SuperFastJellyfish Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Article a friend just linked me. More pics of the roadster. https://www.teslarati.com/image-elon-musk-tesla-roadster-spacex-payload/amp/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceception Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 @SuperFastJellyfish I just went to Instagram to see if he shared pics there, and sure enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Surprising... they kept the windshield... Look out, space bugs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 While my heart is stopped over the pictures of the Tesla..... .......look at the insides of the fairings! RECOVERY HARDWARE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 What a PR stunt for both SpaceX and Tesla Also, nice shout-out to The Boring Company... which is terrible apparently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Specifically, I spy a few nitrogen tanks for cold-gas attitude control. And maybe some of the rigging lines for the steerable parachute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAL59 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 4 minutes ago, Scotius said: The Boring Company For anyone wondering: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 WOAH. This is going to be epic! Also, the H-IIA and the Falcon are launching 61 seconds apart if all goes well tonight! If my source is correct, this will be the shortest delay between two orbital launches ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 32 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said: WOAH. This is going to be epic! Also, the H-IIA and the Falcon are launching 61 seconds apart if all goes well tonight! If my source is correct, this will be the shortest delay between two orbital launches ever! Back in the early days of the space race, IIRC, there were two orbital launches about 80 seconds apart. But one of the launches was only reported to the minute, not to the second, so there is a 30-second-either-way uncertainty. Which means there is an 81.7% chance this is the shortest delay between two orbital launches ever, and an 18.3% chance that it is not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 10 minutes ago, sevenperforce said: Back in the early days of the space race, IIRC, there were two orbital launches about 80 seconds apart. But one of the launches was only reported to the minute, not to the second, so there is a 30-second-either-way uncertainty. Which means there is an 81.7% chance this is the shortest delay between two orbital launches ever, and an 18.3% chance that it is not. Even if it isn't, it's still the second closest and the closest in my lifetime, so it will be amazing either way! Do you know which launches those two were? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Wallops launched a series of suborbital rockets 80 seconds apart called ATREX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 2 hours ago, DAL59 said: For anyone wondering: I had not seen that before! I am totally stealing that... for... stuff.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 The SpaceX Flickr now has all full-res pics of the Roadster with flanking fairing halves. What recovery hardware can we spot? I already see cylindrical nitrogen tanks (which, for the record, look IDENTICAL to the KSP cylindrical monoprop tanks, albeit more grey). What else? I see some lines that look like they could be rigging for chutes. Any thrusters? Any chute packs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 I was looking among what I assume are acoustic mitigation tiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAL59 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 1 hour ago, Ultimate Steve said: WOAH. This is going to be epic! Also, the H-IIA and the Falcon are launching 61 seconds apart if all goes well tonight! If my source is correct, this will be the shortest delay between two orbital launches ever! Where can I stream the H-IIA? I want to watch both at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 4 minutes ago, DAL59 said: Where can I stream the H-IIA? I want to watch both at once. I posted the youtube in the JAXA launch thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cubinator Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Quote The H-2A launch is scheduled about one minute before a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to blast off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. If both missions take off as scheduled, it would mark the shortest time between two orbital launch attempts since the dawn of the Space Age, according to Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks global space activity. The current record for the shortest duration between two orbital launch attempts was set in December 1970, when a Soviet Kosmos 3M booster and a French Diamant-B rocket lifted off from Russia and French Guiana 4 minutes, 44 seconds, apart, McDowell said. https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/22/h2a-f37-launch-coverage/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I've got the SpaceX stream pulled up on the new computer, along with both forum tabs. I'm in the process of getting the JAXA stream up on the older computer. The keyboard is going across my lap so I can play "The Final Countdown" so I synchronizes with both launches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racescort666 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I haven’t caught up but I wanted to say that my parents are hosting a neighborhood Christmas party and I took over their tv and put the launch stream on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Setup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I'd have had this on at my Christmas party---we had an ISS pass and Dragon spotting, however. What's up with that interstage? It's NOT black. I'm beginning to think it's in 2 pieces. Blacker on the seam, and regular looking (ish) where Falcon 9 is written). They just said interstage is sooty. Why the tarp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 What a magnificent view. Wallpaper candidate #1! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB666 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 They are going to land the first stage on the pacific ocean, that should be a big firey splash, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaff Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Seems they’re just being wasteful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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