If you watched the landing, it took a good bump in the process. It wasn't as gentle a landing as you would have liked.
SN11 potentially launching shortly , though it's still very foggy out right now. Essentially the same trajectory as the last 3.
It went up, came partly down, and something went boom during descent burn. Due to foggy conditions, no one really saw what happened. While technically not needed for launch, it was strange to launch in the fog for just this circumstance. Now a little harder to piece together what happened. And, we missed out on a huge explosion. Everybody likes explosions! lol.
I got to watch the launch from 35,000ft the other night. I got stuck flying a god awful red eye from Chicago to San Juan. We were over Atlanta when I saw a red dot far out on the horizon. It kept rising and we were wondering what the hell it was. Then it dawned on me it might be a rocket. I asked Atlanta center to call ahead to Jacksonville center to see if they just had a launch. Sure enough, he came back a minute later and said they did. We watched it for about 5 minutes climb up over the Atlantic. We could see the exhaust trail pretty good. Was the highlight of that crappy red eye for sure.
Huge win for them yesterday winning the Human Landing System (to the moon) contract. Funny how they were pretty much a surprise to win part of the first round last year (three contracts for studies awarded). Ended up being the cheapest and evaluated as the best technical option as well, winning the sole contract for about $3 billion. Awesome.
From Elon Musk..... "Hey space...look what I did to you ....again". Lets also give Gwynne Shotwell and everyone involved a standing "O"! I get the goosers every time.
SN15 tracking towards its test flight today. Probably 1-2 hours out still if it doesn't get scrubbed.
