SpaceX posted a really cool video of almost successful CRS-6 first stage landing, on “Just read the instructions” Probably due to some horizontal motion when touching down, the first rockets stage tipped over and explodes in a ball of fire. This could well be due to the strong wind, as can be seen on the […]
Rescheduled for April 14th 19:50 UT (21:50 CEST) and successful. Full launch video The first stage landed on the droneship but unfortunately tp hard for survival (Scrubbed due to lightning) If all goes well tonight at 20:15 UT (22:15 CEST) SPaceX will launch Dragon on it’s seventh mission to ISS. (One demonstration mission and six […]
A good while ago, Elon twitter a Vine loop of the somewhat disastrous landing of the first attempt to land the a first stage Falcon9 on the drone ship. The cause of the crash: The hydraulic system that actuate the grid fins that sit on top of the first stage. ran out of hydraulics. This could […]
New Launch date: Saturday 10-01-2014 Time: 09:47 UT