On Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:13:13 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:05:56 +0000, T i m wrote:

On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 07:17:46 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Of course and guess who fell asleep on the sofa and missed it...

This might be of interest then Brian.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16...failed-landing

Two out of three is not bad for a first attempt.

I don't think it is the first attempt at landing the cores though as
they have even done so on the drone barge.

I'll give you that it's was the first time they had launched the
Falcon Heavy and tried to recover all 3 cores simultaneously!

It's funny how some people don't see things [1]. Whilst watching the
live feed of the recovery stage it was very obvious to me that on the
feed I was watching that what should have been the feed from the two
side cores was two duplicate feeds from one (because they 'both'
landed on the same pad). ;-)

https://youtu.be/TLA7jo90V2k?t=424

You can also see the retro burn(s) of both side cores in both video
feeds but the orientation of the landing pad is the same in both
feeds.

I'm not suggesting that there weren't two side cores, or that they
didn't land safely (even though the landing pad video looked like an
animation g), just that we didn't get to see the ride from both side
cores. ;-(

Cheers, T i m

[1] I spotted that the picture of the kitcar on the home page of the
club website was reversed, making it a LHD and apparently it had been
like that for years! ;-)