RCgothic Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 43/93 block 5 flights have been completed by just 4 boosters. All 4 now on 10 or 11 flights each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Fluffy Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 On 2/20/2022 at 12:43 PM, Beccab said: On top of tomorrow's Starlink, NextSpaceflight now lists another Starlink from Vandemberg on the 25th, totaling in 7 flights up until the end of february (2 in january, 3 on the first three days of february and now these two) or one launch behind the target of one per week in 2022. I saw that! It was cool. (Completly unrelated but its about SpaceX) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 9 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Say what you will for Elon, but he never shies away from a fight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanRising Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Wonder if this means SpaceX is under cyberattack for their involvement in... uh, recent events? Can I even talk about the war? At any rate, I've seen the prefix "cyber-" pop up a lot more recently and it hasn't gotten any less silly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 26 minutes ago, RyanRising said: Wonder if this means SpaceX is under cyberattack for their involvement in... uh, recent events? I think, if they are not yet, they soon will be… and they are extremely aware of this fact. Anyone wonder why Musk didn’t want his jet’s location broadcasted around now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piscator Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 I assume this is less about an attack on SpaceX itself and more about keeping the Starlink network operational in regions where someone might want to restrict access to it. Hard to tell from one tweet though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tater Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 7 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Anyone wonder why Musk didn’t want his jet’s location broadcasted around now? Anyone can search for the tail number and find it anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 A new booster aft, QD and header tank make an appearance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RyanRising Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Why do they need a header tank for the booster? Shouldn’t ullage be working in the correct direction anyway, like with F9? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 10 minutes ago, RyanRising said: Why do they need a header tank for the booster? Shouldn’t ullage be working in the correct direction anyway, like with F9? Easier to pressurize? Less slosh/froth? Better Cg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 23 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said: Easier to pressurize? Less slosh/froth? Better Cg? First one. Doing it without a header tank like in B4 works, but is less efficient and so requires more residuals. B5+ have been decided to have a header tank, trading off less fuel used for landing for more structural mass (probably resulting in less overall mass, but we don't have confirmation of this) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 17 hours ago, Piscator said: I assume this is less about an attack on SpaceX itself and more about keeping the Starlink network operational in regions where someone might want to restrict access to it. Hard to tell from one tweet though. Yes, that was my assumption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Beccab Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 (edited) New stuff headed to the Florida spacex Starship site Edited March 7, 2022 by Beccab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Minmus Taster Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Not showing the full original tweet to avoid politics but the crew of Polaris Dawn will take a Ukrainian flag to space with them. Not sharing my thoughts to keep things from getting "off-topic" but I felt that this was worth at least mentioning as it is technically a payload for the mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 About those aerocovers… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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