NASA CRS-6 Launch Briefings
NASA SpaceX CRS-6 Pre-Launch News Briefings [Watch]
“Today, a Falcon 9 rocket will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on the 6th SpaceX cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Yesterday, NASA held three news briefings to discuss the mission and research on the ISS.”
Marc’s note: At the briefing, SpaceX’s Hans Koenigsmann was asked what the probability of success for the Falcon 9 first stage landing on the drone ship. His response was 75% and then he said perhaps 80%. It seems SpaceX is quite a bit more confident on this third attempt.
Marc’s update: The launch was scrubbed until Tuesday at 4:10 pm EDT due to weather. The weather forecast for tomorrow is 50-50.
Third time is the charm after-all.
*fingers crossed
It cannot be overestimated how important a successful touchdown would be. If the rocket and engines are found to be easily reusable, the whole future of travel into space changes forever. It would be a quantum moment in human history, where we become a space-faring species, rather than just making tentative brief forays into space.
Everything changes.
And the probability of that happening is somewhere way way below Musk’s admitted guesstimate of 50-50 for the first shot at the ASDS. This is way early days on brand new technology.
The head of the team is confident enough by this time to give this one a 75-80% chance.
The last flight was full of don’t knows what they don’t know. They think they know where all the bears in the woods are hiding.
The 75-80% chance refers to chance of doing it successfully this year — not this launch. https://twitter.com/elonmus…
I watched the press conference and he didn’t say down the road. Elon was trying to correct what Hans said it appears.
That is a modification of the original projection. Musk prefers to low-ball his chances.
Hopefully no thunderstorms pop up over the barge.
http://phys.org/news/2015-0…
Weather abort at 3 minutes.
Tomorrow new launch but not good forecast.
Hey, after just four 50/50 odds we’re up to a near certainty for a launch.
musk: “Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival.”