The announcer addressed this, he said that he footage was not the same but looked similar because of the proximity of the boosters to each other. I think they were just extremely well choreographed. If you watched the side view from the landing pad they landed at almost exactly the same time.
Ah you're right. If you go back a few seconds you can see its using different camera angles. I'm guessing they just accidentally switched both to the same booster for the landing shot.
Its an easy mistake to make. Given they seem to use Livestream i am going to go out on a limb that they also use Livestream Studio....great software but when you are setting up PiP and copy and paste it is incredibly easy to forget to change the input source on the second frame.
Someone noticed there was a camera feed on the mission control wall that shows the Center Core's drone ship, after the smoke clears no ship can be seen:
So much for their constant deferrals to the "signal loss" due to "drone ship vibration" and other phony reasons. It sounded weird on all prior occasions, but at least now it's obvious that they have a steady feed at all times, just censoring it.
What I don't understand why they think they need to lie in the first place. Just cut the damn feed and say "the control cut the feed". All these cutesy giggles, Oh's and Ah's, "we are hoping to get it back soon" when the commenters are clearly looking at the live feed themselves [1]... this is just wrong.
Sounds like they lost the center core (might just mean the signal its not clear), hell of a showing though the team should be really proud of the accomplishment.
Wow, just witnessed history. The landing of the Falcons was seriously thrilling. David Bowie coming on as the payload headed towards its destination got me, have to say.
Congrats to everyone here from SpaceX – what an accomplishment.
I'm curious how the realized design that's launching today compares to the Saturn V. This article from 2016 implies that the Saturn V has three times the payload capacity, but that the Falcon Heavy is twelve times cheaper to launch (adjusting for inflation), implying a fourfold advantage in cost efficiency: https://www.universetoday.com/129989/saturn-v-vs-falcon-heav...
I think it's interesting that all of the Space X control team seem so young. My memory of the Apollo missions were that all the controllers were old farts who had been with NASA for at least 20 years. Maybe its because I was very young at the time and now I'm older. Or maybe it's because you had to work for 20 years to be a controller at NASA and Space X is just not that old (yet).
Proof that it could have gone to mars but also in a very stable orbit with little chance of hitting an object and infecting it with human biology that is on the tesla.
