[URL="https://twitter.com/nova_road/status/956221490785026053/video/1"]Falcon Heavy Static Fire happened today[/URL]. Launch scheduled for Feb 6.

Elon Musk said "in a week or so", so who knows how that Feb 6th rumor will hold up, or even how Musk's timeline will. My best guess is that there's 2 to 1 odds it launches by the 15th, 1 to 2 odds it gets pushed back until after that.

NASA's satellite IMAGE was launched in 2000 and contact was lost in 2005:
[URL]https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/[/URL]

Now it appears an amateur astronomer has detected new transmissions from it, alerted NASA, and they're busy trying to re-establish contact:
[URL]https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/01/28/long-dead-nasa-spacecraft-wakes-up/[/URL]

Wow. I hope they get it to respond.

SpaceX did another launch today; though within the performance margins of droneship recovery, because of the relative age of the core, they didn't intend to recover the rocket, instead planning to test a higher thrust landing burn without risking damage to the droneship.

Instead, the new landing test worked so well that the rocket [i]accidentally[/i] survived the tipover onto the water.

[url]https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/958847818583584768[/url]

First time in a ~dozen water landings that this has happened. They literally recovered a rocket by accident. To quote some smart alec [URL="https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7ueeiu/elon_this_rocket_was_meant_to_test_very_high/"]on reddit[/URL]: "Someone update the mission thread to 'Failure' please, the 'expendable first stage' objective has tragically ended in recovery."

[QUOTE=Dubslow;478957]First time in a ~dozen water landings that this has happened. They literally recovered a rocket by accident. To quote some smart alec [URL="https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7ueeiu/elon_this_rocket_was_meant_to_test_very_high/"]on reddit[/URL]: "Someone update the mission thread to 'Failure' please, the 'expendable first stage' objective has tragically ended in recovery."[/QUOTE]
The comments have me rolling in laughter. "We accidentally recovered a first stage."

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;478959]The comments have me rolling in laughter. "We accidentally recovered a first stage."[/QUOTE]
It is indeed extremely funny, hehe.

No video of the latest launch and water landing?

[QUOTE=VictordeHolland;479075]No video of the latest launch and water landing?[/QUOTE]

The launch is still on the [URL="http://www.spacex.com/webcast"]SpaceX webcast page[/URL]. That will change soon for Falcon Heavy's launch of Feb 6, but should be available on youtube. The only thing we have yet about the water landing is [URL="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/958847818583584768"]Elon's tweet [/URL]with a picture of it floating in the ocean.

[QUOTE=wblipp;479091]The launch is still on the [URL="http://www.spacex.com/webcast"]SpaceX webcast page[/URL].[/QUOTE]
Thanks! Ahh, it is unlisted on Youtube, that's why I couldn't find it on their Youtube page...

I hope they release video of the stage1 splashdown burn :).

Since they were just going to throw this one away, they should instead donate it to the Smithsonian, the Kansas Cosmosphere, or for Kennedy's rocket garden. They have a Dragon hanging up in their headquarters in California. They also have a Falcon 1[SUP]st[/SUP] stage standing up outside.