tater Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Absolutely fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Psyche slips to next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 And weekdays, so a decent chance this happens (the closures on Fridays are never a thing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 1 hour ago, RCgothic said: Psyche slips to next year. It may never launch at all sadly, NASA is conducting an investigation into the probe and if it's worth the investment, in my opinion a very sudden and drastic action for a relatively minor issue in the greater scheme of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 1 hour ago, RCgothic said: Psyche slips to next year. 2023 would get it there in 2030, 2024 actually gets there a little sooner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Beccab Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 The 39a Starship tower has grown again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RyanRising Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 On 6/24/2022 at 12:40 PM, Minmus Taster said: It may never launch at all sadly, NASA is conducting an investigation into the probe and if it's worth the investment, in my opinion a very sudden and drastic action for a relatively minor issue in the greater scheme of things. I think this is a mandatory review since it missed its window - they’ll almost certainly come out with “yeah, it is.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brotoro Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 (edited) How many strakes does that Heavy have? and what the heck is in the lower right? It looks like giant-sized planks of wood, but that can't be right. Edited June 25, 2022 by Brotoro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngrybobH Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 34 minutes ago, Brotoro said: giant-sized planks of wood I'm not sure but I would guess that they are load spreaders for the crane that was there. Wood is the super high tech way to do that, or so I have found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Brotoro said: How many strakes does that Heavy have? and what the heck is in the lower right? It looks like giant-sized planks of wood, but that can't be right. Like Mad Robert the Second said, it is indeed wood. Called “cribbing” in this use, wood is incompressible (mostly) so it’s often used to support really really heavy things and keep them from shifting or sinking. Used a lot when jacking up buildings for relocation, too. And in other news, seems work on the oil rigs is indeed proceeding, even if at an SLS’s snail’s pace… re: launch table segment spotted on highway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Beccab Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 5 hours ago, Brotoro said: How many strakes does that Heavy have? 2 stakes and 2 chines - SpaceX kindly decided to settle the debate about whether they count as chines or stakes by adding two of both. The old ones also serve as COPV aerocovers by keeping them protected, while the new ones are empty inside and have the only function of helping control the descent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 They all sorta seem like strakes to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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StrandedonEarth Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 What's missing from these upcoming launch calendars is the booster assignment. Of course, that only matters for SpaceX missions, for now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 This NSF thread is pretty interesting: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56619.msg2380819;topicseen#new Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 14 minutes ago, tater said: This NSF thread is pretty interesting: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56619.msg2380819;topicseen#new Very cool! Some images from there: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 41 minutes ago, tater said: This NSF thread is pretty interesting: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56619.msg2380819;topicseen#new What a find! Thanks for the link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 3 hours ago, Beccab said: Interesting to see a heat graph that middles around 400 kW/m2. For reference, one of these propane burners gives off around 3kW of heat: (Image source) You'd need 133 of them to deliver 400 kW. I don't think there's enough room to pack 133 of those onto one square meter. If the bottle is 5 cm across you could do 20 side-by-side in a meter, but you'd need more than five such rows in the other direction, and I think the burner+bottle is taller than 20 cm, so they wouldn't all fit. Still, they give a pretty impressive mental image of the heating those wing root parts of Starship are going through. Imagine a stack of propane burners packed as tightly side-by-side as possible, and stacked on top of each other, each giving off their blue-hot flames. That's still less energy than the heating faced by certain parts of Starship. Less than half of the maximum, if the graph is any indication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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