Watch (and listen to) SAOCOM 1B | Launch and Landing
This is an edit of a recent Spacex first stage flight. It's of special interest because there's audio! Get your samplers out! I reckon the RCS thrusters alone make a fairly decent range of drum noises.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 9 Sep 2020, 20:58,
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cool, is that real time? it seems to take off and turn back much quicker?
almost like a video game shooting stuff when landing
(, Wed 9 Sep 2020, 21:31, Reply)
The events are in real time, I think, but a lot of the less exciting stuff in between them has been cut out.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 9 Sep 2020, 22:12,
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Nah, it's not real-time, it's very sped up at the beginning - like 10x or something. Launch to staging is about 2.5 minutes, not 15 seconds.
After 15 seconds, it's only about 500m altitude, doing 200 kph.
Launches are surprisingly slow, really. Only about as fast as a regular car accelerates. But then, it keeps accelerating.
The later parts of the landing is real-time - ie, the landing burn is about the last 30 seconds.
In real-time, it landed at about T+8 minutes.
(, Thu 10 Sep 2020, 2:18, Reply)