Capsule Captured
Mar. 3rd, 2013 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerSome more televisions have been set up in the elevator lobbies at work tuned to the local "news snippet" channel, and I was wondering on Friday if that channel would cover the latest Falcon 9 launch that morning. It didn't, but I did manage to learn within a few hours after liftoff that the rocket had blasted off into space with another capsule of supplies for the space station. On getting back from work, though, I happened to see something had happened with the capsule's thrusters, and that an immediate rendezvous with the station seemed in doubt...
On checking updates this morning, though, I saw the capsule had made it to the station overnight, so things seem to have been worked through a bit faster than I'd been imagining. As with the previous Falcon 9 launch, a bit of problem early on may have been overcome (and a problem once in orbit seems less immediate than problems with the rocket itself on the way up), although I still wonder whether "obvious" things to be overcome can mask subtler things that need to be addressed.
On checking updates this morning, though, I saw the capsule had made it to the station overnight, so things seem to have been worked through a bit faster than I'd been imagining. As with the previous Falcon 9 launch, a bit of problem early on may have been overcome (and a problem once in orbit seems less immediate than problems with the rocket itself on the way up), although I still wonder whether "obvious" things to be overcome can mask subtler things that need to be addressed.