SpaceX droneship with charred and mangled Falcon 9 booster debris returns to port
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Remains of SpaceX Falcon 9 booster return to Port Canaveral charred and mangled. The charred remains of the booster from Wednesday morning’s SpaceX Starlink 8-6 launch came into Port Canaveral Friday around noon, the booster was partially covered with a tarp with a scorched leg protruding from the tarp. The well-flown SpaceX Falcon 9 booster met its end Wednesday morning. Following what appeared to be a routine night Starlink launch, the booster burst into flames upon landing on A Shortfall of Gravitas in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
This marks the first time in over three years that a first stage was lost in a landing incident after launching from Florida. The last comparable incident occurred in February 2021, when a booster returning from a Starlink launch failed to land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship. That ship has since been relocated to the California coast. #spacex #falcon9 #starlink
That wasn't supposed to be scrap metal sitting at Port Canaveral. Instead of the charred booster which usually stands tall after its triumphant return, only thrusters, random parts, and landing legs were visible atop the ship.
Should be kept in the museum as a relic of the golden era of rocketry.
End of an era. The booster is back with the bang. Just launched another set of Starlink sats. Go well, old friend.
That failure Falcon 9 first stage had already been reused 23 times !! so it served well. Maybe it was too reliable... still a world record and no one else comes close, spaceX is comfortably decade ahead of everyone else
While many others furiously working on reusability SpaceX is a reigning champion and will be for some time to come.
Sentimental farewell from a friend. Octograbber peeping shy from his room.
Don’t worry it will buff out
it served SpaceX well
Failure is the mother of success
The drone ship is bigger than it looks out in the ocean. You can see it resembles an aircraft carrier when they tug it into the coast.
Pretty sure you can land and take off jets on it in a pinch.
RIP to a giant. There are new giants waiting in line though, B1061(22), B1063 (19), B1067 (21), B1069 (18), B1071 (17), B1073 (17), B1076(16). That is 130 landings for seven boosters. That is 130 * $30 million saved or $3,900 million, less than one Artemis launch.
I am really keen to know when will happen to these pieces.
Bad idea have the landing place on the sea. Much more difficult to clean up
Credit to the Creator although I don't think the sad music was necessary
Looks like the droneship is cooked as well.
Where's the rest of it?
Bikini bottom.
Bikini-Bottom museum
I don’t know why falcon 9 is grounded. Every other rocket company ditches their rockets in the ocean. Falcon 9 is the safest rocket in the fleet. And dragon is the safest capsule. Sounds to me like everyone else in the rocket business needs to up their game. But they let starliner carry people to the international space station with major problems. Sounds politically motivated to me. We need to remove politics from space flight. It’s killing innovation.
'Every other rocket company' does not support free speech.
The grounding though did not last long