What’s most amazing to me is the deceleration rate achieved during that short burn before capture. It really highlights just how effing much thrust one of those engines produces. And they can gimbal it to vector into the clamp accurately!
@werehatrack it looked scary as anything approaching! It’s like the classic line “this shall not end well.” And then it did. On first try; I honestly think they expected that. They expect things to fail, and then learn a lot. But it didn’t fail at all. Then you see all the 20-25 year old engineers cheering.
Creepy as I might think Elon is. We took the Tesla for first time in for service (I thought it was OK but wife said there was wind noise from the door seals). Communication was excellent by text and app. Wife commented on how young and enthusiastic the service team was. Looked a lot like the Space-X guys. Had a 2 hour demo loaner but then they said would take a bit more time so just said grab another loaner car to take home tonight.
Seeing Space-X team (and Tesla people) reminds me a lot of the 1980s Silicon Valley vibe, though economics and politics different. Give good young people a chance to work on something super-exciting (and with largely-unlimited resources) and the sky (Mars, Jupiter) is the limit.
I have got to get me one of those.
@shahnm
@capnjb Is… is that you, Elon??
That is effing amazing.
That’s got some Jackie Robinson vibes
What’s most amazing to me is the deceleration rate achieved during that short burn before capture. It really highlights just how effing much thrust one of those engines produces. And they can gimbal it to vector into the clamp accurately!
@werehatrack it looked scary as anything approaching! It’s like the classic line “this shall not end well.” And then it did. On first try; I honestly think they expected that. They expect things to fail, and then learn a lot. But it didn’t fail at all. Then you see all the 20-25 year old engineers cheering.
Creepy as I might think Elon is. We took the Tesla for first time in for service (I thought it was OK but wife said there was wind noise from the door seals). Communication was excellent by text and app. Wife commented on how young and enthusiastic the service team was. Looked a lot like the Space-X guys. Had a 2 hour demo loaner but then they said would take a bit more time so just said grab another loaner car to take home tonight.
Seeing Space-X team (and Tesla people) reminds me a lot of the 1980s Silicon Valley vibe, though economics and politics different. Give good young people a chance to work on something super-exciting (and with largely-unlimited resources) and the sky (Mars, Jupiter) is the limit.