SPACEX

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Dundee

Fading day by day.
How did I miss this Event?
I dunno about the rest of you, but my mind is blown,
100 years from now capital cities will have monuments dedicated to Elon Musk
He will be part of subjects taught in Universities in the same way Thomas Edison and the likes are.

You have probably all seen this, somehow I had missed it!!!
My eldest son shown me this today, if you do nothing else....
Watch it all, but if you cant...
Watch the first bit,
Watch the launch
then skip to the 16 min mark
and pick your blown mind off the floor at about 22 mins.

 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
Not only that but the rocket is carrying a Tesla roadster on a heading to Mars...

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Ground control to Major Tom - we have LIFT OFF! Moment the World's most powerful space rocket fires a Tesla Roadster to MARS - while the car plays Bowie's Space Oddity on its stereo (for the benefit of the crash test dummy behind its wheel)

  • 'Falcon Heavy' has finally blasted off from Cape Canaveral in a historic launch for Elon Musk's SpaceX
  • The massive three-core rocket is carrying Musk's red Tesla Roadster, with a dummy inside dubbed Starman
  • Powered by 27 engines, the rocket features three reusable cores, two of which were filmed returning to Earth
  • After launch, main module carrying the Roadster separated from the rocket, and is on its way to deep space


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Toroid

Toroid

Founding Member
Yes, lets give Starman a round of applause! He's probably going to get a lot of work in Hollywood! I can see him in an upcoming X-Men movie. :)
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CasualBystander

CasualBystander

Celestial
The upper stage apparently shut down and looped through the Van Allen belts for a while to show the electronics could take it before a final boost to an earth/mars orbit.

Musk is milking this flight for all the testing he could.

As a side note: a Falcon Heavy launch costs $90 million vs $59 million for a Falcon launch.

SpaceX is quoted as launching for $1000 per pound.
 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
"Last pic of Starman in Roadster enroute to Mars orbit and then the Asteroid Belt," Elon Musk posts on his Instagram. (ELON MUSK/SPACEX)

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Toroid

Toroid

Founding Member
A hidden object was placed somewhere in the roadster called the Arch. It's quartz crystal etched with a laser and is intended to last 14 billion years.
The Most Interesting Thing Shot into Space Last Week Wasn't a Tesla
There was a second payload on board the SpaceX Falcon Heavy that launched Tuesday (Feb. 6), and (unlike the Tesla Roadster) it's built to last 14 billion years.

SpaceX confirmed during its pre-launch livestream that the gadget, called an Arch, is tucked away somewhere inside the red Tesla Roadster now floating through space. It's a simple-looking object: a clear, thick disk of quartz crystal, about an inch across, with lettering across its face. It could almost be a small business award — best car dealership maybe, or top pizza restaurant — except for the data etched microscopically into its body with powerful, high-frequency lasers.

And that data, or at least the future suggested by that data, is what earned the Arch a ride aboard the Roadster. [Interstellar Space Travel: 7 Futuristic Spacecraft To Explore the Cosmos]

Pronounced "ark" as in "archive," it's part of a very Silicon Valley plan to — as technology investor, self-described futurist and Arch Mission Foundation co-founder Nova Spivack explained it to Live Science — create "a self-replicating, meta-level process to perpetuate human civilization."
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nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
Toroid

Toroid

Founding Member
SpaceX has launch some of the 12,000 Starlink satellites.
Elon Musk launches the first of his internet satellites | Daily Mail Online
  • SpaceX has launched the first of nearly 12,000 'Starlink' satellites as part of its latest Falcon 9 rocket launch
  • A constellation of the satellites will provide low-cost broadband internet service from low Earth orbit
  • The flight lifted off from a launchpad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 2:17pm GMT (9:17am ET)
  • SpaceX planned to recover rocket parts as a means of cutting costs via a boat carrying a net in the Pacific
  • CEO Elon Musk has now confirmed the boat, called 'Mr Steven', missed its target by 'a few hundred meters'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5422113/Elon-Musk-launch-internet-satellites.html#ixzz57t2kpuAo
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