Nightside Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Raptor had a check engine light on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannu2 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 8 minutes ago, Nightside said: Raptor had a check engine light on... Fortunately Musk had cheap OBD controller which can clear error codes and turn off warning lights for inspection. Duct tape will fix it permanently before longer flights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 LOL: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightside Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 5 minutes ago, tater said: LOL: <tweet> They should just launch the entire Pegasus XL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Reminds me of every gadget or detail you can buy nowadays and its boxing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpaget Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 1 hour ago, tater said: LOL: Spoiler And somehow it's still cheaper to send empty huge a$$ rocket than one designed specifically for this kind of cargo. Boggles the mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 In 2014 NASA paid Northrop Grumman $56M to launch a satellite on Pegasus XL. They are paying SpaceX just over $50M to launch this one. Northrop Grumman has two more Pegasus XL vehicles in "a pretty advanced state of integration" but has no customers for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Wait, it will fly solo or rideshare? Because that is a whole lot of free space left for other customers LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 11 minutes ago, Scotius said: Wait, it will fly solo or rideshare? Because that is a whole lot of free space left for other customers LOL Solo. Because it’s going to the equator. yup, you read that right. SpaceX is launching this little thing into a zero-inclination equatorial orbit. From Florida. I really cannot wait to see the flight profile for this guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Just now, CatastrophicFailure said: Solo. Because it’s going to the equator. yup, you read that right. SpaceX is launching this little thing into a zero-inclination equatorial orbit. From Florida. I really cannot wait to see the flight profile for this guy. Yep, I was about to say that. I suppose it could have gone up on Pegasus XL. Pegasus can take off from Kwajalein and get an equatorial trajectory without an inclination change. Initial IXPE renders seem to have assumed it would go up on Pegasus. XL can send 450 kg to a LEO reference orbit so I suppose it might be able to manage 320 kg to 540 km. A 540x540 km equatorial orbit from the Cape is going to be...exciting. I wonder if it will even circularize in its parking orbit. For that hefty of an inclination change it might want to do a 23-degree-inclined ascent to a 540 km apogee with the perigee still suborbital, then do the inclination change during circularization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 It will fly like a sir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RCgothic Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 SN8 is getting stacked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightside Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Those things are starting to look pretty sharp! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Nightside said: Those things are starting to look pretty sharp! Yep! We’re a long way from Starhopper in that regard. I guess the manufacturing process is sharpening up too. ”Cos Elon Musk’s crazy bout a sharp-dressed can.” Edited August 6, 2020 by KSK Better scansion, yo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Hopping over Hopper, clearly a stand-in for the moon. Now they need to actually do this with a half-dozen stacks, just cuz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RealKerbal3x Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 hour ago, tater said: I feel like they might stack that nosecone on SN5 or SN6 for the 2km hop. Nosecones with header tank welds have been spotted - SN8 might get one of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GullWing88 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 When is the next scheduled launch?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 55 minutes ago, GullWing88 said: When is the next scheduled launch?? In about 10 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 55 minutes ago, GullWing88 said: When is the next scheduled launch?? Starlink 9, as tater said it's in about 10 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Some of the heat tiles are cracked. This norminal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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