SpaceX Launch - Worlds most powerful rocket - Falcon heavy
 

Folks.. HISTORY was made yesterday!

what a spectacular launch.



discuss the future of mankind.... within 10yrs, humans will be on MARS.

Congrats to Elon and his SpaceX team! The Falcon Heavy is one powerful rocket. :thumbsup:

The live video feed from the "Starman" inside Elon's Tesla roadster is nice:

that simultaneous landing of the boosters was epic.

Elon's tweet about the Tesla roadster exceeding Mar's orbit and heading towards the asteroid belt. Impressive!


Elon Musk‏ @elonmusk

Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt.
7:46 PM - Feb 6, 2018

wait, it already made it past Mars?

If this level of innovation keeps up, we will more than likely see a mission to Mars in our lifetime!

EDIT: I'm an idiot.

Assuming a bit of Engrish on the part of Elon. We would be Interstellar travelers if we could travel that distance in less than a day.

The average distance is about 225 million km between earth and mars.

assuming 24 hrs has past,

it would have needed to travel: 9,375,000 km/h.

I believe the photo above is missing the caption,
"SpaceX’s depiction of the Roadster’s orbital path over the months ahead. (SpaceX/Elon Musk)"

If Elon can figure out a way for people to send people safely on Mars to live there and grow food there given Mars' high radiation levels, that would be very impressive.

-need those Matt Damon Martian skills to grow potatoes on Mars. LUL

-good article that explains what will happen in the next few months with the Tesla roadster that was launched into space by Falcon Heavy:

https://www.livescience.com/61684-sp...yond-mars.html

-from the article:

"Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the asteroid belt," SpaceX rock star CEO Elon Musk tweeted yesterday night (Feb. 6) after a successful launch of his Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Those less familiar with the principles of interplanetary flight might take this as a statement that the rocket, currently the most powerful in the world, and its payload — Musk's midnight-cherry Tesla Roadster blasting David Bowie's "Space Oddity" — have already reached the orbit around the Red Planet.

But that clearly would be too ambitious a feat even for the boundary-breaking entrepreneur. What actually happened is that the rocket overshot its intended orbit and set itself onto a trajectory that would lead it much deeper into space than originally intended, into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

According to astronomer Phil Plait, writing for his Syfy.com blog, the spacecraft was expected to enter an elliptical orbit around the sun, intersecting the orbit of Mars at its farthest point and the orbit of the Earth at its nearest.

"This is a low-energy orbit; that is, it takes the least amount of energy to put something in this orbit from Earth," Plait, who spoke directly to Musk, explained in the blog post from December of last year. "That makes sense for a first flight."

Even if the Falcon Heavy entered the correct orbit, the rocket would still take several months to reach Mars

actually no. we wouldn't be interstellar travelers... far from it.

believe it or not... 9.3 million km per hour is super slow lol.

interstellar means we'd be travelling to and from stars... the nearest star is like 40 trillion km away.

at 9.3 million miles per hour it would still take us like 400-500 years to reach the nearest star.

we need to be travelling at least 50x faster.

corrected**

^LOL



Ok, interplantary travellers.

U mean intrastellar...

I don’t even think it’s a word but it makes sense right? Lol

Fake! Earth is flat, this is doctored CGI bullshit..Wake up people! The illuminati, the Bush family, and the rothschilds are pulling the wool over your heads! Paging CharlesInCharge!!

Wow, I can't believe how exciting watching this was.

Thanks for the upload!

The earth IS flat u morans

^ Those sonic booms. dammnnnnn

That was sick

While watching the launch, I had to constantly remind myself that this was real, and not a movie...

it's incredible what this man's achieved, from being one of many children in a broke single mother family, to the creator of paypal, tesla, now this. crazy

after watching a bunch of videos about this. I stumble upon this video..


so is the roadster really up in space or was it just them testing the rockets launching and landing?

That room is the cargo bay of the rocket. The white light is when the doors open.

i know this launch was a success, but ultimately didn't they fuck up? I mean they were aiming for mars but it overshot into the asteroid field. It's like North Korea wanted to bomb the states, but missed and hit canada and calling it a success lol.

I know it wont happen but imagine them sending tourists up to the moon in the future, overshoot and the people head towards deep space lol.

This was only a "test" flight. With the data they have now I'm sure the next one will be even better.

Berz out.