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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by andrenotgiant on Saturday April 30, 2016 @10:55AM (#11601889)
Can we get this link updated to point directly to the Youtube video, this is blogspam

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

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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by wcarss on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:30AM (#11602070)
I'm amazed at how well my phone handles this.
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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by nojvek on Sunday May 01, 2016 @10:50AM (#11606380)
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.
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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by vanattab on Saturday April 30, 2016 @10:06AM (#11601740)
How do they secure the rocket remotely after landing?
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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by agildehaus on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:45AM (#11602137)
According to Musk, securing it turned out not to be necessary:

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

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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by schiffern on Saturday April 30, 2016 @01:21PM (#11602554)
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

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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by pcarmichael on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:15AM (#11601998)
They weld a metal shoe over each landing leg.
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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by jessriedel on Saturday April 30, 2016 @10:40AM (#11601836)
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.
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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by stuff4ben on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:21AM (#11602028)
I'm a little skeptical about that. You can clearly see the rocket slide as it lands.
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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by jpgvm on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:37AM (#11602101)
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

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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by kolinko on Saturday April 30, 2016 @12:56PM (#11602454)
I wonder how they determined that it's unnecessary. Did they try to topple it over?
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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by gizmo on Saturday April 30, 2016 @01:12PM (#11602516)
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/

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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by teleclimber on Saturday April 30, 2016 @01:24PM (#11602565)
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.

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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by marcosscriven on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:25PM (#11602866)
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!
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Re:Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-D... by enzanki_ars on Saturday April 30, 2016 @06:40PM (#11603964)
The Google Cardboard feature only works on Android devices right now.
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