Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Kirwan twice the power of the saturn v I understand. Ridiculous... It's reusable (in theory)
Musk has really re-ignited the excitement of space exploration hasn't he?
I'll be watching the launch and feeling like the little kid watching the Apollo launches.
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That's what I like about Musk. He said it might be canned, but still went for it.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
That's what I like about Musk. He said it might be canned, but still went for it.
His Twitter Spaces was hilarious, basically said "guys, I need to lower expectations. Success is not blowing up the orbital mount, everything else is just icing. Goal is to get data"
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Go ya beauty!
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
That was worth staying up for, fucking incredible
A real-life rocket scientist was explaining how huge a success the launch actually was and how the redundancy built into the rocket worked like a charm.
Amazing stuff.
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@dogmeat said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
For someone who grew up following the Apollo programme everything about this is remarkable - particularly the limited time between missions.
Did they say the rocket had 5x more thrust than the Saturn V? Amazing
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@canefan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@dogmeat said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
For someone who grew up following the Apollo programme everything about this is remarkable - particularly the limited time between missions.
Did they say the rocket had 5x more thrust than the Saturn V? Amazing
2x. And 150 metric tonnes to orbit.
A game changer.
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
That was worth staying up for, fucking incredible
Just watched it. Agreed it was unreal.
Would be nice if the lead nerd on the panel shut up a bit more, so we could hear the mission control dialogue.
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@voodoo havent had a chance to read anything about it so have only seen the headlines, were they testing something and it was meant to explode?
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@Kiwiwomble said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@voodoo havent had a chance to read anything about it so have only seen the headlines, were they testing something and it was meant to explode?
Someone else here will explain better, but I think ideally it wouldn't explode, but it definitely wasn't a concern that it did - the whole thing was about the launch which was successful, the rest was cream and data-gathering
