Whitechapel - Falcon 9 launches successfully Fri, 24 May 2013 13:25:51 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242767#Comment_242767 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242767#Comment_242767 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:26:43 -0700 Kosmopolit Space X's Falcon 9 rocket has made its first successful flight to orbit.

The company hopes to start cargo flights to the ISS as early as next year and the eventual goal is to get its Dragon capsule approved for human flights. ]]> Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242804#Comment_242804 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242804#Comment_242804 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:18:37 -0700 Val A Lindsay II this also!"

"They can have this place! Let me help build something new! Take me with you!" ]]> Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242835#Comment_242835 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242835#Comment_242835 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:36:57 -0700 stsparky Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242861#Comment_242861 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242861#Comment_242861 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:48:41 -0700 warrenellis "According to the Spaceflight Now website, a SpaceX spokesperson said the rocket achieved orbit, but they were not sure of the altitude or inclination."

If you call that a successful launch, then you don't want to know what I call you. ]]> Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242870#Comment_242870 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242870#Comment_242870 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:39:43 -0700 Val A Lindsay II Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242877#Comment_242877 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242877#Comment_242877 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:07:56 -0700 warrenellis Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242881#Comment_242881 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242881#Comment_242881 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:30:40 -0700 Ed Sludden designed to fall off", that worry me. I'll wait for the patch, thanks.. ]]> Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242886#Comment_242886 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=242886#Comment_242886 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:43:56 -0700 looneynerd Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=243021#Comment_243021 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=243021#Comment_243021 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:01:52 -0700 Val A Lindsay II and the advancement/miniaturization of technology how their system could be that glitchy. What's so damned different about this spacecraft that excuses that kind of failure? ]]> Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=243025#Comment_243025 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=243025#Comment_243025 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:27:23 -0700 rickiep00h ...though a part of me would trust the geeks at NASA more than profit-mongering corporations. I'm interested to see how independently-operated space flight will turn out...I believe it ends up with Arnold Schwarzenegger restarting a reactor. At least, that's how it was in a movie I saw.

I agree, though. Between the extreme expense of it all and the fact that there's really no market for anything in space*, private companies have little to profit off of going to space. Which leads me to believe there will be a great many O-ring failures in the future of privatized space flight.

*(eta) That is, nothing except selling transportation and maintenance services to the government (and occasionally telco companies). ]]> Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=243103#Comment_243103 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=243103#Comment_243103 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:11:49 -0700 roadscum Looks like they managed to find it and it was pretty much where it should have been.
Shortly afterward, The Reg received a SpaceX email that quoted founder Elon Musk as saying: "Nominal shutdown and orbit was almost exactly 250km. Telemetry showed essentially a bullseye: ~0.2% on perigee and ~1% on apogee."

That doesn't look too bad to my somewhat uneducated eye. ]]> Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=243105#Comment_243105 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=243105#Comment_243105 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:15:04 -0700 looneynerd
It's not bad for a test flight. But for things like orbital docking, you have to have extreme precision. It's a good start, but they'll have to do better. ]]> Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=243777#Comment_243777 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=243777#Comment_243777 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:08:07 -0700 Artenshiur Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=245451#Comment_245451 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=245451#Comment_245451 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:58:11 -0700 government spy Historically, the maiden flights of rockets have a notoriously high failure rate. Some two-thirds of the rockets introduced in the past 20 years have had an unsuccessful first outing. So basically, since there wasn't catastrophic failure, this was a success! Send in the monkey astronauts! ]]> Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=245453#Comment_245453 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=245453#Comment_245453 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:08:56 -0700 sneak046
Their goal to be delivering to ISS by 2011 does seem a little optimistic tho. ]]> Falcon 9 launches successfully http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=245485#Comment_245485 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8364&Focus=245485#Comment_245485 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:48:56 -0700 bjacques
Also, some friends tell me that a fellow engineering graduate went into space yeterday. Who knew? ]]>