Superpluto126 Posted Sunday at 11:22 PM Share Posted Sunday at 11:22 PM I doubt it was the engines exploding, I'd suspect we would have seen it rather than heard it if that was the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted Monday at 02:29 AM Share Posted Monday at 02:29 AM (edited) 16 hours ago, Cuky said: Both my cars and motorcycles exhausts make popping sounds after I shut engine off after a long ride and they start to cool off. Maybe those really was something exploding. But then again maybe those pops are just hot metal parts being cooled by deluge system or fire prevention That sounds more like engine doing a few more cycles. Simple gasoline engines like used on an chainsaw can continue to run on idle even if off as in the spark plug is disabled as engine is hot. Got this the chainsawing trees into stumps for making firewood as its long extended use more than in logging. solution is simply to cut something on idle but its an safety issue. Assume more modern engines with computers also cut the fuel This is also true for guns, who is far more scary but if you fire so much you are either doing destructive testing of the gun or you are in so much trouble this is not very relevant. But belt feed machine guns tend to fire from an open bolt to avoid this. Edited Monday at 02:31 AM by magnemoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuke Posted Monday at 08:17 AM Share Posted Monday at 08:17 AM russian gatling guns (eg the gsh-6-23, pay close attention to the rate of fire spec) are a rapid unplanned disassembly waiting to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted yesterday at 08:40 PM Share Posted yesterday at 08:40 PM Back from my trip. Never got a chance to see the flight. Up at 4am to make a flight to Orlando, then cruising... 1am? Nope. Too old. But here's what I did see: Bob Spoiler Getting on the boat we looked down the wharf and spotted Bob. Pretty exciting in itself. As the ship started to leave the port we watched some cool stuff going on at the other wharves. On one a crane was doing something interesting... Spoiler Turns out, the large industrial stanchion, covered in soot wasn't a crane stanchion at all - it was a SPACESHIP! Spoiler And not just any spaceship - but a Falcon 9! Woot! Spoiler We all thought that was pretty cool! But when we got back - we were treated to TWO Falcon 9s and BO's ship leaving the port. Spoiler Finally at the car rental lot we got a chance to see both pretty well. Spoiler Thing is - like I mentioned before - they don't look all that special. Have a look at the first picture - of Bob. The Falcon 9 is there... and I never recognized it. We had to get up close for it to resolve itself into a spaceship. They just look like industrial, workmanlike things. Not overly different from the crane stanchions or other vertical industrial stuff in the area. Still, in this last picture, you are seeing two rockets that were each up in space less than a week before the image was taken. Cool stuff! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted yesterday at 09:52 PM Share Posted yesterday at 09:52 PM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuessingEveryDay Posted yesterday at 10:32 PM Share Posted yesterday at 10:32 PM MARMAC 303 is the registration of Just Read The Instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted yesterday at 11:13 PM Share Posted yesterday at 11:13 PM Maybe visible in the western US as well. I will look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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darthgently Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago Another first for SpaceX coming up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVaughan Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago So is that a launch to the same inclination as other Starlink launches, but using a launch trajectory that cuts closer to land? (Presumably less of a dogleg, and so saving, and enabling larger payloads)? Or is it the same trajectory, just with a different landing location of the booster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago 7 minutes ago, AVaughan said: So is that a launch to the same inclination as other Starlink launches, but using a launch trajectory that cuts closer to land? (Presumably less of a dogleg, and so saving, and enabling larger payloads)? Or is it the same trajectory, just with a different landing location of the booster? I say they cut closer to land, this is something who has to be agreed on with Bahamas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JoeSchmuckatelli Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 2 hours ago, GuessingEveryDay said: MARMAC 303 is the registration of Just Read The Instructions. Then I saw that ship too! (Second photo above) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superpluto126 Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago Most Rumors I'm hearing seem to indicate SpaceX still seems set on a Launch this Month, whether or not this comes to fruition will be made clear very soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Minmus Taster Posted 46 minutes ago Share Posted 46 minutes ago 4 hours ago, darthgently said: Day of the falling grain silos, was anyone hurt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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