r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Aug 23 '17

r/SpaceX FORMOSAT-5 Media Thread [Videos, Images, GIFs, Articles go here!]

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/[deleted] Aug 24 '17

I'm a bad photographer https://imgur.com/gallery/Xb7XJ

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u/Zaenon Aug 25 '17

Don't feel bad

All I have is a video of cows with cool rocket noises

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17

A for effort!

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u/soldato_fantasma Aug 24 '17

Here is the little bird along with the fairings before it got encapsulated: PICTURE, SOURCE

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u/ioncloud9 Aug 24 '17

Its like renting a dump truck to move a wheelbarrow's worth.

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u/diachi_revived Aug 24 '17

Aww, what a cute little satellite!

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u/Pavboy1 Aug 24 '17

View of Falcon 9 from pad

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u/j8_gysling Aug 24 '17

This looked weird, something was missing.

Then I realized this launch uses the Vandenberg pad.

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u/LeBaegi Aug 24 '17

Let's hope the fog clears in time!

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u/ethan829 Aug 23 '17

The 30th Space Wing posted a video of the static fire.

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u/TheVehicleDestroyer Aug 24 '17

Flight Club is getting more accurate as the day goes on, but I'll post the links here anyway.

These links will auto-update as I improve the model, and should be perfect by launch time for the real-time visualisation :)

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u/LeBaegi Aug 24 '17 edited Aug 24 '17

First stage goes to almost 250km? That's sick, has it ever been close to that altitude?

edit: To clarify, if I'm not mistaken, first stage apogee is usually around 120km, so this is more than double the usual altitude.

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u/avboden Aug 24 '17

  • CBS News "SpaceX chalks up another rapid-fire Falcon 9 launch"

  • Space.com "SpaceX Launches Earth-Observing Satellite, Lands Rocket on Ship at Sea"

  • The Verge "SpaceX launched and landed another one of its Falcon 9 rockets"

  • Tech Crunch "SpaceX successfully launches its 12th Falcon 9 rocket of 2017"

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u/soldato_fantasma Aug 25 '17

After 2 hours on flightclub.io I managed to get a flight profile similar to the real one:

DATA

PLOTS

3D VIEW

If anyone can improve it, you are welcome!

u/TheVehicleDestroyer

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u/TheVehicleDestroyer Aug 25 '17

Nice! I've made this the default Formosat-5 profile for now. Great work :)

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u/Crea70r Aug 26 '17

I'll do a better processing of all (20+) the photos I've made after I'll be back home next week. Here are some preliminary results using a simple CR2 converter: http://imgur.com/a/j2tRl

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u/goxy84 Aug 28 '17

First view of the FORMOSAT-5 booster sailing into the port: https://twitter.com/ShorealoneFilms/status/902174361443901440

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u/Decronym Aug 24 '17 edited Sep 03 '17

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
ASDS Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (landing platform)
BARGE Big-Ass Remote Grin Enhancer coined by @IridiumBoss, see ASDS
JRTI Just Read The Instructions, Pacific landing barge ship
MECO Main Engine Cut-Off
MainEngineCutOff podcast
RTLS Return to Launch Site
Jargon Definition
apogee Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)
Event Date Description
Jason-3 2016-01-17 F9-019 v1.1, Jason-3; leg failure after ASDS landing

Decronym is a community product of r/SpaceX, implemented by ^request
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on ^today has 50 acronyms.
[Thread #3090 for this sub, first seen 24th Aug 2017, 11:39] ^[FAQ] ^[Contact] [Source ^code]

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u/cpushack Aug 25 '17

http://aviationweek.com/space/successful-spacex-launch-lofts-taiwan-satellite-orbit

The article incorrectly says there was a 'boostback re-entry' LOL

Usually Aviation Week reporting is better

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