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SpaceX - official thread (1 Viewer)
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ericttspikes
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Borden
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The General
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Musk is about 2 years from being a Bond villain.
The General
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So am I reading this right, the car is almost to Mars? W T F 
Judge Smails
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Brilliant. Elon gave this about a 50-67% chance of succeeding. Amazing what he's pulling off in a short lifetime
Tom Servo
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SkyRattlers
Anti-aliai
No it won't reach a Mars flyby until OctoberSo am I reading this right, the car is almost to Mars? W T F
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Insoxicated
This.
What's crazy is this absolute genius with massive amounts of resources is actually a GOOD GUY. Like, he's not some ####holster Type A dickwad control freak megalomaniac. He actually genuinely seems to be a nice guy who is literally just trying to the most he can for humanity.
Pretty crazy stuff. One of the most important people alive today, IMO. I hope he lives to be a hundred.
gianmarco
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shader
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BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
saintfool
Dead sexy
wilked
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tommyboy
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no its supposed to be 6 monthsSo am I reading this right, the car is almost to Mars? W T F
Leeroy Jenkins
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jb1020
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I saw on his twitter they printed "Made on Earth by Humans" on circuit board that's on the Tesla.
Tom Servo
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I'm a huge fan of this guy
MikeIke
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Phil Elliott
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They have landed single boosters before, but agree, it was absolutely amazing to see them come down at the same time and land successfully. Wish they could have admitted the main booster landing didn't quite land appropriately when they just cut off the video feed and no one knew what was going on.
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Phil Elliott
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El Floppo
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Both of these. Just amazing, the whole thing. Tbh, I would've been happy enough if it really was just shopped. That it's (supposedly
) real? 
MikeIke
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Well, like you said, no one knew what was going on. After it became clear that the main booster failed its landing, SpaceX came out and said so. It's not like they were trying to cover up anything.
tommyboy
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tommyboy
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They didn't discuss in the live broadcast, at one point a very awkward changing of subjects. Obviously the hosts had been told to move on, nothing to see here. It wasn't until later that musk revealed the bad landing.
I don't care it failed, everything else was a monumental success
Rustoleum
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El Floppo
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Musk's last image of tesla and star-man
"Test vehicles usually carry concrete or steel blocks, but Musk said that would be “extremely boring.”
“We decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel,” Musk was quoted as saying. SpaceX expected the battery in the car to last 12 hours, but it lasted just 4 hours, according to USA Today.
Scientists believe that radiation will tear the car into pieces within a year."
"Test vehicles usually carry concrete or steel blocks, but Musk said that would be “extremely boring.”
“We decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel,” Musk was quoted as saying. SpaceX expected the battery in the car to last 12 hours, but it lasted just 4 hours, according to USA Today.
Scientists believe that radiation will tear the car into pieces within a year."
heckmanm
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Sand
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It ran out of fuel and hit the water pretty close to the drone pickup ship at 300+ miles an hour. Evidently it rained water and debris all over the ship. Word is if the cameras on the pickup ship survived the footage would be "epic".
culdeus
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There is a blooper reel video of all the drone ship fails out there, but I can't seem to find it. I'm sure it was on youtube, but not sure if SpaceX produced it, or maybe had it taken down or something.
Found it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
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I get this... you want to focus on the monumental successes and let the moment continue to develop. The bad landing is a bummer but quite minor in the grand scheme of things. The mission was a resounding success. This was a much bigger deal than I think many Americans realize.
Galileo
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Apparently, it survived but the US Air Force took it out when it could not be retrieved.
ETA: wrong launch...Space X is too active. I can't keep up!
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heckmanm
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Galileo
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The Future Champs
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Greatest publicity stunt of all time? It’s got to be the best in recent memory.
The Gator
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Nathan R. Jessep
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BobbyLayne
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First 60 Starlink satellites spotted over Netherlands
$10Bn project to launch thousands of low orbit satellites, creating high-speed, cable-like internet to every corner of the planet.
The planned constellation will be huge, consisting of nearly 12,000 satellites when completed. For comparison, in 2019, there were only about 1957 functional satellites in orbit around Earth in total. The SpaceX constellation will increase the number of active satellites in orbit sevenfold. Pretty amazing stuff.
Starlink Compendium - good in depth overview of the project
$10Bn project to launch thousands of low orbit satellites, creating high-speed, cable-like internet to every corner of the planet.
The planned constellation will be huge, consisting of nearly 12,000 satellites when completed. For comparison, in 2019, there were only about 1957 functional satellites in orbit around Earth in total. The SpaceX constellation will increase the number of active satellites in orbit sevenfold. Pretty amazing stuff.
Starlink Compendium - good in depth overview of the project
