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Title    SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas
Date    Tuesday April 16 2019, @07:55AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the caution-deck-is-slippery dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/16/0334250

martyb writes:

SpaceX had a successful launch, orbit insertion, and recovery of all 3 rocket boosters last Thursday. Unfortunately, they were unable to fasten down the central core on the ASDS (Autonomous spaceport drone ship) "Of Course I Still Love You:

Shifting seas and high winds brought it down.

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  1. "martyb" - https://soylentnews.org/~martyb/
  2. "recovery of all 3 rocket boosters" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/11/221258
  3. " ASDS (Autonomous spaceport drone ship)" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_spaceport_drone_ship
  4. "Shifting seas and high winds brought it down" - https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/15/18311945/spacex-falcon-heavy-center-core-drone-ship-rough-ocean
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=33038
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