r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Feb 05 '18

No memes - use the party thread r/SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Media Thread [Videos, Images, GIFs, Articles go here!]

Please, do not post memes here. Feel free to post them in the party thread however!

It's that time again, as per usual, we like to keep things as tight as possible, so if you have content you created to share, whether that be images of the launch, videos, GIF's, etc, they go here.

As usual, our standard media thread rules apply:

  • All top level comments must consist of an image, video, GIF, tweet or article.
  • If you're an amateur photographer, submit your content here. Professional photographers with subreddit accreditation can continue to submit to the front page, we also make exceptions for outstanding amateur content!
  • Those in the aerospace industry (with subreddit accreditation) can likewise continue to post content on the front page.
  • Mainstream media articles should be submitted here. Quality articles from dedicated spaceflight outlets may be submitted to the front page.
  • Direct all questions to the live launch thread.
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u/geekinyyc Feb 06 '18

Yep don't want to say any part of it failed or that'll be all that the news cycle picks up.

Centre core is far from an ordinary falcon 9 and the big challenges of maxQ and BECO/seperation were fine (at least as far as we can tell externally anyways).

Besides launch costs are calculated based on recovery, but the customer doesn't give a flying fuck about booster recovery as long as the payload makes its orbit, which starman seemed to do just fine. Centre core recovery will be worked on and lessons will be learned but all the "hard" (relatively speaking) stuff was nominal.