Finally got to go down to see a Heavy liftoff and landing. It was spectacular! Tim, one thing that surprised me today, and last year for a Falcon 9, the traffic and spectators still haven't let up. SpaceX makes it look easy, but it's never less amazing to witness.
@@starguy2718 NASA went from a suborbital flight to landing on the moon in under eight years. The public got jaded by it and they did go after a reusable launch system. It was called the shuttle. Plus don’t forget Vietnam.
Dude, it's crazy. I moved to Orlando in 2018, and within a month there was a launch. It was awesome. Then I started following all the launches from KSC. It's about 70 miles from where I live, and it's always amazing when we can see them. We can see the Boosters ignite, but can't really see them unless the Sun angle on them is perfect. We don't get to see the Launch or Landings though, because it's so far away over the curvature of the Earth. Also, I've missed more launches than I've seen, because I'm either not always awake, or it's cloudy, or if you're not someplace where you can readily get outside to look East quickly enough, it's gone. They get out'a here in a HURRY. Today the video I got shows MICO and it's "falling" over the curvature of the Earth. My GF asked if it was coming back down? I said, no, it's going over the curvature of the Earth. Thing is, 66 Launches in 2022. They're planning on breaking that record this year. 5+ a month. UN REAL.
It is a major historical event. The launch of and successful landing of the massive boosters of this size means that humans can now travel to and live on distance planets.
@@johannesdolch WOW......Calm down and take a deep breath son. I never imagined people here being like this. I was just sharing my excitement with you. I am sorry I came here now.
It was awesome my son and I. My son who actually wants to work for NASA or SpaceX when he gets older. We’re outside watching it. What a great memory we made.
This is definitely a more expensive flight for the customer as well...they need the extra power to get their product into orbit, they pay a premium for the vehicle. SpaceX still saves money and resources by recovering the side boosters, and gets paid for the spent core stage as well
Missed this launch when it was live but came back just for the Q&A - always fun, always educational (it’s like taking rocket science class with Professor Dodd : ). Thanks always Tim - another mission accomplished!
Looks like it took 42 seconds for the boosters to change direction once they fired the engines in the boost back burn. You can clearly see when all the backwards momentum was overcome!
I love that the side booster speed and altitude data was included after separation. If I'm interpreting those speed deceleration and acceleration numbers of the boosters after separation the G forces must be well beyond human endurance, I guess that's my question.
My very quick napkin-math seems to suggest around 100km/h per second, which "only" equals 28 m/s^2, or right around 3G :) I dont think the engines(mounts, bearings, etc) and tanks are made to endure higher g-forces than this, as it would make them considerably heavier
I will never be unimpressed by the Awesome precision and consistency with which SpaceX lands and reuses their vehicles. Every time I see a booster land, I get the exact same intense mixture of thoughts and feelings - astonishment, elation, humility, optimism, anticipation, joy, wonder, pride, gratitude, enthusiasm..., revolving right back to pure, unadulterated astonishment again and again and again... And I am absolutely certain that the intensity of these thoughts and feeling will never wane, no matter how "routine" these flights become. Thank you, Elon Musk and SpaceX, for bringing elation and inspiration back into an old cynical heart. Whether you know it or not (and, something tells me you very well do) you guys are standing on the frontline in the war between the hordes of political barbarians who want nothing more than to trample into dust even the slightest flicker of human ambition, and to lord it over us, in their twisted brand of secular salvation, their indispensability as Humanity's Problem-Solvers for the very problems that they themselves create. You guys - Mr. Musk, and the faithful, loyal, hard-working, and BRILLIANT!... Women and Men of SpaceX - you guys are Humanity's true Problem-Solvers. And you guys absolutely ROCK!
I was able to watch a large part of the launch and boosters return from statesboro GA. It was amazing to see. I took a video but you can’t see as much as you could in person.
As someone who washed dishes for much of my life. I think even low skill jobs will be needed on Mars. Sure robots can do a lot but some tasks are still very hands on.
@ 39:45 why for a brief moment was there a clip of the rocket on the ground and side boosters still locked in position?? They cleary have already separated and split apart
very well done SpaceX, it's awesome to see the constant quality and attention to detail that pushes humanity forward. it's also why the united states will stay ahead technologically when compared to eurasia, africa and the pacific.
No it is like on Saturn II , V Numerical integration off the measured acceleration vector minus the gravity vector. : Inertial navigation, very accurate in this short term, of a few minutes. On aircraft , inertial navigation needs to be corrected for long term drift. GPS is possible to GPS satellite's altitude ,12 h orbits, above , the orientation of the antennas are an issue.
Aircraft indicated altitude and speed are indeed pressure sensors, but true airspeed is very different, determined by calculation, GPS is ground speed, not equal to TAS because of the Wind. TAS is calculated from indicated by multiplication with the RDR, Root density ratio, sea level density divided by density at altitude, above 18000 ft , Flight level. Example 12000 ft RDR 1.20 9000 ft RDR 1.15 6000 ft RDR 1.10 3009 ft RDR 1.05 pilots memorize this simple table or use the slide rule on the IAS indicator
I saw your Aerospike and RS 25 engine T shirts I'll have to order one. I made parts for both. I used to work for Rocketdyne in the 60th at space engine division unfortunately the X33 did not work out due to composite fuel tank difficulties.
Every launch and landing is symphony of people doing their jobs right and learning from mistakes. We can't wait till we can watch @everydayastronaut ride to lunar orbit and back!
The next launch is in Afghanistan where 75 to 100 afghanis will sneak under the landing gear in an attempt to escape their poor country. Lets see how many come back when the booster lands.
No. Aside from the difficulties of breathing hard vacuum, the G forces on landing would be lethal. They don't call the landing a suicide burn for nothing.
Hey @everydayastronaut after this mission had been postponed 2 times to the exact same timeslot every time I suddenly realized I had a question: Since the payload is going to Geostationary orbit, couldn't it theoretically be launched at anytime since the Launchpad and Destination is synchronously rotating? Or are there other factors that influence the trajectory (moon or other satellites or something) so it needs to be launched at a specific time?
@@arturoeugster7228 does the Wind Gradient follow the time of day so that 4 minutes to midnight CET is the ideal launch time? Maybe @scottmanley knows I should ask him.
There's a whole bunch of Canaveral launches all listed for going on the 30th right now, is there any chance any of those might move up a couple of days? We'll be getting on a cruise ship at the port on the 28th and it auew would be nice to see another one but from that perspective! Thanks!
Like my first live horse race as a kid, forever astounding and beautiful are NASA and SPACEX launches. 1/15 a heavyweight. 🙏 physics, good Q's(all 3 downrange?)
A good strategy I think, seeing that Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy are so successful is, once the starship becomes operational, to leave the starship in space, and use Falcon rockets to transit people to the starship. Not doing the sums, but safety would be one consideration, and it possibly could be cheaper as fuel usage could be less.
Uh huh, imagine leaving a ship outside the harbor and ferrying crew and passengers out to it four or five at a time in small boats. Yes, a great deal of qualification work is going to have to be done, and operational experience gained, before we launch and land people in a Starship, but that will be be done.
Why isn't there more info/ coverage on the "new" alloy used in SX engines? It seems that would've been a big accomplishment. Can't seem to find any details regarding it. What am I missing? SX-300 and SX-500... is this it?
I wish this channel still had sub 20 minutes episodes. As much as I'd love the detail from 2hr videos, I have too many interests to watch just this. I want to consume other content too. I haven't watched anything from this channel since he started doing long episodes. Before that, I watched most of his stuff. Could make two versions of your stuff, one that is 12 or 16 minutes long and another that is 40-120min long.
I think its funny how none of us can seem to get over one booster landing and two blows our minds. I dont know how I will feel when we see Starship land for the first time....Im guessing a mild form of shock.
It's just like thunder coming after lightning. The shockwave that makes the sonic boom takes time to get to the observer after you actually see the rocket.
I think Starship has a hard act to follow with SpaceX's own Falcon Heavy; check it out, even the landing legs are modular in application allowing the central core to be used as an expendable vehicle in this case, unlike the last launch. Constantly innovating, and their closest competitor is themselves. Almost incredible... I just hope Starship becomes as ubiquitous as this partially reusable system.
Actually, the last Falcon Heavy launch also expended its central core. The day will come when Starship has totally replaced the Falcon rockets and is conducting multiple launches per *day.* Then we will all ignore it the same we do airplanes.
Info at the start is great - the only question I had left: what happens to the center core? Does it stay in orbit and slowly decay? Or do they do a de-orbit burn?
It never reaches orbit. After stage separation it just follows a parabolic arc an splashes down in the Atlantic. Had they not required all the fuel for this mission, it could have landed on one their recovery barges.
@@nathanwahl9224 Well, they managed to land the center core that day, unfortunately, due to rough seas, it toppled over and was lost. It is certainly possible, they've just had bad luck with it on the first three flights.
I still don't understand why they don't certify falcon heavy for human flight it is such a good flight worthy proven rocket it could get humans to the moon and possibly to mars what do you think
how bloody awesome is it seeing those boosters land so smoothly ,so glad we have a good internet connection here in newzealand , that take off was hand waving excitement , enjoy watching you getting excited. aint our future for space travel looking and getting better every time elon sends rockets up into that dark place ,as well as other companies doing it , humans are getting better with tech and watching channels like yours just blows my mind ,enjoy them all , enjoy life
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Second stages are never recovered. They always burn up, sooner or later depending on mission requirements. Since this one is going straight to geosynchronous orbit, it will probably be placed in a highly eccentric parking orbit that will gradually decay over several years, unless the second stage itself will be used to circularize the orbit, in which case it will just be left up there.
@@fbonde Ah, in this case, they needed all possible delta V from it so there was no fuel for a landing. After separating from the upper stage it followed a parabolic arc and splashed down in the Atlantic.
Great job, Tim, How is the Moon training going? I don't care about anything else! You're a megastar!!!! OMG man it's amazing. I went to Wikipedia and your name is there. Imagine Children in school will be reading about you. You're an inspiration.
How long would you be staying? They're up to around once a week now, but it's hard to tell. In three two-month stays over the last three years we managed to watch 8 launches, but they are more frequent now.
No. What they did do is stop trying to catch them in a net. After so many failed attempts at that, they determined that brief exposure to salt water was not hurting them. They were still able to be reused so they changed their recovery method. Now the fairings just parachute into the water and the recovery ship scoops them out.
Always excellent Tim. Thank you for carrying on despite how you might otherwise be engaged. (Dear Moon) Congratulaions. Good on ya. I will reasssert SpaceX tried to land all 3 Falcon Heavy components once before. Core landing failed. Maybe they gave up? ($ issue) Would love to see them try it again. They are capable and have learned a bunch since that failure. This launch , while claissified, clearly shows this is one seriously heavy-weight payload. Whatever it is....will help ptotect the world. And being a goofy old Canadian... I say this.-- Russia. China. SUCK IT.
No, they did center core landing on the first three Falcon Heavy launches. The center core is not all that different from a regular Falcon 9. There is no reason to "give up". There were just different technical issues each time. The first time there was a leak, not in the fuel itself, but in the material used to ignite the fuel. Thus the engines did not light properly for landing. The second time, they were deliberately pushing the booster to the limit of its endurance, landing much further downrange than had ever been tried before and requiring much higher thrust than had ever been used before. Something burned through and they lost one or more engines. The third time they landed just fine but there were high seas and they had not yet developed the Octograbber, at least not one fora Falcon Heavy core, and the rocket just fell off the ship. You can see that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the design or execution, just normal teething pains and some bad luck. The last couple of missions have simply required all of the thrust that could be gotten out of the center core, so there simply was no fuel for a landing. I'm sure they will land the center core when mission requirements permit.
Hello Tim Dodd. I am a follower of your videos because you have a good base of aerospace knowledge and you give good explanations. I've had an idea about rocket engines that I want to send to Elon Musk. Maybe he's interested. How can I get it to him directly? Thank you.
Thanks for all you do in keeping myself and the rest of the space community informed!!
Glorious... the booster landings are like watching a scifi movie. Thanks SpaceX.
It is a... movie all c. G. I
@@dirkzink9204 shut up
thanks govt subsidies
The Thunderbirds.
@@soth1sol What would the government have to gain from a private company?
The boosters landings still blows my mind every time
Finally got to go down to see a Heavy liftoff and landing. It was spectacular! Tim, one thing that surprised me today, and last year for a Falcon 9, the traffic and spectators still haven't let up. SpaceX makes it look easy, but it's never less amazing to witness.
Yeah, I saw the Titusville park and bridge packed for a 2AM launch last year, even for a barge landing; it was amazing in itself!
Wow your intro with the music and all. You hit it out and of the park great job
Crazy how much not-a-big-deal this is now, because they do it all the time. Which is awesome.
@@starguy2718 NASA went from a suborbital flight to landing on the moon in under eight years. The public got jaded by it and they did go after a reusable launch system. It was called the shuttle. Plus don’t forget Vietnam.
Dude, it's crazy. I moved to Orlando in 2018, and within a month there was a launch. It was awesome. Then I started following all the launches from KSC. It's about 70 miles from where I live, and it's always amazing when we can see them. We can see the Boosters ignite, but can't really see them unless the Sun angle on them is perfect. We don't get to see the Launch or Landings though, because it's so far away over the curvature of the Earth.
Also, I've missed more launches than I've seen, because I'm either not always awake, or it's cloudy, or if you're not someplace where you can readily get outside to look East quickly enough, it's gone.
They get out'a here in a HURRY. Today the video I got shows MICO and it's "falling" over the curvature of the Earth. My GF asked if it was coming back down? I said, no, it's going over the curvature of the Earth.
Thing is, 66 Launches in 2022. They're planning on breaking that record this year. 5+ a month. UN REAL.
It is a major historical event. The launch of and successful landing of the massive boosters of this size means that humans can now travel to and live on distance planets.
@@johannesdolch WOW......Calm down and take a deep breath son. I never imagined people here being like this. I was just sharing my excitement with you. I am sorry I came here now.
@@johannesdolch Its a good thing you were NEVER a part of the SpaceX project.
Never stops to amaze me. Those two side boosters making their come back turn next to each other in the tracking cam view... made me tear up.
LOVE FROM NEPAL 🇳🇵❤
It was awesome my son and I. My son who actually wants to work for NASA or SpaceX when he gets older. We’re outside watching it. What a great memory we made.
How old is he?
I love how SpaceX has just basically built a fleet of veteran boosters so that the expendable missions don't hurt so much anymore
This is definitely a more expensive flight for the customer as well...they need the extra power to get their product into orbit, they pay a premium for the vehicle. SpaceX still saves money and resources by recovering the side boosters, and gets paid for the spent core stage as well
I was in Vero Beach and could see the side boosters break away from the main rocket and it was amazing.
It was a gorgeous launch yesterday. I got video of it after MICO, the Sun hitting the exhaust and Plumes was awesome!
Missed this launch when it was live but came back just for the Q&A - always fun, always educational (it’s like taking rocket science class with Professor Dodd : ). Thanks always Tim - another mission accomplished!
She has always been a Lucky Mascot for Space X. Copy book launch and landings today for Falcon Heavy. Congratulations.
Looks like it took 42 seconds for the boosters to change direction once they fired the engines in the boost back burn. You can clearly see when all the backwards momentum was overcome!
It never gets old watching them land.
Love the new intro...!!! 🤩👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏...!!!
Never tire of these!
I love that the side booster speed and altitude data was included after separation. If I'm interpreting those speed deceleration and acceleration numbers of the boosters after separation the G forces must be well beyond human endurance, I guess that's my question.
Every time l think they come back too fast, they ll never be able to kill their speed.
Every time l m wrong.
My very quick napkin-math seems to suggest around 100km/h per second, which "only" equals 28 m/s^2, or right around 3G :)
I dont think the engines(mounts, bearings, etc) and tanks are made to endure higher g-forces than this, as it would make them considerably heavier
@@Newspaperman57 well that's a bummer, are you sure with your calculations.
@@robertf.kuszewski4150 3G is still quite a bit. And there are probably spikes higher than that. So it still would be quite the ride.
@@kindlin The shuttle (and its astronauts) endured 4G during ascent, 3G is "fine"
I will never be unimpressed by the Awesome precision and consistency with which SpaceX lands and reuses their vehicles. Every time I see a booster land, I get the exact same intense mixture of thoughts and feelings - astonishment, elation, humility, optimism, anticipation, joy, wonder, pride, gratitude, enthusiasm..., revolving right back to pure, unadulterated astonishment again and again and again... And I am absolutely certain that the intensity of these thoughts and feeling will never wane, no matter how "routine" these flights become.
Thank you, Elon Musk and SpaceX, for bringing elation and inspiration back into an old cynical heart. Whether you know it or not (and, something tells me you very well do) you guys are standing on the frontline in the war between the hordes of political barbarians who want nothing more than to trample into dust even the slightest flicker of human ambition, and to lord it over us, in their twisted brand of secular salvation, their indispensability as Humanity's Problem-Solvers for the very problems that they themselves create.
You guys - Mr. Musk, and the faithful, loyal, hard-working, and BRILLIANT!... Women and Men of SpaceX - you guys are Humanity's true Problem-Solvers. And you guys absolutely ROCK!
Love your "new intro" Tim, it's like a nice nostalgic "movie" 😉
I was able to watch a large part of the launch and boosters return from statesboro GA. It was amazing to see. I took a video but you can’t see as much as you could in person.
As someone who washed dishes for much of my life. I think even low skill jobs will be needed on Mars.
Sure robots can do a lot but some tasks are still very hands on.
Hats off Tim, another amazing and informative coverage
The side boosters boostback shot was awesome!
Two boosters, landing side-by-side... wow!
i watched this live from Kennedy. one of the best launches ive seen.
SUPER COOL Intro! Love it!
great views of launch and booster landing
this is just unbelievable EVRY TIME I SEE IT! GO SPACEX, and NASA
Space X is the best, Falcon heavy is absolutely brilliant.
Thanks, Tim. Great video compilation as usual.
Excellent filming Tim!
It takes a lot of work to make things simple.
@ 39:45 why for a brief moment was there a clip of the rocket on the ground and side boosters still locked in position?? They cleary have already separated and split apart
Space is hard, for everyone who is not SpaceX.
Amazing launch
And the landing, of the two boosters, wasn't too shabby, either!
very well done SpaceX, it's awesome to see the constant quality and attention to detail that pushes humanity forward. it's also why the united states will stay ahead technologically when compared to eurasia, africa and the pacific.
Tim - spaceX makes it so easy
spaceX - another day at office
What?! SpaceX!! My brain still can’t believe what I see time and time again.
Thanks Tim. Question anybody: How does SpaceX measure the speeds of their rockets and boosters? Airliners use pitot tubes. Maybe something like these?
They navigate with GPS, maybe they get the speed from that as well.
No it is like on Saturn II , V Numerical integration off the measured acceleration vector minus the gravity vector. : Inertial navigation, very accurate in this short term, of a few minutes. On aircraft , inertial navigation needs to be corrected for long term drift. GPS is possible to GPS satellite's altitude ,12 h orbits, above , the orientation of the antennas are an issue.
Aircraft indicated altitude and speed are indeed pressure sensors, but true airspeed is very different, determined by calculation, GPS is ground speed, not equal to TAS because of the Wind. TAS is calculated from indicated by multiplication with the RDR, Root density ratio, sea level density divided by density at altitude, above 18000 ft , Flight level. Example
12000 ft RDR 1.20
9000 ft RDR 1.15
6000 ft RDR 1.10
3009 ft RDR 1.05
pilots memorize this simple table or use the slide rule on the IAS indicator
It's all so awesome. (This channel!)
Spacex is so dominant now that having dirty boosters on the pad is a signal of reliability.
Love how side boosters got so much screen time. They are no longer supporting actors.
They steal the show from the main mission !
landing is always the main satisfaction
I saw your Aerospike and RS 25 engine T shirts I'll have to order one. I made parts for both. I used to work for Rocketdyne in the 60th at space engine division unfortunately the X33 did not work out due to composite fuel tank difficulties.
Every launch and landing is symphony of people doing their jobs right and learning from mistakes. We can't wait till we can watch @everydayastronaut ride to lunar orbit and back!
Love what you do, Tim. You’re inspiring the next generation of space geeks, and that’s awesome.
How come we can't launch a 1/4 size model of everything achieving the same outcome ? Hypothetically
This has always ever been from human scale/perspective... What if we all were only ever 6" tall? Why couldn't we achieve the same outcome
I can't wait to see you go to space it'll be a rare experience
Dude that intro song is amazing! Kinda of reminds me of a band named Moving Mountains.
Would a person survive riding the booster up and then landing?
The next launch is in Afghanistan where 75 to 100 afghanis will sneak under the landing gear in an attempt to escape their poor country. Lets see how many come back when the booster lands.
Depends on where, possible but not likely.
No. Aside from the difficulties of breathing hard vacuum, the G forces on landing would be lethal. They don't call the landing a suicide burn for nothing.
They do make it look easy.
Hey @everydayastronaut after this mission had been postponed 2 times to the exact same timeslot every time I suddenly realized I had a question: Since the payload is going to Geostationary orbit, couldn't it theoretically be launched at anytime since the Launchpad and Destination is synchronously rotating? Or are there other factors that influence the trajectory (moon or other satellites or something) so it needs to be launched at a specific time?
you are right. Maybe the winds aloft , especially the wing gradient to minimize loads.
@@arturoeugster7228 does the Wind Gradient follow the time of day so that 4 minutes to midnight CET is the ideal launch time? Maybe @scottmanley knows I should ask him.
4:26
“January 15th 2022, yup, that is today” 😂
No. Tim it was last year not today.
Great video though. Beautiful launch. Thanks for the stream
Thought so also,? Space Force payload 2022!...
Why did they do 1-3-1 landing burn? For staggered landing, or due to less propellant remaining?
¡¡Amazing launch!!
👏👏👏👏👏
What happened to the central booster?
Awesome intro.
Wasn't the right booster tilted very much on the pad? I would bet that it tipped over
Center booster was real white compared to side booster, was it new?
Yes. there are, at present, no used center cores, so it has to be new.
@@odysseusrex5908 oh, I didn't knew that. Thanks for the info.
Any reason for it to always be new? (Especially when it s gonna be expandable)
I tried to share the new Everyday Astronaut intro with a friend, but I couldn't find it's specific RUclips page. Will there be a one?
There's a whole bunch of Canaveral launches all listed for going on the 30th right now, is there any chance any of those might move up a couple of days? We'll be getting on a cruise ship at the port on the 28th and it auew would be nice to see another one but from that perspective! Thanks!
They usually stick to their schedules, moving them can cause issues, including with cruise ships.
Like my first live horse race as a kid, forever astounding and beautiful are NASA and SPACEX launches. 1/15 a heavyweight. 🙏 physics, good Q's(all 3 downrange?)
A good strategy I think, seeing that Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy are so successful is, once the starship becomes operational, to leave the starship in space, and use Falcon rockets to transit people to the starship. Not doing the sums, but safety would be one consideration, and it possibly could be cheaper as fuel usage could be less.
Uh huh, imagine leaving a ship outside the harbor and ferrying crew and passengers out to it four or five at a time in small boats. Yes, a great deal of qualification work is going to have to be done, and operational experience gained, before we launch and land people in a Starship, but that will be be done.
the upper stage of falcon heavy is not reusable, the upper stage of superheavy, the space ship is reusable, the fuel is much much cheaper.
Why isn't there more info/ coverage on the "new" alloy used in SX engines? It seems that would've been a big accomplishment. Can't seem to find any details regarding it. What am I missing? SX-300 and SX-500... is this it?
Some of that counts as the secret sauce.
Well, that is a corporate secret that SpaceX doesn't want the competition to know about.
I wish this channel still had sub 20 minutes episodes. As much as I'd love the detail from 2hr videos, I have too many interests to watch just this. I want to consume other content too. I haven't watched anything from this channel since he started doing long episodes. Before that, I watched most of his stuff. Could make two versions of your stuff, one that is 12 or 16 minutes long and another that is 40-120min long.
I think its funny how none of us can seem to get over one booster landing and two blows our minds. I dont know how I will feel when we see Starship land for the first time....Im guessing a mild form of shock.
Thunderbirds will definitely be go.
Would it not be possible to reuse the center cores in orbit to create an orbiting hab
They never make orbital speed.
Intro Song was so good!! Can't find it on Spotify though :(
What’s the sound delay echo all about?
It's just like thunder coming after lightning. The shockwave that makes the sonic boom takes time to get to the observer after you actually see the rocket.
I think Starship has a hard act to follow with SpaceX's own Falcon Heavy; check it out, even the landing legs are modular in application allowing the central core to be used as an expendable vehicle in this case, unlike the last launch. Constantly innovating, and their closest competitor is themselves. Almost incredible... I just hope Starship becomes as ubiquitous as this partially reusable system.
Actually, the last Falcon Heavy launch also expended its central core. The day will come when Starship has totally replaced the Falcon rockets and is conducting multiple launches per *day.* Then we will all ignore it the same we do airplanes.
Info at the start is great - the only question I had left: what happens to the center core? Does it stay in orbit and slowly decay? Or do they do a de-orbit burn?
A falcon booster never gets to orbit
It never reaches orbit. After stage separation it just follows a parabolic arc an splashes down in the Atlantic. Had they not required all the fuel for this mission, it could have landed on one their recovery barges.
Audio was F'ed up.
1:38:30 brand new, never dropped, just flown once :D
Whose video taping the boosters
Have they ever recovered all three boosters or is that perhaps not possible?
April 11th, 2019, so I think it is!
@@nathanwahl9224 Well, they managed to land the center core that day, unfortunately, due to rough seas, it toppled over and was lost. It is certainly possible, they've just had bad luck with it on the first three flights.
thank you
Incredible! I have trouble parallel parking.
When 4 booster Super Heavy?
Never.
I still don't understand why they don't certify falcon heavy for human flight it is such a good flight worthy proven rocket it could get humans to the moon and possibly to mars what do you think
how bloody awesome is it seeing those boosters land so smoothly ,so glad we have a good internet connection here in newzealand , that take off was hand waving excitement , enjoy watching you getting excited. aint our future for space travel looking and getting better every time elon sends rockets up into that dark place ,as well as other companies doing it , humans are getting better with tech and watching channels like yours just blows my mind ,enjoy them all , enjoy life
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just mission audio please!
What will happen to the second stage of this mission? Back to a drone ship or burn up?
Second stages are never recovered. They always burn up, sooner or later depending on mission requirements. Since this one is going straight to geosynchronous orbit, it will probably be placed in a highly eccentric parking orbit that will gradually decay over several years, unless the second stage itself will be used to circularize the orbit, in which case it will just be left up there.
@@odysseusrex5908 Sorry, my bad, I meant the first stage. 3 in total for the falcon heavy, 2 landed on land, what about the 3rd one?
@@fbonde Ah, in this case, they needed all possible delta V from it so there was no fuel for a landing. After separating from the upper stage it followed a parabolic arc and splashed down in the Atlantic.
It will become a home for the fishies along with the extra film of fuel lining the walls as conditioner for them. Save the environment tho!
@@odysseusrex5908 So, for every falcon heavy launch, the 3rd booster is not to be saved because the ballistic arc is too far out over the Atlantic?
Great job, Tim, How is the Moon training going? I don't care about anything else! You're a megastar!!!! OMG man it's amazing. I went to Wikipedia and your name is there. Imagine Children in school will be reading about you. You're an inspiration.
Would you say he's really made the grade and the papers all want to know whose shirts he wears?
Fat Jesus speaks the truth
Tim Dodd, the Falcon of Space messaging 💞👍🚀🤠🥰🥳
...never heard the faring séparation confirmation!
That's because of the classified nature of this payload.
love your streams watched this live with you however the audio is always choppy and crackly
Is falcon heavy powered by merlin or raptor?
Merlin, it's 3 F9's.
I want to build a Florida vacation around a SpaceX Heavy launch and booster landing. Too bad it will need to be done at a moment’s notice😢😢.
How long would you be staying? They're up to around once a week now, but it's hard to tell. In three two-month stays over the last three years we managed to watch 8 launches, but they are more frequent now.
Unbelievable progress by Elon and Crew! Boosters a Thorne in NASA's side back in shuttle days during Bush. "Mad Props" spoken by Tim Dodd💯❣️
The air must be extremely thin for the booster to not crumble during the flip.
Above the Karman line.
I thought this launch was going to include a center core landing as well no?
You should have listened to the girl. She said it was expandable this time. It needed all its gas to complete its mission.
@@Boss_Tanaka oh ok. Thank you. Must have missed that
Are there any concerns about china or russia trying to recovery the center booster?
No. Recovering boosters from the bottom of the ocean is not that easy, and certainly not worth the expense.
Its crazy how dependable those rockets are.
Watching a launch live is not only hard for you. It's deadly for your Tesla!
I thought they stopped recovering the fairings no? At least for a fair period of time.
No. What they did do is stop trying to catch them in a net. After so many failed attempts at that, they determined that brief exposure to salt water was not hurting them. They were still able to be reused so they changed their recovery method. Now the fairings just parachute into the water and the recovery ship scoops them out.
Always excellent Tim. Thank you for carrying on despite how you might otherwise be engaged. (Dear Moon) Congratulaions. Good on ya. I will reasssert SpaceX tried to land all 3 Falcon Heavy components once before. Core landing failed. Maybe they gave up? ($ issue) Would love to see them try it again. They are capable and have learned a bunch since that failure. This launch , while claissified, clearly shows this is one seriously heavy-weight payload. Whatever it is....will help ptotect the world. And being a goofy old Canadian... I say this.-- Russia. China. SUCK IT.
No, they did center core landing on the first three Falcon Heavy launches. The center core is not all that different from a regular Falcon 9. There is no reason to "give up". There were just different technical issues each time. The first time there was a leak, not in the fuel itself, but in the material used to ignite the fuel. Thus the engines did not light properly for landing. The second time, they were deliberately pushing the booster to the limit of its endurance, landing much further downrange than had ever been tried before and requiring much higher thrust than had ever been used before. Something burned through and they lost one or more engines. The third time they landed just fine but there were high seas and they had not yet developed the Octograbber, at least not one fora Falcon Heavy core, and the rocket just fell off the ship. You can see that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the design or execution, just normal teething pains and some bad luck. The last couple of missions have simply required all of the thrust that could be gotten out of the center core, so there simply was no fuel for a landing. I'm sure they will land the center core when mission requirements permit.
very top secret . there it goes
Can someone tell me the Instragrams of the Rocket photographers? thank you.
Hello Tim Dodd. I am a follower of your videos because you have a good base of aerospace knowledge and you give good explanations. I've had an idea about rocket engines that I want to send to Elon Musk. Maybe he's interested. How can I get it to him directly? Thank you.