Ultimate Steve Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Just now, Firemetal said: Mission success! Great launch, pretty disappointing lack of landing attempt, great two second stage burns and awesome spacecraft separation. I have enjoyed sharing this with you guys. Now I'm going to attempt a landing on my bed. That was a radical pun there at the end. Good night. Fire Unlike SpaceX, tonight I shall make a landing attempt for EchoStar 23. Target: Droneship Of Course I Really Want To Go To Bed Right Now But I Can't Read The Instructions To Assemble My Bed. OCIRWTGTBRNBICRTITAMB. Rolls right off the tongue! (Man. I want an ASDS blanket now. Like, REALLY BAD!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEpicSquared Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Just now, Ultimate Steve said: Unlike SpaceX, tonight I shall make a landing attempt for EchoStar 23. Target: Droneship Of Course I Really Want To Go To Bed Right Now But I Can't Read The Instructions To Assemble My Bed. OCIRWTGTBRNBICRTITAMB. Rolls right off the tongue! (Man. I want an ASDS blanket now. Like, REALLY BAD!) 3 minutes ago, Firemetal said: Mission success! Great launch, pretty disappointing lack of landing attempt, great two second stage burns and awesome spacecraft separation. I have enjoyed sharing this with you guys. Now I'm going to attempt a landing on my bed. That was a radical pun there at the end. Good night. Fire You guys are lucky. I have to leave for school in 15 minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 2 minutes ago, Firemetal said: Now I'm going to attempt a landing on my bed. This. Commence bedroom chilldown! (Would so sleep in a LOX tank at night.) 6 minutes ago, TheEpicSquared said: You guys are lucky. I have to leave for school in 15 minutes... ...? Groom Lake sure starts school early these days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEpicSquared Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 7 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: ...? Groom Lake sure starts school early these days... Heh. I'm actually in Scandinavia, so the time makes sense (about as far away from Groom Lake as you can get...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkarmark Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 4 minutes ago, TheEpicSquared said: Heh. I'm actually in Scandinavia, so the time makes sense (about as far away from Groom Lake as you can get...) Lol me too i had to leave at t+2 min or something. cmon school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinkAllKerb'' Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) On 08/03/2017 at 8:09 PM, StrandedonEarth said: Now they have a hat, he must be serious! On 08/03/2017 at 9:03 PM, kunok said: Clearly he also wants the team fortress 2 market :3 i'm diggiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin in the red, i m diggiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin in the red and i m happy agaaaaaaaaaaaaaain ^^ fun ^^ love it ^^ Edited March 16, 2017 by WinkAllKerb'' . . .... hahahahahahahaahahahaha i agree indeed @kerbi the logo does it all ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceception Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 5 hours ago, Exploro said: The reuse of the 1st stage is a milestone in of itself. Hopefully with the next upgrade to the Falcon 9 will allow for recovery from missions with similar parameters to tonights launch. Back up a moment here.... This was a reused first stage? If not, sorry, I just woke up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEpicSquared Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 7 minutes ago, Spaceception said: Back up a moment here.... This was a reused first stage? If not, sorry, I just woke up. No, it wasn't. () Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumpus Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 6 hours ago, TheEpicSquared said: Wouldn't the core booster of the F Heavy have to deal with these speeds? If so, I think this would be mostly intact. Until it smashes into the ocean, of course. EDIT: Loved Tom's guilty face as he was caught eating the pie Presumably the core booster needs to spare lots of fuel for the backburn & reentry burns. Still, I think landing the center booster will be a stretch and have pointed this out a lot (expect a big difference between the mass launched with three recovered boosters and two). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwind Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) @Spaceception Good morning The SES-10 launch will feature the first reflown stage. It will either be the next launch from now, or the one after that - depending on whether or not a CRS flight gets pulled forward on NASA request. Right now It's tentatively NET March 27th. (EDIT: The stage is already somewhere at the cape. A potential candidate was spotted here, but people aren't sure because it's not been repainted.) Edited March 16, 2017 by Streetwind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Indeed. Meanwhile. Australia can feel safe.http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/10/technology/elon-musk-australia-energy/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Ya know, it's just not as interesting when they don't try to land the stage (or if it doesn't blow up). I know Musk isn't happy about throwing away a brand new stage, and I bet he'll be happier when expendable missions are flown on experienced used flight-proven stages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 2 hours ago, Streetwind said: depending on whether or not a CRS flight gets pulled forward on NASA request. Would they need to do that, tho? Last I saw, Cygnus is next in the pipe to the ISS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcturusvfx Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 22 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said: Ya know, it's just not as interesting when they don't try to land the stage (or if it doesn't blow up). I know Musk isn't happy about throwing away a brand new stage, and I bet he'll be happier when expendable missions are flown on experienced used flight-proven stages AFAIK this was the last expendable mission for the falcon 9.......not sure if future heavy missions will have an expendable core though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwind Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 10 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Would they need to do that, tho? Last I saw, Cygnus is next in the pipe to the ISS. I have no idea. I have only read (somewhere deep in a reddit thread) that there is a possibility that NASA will want to pull CRS Flight 11 forward. *shrug* But well, "possibility" means it may not happen after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 So... anyone know why they made the change to the StrongBad? That is, dropping it at liftoff instead of beforehand like at Pad 40? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 1 minute ago, CatastrophicFailure said: So... anyone know why they made the change to the StrongBad? That is, dropping it at liftoff instead of beforehand like at Pad 40? I would hazard the guess that they plan on doing it that way with the F9H, so they may as well get used to it now. Also, maybe the hardware at the new pad allows for it, while the old pad didn't? I believe Vandenberg was upgraded, did they drop the strongback at liftoff during the last launch there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEpicSquared Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) 30 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said: I believe Vandenberg was upgraded, did they drop the strongback at liftoff during the last launch there? I don't think so, I think the first time they did that was CRS-10. Don't quote me on that, though. Also, looks like SpaceX got themselves another GPS satellite! https://m.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/15/spacex_takes_96m_gps_launch_contract_from_ula/ Edited March 16, 2017 by TheEpicSquared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 The new strongback is stronger and more robust, so it can handle the rapid pullaway. It's better, because it cradles the Falcon right up to the moment of launch, reducing the risk of wind shear damage. They're going to use this strongback for FH because it can support three cores at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceception Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Some pics, we all love those beauty shots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exploro Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 13 hours ago, Spaceception said: Back up a moment here.... This was a reused first stage? If not, sorry, I just woke up. Yeah that's my screw up. Confused Echostar 23 for SES-10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekL1963 Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 10 hours ago, sevenperforce said: The new strongback is stronger and more robust, so it can handle the rapid pullaway. It's better, because it cradles the Falcon right up to the moment of launch, reducing the risk of wind shear damage. 0.o If the winds are strong enough to cause damage on the pad - that's called a hurricane, and they won't be launching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwind Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 During the hosted webcast, a SpaceX person explained that the new strongback drops away much further during takeoff so that fewer components - especially the umbilicals - are affected and damaged by the exhaust plume from the engines. I would speculate that the strongback stays closer to the rocket pre-launch so that those umbilicals can be much shorter, which allows them to get out of the way even better. They said that they want to avoid as much damage to the umbilicals and other components as possible, so they don't have to replace them between launches like they had to with the old strongback. Less work between launches means a cheaper and faster turnaround, which is their stated goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 2 hours ago, Streetwind said: They said that they want to avoid as much damage to the umbilicals and other components as possible, so they don't have to replace them between launches like they had to with the old strongback. Such thing is called SILO, And they have a whole boring company to dig a underground rocketcity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 7 hours ago, DerekL1963 said: 0.o If the winds are strong enough to cause damage on the pad - that's called a hurricane, and they won't be launching. Good point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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