THE VIDEO SHELF · rocket landing
First-stage landing | Onboard camera
Sped-up onboard camera footage of the Falcon 9 first stage landing on a drone ship during the THAICOM 8 mission on May 27, 2016. It shows the descent from grid fin deployment to touchdown.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN links it in SpaceX landing threads as the best first-person view of how hard a booster landing is.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- SpaceX
- Topic
- rocket landing
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2017
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The landing video from the rocket[0] really puts into perspective how much this truly is 'rocket science'. They placed a boat 600km away in the ocean, and the rocket moving at 3000+km/h from 80-ish km up landed on it using some grid fins to steer. …
mabbo on Hacker News · 2016-05
In SpaceX successfully lands a Falcon 9 rocket at sea for the third timeHave you seen this[0] from Thaicom 8's landing on the ASDS? Shows everything from grid fin deploy onward during daylight hours. 0 - [VIDEO]
dtparr on Hacker News · 2016-07
In Second Landing of Falcon 9 First Stage at Landing Zone 1
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