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SpaceX Has Rare Misfire - Booster Fails to Land on Drone Ship Tonight
Posted on 2/15/21 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 2/15/21 at 10:46 pm
SpaceX YouTube of Tonight's Starlink Launch
Launch of the Falcon IX and orbital insertion of the Starlink satellites went as planned... but then something went wrong as the booster returned to Earth and tried to land on the drone ship in the Atlantic
The landing burn (which slows the falling booster down as it reenters the Earth's atmosphere) starts fine... but then when it was time for shutdown... it seemed like something went wrong at that point
Telemetry from the booster was then lost
Later... when they switch to the camera on the drone ship for the booster's landing... you can see the sky turn orange like the landing burn started but the booster never landed... after a minute or so the woman doing the play-by-play had to admit the booster landing had failed
This particular booster had been used 5 times previously with no issues
Launch of the Falcon IX and orbital insertion of the Starlink satellites went as planned... but then something went wrong as the booster returned to Earth and tried to land on the drone ship in the Atlantic
The landing burn (which slows the falling booster down as it reenters the Earth's atmosphere) starts fine... but then when it was time for shutdown... it seemed like something went wrong at that point
Telemetry from the booster was then lost
Later... when they switch to the camera on the drone ship for the booster's landing... you can see the sky turn orange like the landing burn started but the booster never landed... after a minute or so the woman doing the play-by-play had to admit the booster landing had failed
This particular booster had been used 5 times previously with no issues
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 10:48 pm to rt3
Was the drone ship called “You Know I Still Love you” or something like that?
Posted on 2/15/21 at 10:49 pm to Giantkiller
quote:
Was the drone ship called “You Know I Still Love you” or something like that?
yes...
the drone ship's name is "Of Course I Still Love You"
Posted on 2/15/21 at 10:52 pm to rt3
Elon still greatest living yuman 
Posted on 2/15/21 at 10:52 pm to rt3
Posted on 2/15/21 at 10:53 pm to rt3
Booster probably froze...
Posted on 2/16/21 at 12:06 am to rt3
Knowing Elon they probably predicted they’d have a failure at some point. 5 reuses is pretty insane, NASA would never do that, they’d rather burn money by using new rockets everytime. (Pun intended)
Posted on 2/16/21 at 12:08 am to viv1d
In his latest Rogan interview he says it is more odd to not have a failure
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