The Falcon has landed
SpaceX has produced a short video that recaps its last launch and the successful landing of its first stage. I have embedded it below, because it is worth seeing again as the company is preparing to do it again this weekend. It is also worth watching again to see the joyous celebration of everyone watching at the moment, all of whom know deep down that they have just witnessed a significant event in the history of the human race.
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SpaceX has produced a short video that recaps its last launch and the successful landing of its first stage. I have embedded it below, because it is worth seeing again as the company is preparing to do it again this weekend. It is also worth watching again to see the joyous celebration of everyone watching at the moment, all of whom know deep down that they have just witnessed a significant event in the history of the human race.
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Every February I run a fund-raising drive during my birthday month. This year I celebrate my 72nd birthday, and hope and plan to continue writing and posting on Behind the Black for as long as I am able.
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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Yes Mr. president, they did do that!
I have never noticed or just missed it but when the Falcon Heavy finally flies will all three of its first stages all try to make separate soft landings like the original Falcon9?
Or will it be just one landing.
I’m sure the goal is reuse but I have just not noticed anything mentioned about it.
pzatchok,
My understanding is that they will separate and land independently, as the two side rockets are supposed to separate before the center rocket reaches engine cutoff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy#Reusable_technology_development
“The reusable launch system technology … is particularly well suited to the Falcon Heavy where the two outer cores separate from the rocket much earlier in the flight profile, and are therefore both moving at a slower velocity at the initial separation event.”
Once they work that out they stand a chance of being able toi make several different combinations out of the Falcon system.
The single Falcon9
The triple Falcon Heavy.
4 around a disposable central core. Falcon Heavy+
Add 2 more to the standard Falcon Heavy to make a Super Heavy.
Or strap two Falcon Heavy’s together to make a Falcon Super+.
All with reusable first stages and possibly reusable second stages by then.