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RCgothic Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Sad face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Tory Bruno casting some slight shade here: Also doing a bit of maths: With EOR Falcon Heavy can send 32t to TLI. EOR of ten Falcon 9s - 3x15.6t payloads, 1 transfer core, 6 drop tanks could send 46.8t TLI powered by dracos. Under $600m in booster costs. With on orbit propellant transfer Falcon Heavy can send about 67t to TLI. Starship can obviously send 150t to the moon with propellant transfer. But with a Raptor powered third stage it can send 90t direct to Jupiter whilst retaining enough propellant to brake Starship back to earth aerocapture. That's insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 2 hours ago, tater said: Is that the one people were saying was going to do a turnaround faster than the fastest shuttle mission? If so, it looks like maybe not. Of course, what I think we heard was that the issue was with the second stage, which isn't even the part that gets reused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, mikegarrison said: Is that the one people were saying was going to do a turnaround faster than the fastest shuttle mission? If so, it looks like maybe not. Of course, what I think we heard was that the issue was with the second stage, which isn't even the part that gets reused. No, that's the next Starlink mission B1051.5 currently on 83 days and counting, launch TBD. ANASIS-2 is the potential record breaker reusing the Demo-2 booster 1058.2. It's targeting Sunday. If it takes off on either Sunday or the Monday backup window it will break the turnaround record. 50 or 51 days. Record is 54. Edited July 15, 2020 by RCgothic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RCgothic Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) The crib notes are no flight currently envisaged for SN6. Skip straight to SN8. SN7.1 test tank gets a weird naming convention, because Elon hasn't changed the naming convention recently enough. Edited July 15, 2020 by RCgothic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 4 minutes ago, RCgothic said: Interesting, they plan to skip SN6 entirely? 11 minutes ago, RCgothic said: Fairing potentially for SN8, though a eagle-eyed tweep spotted out had no header tank or RCS ports. I'm pretty sure it has RCS ports, look closely at the nosecone at around 01:13: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 23 minutes ago, RealKerbal3x said: Interesting, they plan to skip SN6 entirely? I'm pretty sure it has RCS ports, look closely at the nosecone at around 01:13: I retract! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 37 minutes ago, RCgothic said: I retract! The stacked nosecone has RCS ports in every shot til they rotate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 30 minutes ago, tater said: The stacked nosecone has RCS ports in every shot til they rotate it. That's what I get for not watching the video before posting. The tweet I was referencing also asserted that the ring stack this nose cone had been assembled onto was one that had collapsed in the storms and been hammered back into shape, therefore not being in optimum condition. But I'm understandable skeptical about that now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Testing is still on to begin tomorrow morning: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 6 hours ago, RCgothic said: Testing is still on to begin tomorrow morning: @&#&$*@#$%%€£¥§§¥@$&%!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 5 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said: @&#&$*@#$%%€£¥§§¥@$&%!!!! Darn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treveli Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Has anyone else noticed that, if SN5 hops next week, it'll be just shy of a year since Hoppy made its first small hop? Makes me hopeful will see a hop in a few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Yes, I had noticed. We're definitely overdue some hops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RCgothic Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 60% GO for Sunday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Treveli Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 9 hours ago, Treveli said: Has anyone else noticed that, if SN5 hops next week, it'll be just shy of a year since Hoppy made its first small hop? Makes me hopeful will see a hop in a few days. Another anniversary I didn't realize, it's the 51st for Apollo 11. The spirits are favorable now for giant metal tubes to fly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) RIP Starship Mk2: Edited July 16, 2020 by RCgothic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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