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    SpaceX Discussion Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted · Edited by CatastrophicFailure

    ...3:45 shalt be the number thou shalt launch at, and the number thou shalt launch at shall be 3:45. 
    3:46 shalt thou not count, nor either count thou 3:44, excepting that thou then proceed to 3:45. 
    3:47 is right out, as are scrubs, delays, unnecessary explosions, or other such nonsense.  

    Amen.

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    13 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:

    You're going to make me run out of likes!

    I can't afford that today!

    I’m currently running on the theory that she’s not going up today after all so I can squander likes as I want, hoping the universe will turn things around to prove me wrong just out of spite. :D

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

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    This thread needs one of those interactive maps showing everyone’s location. :D

    6 minutes ago, rudi1291 said:

    OCISLY is something like ~350km downrange to catch the falling core... the fairing probably won´t fall that much further downrange. 

    Et al, re: fairing recovery: we still don’t know the fate of the GovSat booster, it may not be back yet, and that’s possibly where the Steve-O is. Like OCISLY, no time to get there & back again to recover from both missions. 

    5 minutes ago, Technical Ben said:

    SuperDracos on the moon?!?! Would you not be better off with some easy cold gas thrusters? Am I not right (from playing KSP) that at that gravity/payload/TWR you could use the tiniest little thing to "land" the last 100m? SuperDracos seem massively overkill for it? (Though I guess they are designed for Earth, they were also planned for Mars, which is closer/comparable to the moon?).

    Cold gas thrusters also have horrid ISP,  you’d need a LOT of pressurized nitrogen to land several tons on the moon. You’d need a lot of UDMH/NTO too with SuperDrakes, but at least there’s quite the precedent for landing huge payloads on the moon with big hypergolic engines. :wink:

     

    And now, back to bed for another few hours!:confused:

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    Another random thought on a night of random thoughts...

    That looks like their space suit in the drivers seat... I wonder if it’s just a “dummy” or a functioning test model? Great way to test if it can survive a ruptured cabin all the way to space, after all...

    Revelations of the Kraken (Chapter 44: Falling Down)

    in KSP Fan Works

    Posted

    11 hours ago, Thedrelle said:

    i'm lost now. what?

    This is going back to before I started work on Shadows of the Kraken in earnest, when it was just a few random posts in the WDYDIKSPT? thread with a vague theme:

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    Edgas, Edmund, & Billy-Bobrim did not sleep well during their rest period. Edgas awoke to Billy-Bobrim drifting about the cabin, muttering loudly in his sleep, "ItlookslikehesgonnathrowitwhyishethrowingitdontthrowitNOOOO!" then waking up screaming in a cloud of sweat, waking Edmund too and scaring the crap out of him. The three lonely Kerbals, so far from home, felt as if a great crowd of dread was floating over them, as if thousands of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. They all feared that in some distant, parallel universe, something terrible has happened.

    This is about where it went from a mission report to an actual story, and became the bizarre 3-year odyssey it currently is. 

    And surprisingly enough, I was actually able to dig up the old posts in that thread! (A big forum re-orgnization a while back broke all the links). Looks like I'll need to add a "Lost Chapters" addition to Shadows. :D (and finish un-derping it... a year after I started... sigh...)

    The Saga of Emiko Station - Complete

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    2 hours ago, IncongruousGoat said:

    Now all she needs is a duster and an office with her name on the door.

    EDIT: Now I have this image of Emiko as the protagonist of a hard-boiled noir detective story stuck in my head.
    "Where is murder-poof boss man?"     "I d... don't know!"      "WHERE?"      "Aaaah! Fine, fine, I'll tell you everything I know!"

    Then cue a scene with a sultry sax overdub... and a grilled cheese with a problem. <_<

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    5 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

    Plane Change (90deg):   476.00m/s + 1% = 480.76m/s

    Dat plane change doe. :o

    4 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

    So...hard...not...to...like...everything

    If you think today is bad... :rolleyes:

    Tomorrow the whole thread might run out of likes before launch time. :D

     

    So, since I’m saving all my likes, to everyone with an amusing/informational/thought provoking post today, here’s another rocketman in a slick suit with a sweet ride:

    eltj-01.jpg

    I’m off work for the next two days for this. Fingers, toes, and joints I didn’t even know I had crossed that next time I clock in there’ll be a car en-route to “Mars-ish.” :D

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

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    Posted · Edited by CatastrophicFailure

    20 minutes ago, Canopus said:

    This is why i don‘t get the whole hype around this thing. This Launcher, composed of essentially flight proven components will mostly launch some Comsats and at best a discovery class probe, and people behave like its the second coming of christ.

    Because things are happening. They may only be smol things, baby steps in the grand scheme and what not, but they’re some of the things that were “promised” to all of us decades ago, that many of us had already given up on, and now finally, after all this time, here comes this guy who says, “I’m gonna do the thing” and then unlike everyone else, he actually goes out and starts doing it!

    This is the attraction of NewSpace to people, while old space is still plodding along saying “yeah, maybe in 30 years, also we have no funding” or repeating the same boring, if necessary, stuff over and over. 

    Tomorrow represents real, tangible innovation. Like someone said back a page, we’re finally making all this cool  lunar landing speculation on a real rocket that’s actually sitting on the  pad right now.   I can only imagine that maybe this is what it felt like say in 1967 or 68, when space nerds really had some hope for what was to come. 

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

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    Posted

    7 minutes ago, Canopus said:

    Would this Falcon über heavy still have the normal, dinky little fairing? Only useful for launching payloads composed entirely out of lead?

    Something something so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn’t stop to think if they should...

    ...and that, Class of 2296, is why to this day Mars is infested with dinosaurs...

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, tater said:

     

    I think I said that would never happen in this thread somewhere. Not that I think it will, but still, the mere fact that they have considered it deserves me munching a little crow,

    Sure, and it would be just as “easy” as the original FH... :confused:

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:

    Unrelated, I pulled together some delicious performance numbers for FH expendable:

    Interesting, so... stick some landing legs on a Falcon upper stage and assume no boiloff, and it could land 9 tonnes on the moon?

    Hmm. I wonder how many of those Moon Express landers they could fit in the fairing. Unleash a swarm upon the moon!

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted · Edited by CatastrophicFailure

    7 minutes ago, Shpaget said:

    So, does this make Tesla Roadster the most powerful car ever built?

    Nah, just the most powerful car delivery truck. :D

    couple of intereting tweets, here. As many suspected, looks like the FH trip around the moon might be off the table. :(

    And quite the little boast here: :o

     

    That would be... interesting...

    I’m extremely curious to see how the economics of everything starts to play out like later this year once Block 5 and its promised easy reuse is well established. Wonder if they might start earmarking their old Block boosters as disposable FH boosters...

     

    All signs continue to say everything is GO for tomorrow. :D

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    Like @sevenperforce said, I think there’s a lot of artistic license in the vid (and reused footage <_<). The car’s not going anywhere near Mars, we all know how hard it is to hit another planet even with a perfect window, and more over, there’s the regulatory aspect from potential contamination if it did (remember, it’ll most likely be completely uncontrolled and incommunicado at that point).

    From the pix of the payload adapter, it seems unlikely, sadly, that the car will separate at all. It is just a glorified mass simulator, after all. They’re not gonna dump a whole lot of effort into developing one-off Tesla decouplers. 

    Myself, I would really love to know what modifications they’ve done to the car for this, maybe that press conference will say. I can pretty much guarantee that’s not a glass windshield, probably lexan or some such. Wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of it is just the shell of a real Tesla body over a custom dummy frame. 

    Also, while I’m rambling, this:

     

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    37 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    Okay, I have a plan!

    I'm going to borrow either a friend's phone or my mom or dad's phone (more ideal) for Tuesday. Window opens during, I think English(?) or maybe lunch... I got too sick to go to school this entire week so I forgot the times things happen at.

    If only I had gotten sick four days later, this would be easy...

    It’s at 1:30 EST/10:30PST.

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