[AR] Re: Congrats SpaceX

  • From: Henry Vanderbilt <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 14:35:52 -0700

Your phrasing is ambiguous - have you seen word on the center booster barge landing yet? All I can find is, result not known yet.

That aside - woo-HOO! An indication of the precision in the booster recoveries was that thruster firings etc on the two boosters were pretty much simultaneous throughout. (One did touch down a half-second or so after the other, mind - but I'm not complaining.)

Seriously, an historic day. 64 mt to LEO, with I guesstimate well over 90% by value (27 of 28 engines) of the overall booster recovereable and reusable. A major step forward on the path.

Henry

On 2/6/2018 2:17 PM, John Stoffel wrote:


Wow...just wow.  Watching the liftoff, max-q, separation, side booster
landings, second stage ignition, etc.  All just amazing.  Even if they
lost the core stage on landing... wow.

Such an amazingly successful launch, congrats!



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