SpaceX Falcon 9 Maiden Launch Totally Successful

[Ondelendo]

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[bebeheuy]

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[willamricard]

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[imegatrone]

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[bundawartini]

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[lkrnpk]

But you have to think about the future... if private companies replace NASA, Russians as key powers in space and start to compete, no doubt we'll see more action up there but also... I don't want to live under the wing of big faceless multinational corporations... now they obey the rules cause they know the military has all power... if they are ruling space, they can just say f*** you as the military of US or other nations won't reach them

[PowerOfMontage]

0:09 GIANT WASP! RUN!

[re7urd]

Aaaahhhhh ! MOTHERBUFFER !!!

[frankensteinmoneymac]

0:10 AHHHH!!!! A WASP!!! Keep it away!! Keep it away! *cries*

[oomblikkies]

Why the big fuzz about this launch? - Apollo was doing this more than 40 years ago.

[MarsFKA]

@oomblikkies You can't compare the tax-payer-funded Apollo programme with this. As well, Apollo was shooting for the Moon - Space X isn't. Yet...

[McdonaldSpecial]

0:10 CREEPY!!!

[Emanresu56]

@McdonaldSpecial Yeah, that scared me. :\

[DJCUK77]

They could have edited out all the buffering before uploading it to Youtube!!

[Eagle1Division2]

If it's safer than the Russian Rockets, then shouldn't they start putting astronauts into it, like, after ten ISS resupply launches instead of three years?

[middletech]

This could of been a great vid for space nuts if it were not for all the buffering.

[Armigo91]

they had charcoaled wasps for dinner at the launch pad.

[wilburville]

The Google of space transportation companies. Behold.

[RichardEllisxyz]

Look at that engine bell of the second stage!.....outstanding performance of your ship. Congrats all around for the entire enterprise!

[kalish86]

you could have worked on the video, removing the buffering parts.

[Talven81]

Taken from a stream constantly buffering.

[emanroga]

Hey chuckyvee70 - glad your office liked the flight, but you do realize that the President's space policy would have essentially shifted the human space launch business almost completely to companies like this, right? You realize that there could have been no better space policy for the likes of SpaceX?!

[mattmatt115]

too many chinese spies were tapped into the live feed connection thus resulting in much more buffering!!!!

[chuckyvee70]

My whole office cheered when this beautiful ship launched...if this "president" of ours wants to pass the buck on space travel, the private sector will have to do the best it can...

[groovyd007]

judging by the video they really did develop this rocket on a budget that could teach nasa a thing or two... just not sure if that is a good thing or not...

[MrSueVeneer]

Buy Spacex when ipo hits.

[dmbaechle]

congrats.  next time don't use RealPlayer though...

[jeffbaker123]

poor quality video of lift off.

[szalam555]

wha is this sh*** ? where is HD video!!!! is this a joke

[KaelinPWNS]

you could have at least edited out the buffering parts. -_-

[FishyMoe]

they need a faster modem lolol

[liOVERLOADil]

Buffering Stream... Reconnecting to Stream... Buffering Stream...

[Fastbikkel]

They are doing an incredible job there at Space X, i am following their steps closely and wish them all the best. WHat a great company!! I realy believe in those private space companies, doing it better and cheaper than NASA. I will not forget what NASA did though, and what they will still do. All those companies together can bring humanity into space much better than 1 single company.

[Fastbikkel]

I was very enthusiastic about this, until i kept running into this "buffering stream" thing. I stopped watching :P

I'll wait till there is a better one available. At least i know the launch went well.

[MuffinMan9373]

We can put a rocket into space but we still can't get decent streaming video

[mm3guy]

Buffering Stream...

[physicsbugga]

booooooring

[swift562]

they were probably saying "i'm a physicist not a camera man" i can see that buddy!

[Starwing1272]

Congratulations to Space X on the successful launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. Now we just need the Dragon Spacecraft and we are rdy to rock and roll. Ok now for a bit of a goofy comment. Now I know that spinning helps stability but did anyone else watching feel like they were on a Merry-Go-Round?? But once again congrats Space X and cont. success in the future

[opinion56]

its funny because a private american company can get a rocket into orbit when most national governments like canada cant even do it.

[toocoolforu]

Mmmmh nice spider!

[RupertsCrystals]

@toocoolforu It was a wasp, apparently.

[rexthegunipiginspace]

wow

[ddyywin]

希望别用于战争

[baillou2]

@ddyywin Me too.

[unifiedreality]

Congratulations Space X!

[MrSynapsid]

Buffaw!

[cowbomber]

FLY ATTACK!

[STHolms]

RIGHT, now that's the rocket sorted and sent into space using a comprehensive understanding of physics - Now, how do you work this camera?

[honkifurh0rny]

0:12 A FREAKIN ALIEN!!

[dobberdoss]

I can't believe with such a sucessful flight they still had not sorted the live feed buffering of this great launch. Really ruins the footage

[Muphlon]

@dobberdoss

i think it's because their servers were overloaded by watchers.

[sinblesser]

@dobberdoss Those stationary cameras are like 20 years old..... were in a budget crisis here... O.o

[RupertsCrystals]

@dobberdoss I thought the spider at 0:11 was a nice touch...

[dragonamt]

@RupertsCrystals it was a wasp...

[RupertsCrystals]

@dragonamt I realised that when I saw a better quality version of the video.

Perhaps it was the wasp that was causing the buffering...

[Toya3816]

Anything with Falcon in its name is fated to succeed.

[neocon70]

wow...this reminds me of...

BUFFERING COMMENT

[Lorric101]

@neocon70 I'm not entirely sure why, but that BUFFERING COMMENT thing really made me laugh.

[Stevareno614]

Come on...this is video after the fact.

The least you could do is edit out the parts where the video stream had to buffer.

I can recommend a decent editor if you need one. ;-)

[starguard]

Burt Rutan has got a Rival ;)

[LCbaseball9]

My friend actually works with programming the launch cycle itself, not the rocket. His part went off without a hitch. More of his work can be seen on my channel along with my baby rocket design. However, the video feed was still the least of their worries with this launch. NASA has video feed issues sometimes and they have a MUCH larger budget.

[freesk8]

Yay!  One major step in the direction of a free market in space travel and exploration!

[kdwormy]

BUFFERING

BUFFERING

BUFFERING

[jffersontube]

0:10  Oh.. oops... pardon me, didn't know you were filming.

[mistre2me]

lol grass fires!!! If that's the only problems, that's great!!!

[LCbaseball9]

Guys, it not like you are streaming a video across a building...you are streaming a video from a multi-stage rocket in outer freaking space undergoing more forces than you could imagine...a little different from a camera sitting still on a tripod. I have friends that work for SpaceX and I highly doubt they care if the video is taking a little extra time to buffer...it kinda is rocket science after all...

[LCbaseball9]

Guys, it not like you are streaming a video across a building...you are streaming a video from a multi-stage rocket in outer freaking space undergoing more forces than you could imagine...a little different from a camera sitting still on a tripod. I have friends that work for SpaceX and I highly doubt they care if the video is taking a little extra time to buffer...it kinda is rocket science after all...

[SandraBullcocked]

@LCbaseball9

This is the problem though, you would have to have friends who actually work on the rocket to feel compelled to stand up for the bad streaming.

[LCbaseball9]

Guys, it not like you are streaming a video across a building...you are streaming a video from a multi-stage rocket in outer freaking space. I highly doubt they care if the video is taking a little extra time to buffer...it kinda is rocket science after all...

[andyrccar]

should have save some $ for better internet

[gungasc]

0:10 MOTHRA!!!!!!

[ericgmejias]

I see Alien bug at 0:11

Plss vote up! hehehe

[majer75]

what is this space craft doing in space???

[verdox]

lol can't even have a good strem and we trust them with rockets..

[Batu731]

Fly Baby Fly!!

[ShadeAKAhayate]

-1 for extra low quality and unedited rip. 

[SERIIOUS24]

lol at 0:11 

[arfywarfy]

Nice high rate of spin... YUCK!!!

[arfywarfy]

Launch a rocket but can't get a decent video... I do not have much confidence. Especially with the launch vehicle stuck in a high rate of spin...

[Blood1UTUBE]

When will these things go and make the jump to Hyperspace.. Someone should edit it to make it look like it does...

Oh look, nice more garbage in our atmosphere. Just dump everything into space..

[VerbotenDingleberry]

How do you make a video suck so bad that even YT can't stream it? Seriously, wtf?

[MrTriTanium]

I think this shitty stream could be worse than processing, yikes!!

[lunchboxthewise]

OMG! pause it at 0:11 It's a UFO!

[catmandu2008]

the launch may be successful, but this video stream sucky wucky . . . .

[JoelDReid]

Seriously... I edit my videos and that's for 20 people to see. You have 161 videos, and this one will be up at 50,000 views soon--yes, folks; that's Fifty Thousand views--but you can't manage to cut the bad parts out? I realize it's "just the internet" but c'mon. Seriously guys? C'mon.

[glockman1727ak47]

@JoelDReid I agree. Don't shit on are time

[Valdris1987]

UFO,　damn ignorants, were created in the 50s to rappresent the enemy COMUNISM! hi2uhistory!

[zuriko]

I realize the streaming servers were probably very busy during this, but you could have edited out the buffering segments with little effort and made it infinitely more pleasant to watch.

Either way, great news for the future of commercial spaceflight! (And the soon-to-be hitchhiking NASA)

[protomodelsdotcom]

What's with the spinning at the end. Did Ground control get bored and go out for lunch? Sorta looked to me like it went out of control. It didn't land on my house...so I guess it went OK.

[rachmarinof]

@protomodelsdotcom Well, if you want to believe reports of the spiral seen over Australia on 4th/5th June, the explanation has been that it was the Falcon 9 'misfire'. Either the spiral WASN'T the Falcon 9, or the Falcon 9 launch was NOT a success as reported. What do you think?

[ztilb123]

nominally speaking, i was super nominally impressed with the nominally underwhelming nominal film of the nominal flight.

[ikbenharm]

lol on artpenjr

but.. if you take a close look at the vid.. do you believe it to be genuine??

[Jfoo111]

keep up the good work, SpaceX will beat NASA soon... lolx

[18CaStRaDoMiS89]

@Jfoo111

LOL SpaceX works for NASA:P

[jonlawsb]

Totally successful? I was concerned about the immediate 60' roll on the pad at T-0(sic) - was that an engine underthrusting or gimbal problem?? From the Spacex footage the base of the rocket also appears to move towards the umbilical support during the roll. Please don't say it was a programmed role because that occurs much later besides - the second stage umbilical hadn't even separated before the roll began! Nice milestone but this thing is years off launching Dragon, cargo OR people.

[Zoomer30]

The roll issue was much worse on one of the early Falcon 1 flight. In that video you can see the nozzle fighting to stop the roll but it just builds untill LOS.

As for the painful stream, it looks like Musk is trying to save a buck by using a 56k modem.

[youratm]

I am looking for the flight path of the falcon 9, does anyone know where this may be found.

[RandyJ007]

@youratm go to heavens-above dot c o m

[xilliah]

Couldn't you have cut the streaming stuff?

[daviclond]

edit out the stupid buffer/reconnect messages or get a decent net connection jesus christ

[ElJefe3126]

That roll near the end of the second stage is scary. You couldn't trust that to launch humans into orbit, it's too dangerous.

But having said that, it's very likely that they'll have that roll licked in another flight or two. A simple control law tweak should do the trick.

And the comment about the video stream is ignorant. This isn't like sending video over wireless into the next room, the problem is that the rocket is hundreds of miles away from the ground site.

[DeanFirefly]

Even when this had loaded it buffers. Give yourself st least 15 minutes to watch this, but DO watch it !

[stubbornVN]

Is that max speed discussion really just the rocket type (idiosyncratic) development of vehicle momentum along its interaction pathway? Meaning it rockets up to the critical 'vehicle to pathway' speed for effective travel efficiency. Or is it more about defeating the combined pressures of air and gravity the only way you can?

[Sprinterdrift]

Go SpaceX

[eLLriDe420]

what is this rocket for? what is the purpose? are these the people that are leading space exploration now? what is their aim?

[mach25man]

@eLLriDe420 They have a contract with Nasa to launch 12 missions with supplies to the ISS. Three test flights are included in the contract. Their not exploring anything.Their aim is to do it cheaper at about 30/40 million dollars versus 150 million if it was an Atlas or Delta rocket. The rocket is not a Nasa design and they dont own it. There is no Nasa oversight as well which saves money.

[eddiequest4]

:11 - AAAAAH ! ! ! The space alien bugs have found us. They are attacking our launchers. Hmmm. This one was probably responsible for the signal breakup of the video.... LOL

[aroundtheworlda]

Tousen at 0:11

[metocco]

Great work!

[rawmonkno1]

I wonder if that rotation during second stage burn was nominal behavior, seemed kind of odd to me.

[fizzguts]

Fantastic

[dizznutts89]

Amazing !

not that to long ago in history

no one imagine seeing space and earth like this to be the norm !

CoolBeans !

[cenriqueortiz]

awesome. history in the making. successful launch by a private space company. this is a very very hard thing to accomplish. congrats to spacex.

[silvereagle2061]

We had better stream during the Mercury Program

[agapoula]

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS IDIOTIC STREAM?? CUTS ALL THE TIME!!

[baillou2]

What the FRACK is a buffering stream???

Awesome flight BTW! :)

[Kapitananime]

That giant insect almost knocked over the rocket. Damn liberal media will not report that giant bug on T.V.

[nanvdand]

@Kapitananime I hear there's pretty big bugs in Florida - so maybe it's just the norm.

[zgrillo2004]

@Kapitananime I think its a paper wasp. but its too big to be one. might be one of those "chocolate" paper wasps. anyways. Congrats for the first ever civilian launch vehicle

[bogieman987]

THIS IS SOO FAKE #LOL

Just joking, are we still not able to make anything better to go up into spake instead of using rocket fuel?

[rawmonkno1]

@bogieman987 We are soon as you invent it. :)

[prickett233]

fuck this.... get a better internet connection!!!

[teemuruskeepaa]

Buffering stream?

[PatinyaHan]

History in the making.

[SilencerGiGGles]

My daughter has an Awesome Job...

[DrDigital1974]

Thank you so much for not replacing the sound with some silly music most people don't care to hear.

[nanvdand]

You rock Robyn!! As does SpaceX!

[pclafferty1]

why do the flight controllers sound like the guys from the Big Bang Theory?

[Datamanc3r]

Awesome. Couple of points, though. See the roll at the very beginning when the LOX umbilical separated? Was that a programmed maneuver? Also, as launch personnel were reporting nominal function of the second stage, it was rolling fairly rapidly. Anyone know if that was intentional (roll begins to become marked at ~5:15)?

[MikeB3542]

@Datamanc3r Both roll maneuvers look very controlled. Whether planned or not, that's something SpaceX knows. Unlike the space shuttle, the roll position of a launch vehicle like Falcon is not as critical. They may be intentionally rolling to keep it on its trajectory (it does have the feel of a barrel roll rather than a pure roll).

[Datamanc3r]

@MikeB3542 Elon has confirmed [1] that the increasingly pronounced oscillation of the second stage on reaching orbit was not intended but that it could be easily prevented in future. I'd expected to see the smaller nozzle in the foreground using thrust exhaust to correct the roll but it didn't. Something to correct next time. A highly successful flight by any measure, though!

[1] Miles O'Brien interview with Elon Musk on "This Week in Space"

[kasimdoubleG]

SpaceseX?

[NymTevlyn]

It looks like a flying tampon.

[artsmith1972]

at about 3 seconds before liftoff, there is a giant alien insect visible trying to sneak into the launch zone.... most likely trying to keep tabs on our space technology.

[TheBishopSSR]

Wow- there is an alien in 0:11! They came to destroy the rocket!

Seriously- great work! All the best and success to SpaceX!

[WoodstockMusicWorks]

Great. Congratulations. But Musk is still a jerk for what he said about Neil Armstrong.

[theroamingfoot]

Absolutely incredible! Note that it took the Atlas rocket 13 attempts before a successful launch. SpaceX got a perfect launch ON THE FIRST TRY!

Congratulations to Elon Musk and his supremely capable team. Give us more where this came from!

[mach25man]

@theroamingfoot Thats only because rockets were in their beginning stages and just figuring out how they work. SpaceX has 1000's of previous rocket launches to fall back on at this point and time. Its not a good comparison. The people who made this work came from USA (Shuttle), Boeing (Delta) and Lockheed (Atlas). The only thing private about this launch is the design had no Nasa oversight. Most of the cash came from the govt.

[1944GPW]

Elon Musk, you are the geek's hero!

Other billionaires spend their money on the easy things - owning a football team, fancy yachts and villas in the south of France. Anyone with sufficient finances can do those things - but you take the challenge and start your own space program! Now THAT is something I really take my hat off to.

Congratulations on Falcon 9 and all future flights!

[WHEC35NRDL]

Great to hear the excitement of the ground crew and technicians. Truly an event worthy of excitement globally.

[rlambden1]

An almost unbelievable accomplishment in 8 short years. Due accolades go to the brilliant vision and capabilities of Elon Musk and the exceptional men and women of

Spacex. I stand in awe.

[k6mfw]

Hey what's up with that giant wasp? Was it a space alien trying to stop the launch?

Since this is a "private rocket," maybe they can plaster ads over it like a NASCAR racer or like a muni-bus.

Nice job, I bet Elon and the other guys can catch up on sleep.

[IBEROBarb]

Esto no vale para nada

[adhikarisubash]

Inspirational!

[davegevans]

Absolutely AWSOME!!! Users in a new era in spaceflight and technology. I for one have also been impressed by NASA's confidence in SpaceX and companies they are supporting in the effort to supplant the Soyuz as our only way to the space station and beyond. Hope this is just the start.

Yeah the buffering is pretty poor, but I suspect bandwidth is full with all us nerds watching.

[dphuntsman]

Congratulations to the entire SpacEx team - and to Elon, for having the guts, vision, and strength of will to see it through. This is an important day for spaceflight: the first time a private citizen, a human from two continents, created a workhorse launch system from scratch meant to be more sustainable financially than all those that have come before. May he receive the greatest form of flattery by having more space entrepreneurs enter the spaceflight business in the future.

[artpenjr]

They can build a rocket that will go into space, but cannot support a simple video stream. Maybe they need a few ten year old's on the team to fix that for them!

[artsmith1972]

@artpenjr dude i was sittin here thinkin the exact same thing.... we're gonna trust these guy's with our astronauts, but they cant get a video up that doesnt have to buffer every 10 seconds.... kind of lame.

[Frapazoid]

@artsmith1972 What kind of small minded loser takes a dump on a successful first launch because there was buffering on a video? You don't even understand what buffering is, or else you wouldn't even consider making such a flat out retarded comment.

NASA has great footage of Ares 1X launch. Shame the second stage was a boilerplate and it cost more than everything SpaceX has ever done.

[803brando]

@artpenjr it more than likely outsourced.

[jakep2007]

@artpenjr its not nasa's fault, its the person who recorded it off the internet whose connection blows.

[cardiologic]

@artpenjr rofl, i think so too!!!

[Luofu]

@artpenjr

you know how to do it?

why not apply for a job?

if you can do it better....then please show it to us.

thank god no one wrote "why no sound? cant they even build a microphone?"

[bfrost322]

Know how to do it? As in edit a video... It's not hard stuff we're talking about here.

[ManuelHung]

@artpenjr Yeah! What a bunch of morans!!

/sarcasm

[lifeson46]

@ManuelHung it is spelt MORONS sir

[ManuelHung]

@lifeson46 Well, you are the expert in the spelting department, after all.

[TheGrakenverb]

what is up with the rolling motion after staging?

[AlkisLaz]

Buffering stream

[DarkSydeDK]

Good video, I'll post this tomorrow

[BallieBallBunny]

Godspeed, Falcon 9!

[MrStephenRGilman]

I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

[TheBishopSSR]

@MrStephenRGilman All hail the alien conquerors that came at 0:11 to oversee their underlings' primitive attempt at space travel.

[TheBishopSSR]

@TheBishopSSR 0:10 to be more exact

[epSosDE]

@MrStephenRGilman

You insensitive Slashdotter !

My grand-mother was an insect overlord.

[regalmouse]

@epSosDE Then perhaps you can feel assured that Mr. Gilman would have welcomed your granma. Assuming he was not (besides being a welcomer of insect overlords) the big bad wolf, and you do not have a red hooded riding cloak in your closet.

[DeanFirefly]

@MrStephenRGilman Shoosh about the bugs, they know what you are thinking. The only way to beat them is to think happy thoughts which is totally alien to them.

[TonyOstinato]

someone needs to investigate that huge ufo right before launch.

kidding

spacex rule, but i bet they know that right now. party time!!

[kam75]

great job team,need less buffering on the live feed though.Full speed ahead!!

[nilo4870]

0:08 BUG



[murdelabop]

I see I wasn't the only one who had trouble with the video feed.

[lealvf]

Cool!!!

Interesting when it is sitting on the launch pad somehow it looks smaller than the space shuttles but from my understanding they are almost the same size (could be mistaken). Must be the camera angle.