(February 6, 2018 at 9:46 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The core hit the ocean at over 300mph.
Several of the re-entry engines failed to ignite.
Nevertheless, what an amazing thing to witness!
Apparently, the core ran out of TEA-TEB which is used for engine (re)ignition. The good news is that future Falcon Heavy flights will be using Block V rockets (which is the final major iteration of Falcon 9), so the flights should be even smoother sailing/landing.
According to Musk in the post-launch press conference, their next all-in project is finishing the Dragon 2 for crew certification, which he thinks should be done by the end of the year (in Musk speak, that likely means early next year
), and then all attention will be on making the BFR, with initial pathfinder/grasshopper tests 18-24 (my estimation... he said 18 months) from now.I'm incredibly excited.
