Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-Degree Video

http://ir.net/news/vr-games-apps/124444/spacex-falcon-9-360-degrees/

by Ferver777 • 10 years ago

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vanattab• 10 years ago

How do they secure the rocket remotely after landing?

jessriedel• 10 years ago

I believe it rests under its own weight and friction. In an interview, Musk said the acceptable wave height was 2-3 times higher than the ones seen during that landing.

stuff4ben• 10 years ago

I'm a little skeptical about that. You can clearly see the rocket slide as it lands.

pcarmichael• 10 years ago

They weld a metal shoe over each landing leg.

agildehaus• 10 years ago

According to Musk, securing it turned out not to be necessary:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/726218218109444096

schiffern• 10 years ago

Early plan was to weld shoes over the feet. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk...

For CRS-8 they used jacks and chained it hooks welded on the deck. Done by humans, not remotely.

https://i.imgur.com/NAJU4JS.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/IBZmewR.jpg

Not sure if they'll keep doing this, given Musk's tweet saying it doesn't need securing. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/726218218109444096

andrenotgiant• 10 years ago

Can we get this link updated to point directly to the Youtube video, this is blogspam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDK5TF2BOhQ

wcarss• 10 years ago

I'm amazed at how well my phone handles this.

nojvek• 10 years ago

I had no idea how good accelerometers got until I saw this on the iPhone YouTubeApp. This is cool. Now I wanna shoot more 360 videos.

teleclimber• 10 years ago

This made my Google Cardboard purchase so worth the $20!

I liked hearing the audio too: the hum of the barge, the double-crack of the sonic boom followed by the roar of the engines. Epic!

Hopefully in the near future there will be landings shot in higher resolution, and with better audio.

marcosscriven• 10 years ago

I have Google cardboard too - but usually that has two views right? How did you get this to work? Still impressive just looking 'up' with the bare phone!

enzanki_ars• 10 years ago

The Google Cardboard feature only works on Android devices right now.

Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-Degree Video

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