Tag: Ocean Platform

NASA / NOAA / USAF / SpaceX Launch Today! (or possibly tomorrow)

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A newsworthy story yesterday was the delay of the launch of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVER) satellite, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, in a joint collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA, and the Us Air Force. The launch was originally scheduled for Sunday just after 6pm EST, and had what we call an ‘instantaneous’ launch window, which means that if the craft didn’t launch on time, it would be scrubbed and launched another day.  This is due to the fact that the craft is being sent to the L1 Lagrange point, a point in...

SpaceX Releases Awesome Video of Rocket Crash-Landing

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Last week, as the Dragon capsule successfully launched for the International Space Station under the watch of Space enthusiasts the world over.  There was also a bit of chatter about a secondary SpaceX goal, to land the Falcon 9 rocket on a floating barge in the Atlantic Ocean as a new method of recovery. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had tweeted at the time that the landing did not go well, implying a bit of damage to the landing pad.  A few days later, a first picture surfaced of the landing pad showing a bit of charring and a few rocket...