SpaceX Eutelsat117W B & ABS-2A

SpaceX is settling in to a three week launch cadence. If all goes well, the Vandenberg range opens up again, and they start using the old Shuttle launch pad after the Falcon Heavy debut, they can retire a lot of their backlog this year.

Isn't vandenberg just for polar launches? How many of those would people even want...

The BE-4 should be ready for 2019, so I think he might go straight for a big rocket.

Im looking forward to more news regarding that engine.

bezos wants to do real space colonies and not send lunatics to die on mars

i think he'll have the last laugh really

>send lunatics to die on mars
Thats MarsOne, not SpaceX

The raptor is gonna be better than the BE-4 anyways
bezos btfo

2 hours 13 minutes

BE-4 will be simpler and cost less and will be ready before Raptor. BlueOrigin has found a way to simplify the full flow gas engine concept.
However I dont think he can catch up to spacex as long as Musk lives.

You got any links? I've been struggling to find any recent writing about both the Raptor and the BE-4

be-4 will be full flow?

It'll fail

>01:22:57

Setting timer.

What's going on? Where's the link?

Eutelsat/ABS Mission Hosted Webcast
youtube.com/watch?v=gLNmtUEvI5A

Eutelsat/ABS Mission Technical Webcast
youtube.com/watch?v=ckjP8stlzxI

Sheeet.

20% chance of weather violation

patrick.af.mil/Portals/14/documents/Weather/L-1 Forecast 15 June Launch.pdf?ver=2016-06-14-091006-907

46 mins

musk will die on mars and be reborn as a sandworm

25 mins left the SpaceX logo is up now

COMMENCING FUNKY SPACE MUSIC

GET IN HERE

stream about to start

B O A T
O
A
T

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which stream?
Hosted or Technical?

Hosted Feed has begun!

youtube.com/watch?v=gLNmtUEvI5A

youtube.com/watch?v=ckjP8stlzxI

Technical unless they bring this guy back.

IT LL BLOW UP

TECHNICAL INCIDENT

Loading liquids! 10mins till launch

T-

10 MINUTES

T-9 MINUTES SENPAI

>tfw the rocket is chilling out now

WASP WHERE ARE YOU ????????

are they talking landing this time?

5 MINUTES

Look at the time bar at the bottom of the picture.

[spoiler]Yes.[/spoiler]

why are we getting hyped over this when it's like the fifth time they do it

FOUR.... THREE... TWO... ONE...

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

ITS REACHINF MACH 3 MAXIMUM STRESS ON THE ROCKET

BURGER CLAP CLAP CLAP

erection confirmed

Strongback is being removed!

youtube.com/watch?v=ckjP8stlzxI

youtube.com/watch?v=gLNmtUEvI5A

People like you got the final Apollo missions cancelled

Why do people watch NASCAR when it's just a bunch of cars going in circles?

a fag wouldnt understand

holy fuck boys any second now

1 MINUTE

FULLY ERRECT

It's like waiting for food to warm in the microwave now.

WE DID IT REDDIT

wtf is going on?

rocket is going off

I mean with the fucking timer

ABSOLUTELY NOMINAL

because they are retarded

The republicans canceled the Apollo missions.

Fucking politics

I like how while the rocket is going straight up, the kerbal diagram shows the fall-over curve slowly growing.

>Stage 1 starts falling back to Earth

REENTRY BURN

oh boy

Fuck m8, I thought they will show 1st stage entry burn

why are they not showing the rocket camera as it comes down?

lol are you enjoying the NASA CGI channel ? More round earth propaganda bullshit and you're all eating it.

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A brief frame of the landed stage! but no further word...

LOL FAIL

lol, nobody cares about the 2nd stage

BOOM

if this post ends in 5-9 it landed successfully

Probably can't keep the downlink going during re-entry. They'll get the SD card from the GoPro later.

Not sure why the ground camera latched up like that, though. At least we saw enough to know it happened.

So...did it survive the landing? the fucking feed cut out again...

They really need to work on that drone signal, seems like every time they land it cuts out

I was about to make a very similar shitpost :^)

At least it launched on time this time.

That is the most interesting part, I can't wait for them to try relaunching one.

It looked like the falcon 9 was more on fire than usual and lots more smoke, I think it went bang.

like every fucking landing

i'm starting to agree with the tinfoil people

I saw a lot of smoke and flames

>denise I still love you

>Not sure why the ground camera latched up like that, though

The sound of the rocket causes mega vibrations in the area.

you can see the cursor in the screen

If the cut doesn't feed, you must quit

yeah, same...

THE LEGS ARE ON FIRE

yeah, pretty weird for a fucking space agency to not get things like that working

*of course

Nice to see that Earl has found himself a decent job

what is the velocity of the ejected gas ?

how can the rocket keep accelerating, even when it's at 10000 km/h ?

no way the ejected gas is going faster than 10000 km/h

Which is something NASA solved like 60 years ago but I guess SpaceX is just doing shit by the cheapest bidder
Probably some fucking off the shelf camera

This is why only the government should be allowed to play in space

yeah, thats what I meant. The 1st stage is the most interesting aspect of those missions

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The video is fed from the drone ship via satellite.
I imagine it's not easy to keep the dish steady when the boat is rocking, and then you've got vibrations from a giant rocket landing.

it's dead, jim

any particualr reason they have to use satellite video ? they can't beam to a ship->satellite->hq?

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It cuts out because of the interference from the plasma from the engine

OF COURSE I STILL LOVE YOU, BRUH

They can't have any crewed ships near the landing zone, in the event that the rocket goes off course.

>camera locks up
>yea this is why you shouldn't allow others to into space
>because of a camera