Mad Rocket Scientist Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 On 11/8/2018 at 6:02 AM, tater said: [...] The talk where this video is from: [...] It seems to have been taken down. There's a streamable mirror here: https://streamable.com/161m6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 (edited) Guysguysguysguysguysguys... Looks like no black cap to match the B5 interstage... Edited November 10, 2018 by CatastrophicFailure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightside Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 “Side core” doesn’t sound right to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 57 minutes ago, Nightside said: “Side core” doesn’t sound right to me. It was named by the engineers who designed it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 ”Houston, we have an un-Oh.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 That’s what static fires are for, discovering potential failures before they have a chance to become catastrophic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 w00t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 On now (8pm PST) on National Geographic channel: Mars: Inside SpaceX What it says on the tin, probably old news for all here but they do seem to have some new or at least up-to-date renders of the BFR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 That Patranek guy is a dimwit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 we have a GO to commence hyping! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 2 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said: we have a GO to commence hyping! Hyping commenced, slowly ramping up power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncongruousGoat Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 14 hours ago, tater said: That Patranek guy is a dimwit. Care to elaborate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, IncongruousGoat said: Care to elaborate? I made that comment with the show open in another window, but I also remembered him from last season of the (dumb) Mars show. He says things that are either self-evidently true, or often wrong. When I posted that, he had just said something flat out wrong, and I remember last year/season he said for example that SpaceX had the best launch record (something clearly nonsense). You can say that they are good, without being superlative. I'd have to re-watch to remember what POed me. I am scanning the show to find what bugged me. One, he says that the Saturn V was grossly overbuilt to go to the Moon, that it was designed to go to Mars (utter nonsense). He's a reporter, he'd have done something else if he could do math, presumably. He says SpaceX is located "in the middle of nowhere." He was referring to Hawthorne. In the middle of LA. Obviously he's never been to New Mexico, Hawthorne is less "the middle of nowhere" than downtown Albuquerque. Edited November 14, 2018 by tater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mikegarrison Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) Wouldn't it be appropriate if the launch of the "Es'Hail-2" satellite was delayed by hail? Edited November 14, 2018 by mikegarrison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceception Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) 35 minutes ago, mikegarrison said: Wouldn't it be appropriate if the launch of the "Es'Hail-2" satellite was delayed by hail? We should :hailprobe: first just in case. Edited November 14, 2018 by Spaceception Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 1 minute ago, Spaceception said: We should :hailpobe: first just in case. Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in... a long time... a long time... ...before the dark times... before this $>*™️@%?€¥#]{••?!!! mobile editor... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spaceception Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 25 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: <br /> *squeals in happiness* I can't wait to see THAT coming in. two separate landing attempts, of two different stages?? SpaceX may want to make landings boring, but they're doing a bad job of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncongruousGoat Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 14 minutes ago, Spaceception said: *squeals in happiness* I can't wait to see THAT coming in. two separate landing attempts, of two different stages?? SpaceX may want to make landings boring, but they're doing a bad job of it. I think he's talking about the BFS upper stages they'll be using for hop tests in H2 2019. It doesn't make sense to try and recover F9 second stages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) 14 minutes ago, IncongruousGoat said: I think he's talking about the BFS upper stages they'll be using for hop tests in H2 2019. It doesn't make sense to try and recover F9 second stages. I assume he's talking about this: https://spacenews.com/spacex-to-modify-falcon-9-upper-stage-to-test-bfr-technologies/ The whole point to doing a test like that will be to learn about re-entry of the payload. The article says they won't be used to test landings, but that's not the same thing as "recovery". Edited November 14, 2018 by mikegarrison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightside Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 57 minutes ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said: So many satellites ! Maybe spacex is just building a blockade to prevent anyone else from launching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 32 minutes ago, Spaceception said: *squeals in happiness* I can't wait to see THAT coming in. two separate landing attempts, of two different stages?? SpaceX may want to make landings boring, but they're doing a bad job of it. Recovered != retropropulsive landing. It will probably just land with parachutes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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