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Space-X Does It Again
Space-X launched the SES-10 satellite this evening with a used booster, and once again stuck the landing on the drone ship.
1080p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsZSXav4wI8
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My wife and I watched both the technical and hosted webcasts (one on my iPad, hooked to the TV, the other on my Mac).....lots of good stuff. Absolutely amazing to witness history like this.
Don't say "used", say "flight proven" (or at least I think that's what I read somewhere....). That first stage got cooked pretty well on the way back down this time, since it was a geosynchronous transfer orbit launch of a pretty heavy satellite. I'll be really interested to see what becomes of this one now that they have it back again.
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Awesome!
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Hopefully it will get used a few more times and then be retired and put on display with the cooked paint.
used flight proven second hand I wonder if Airbus got the Carfax on it before they made the deal? BTW, this is the guy Space-X hired to sell in the used lot.
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And...
Apparently, SpaceX also recovered the fairing --- so all that was "lost" was the second stage hardware.
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/in...1124#msg1661124 Awesome!
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The media is comparing the booster reuse as a Wright brothers moment. Probably not an exaggeration in the scheme of orbital rockets in particular.
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I prefer "previously flown" to "used" as comparible to the automotive vernacular of "Pre Owned" vs "Used".
If it works for "Honest Al's" car dealership, it works for rocketry. By the way, never buy a used car from a person with a one syllable first name or a name prefixed by "Honest". The same rules apply with allowing same said persons into a poker game.
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RATS!! Missed it by 3 stinkin' days!
"The Vixen" and I will be in Cocoa Beach beginning on 4-2 for our 25th wedding anniversary. I'll check the Cape's schedule, but I doubt there will be anything exciting.
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I prefer the term "Tested". Case in point: back when when I was on attack subs, our weapon of choice was the MK48 torpedo--a 60+ mph, wire-guided, internal combustion engine powered, salami of death that carried enough HE to bust the keel of anything afloat. ALL warshot MK48's had been previously shot once as an exercise round--to test the engine, electronics, and guidance systems. The exercise MK48 could do everything the warshot could do except blow up. After they were shot as an exercise round they would shut down and ascend to the surface and were found and recovered by a torpedo retriever boat--usually the USS Diamond. They were then reconditioned, refueled, armed, and would be returned to the sub fleet as a warshot.
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