At 0:18 we see what I presume is the mission control room near the launch site.
But the camera wasn't actually shaking that badly, was it? That was a special effect added for this video, right?
ptfrd
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From the official NASA coverage:
https://www.youtube.com/live/PJAUetG6C2E?t=42m25s "It performed norminal ... excuse me ... nominal, which basically means normal".
I actually genuinely prefer when the SpaceX commentators accidentally say "norminal", precisely because "nominal" does NOT mean 'normal'. It's closer to the opposite.
If Alice was thinking of buying a car from Bob and I told her "the vehicle I bought from Bob works fine, nominally", she would rightly take that as a warning.
If my family member was in space and I heard on the nets "safety systems nominal", I'd be bricking it!
AFAICT it's only the space industry that gets this wrong.
Probably shouldn't be commenting on a 3-month-old post on a memes forum, but this seems highly inaccurate to me. Do you have a source for it?
From https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-3 :
00:02:42 Booster MECO (most engines cut off)
So we have a 2nd meaning for the acronym "MECO"!
(MECO 2, you could say 😊 )
My updated guesses, after seeing the other comments, and some further thought.
- 25% he's talking, confusingly, about Starship
- 25% he's mistaken in some other way
- 50% this is actually the plan
My guesses
- 15% he's talking, confusingly, about Starship
- 25% he's mistaken in some other way
- 60% this is actually the plan
That's actually what worries me about this. If they are thinking of reusing 2nd Stages from the Falcon 9, does that suggest we need to start being more pessimistic about Starship timelines?
Not necessarily, of course. I think they're committed to continuing to fly the Falcon 9 as long as customers want it? So extra F9 reusability could still be worth the investment, even if they were predicting Starship to be operational very soon.
Also, this could just be recovery for inspection, not for reuse.
I for one welcome even just the hope that it might happen!
Is the 2nd Stage too heavy for a net? It's probably too much to hope that Ms. Tree comes out of retirement, right?
Any chance they could use second-hand dragon parachutes?
Oh yes! Do we know the reason? (I assume it's not just this Falcon 9 getting paranoid in its old age!)