Absolutely amazing tech, I cannot wait to see it used more widely.
Also, I can only imagine how much better this already great advancement would be if it were to utilize rotating detonation engines, assuming it would be possible to use RDEs to land in an atmosphere with.
Muskyness aside; it is pretty impressive to watch, almost looks like the footage has been reversed.
Audio is really annoying.
Muskyness aside;
Out of morbid curiosity I went into the comment section for some insta posts about this. It’s just full of worship for Musk, and complete disregard for the actual engineers & Shotwell.
This thread has been far more pleasant.
Musk just owns the company, which sucks. There are clearly a lot of very talented people there who do actually work while Musk is in his K-hole.
lol, how is the audio annoying? Those are literally the engineers who worked on this, one of the most difficult engineering problems in human history, having nailed it on their first try.
If you want pure rocket audio, look into cosmic perspective after a few weeks.
Their first try?
The first time they tried to catch with the chopsticks, it workes without blowing up the whole launchpad.
When they did this with the Falcon 9, it took several flights to get a landing without significant damage to the drone ship, the booster, or both.
Pretty impressive that they got it to work right out of the gate with the Super Heavy Booster
It also proves the importance of progressive integration tests even if they’re destructive. The amount you can learn by actually putting everything together is just fundamentally necessary to make sure these complex systems work.
Well, this time around, even though a different mechanism was used, they had all the Falcon experience to draw from, which shortens development.
Never been attempted before.
You know when you try, and try and try and try and fail every time…
But then you scratch your left tit and try again and you finally make it?
You made it first try after scratching your tit!
one of the most difficult engineering problems in human history
This made me laugh.
What would you qualify? My mind goes to fusion, and the moon landings. And this is quite a bit more complicated than Apollo. (Though we have better tools nowadays)
And this is quite a bit more complicated than Apollo
Oh my god
Starship is aiming to have the same payload capacity while being fully reusable. Seems like adding that constraint makes it harder.
Sure, now do it with only paper and protractors.
Yeah, that’s why I said we have better tools nowadays.
Love the game, hate the player.
Well no dispite musk since he’s well publicized to be a hinderence aide from the money he provides.
Could you link a source? I just want to believe this; I’ve never actually seen evidence of it.
What is the advantage if catching the rocket instead of letting it land? Less weight?
Yeah, less weight without landing legs, plus faster turn around since it’s already were it needs to go.
I’m also guessing less wear of the launch/landing pad?
Presumably, though you’d get more moving parts on the catch to wear.
Holy fuck they did it
Indeed, it was insane! Super impressive that they got it on the first try.
As an aside, I’m curious how you found the mp4 download link for a twitter video. Is there one for every video? Are they embeddable?
Edit: It appears that they are embeddable!
This is the website, it didn’t look like it was embedding into the post, so I uploaded it. Maybe it would have embedded if I waited longer.
Thanks!
Woke up at 5am PST to watch live. What a rush
imgur notsomuch
Is it playing for you?
nope. just showing imgurs banner
Hmm, it was yesterday. You can try the links below.
Amazing!
Somebody’s youth wasted on Moon Cresta finally paid off.
Too many dicks on the dance floor.
Seriously, there are no women in that entire crowd. Come to think of it they’re all white too.
Well, I suppose it’s tradition.
The average percentage of women in aerospace is ~13.4%
SpaceX has 14.1% female.
NASA has 35.5% women.
Boeing has 24.1% women.
Virgin Galactic has 25% women.
Blue Origin has 20% women.
Lockheed has 32% female.
Grumman has 24.5% female.
Raytheon has 29% female.
Maybe women in aerospace just don’t want to work for Musk?
Where are those numbers from? I don’t doubt them but it seems a bit weird that even the lowest outlier of these big aerospace companies is still above average for the industry. I guess this is just saying that smaller companies have even more difficulty hiring/retaining female workforce.
Self reporting as part of diversity quota. Most of them have female hire goals of around 30-35%. USBLS provided the average across aerospace.
What is curious is how some gave a “female” statistic, but others said “women”.
Interesting.
Well more than average do but sure
SpaceX is ran by a woman, Gwynne Shotwell. Musk is the CEO, but she runs the show as the COO - this is because of her.
Ok.
You forgot to change user when replying to yourself?
Dicks don’t launch rockets. Brains do. SpaceX has plenty of brains with, and without dicks attached.
Stop being a salty shit.
You forgot to change user when replying to yourself?
No? Did I offend you by making a new comment instead of editing the first? Do you have multiple user accounts you talk to yourself with?
Dicks don’t launch rockets. Brains do.
That’s my point.
Stop being a salty shit.
I’m gonna pretend you play a reasonably intelligent person on tv and simply ask you to point out the women or people of color in this clip celebrating the achievement. Which is what I was commenting on.
And I’ll cut to the part where you don’t answer and accuse me of being whatever your boogeyman is this week instead and just tell you that IF you find a woman or person of color in that clip they will be very, very few. WHEN you don’t, I’d like you to ask yourself why that is.
For homework, write a 1000 word essay on Operation Paperclip and the origins of NASA.
Just stop hating. Fuck.
Put it back in the deck, Skippy…
Maybe that’s why they are so good, copying NASA prime?
Ja, ja.
Isnt middle front at 46s a woman?
