and wished they displayed it on that graphic.

It seems as if there was some disagreement concerning it's trajectory, but here's what they know:

According to the revised data, Rivkin says, it will take the Tesla about 18.8 months to complete one trip around the sun. This means that the car will reach its farthest distance from Earth in about half that time. The Tesla will cross the orbit of Mars twice per orbit, so Musk is still fulfilling his wish to send his Tesla “to” Mars—it’ll just take a little longer between visits.

The new numbers suggest the payload reached a speed of 33.5 kilometers per second after the last push, which Rivkin says is about 2.5 percent more speed than SpaceX would have needed to keep the Tesla from going no farther than the orbit of Mars.

“I have no idea whether that’s because they wanted some margin, or things were more efficient than they were expecting, or what,” Rivkin says. “If this were a real Mars mission, this would be a disastrously wrong orbit and might not be recoverable. But since this may have been ‘put it up to full throttle and let’s see what this baby can do,’ it’s not a problem.”

Musk’s tweet sounds like the Tesla is approaching the asteroid belt, but it’s not. “Musk’s message is a bit ambiguous,” Rob Weryk, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, said in an email. “The payload is still very much near the Earth.”

 

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[dmm5157]

Moved to the space coast a few months ago, the rocket launches are a lot of fun to watch. Night launches have been my favorite so far as far as how they are to observe, but the Falcon Heavy was really impressive. Those boosters returning to earth was incredible. They were moving REALLY fast, looked like meteors coming down and then when they hit the boosters, came to a screeching stop.

Hearing there will be another Falcon Heavy launch soon, can't wait!

SpaceX has some competitors in the space business, but so far they are pretty far behind. I love seeing how excited Elon got over the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy.

 

[F4Gary]

A. It wasn't the most powerful rocket, it was 27 smaller rockets strapped together. Saturn 5 was 1 rocket.
B. The center booster apparently burned too long and the car will overshoot Mars and end up in the asteroid belt.
C. His rocket isn't ready for manned flight.

 

[funksouljon]

Anyone read the articles about how they are now talking about reviewing privatizing the International Space Station.....
Be interesting to see how serious they are about this.

 

[seminole97]

A. It wasn't the most powerful rocket, it was 27 smaller rockets strapped together. Saturn 5 was 1 rocket.
B. The center booster apparently burned too long and the car will overshoot Mars and end up in the asteroid belt.
C. His rocket isn't ready for manned flight.

Yeah, ‘B’ would be hard to explain to the crew...

 

[funksouljon]

So we've been focused on the boosters, that we haven't seen a lot of the images....

weird how there seems to be a curve in the background. Them boys (and girls) in the sound stage are doing a great job with the fakes. The arm on the window is a great touch.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

I highly doubt he would bring it back to Earth.

It's coming back around 2091.

 

[fsu1jreed]

It's coming back around 2091.

I think that is directly because of the overburn.........had it burned normal I think it would have stayed outside of Earth's orbit, but don't quote me.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

I think that is directly because of the overburn.........had it burned normal I think it would have stayed outside of Earth's orbit, but don't quote me.

Yeah, i think this was purely an accident based on the unplanned extra thrust that pushed it into a completely different orbit.

 

[funksouljon]

So NASA has a channel that just shows a view of the Earth. I was so hoping the car would just cruise across the screen. This image is sort of the angle you see as the earth spins under the camera <allegedly>. Has anyone else see the channel? Its pretty relaxing to just be on the background.

 

[noleit]

So if you needed to launch something into space (ie-MIL) for a mere $62 million you can launch her using SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket or if your MIL is on the portly side and you need the extra payload potential of the Falcon Heavy it will set you back a cool $90 million! Tesla not included.

 

[dmm5157]

So if you needed to launch something into space (ie-MIL) for a mere $62 million you can launch her using SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket or if your MIL is on the portly side and you need the extra payload potential of the Falcon Heavy it will set you back a cool $90 million! Tesla not included.

Pretty cheap compared to what it costs via NASA.

 

[F4Gary]

So NASA has a channel that just shows a view of the Earth. I was so hoping the car would just cruise across the screen. This image is sort of the angle you see as the earth spins under the camera <allegedly>. Has anyone else see the channel? Its pretty relaxing to just be on the background.

CGI,right?

 

[fsu1jreed]

Pretty cheap compared to what it costs via NASA.

Well to be honest, NASA is subsidizing a large part of that.

So NASA has a channel that just shows a view of the Earth. I was so hoping the car would just cruise across the screen. This image is sort of the angle you see as the earth spins under the camera <allegedly>. Has anyone else see the channel? Its pretty relaxing to just be on the background.

I check out the channel often.........it can get monotonous, but still really cool.

 

[funksouljon]

Well to be honest, NASA is subsidizing a large part of that.



I check out the channel often.........it can get monotonous, but still really cool.

I feel so stupid for thinking the same thing. "This is pretty monotonous." Firstly, of all the hundreds of channels, pretty sure this is the one we dont want anything exciting to happen. And secondly, we are looking at a live view of our planet from a billion dollar, multi country space station in a very stable low Earth Orbit. They stream video and then broadcast it through an invisible wireless signal to my tv, just because they can. How spoiled can we be? its boring!!! What a great time to be alive!