tater Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Sats deployed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Per the “Which engine is more ready” discussion in another thread, there is one thing I don’t recall hearing about the Raptor engine: Has it had a (successful) full mission duration firing yet? With or without the landing cycle burns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wjolcz Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 So it looks like they are building the top part(s) first and will probably start building the bottom part(s) after the hopper does all the testing. Any word on when the hopper starts hopping again? Around the end of this month maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 24 minutes ago, Wjolcz said: So it looks like they are building the top part(s) first and will probably start building the bottom part(s) after the hopper does all the testing. Any word on when the hopper starts hopping again? Around the end of this month maybe? It was scheduled for tomorrow, but has been pushed back to the 17th through 19th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wjolcz Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 4 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said: It was scheduled for tomorrow, but has been pushed back to the 17th through 19th. I'm pleseantly surprised. Hopefully nothing goes wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terwin Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 5 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said: Per the “Which engine is more ready” discussion in another thread, there is one thing I don’t recall hearing about the Raptor engine: Has it had a (successful) full mission duration firing yet? With or without the landing cycle burns? I was under the impression that raptor engines had already done long duration firings, but I could not say for certain. Wiki refers to a 100 second burn by Sep 2017, but does not refer to anything longer than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)#Engine_testing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 11 hours ago, Terwin said: I was under the impression that raptor engines had already done long duration firings, but I could not say for certain. Wiki refers to a 100 second burn by Sep 2017, but does not refer to anything longer than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)#Engine_testing Think that is pretty outdated now. Was 2017 even the production engines or an scaled down one? Engine testing is not something you publish especially then you do destructive level of testing, they test all the merlin engines there to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSEP Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 41 minutes ago, magnemoe said: Think that is pretty outdated now. Was 2017 even the production engines or an scaled down one? Engine testing is not something you publish especially then you do destructive level of testing, they test all the merlin engines there to. One and a half months ago they did a 40s test of a full scale Raptor Engine. Im quite sure they did longer tests after that but i can't be 100% sure. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=39182.640 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 We'll see soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 [poop.png] But then there’s this: Anyone actually watching who could confirm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 And in other celebrity news, apparently Mr. Steven has undergone some more, er, changes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XB-70A Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 (edited) Otherwise, a great step forward has been realized yesterday. /s Edited June 13, 2019 by XB-70A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 (edited) I suppose it looks a bit like a tree with those arm branches, but why they decided to change the name is a “myst’ry” Edited June 13, 2019 by StrandedonEarth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 3 minutes ago, XB-70A said: Otherwise, a great step forward has been realized yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 1 hour ago, XB-70A said: Otherwise, a great step forward has been realized yesterday. /s I think someone must be confused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 51 minutes ago, mikegarrison said: I think someone must be confused. Well, retuning the second stage would be a very Elon way of sticking it to the Air Force after that nasty contract business... Vandenberg finally got to see the one-around, 1000-mile cross range flight the Space Shuttle never made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 This was the booster's second launch, right? I bet that's where they got confused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 4 minutes ago, Geonovast said: This was the booster's second launch, right? I bet that's where they got confused. I couldn't tell because I couldn't see it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Geonovast said: This was the booster's second launch, right? I bet that's where they got confused. Yes, previously flown on the Dragon 2 demo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunjo Carl Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 (edited) I just watched a video about how they assemble grain bins (silos) on site in the fields. So they won't need cranes, they assemble it one ring at a time on the ground and then use hydraulics to jack the whole structure up for the next ring. I hope Elon's taking notes... (the video, from Smarter Every Day) Spoiler Edit: </sarcasm> Edited June 15, 2019 by Cunjo Carl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mikegarrison Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 6 hours ago, Cunjo Carl said: I just watched a video about how they assemble grain bins (silos) on site in the fields. So they won't need cranes, they assemble it one ring at a time on the ground and then use hydraulics to jack the whole structure up for the next ring. I hope Elon's taking notes... This is the same basic technique for how they build construction cranes. They are modular and recursive. The top of the crane is able to surround a tower section. So they winch up a tower section and install it. Then the base of the top of the crane crawls up to the new top of the tower. If the crane needs to be higher, they just do it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumpus Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 On 6/13/2019 at 9:15 PM, mikegarrison said: I think someone must be confused. They might fish the second stage out of the Pacific, but there's no way that the second stage is returning to Vandenburg. I don't think it was a Falcon Heavy either, which would make it easy to make that mistake with the two "return to launch site" boosters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 6 hours ago, Cunjo Carl said: I just watched a video about how they assemble grain bins (silos) on site in the fields. So they won't need cranes, they assemble it one ring at a time on the ground and then use hydraulics to jack the whole structure up for the next ring. I hope Elon's taking notes... Interesting design, but I think the final Starship will be built horizontally in factories, similarly to Falcon 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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