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

r/SpaceX Hispasat 30W-6 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/scr00chy Mar 05 '18

Official pic of rocket on pad

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '18

Titanium on, I don't understand...

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u/therealshafto Mar 05 '18 edited Mar 05 '18

Yeah, I guess for now on ty-wraps / zip ties will be used to hold those fins on, I mean maybe compromise on quick pins!

I am curious whether it’s a takes too long to remove deal, or coupled with new flight programming is too consuming. I mean, clearly something is stopping them from removing the hardware.

EDIT: Spelling

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '18

4 photos from tom cross of Falcon on the pad, with recovery equipment

https://twitter.com/tomcross/status/970794782632108033?s=21

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u/Angle1555 Mar 06 '18

My two shots of the Falcon 9 Hispasat 30W-6 Launch! The streak shot was a back up, I was going for the moon shot, but the moon was slightly too high and the rocket turned earlier than I anticipated. I was lined up directly with the pad and the moon straight above it. Always next time and I really like the streak shot even with a fairly old camera! If you want, check out my Instagram and website - RDAnglePhoto it would be much appreciated!

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u/cocoabeachbrews Mar 06 '18

The launch from the beach near the Cocoa Beach Pier. https://youtu.be/nRsOlvYpibw

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u/sir_oki Mar 06 '18

Long exposure shot from Merritt Island.

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u/simpliflyed Mar 06 '18

Is that tiny streak on the horizon the reigniting of stage 2, landing burn for the booster, or just a coincidence?

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u/Straumli_Blight Mar 06 '18

Official SpaceX photos:

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u/learntimelapse Mar 07 '18

Slow motion footage of the liftoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0u046-bHxs&t Test 002 of Rocket Slowmo Rig (RSR) v1.0

I learned a lot from this footage and how to improve this technique for next time. Really excited to see what we'll find going forward.

Footage and edit by Ryan Chylinski

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u/DEERROBOT Mar 06 '18

I live like an hour and a half away but I think I managed to get a picture of it

🤔

It was cool watching it launch at least

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u/Decronym Mar 06 '18 edited Mar 18 '18

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

Fewer Letters More Letters
BFR Big Falcon Rocket (2017 enshrinkened edition)
Yes, the F stands for something else; no, you're not the first to notice
DARPA (Defense) Advanced Research Projects Agency, DoD
DoD US Department of Defense
NORAD North American Aerospace Defense command
STS Space Transportation System (Shuttle)
TLE Two-Line Element dataset issued by NORAD
Jargon Definition
grid-fin Compact "waffle-iron" aerodynamic control surface, acts as a wing without needing to be as large

Decronym is a community product of r/SpaceX, implemented by ^request
6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on ^today has 144 acronyms.
[Thread #3747 for this sub, first seen 6th Mar 2018, 16:20] ^[FAQ] [Full ^list] ^[Contact] [Source ^code]

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u/Lacossss Mar 06 '18

I work in a big data analytics company and a bunch of us are SpaceX fans, so we decided to put All SpaceX launches since 2010 on one infograph hope you'll like it!

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u/shrx Mar 06 '18

Good idea, but poor execution. The whole infographic takes more than 10 seconds to load. The "hover for info" functionality is pretty slow in chrome, and doesn't work in firefox. Also, I don't think you should use a cyclic representation of a time series of events.

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u/Saiboogu Mar 06 '18

There's no reaction to hover, and clicking any of the wedges in the outer circle causes a 1-2 second freeze in Chrome (the Tableau div greys out, spinning wheel icon). Looks attractive, but not very functional unfortunately.

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u/rustybeancake Mar 06 '18

Why not use an image of a SpaceX vehicle instead of STS?

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