tater Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 (edited) (dunno why embedding tweets is now screwy) Edited December 12, 2017 by tater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 1 hour ago, tater said: (dunno why embedding tweets is now screwy) Zuma curse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Good article here about some of the upgrades to Pad 40. Makes sense that they’ll have some delays, it saw some pretty significant reworking. Also, Budweiser is sending an experiment on the Dragon to study Space Barley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regex Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 14 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Also, Budweiser is sending an experiment on the Dragon to study Space Barley. Are they going to try for a gimmicky beer now? NSP beat them to it (was pretty good too, despite being a typically Ninkasi "overhopped even for the PNW" beer). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) 'tis official. "Particles" in the fuel system, tho... that sounds kinda serious... Edited December 13, 2017 by CatastrophicFailure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 What kind of particles I wonder. And how they found their way to the fuel system. I guess we’ll never know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) Never a good sign, for sure. I hope that they're positive no particles found their way into the S2 during the static fire. E: *bites tongue* Edited December 13, 2017 by StrandedonEarth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncongruousGoat Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 What kind of particles, I wonder? Dust? Soot? Leftover slag from a weld? Yellowcake? I guess we'll never know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 I'm going to guess that the particles came from the piping on the new strongback, not an issue with the rocket itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) 4 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said: "Particles" in the fuel system "Unexpected system error. Memory adress 0x00000000". 4 hours ago, sh1pman said: What kind of particles I wonder. And how they found their way to the fuel system. I guess we’ll never know. if programmers had such universal explanation for any case! 4 hours ago, IncongruousGoat said: What kind of particles, I wonder? Dust? Soot? Leftover slag from a weld? Yellowcake? I guess we'll never know... Mostly neutrons, but also some protons. Edited December 13, 2017 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Darn those particles, man... Doing things... a particle can... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB666 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 18 hours ago, IncongruousGoat said: What kind of particles, I wonder? Dust? Soot? Leftover slag from a weld? Yellowcake? I guess we'll never know... A heavily chewed head of a barbie-doll along with assorted dried saliva, bits of a milk-bone, a small amount of dried cat blood and some cat hair and attached follicular cells. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 14 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Mostly neutrons, but also some protons. I find it hard to believe that this: Fit in this: I mean, Protons are huge. I'm thinking we might have gotten some Electrons stuck instead. Meanwhile in New Zealand... Rocket Lab: Hey, I'd like to report a missing Electron. Authorities: Okay, are you absolutely sure you lost an Electron? Rocket Lab: Yeah, I'm positive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Quote Muratore said: “With lessons we learned at [LC-]39, we learned that 39 has been able to do the fastest turns we’ve done at SpaceX. We’ve looked at all the improvements we’ve put in 39—for blast protection. The dog houses, which are the enclosures, we put them on hold-downs. On the strongback/throwback, which is the mechanism by which at launch we start moving the strongback away from the rocket so that it doesn’t get toasted by the rocket as it flies out, we have a really augmented water system because we found that a lot of water really protects the pad. And then we’ve obviously had to put in a lot of provisions to protect all the equipment on the pad from all the water we put on there. The most exciting thing for us is that we put in the flame trench—we’ve always struggled with erosion of the concrete in the flame trench—and we’ve gone and reworked the concrete many times on both pads. We put a water-cooled diverter on this pad. It consists of pipes running down the pad, and we run a large amount of water through it, and that enables long static-fires without any damage to the pad. And that’s critical to our rapid flight strategy. “It’s critical in two ways: the obvious one is if you don’t take damage on the pad, you can fly more often; but the not-so-obvious one is as we reuse rockets more and more, we’ll run into problems where we have to change an engine out, just as they change engines out in airplane hangars. With the water-cooled diverter, we can run very long static fires, so we can change an engine out, take it to the pad, and run for much longer periods of time. For our very first time out, we ran seven seconds, which is pretty much the longest we’ve run on any pad. And so that enables us to be able to do all the work we need to do whenever we turn a rocket or do maintenance on the rocket to really make sure it’s good for flight. That’s a really important technology improvement we’ve put in.” http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-exploration-technologies/muratore-safety-efficiency-went-hand-in-hand-rebuild-slc-40/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAL59 Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Delayed a month again? If th dry fire is in Jan, then the launch won't be until Feb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Ghg @DAL59 that said the launch is in January, presumably they’re still on track for a hot fire this month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB666 Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 19 minutes ago, DAL59 said: Delayed a month again? If th dry fire is in Jan, then the launch won't be until Feb. You have to make sure that the launch pad and/or the rocket does not blow up first, if that all goes well they can do a launch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Hmm, it’s been a month without any new FH delays. This is suspicious. What are they up to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 31 minutes ago, sh1pman said: Hmm, it’s been a month without any new FH delays. This is suspicious. What are they up to? Putting the darn thing together finally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, DAL59 said: Delayed a month again? If th dry fire is in Jan, then the launch won't be until Feb. Did you not read the tweet? The launch is January, it's supposed to be moving to the pad this month for static fires. Edited December 14, 2017 by tater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 From the NASA press kit: Quote SpaceX is targeting launch of its thirteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-13) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The instantaneous launch window is on Friday, December 15 at 10:36 a.m. EST, or 15:36 UTC. Dragon will separate from Falcon 9’s second stage about 10 minutes after liftoff and attach to the space station on Sunday, December 17. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 (edited) 9 hours ago, sh1pman said: Hmm, it’s been a month without any new FH delays. This is suspicious. What are they up to? Prepping the warp core, finding a suitable CD and doing Elon's makeup. I've seen this one before... Edit - you don't actually believe that crazy 'gonna shoot my car into space' cover story do you? Edited December 15, 2017 by KSK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVDRW Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 I bet that due to difficulties mounting Roadster to top of the Falcon heavy. Launch delayed couple of months more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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