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Right, but if you look at the pad (I hadn’t before), the flame trench and TEL are aligned north-south... so if the FH is going to fly horizontally aligned, it’ll have to do a 90°-ish roll. Maybe the F9 does this already, but it’s a lot harder to spot on a single stick.

Sooooooooooo... next chapter would have been up last night if my cable comany hadn’t decided to make like it was the 1950’s. Will try again tonight.

*stares* Wait... so does this mean the Heavy will do The Roll after liftoff??

As a transit bus driver, I most heartily concur!

There is a precedent... This all reminds me I really need to get Revelations backed up too.

Aaaaaand question answered:

So, any comments from the peanut gallery here, as to whether this scrub will affect the FH launch? If it does go up tomorrow, that might mean two SpaceX launches from the Cape within a week of each other, albeit from different pads. Seems like that’d be a record of its own.

Scrub? You mean they’re going to clean the booster after all?

Probably can’t post a link on the forum, but google “Rammstein Moskau,” that mirror universe version should cancel this one out.

O, the irony.

Oh, what a problem to have. "Hey Bob?" "Yeah Bill?" "We got too many boosters, we need to dump some!" Pity they can't give them away as like museum pieces or lawn art or something...

Off-topic gag So, I hear there’s a rocket launch tomorrow. ‘Bout 1:25 PST/4:24EST/21:25 GMT No booster recovery. It would seem, out of three regularly scheduled launches this month, no boosters are getting recovered. SpaceX has officially made booster recovery “normal.”

No, it’s quite a brilliant tool to raise funds. Flamethrowers are so much more entertaining than shares of stock, and more likely to maintain value, too. Also: “Do you expect me to talk?” ”No, Mistah Bond, I expect you to fry...” Google seems to be failing me, I’m not seeing anything but conjecture. PAZ is very light, which would give plenty of margin for a first-on-this-pad RTLS Test. OTOH, with a full-length burn they might be able to glean some useful data about reentry at Falcon Heavy core speeds.

Oh, I’m sure they have their own tropes of us. Probably think we are bunch of cowboys.

Do you have a source on that? I thought it was GovSat that was flying expendable?

T—This... this, we do not speak of?

Possible new information (not FH-related): according to SpaceFlightNow, the launch of the Paz satellite on the 10th out of Vandy will be on a reflown booster (so will GovSat on Tuesday), IIRC this will also be the first West coast RTLS.

Well, the way I have it set up in the Admin building, it’s mostly about the money. I don’t think I’ve ever spent so much time exploring a single world before. I thought that would be a quick detour, but this game has become quite... organic. I’ll have to get the map with the RaldBase’s odyssey put up. Yes. Your guess is as good as mine, I have no idea what anything is from anymore. Near Future nucyaler reactor (running at a bare trickle). Ain’t messin around this far out.

Yeah but then you’re not helping to fund his super secret Bond villain base and eventual invasion of Mars.

Heh, I'm a little too used to 6.4x GPP, I guess. My launch site has 10,000+ meter cliffs on two sides.

*glances at that altitude* Suddenly, a mountain! You’ve got MechJeb, I see. Have you tried the landing AP? Might be just the tick in efficiency that’s needed.

I do believe that was Musk’s entire ebil pan all along. whether or not collecting underpants was involved remains pure conjecture.

Year 8, Day 124... *Yawn...* That was... rather refreshing. Who knew a few days in a padded sensory isolation room could be so relaxing? I may have to make this a regular thing, maybe even put it into the staff training rotation. Moving on, NOVA Gratian has at last arrived at its encounter! We're still not... sure who put that voice file in the data stream. Normally I'd suspect Vlad, but I have it on good authority (and corroborated by several witnesses) that he was otherwise engaged, getting soundly beaten by butter-filled socks, during the last data uplink, so the Masked Snarker remains at large. OK, guys you can put the socks down, now. Guys? Guys? Guys....

I think I might have been, but I was far too young to remember it... or appreciate the local cuisine. Actually on topic... the next topic is still maybe a week out. It’ll be a bit... different. And As always, progress is slow but... sporadic. Wish I could pump out words like the smidgen above on a regular basis.

It’s not new, but the launch date has been officially confirmed: In slightly related news, Elon Musk is also literally selling flame throwers: Gotta love this guy. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Bezos. Maybe this nut can give you a light. Now, I wonder how many of these things I’d need to duct tape together to equal a Falcon Heavy...