Today spaceX landed a reusable rocket for the second time, but it was the first time one had been landed at sea.
They landed their Falcon9 booster on a barge in the Atlantic today. Quite an impressive feat of engineering.
What does this mean? Well for one it means much faster turn around times between missions, as well as the potential for space tourism farther down the road as this becomes more and more sound.
Interesting stuff I figured I'd share.
Added video for those Interested. [spoiler]thanks get owned.[/spoiler]
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1 답변작성자: Sexual Sandwich 4/9/2016 2:35:26 PMBritton, I love you. Your posts are always so fuсking interesting. Thank you for not being an ass like everyone else here
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2 답변Elon musk deleted this tweet.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lSx4DGBstYA&feature=player_embedded
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9 답변작성자: The Cellar Door 4/10/2016 4:26:54 AM[url=http://livestream.com/viewnow/niac2015seattle]Another thing anyone interested in astronomy should look at.[/url] Not Space X, but NASA holds these symposiums for various institutions to offer new ideas for the future. The first video on the page is Phillip Lubin from Univ. of California Santa Barbara, and he's offering a solution to the big problem with space travel... ...The fact that we suck at it. Our ships are too heavy, our fuel is laughably inefficient, and the fastest space craft we've ever launched would still take thousands of years to get to the nearest star. His solution? Lasers. Don't underestimate the power of light, this technology could potentially propel a small ship to 30% the speed of light ([b]90,000,000[/b] meters per second) in the same time (10 minutes) and using the same amount of energy a conventional spacecraft takes to get to orbit. Nearest star? It'll be there in 20 years. It could send a 100kg ship to Mars in [b]three days[/b], laughing at the 6 months it would take current tech.
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2 답변Impressive! But seen that hit the deck afew times to! Would want way more accident free landings before I'd get in 1
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2 답변They need to fund ocean exploration, and as well as other means of getting to space other than rockets. Blue origin also had a similar accomplishment. I can't wait until this technology actually is introduced for commercial use.
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15 답변India sent satalite to mars , i believe that is more important and should be written on your post
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5 답변작성자: Onion Beetle Fan 4/9/2016 7:08:45 AM
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11 답변I like SpaceX, but how much does fuel does it take to land one of those? Seems like they'd need a lot extra to both take off and land.
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