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Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-Degree Video

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Can we get this link updated to point directly to the Youtube video, this is blogspam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDK5TF2BOhQ

I'm amazed at how well my phone handles this.

I had no idea how good accelerometers got until I saw this on the iPhone YouTubeApp. This is cool. Now I wanna shoot more 360 videos.

How do they secure the rocket remotely after landing?

I believe it rests under its own weight and friction. In an interview, Musk said the acceptable wave height was 2-3 times higher than the ones seen during that landing.

I'm a little skeptical about that. You can clearly see the rocket slide as it lands.

It still has surplus horizontal velocity when it hits the deck, hence the sliding. [1] Musk confirmed on Twitter that the rocket in fact doesn't need securing and the metal shoe plan turned out to be unnecessary.

[1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/726218218109444096

I wonder how they determined that it's unnecessary. Did they try to topple it over?

Really heavy objects with a low center of mass don't just topple over. It's 42 meters tall and weighs around 20.000 kg without fuel.

http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/falcon-9-v1-1-f9r/

They weld a metal shoe over each landing leg.

According to Musk, securing it turned out not to be necessary:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/726218218109444096

Early plan was to weld shoes over the feet. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk...

For CRS-8 they used jacks and chained it hooks welded on the deck. Done by humans, not remotely.

https://i.imgur.com/NAJU4JS.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/IBZmewR.jpg

Not sure if they'll keep doing this, given Musk's tweet saying it doesn't need securing. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/726218218109444096

This made my Google Cardboard purchase so worth the $20!

I liked hearing the audio too: the hum of the barge, the double-crack of the sonic boom followed by the roar of the engines. Epic!

Hopefully in the near future there will be landings shot in higher resolution, and with better audio.

I have Google cardboard too - but usually that has two views right? How did you get this to work? Still impressive just looking 'up' with the bare phone!

The Google Cardboard feature only works on Android devices right now.

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