That would be hot for an aircraft, but it was the planned vertical speed profile for the rocket.
Wasn't it supposed to land at 5m/s? First stage is about 37m tall and it should take leisurely 5 - 6 seconds or so to finish the last rocket length, but in the video, it is finishing that in about 2.5 - 3 sec, coming in at least twice as too hot. Maybe they need to start the landing thrust several seconds earlier, assuming they have enough fuel left.
a new scan technique using muons have shown the fuel is not in its place.
Hah??? The whole point of this technology was supposed to be able to locate where the fuels debris are so they can start planning the removal. They said it themselves.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/pres...
But before those reactor cores can be removed, it is essential to locate where the debris has dropped inside the reactor.
So the technology didn't work. They just confirmed that the it is not in the core, which provide them with zero information to be able to move forward but they didn't say that and pretending it is some kind of achievement and not admitting the fact the they didn't achieve the prime objective of this exercise. Very typical of TEPCO. I hope they don't waste money repeating this to #2 and #3 to confirm that the fuels are not in place there either.
fly all the way back to the launch site (would seem to be alot of fuel) -
That was my original impression, that you have to continuously burning to actively control the fall. But I recently saw a number that Apollo style capsul's terminal velocity is something around 300 miles/h and they spend several minutes free falling after fireball decelleration. Note "free falling" in this context is different from physical definition of free falling and describe the falling at constant speed of terminal velocity. 300 miles/h is half as fast as horizontal speed of airliners, and comparing to 120 miles/h of skydiving of human body (I'm a skydiver), it is not very fast. So after the supersonic reentry, I assume first stage is already on the trajectory to free fall toward the landing pad only controlled by the fins without any fuel burn. I'm curious what is the terminal velocity of the falcon 9 first stage is, but with empty large volume with little fuel left, and engine cones facing down, I imagine it is not that fast. This phase of landing is abbreviated in their fancy CG, so I too also got impression that they burn fuel from pretty high up, but we also saw one chase plane video of first stage coming down through the clouds without burning any fuel and seems to be in stable free falling.
SpaceX would use portable “port-o-potties” during landing operations.
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Well, Eskimos live in many different countries, but the article specifically says Alaskan Eskimos. The last time I checked, Alaska is a state which belongs to U.S. and they are subject to U.S. law. Eskimos pleaded with U.S. government to protect their whaling rights, so U.S. government negotiated with IWC to allow for their hunting.
I always find it interesting that while we aften say "native Americans" or "American indians", "American" rarely accompany "Eskimos". I googled american-eskimos in google news and top 10 hits were all about american-eskimo dogs.
We are not a clone.
