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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Their first try?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Well, this time around, even though a different mechanism was used, they had all the Falcon experience to draw from, which shortens development.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Never been attempted before.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well no dispite musk since he's well publicized to be a hinderence aide from the money he provides.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Could you link a source? I just want to believe this; I've never actually seen evidence of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Love the game, hate the player.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] threelonmusketeers 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] JohnDClay 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

https://twittervideodownloader.com/download

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Holy fuck they did it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Woke up at 5am PST to watch live. What a rush

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is the advantage if catching the rocket instead of letting it land? Less weight?

[–] JohnDClay 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, less weight without landing legs, plus faster turn around since it's already were it needs to go.

[–] Birch 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm also guessing less wear of the launch/landing pad?

[–] JohnDClay 2 points 2 months ago

Presumably, though you'd get more moving parts on the catch to wear.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Amazing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Somebody's youth wasted on Moon Cresta finally paid off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

imgur notsomuch

[–] JohnDClay 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it playing for you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

nope. just showing imgurs banner

[–] JohnDClay 1 points 2 months ago

Hmm, it was yesterday. You can try the links below.

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