Falcon Heavy Static Fire

Looks like with the end of the government shutdown SpaceX got to
static fire their Falcon Heavy launcher. No word yet on 'success',
but at least nothing blew up. :-)


--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to
live in the real world."
-- Mary Shafer, NASA Dryden

Fred J. McCall wrote:
Looks like with the end of the government shutdown SpaceX got to
static fire their Falcon Heavy launcher. No word yet on 'success',
but at least nothing blew up. :-)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/956233892637286400

Seems to indicate that they consider it a success.

On 1/24/2018 1:05 PM, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Looks like with the end of the government shutdown SpaceX got to
static fire their Falcon Heavy launcher. No word yet on 'success',
but at least nothing blew up. :-)



Video is up he

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNgByUWwFKU

Looks to last approx 6 seconds from 0:10 to 0:17 in the above video.
Almost looks like two events, possibly 3. Each stack fired separately?

Dave

On 1/24/2018 5:45 PM, David Spain wrote:
On 1/24/2018 1:05 PM, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Looks like with the end of the government shutdown SpaceX got to
static fire their Falcon Heavy launcher.Â* No word yet on 'success',
but at least nothing blew up.Â* :-)



Video is up he

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNgByUWwFKU

Looks to last approx 6 seconds from 0:10 to 0:17 in the above video.
Almost looks like two events, possibly 3. Each stack fired separately?

Dave

The "Everyday Astronaut" has a video up that times it out at closer to
11 seconds. See: 4:10 onwards he

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDiJh8loTOE

Dave