Beccab Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 5 minutes ago, Cuky said: if that is the feature of Raptor engines It is! The "raptor honk" has been noticed a while ago and has only gotten stronger with Raptor 2, iirc someone speculated it's due to the turbopumps spinning down and creating some sort of resonance with each other. It's probably going to be the final sound of most Starship landing videos some time from now, though I'm not sure it's still there if the engines throttle down before shutting off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 1 hour ago, tater said: Static fire! Of some number of engines, lol Looks like it was four! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tedmalaska_spacex-activity-6970826046543708162-kpfj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cuky Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 That price seems a bit steep doesn't it? I mean, they were talking about how much they will save per seat in comparison to launching astronauts on Soyuz, but if quick google search wasn't wrong it is "only" $15 million per seat saving. TBH, I expected Dragon ticket to be much cheaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Cuky said: That price seems a bit steep doesn't it? I mean, they were talking about how much they will save per seat in comparison to launching astronauts on Soyuz, but if quick google search wasn't wrong it is "only" $15 million per seat saving. TBH, I expected Dragon ticket to be much cheaper. I think that may be skewed by the fact that dragon got cut down to four seats instead of seven because IIRC they couldn't get touchdown forces within acceptable levels or something like that. Granted NASA wouldn't have used all seven anyway but there is also some cargo in there in place of the 3 seats, so the cost per seat also includes some cargo. And all space projects grow in cost. Most Americans would probably agree that even if the costs were equal, it is better to have that money spent domestically than abroad in a country we haven't tended to have great relations with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Cuky said: That price seems a bit steep doesn't it? I mean, they were talking about how much they will save per seat in comparison to launching astronauts on Soyuz, but if quick google search wasn't wrong it is "only" $15 million per seat saving. TBH, I expected Dragon ticket to be much cheaper. I was thinking the same thing, but one also has to account for inflation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 17 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said: I was thinking the same thing, but one also has to account for inflation And the very likely possibility that Roscosmos would keep cranking up prices to no end if they had maintained their monopoly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 It's a typo, $1.4B not $14B. But yeah, in addition to the seats is roughly 6t cargo up and 3t cargo down. Direct comparison with Soyuz doesn't include that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superluminal Gremlin Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 How many engines where fired? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 13 minutes ago, TKMK said: How many engines where fired? Four. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superluminal Gremlin Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Nice. so about 1.5 Rocketdyne F1 engines Very Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Beccab Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 9 hours ago, Cuky said: That price seems a bit steep doesn't it? I mean, they were talking about how much they will save per seat in comparison to launching astronauts on Soyuz, but if quick google search wasn't wrong it is "only" $15 million per seat saving. TBH, I expected Dragon ticket to be much cheaper. 7 hours ago, Codraroll said: And the very likely possibility that Roscosmos would keep cranking up prices to no end if they had maintained their monopoly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-filing-massive-building-bastrop/ "SpaceX is constructing a ‘shell building’ that will be 521,521 square feet. The estimated cost of the project is $43 million and the building is expected to be completed by July 2023." Location that some rumor said was Musk wanting to build an airport, and he said that would be silly, Austin already had an airport. Starlink Mfg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Looks like an engine that aborted yesterday's SF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 This time tomorrow the steamroller continues: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropian Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 I'm in Florida right now and should be able to catch liftoff pics if this thing happens on time. Hype! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuessingEveryDay Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Kinda wish the lights on the lightning towers weren't so weird. Would look better if it could go in a circle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 140th landing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 I never get sick of seeing those gridfins lit up by the second stage's engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Tuned in just in time for the second burn, a few seconds long.... 26 minutes ago, Geonovast said: I never get sick of seeing those gridfins lit up by the second stage's engine. Seeing the booster light up the ocean is almost as good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Any thought of they removing the heat tiles on ship 26? Yes I get that they might want to focus on launches to get more starlink 2 satellites up and making disposable ships let them build them faster as the tiles are time consuming to attach. I also think its quite some time before they can reuse starship, for one Boca Chica is an problematic place to recover starship as most orbits will overfly Mexico during reentry just to state one issue. That might be easier at KSC there its more open area around, they still has to overfly Florida. However why don't just use the 26 parts on an later launch with heat tiles to test out the reentry and landing on say the 5 launch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying dutchman Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 1 hour ago, magnemoe said: Any thought of they removing the heat tiles on ship 26? Yes I get that they might want to focus on launches to get more starlink 2 satellites up and making disposable ships let them build them faster as the tiles are time consuming to attach. I also think its quite some time before they can reuse starship, for one Boca Chica is an problematic place to recover starship as most orbits will overfly Mexico during reentry just to state one issue. That might be easier at KSC there its more open area around, they still has to overfly Florida. However why don't just use the 26 parts on an later launch with heat tiles to test out the reentry and landing on say the 5 launch? Where did you read that they are removing the tiles? I certainly can't find it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropian Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Got this through my phone and one lens on my binoculars: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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