really excited to see this launch ..
if it works all three boosters will land back on earth and Elon Musk's Tesla will be in shot into a heliocentric orbit.
if it doesn't work - it will be a hell of an explosion
either way exciting times again for US space industry
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Spacex.com will have a link to the live stream.
Also, is anyone else uncomfortable with SpaceX launching manned space flights as early as this year?
Also, is anyone else uncomfortable with SpaceX launching manned space flights as early as this year?
Musk owns it, the manned space "deadline" will slip.
Also, is anyone else uncomfortable with SpaceX launching manned space flights as early as this year?
Why is that? They are being closely monitored and regulated by NASA. Dragon will be at least four times as safe as the space shuttle, and will have a launch abort system
Musk said yesteday that there will be no manned flight in Falcon Heavy
Spacex has learned that putting 3 Falcon 9 together for a mega rocket is overly complex so they putting resources into next gen rocket - the BFR
which will be the manned rocket
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... with 27 engines.
Also, is anyone else uncomfortable with SpaceX launching manned space flights as early as this year?
Why is that? They are being closely monitored and regulated by NASA. Dragon will be at least four times as safe as the space shuttle, and will have a launch abort system
I'll try to find the article, but they've had more rocket disasters (boosters, not capsule) than ULA has had with the Atlas, despite far fewer flights.
The second and related issue has to do with seating astronauts aboard crewed missions before supercooled fuel is added, a deviation from accepted practice that the safety panel warned involves significant risk. SpaceX plans to use "densified" fuel to increase the energy of Falcon 9 rockets, but that must be loaded shortly before takeoff, meaning astronauts will already be onboard when the loading occurs. Normal NASA procedure is to put astronauts in their capsule only after the volatile fuel has been loaded.
And I believe SpaceX's first manned missions will use the Falcon 9 (not the Falcon 27 or the BFR).
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... with 27 engines.
Also, is anyone else uncomfortable with SpaceX launching manned space flights as early as this year?
Why is that? They are being closely monitored and regulated by NASA. Dragon will be at least four times as safe as the space shuttle, and will have a launch abort system
I'll try to find the article, but they've had more rocket disasters (boosters, not capsule) than ULA has had with the Atlas, despite far fewer flights.
SpaceX has had 2 vehicle losses in the history of the falcon 9 program. SpaceX is hard. Atlas nearly had a vehicle loss (apparently one second from disaster) just last year and earlier this year ariane accidentally flew a rocket over a populated area. SpaceX has learned from its mistakes and will be certified by NASA for manned flights with the same safety requirements as Boeing (and much stricter than SLS)
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They may get it up, without blowing up, that part is easy. To get the 3 boosters to land on pads is f-ing crazy and has zero chance of working.
I think there is a change that one or both of side boosters make it back
but the middle one all the vibrations and stress and it is new modification
if they get that one back to earth in one piece I will be seriously impressed
Obviously, BFR stood for "Big F'ing Radio" but I guess it's just as fitting for a Big F'ing Rocket.
Any of you live near Cocoa Beach?
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Launch auto-sequence initiated (aka the holy mouse-click) for 3:45 liftoff #FalconHeavy
1:52 PM - 6 Feb 2018
amazing
Hope this is beginning of great things.
Ahhh, they’ll figure out how to land it. Elon needs something to drive when he gets there. :-)
Here was a pic taken, moments ago, the tesla in earth's orbit.
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That was awesome to watch, especially the re-entry of the booster rockets and simultaneous landing.
Here was a pic taken, moments ago, the tesla in earth's orbit.
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Oh man... SpaceX is gonna get some heat from the flat earth society.
Sucks that they to have lost the third booster but still amazing
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The Live Chat is a shitshow.
Live and learn.
Yes, that is true. And for heavy payloads they will offer expendable core or expendable core + booster.
What's remarkable about SpaceX is that even if they expend all their rockets, they are significantly cheaper than the competition. With reusability.... "old space" is going to have to learn some new tricks.
But they would be unable to reuse them as quick (assuming that "the fall back to earth" scenario left them undamaged). By landing them, they are able to undergo a safety check and reuse eliminating the investment of building new boosters each time.
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to haul heavier loads if they just let the boosters fall back to earth. No need to carry spare fuel or the landing gear
But they would be unable to reuse them as quick (assuming that "the fall back to earth" scenario left them undamaged). By landing them, they are able to undergo a safety check and reuse eliminating the investment of building new boosters each time.
They ARE offering expendable Falcon Heavy launches. It's just that there aren't many payloads that require it because, well... there are no rockets out there right now that can loft it.
There are payloads that a Falcon 9 won't be able to do with reuse, that will end up on Falcon Heavy so that stages aren't wasted.
It's actually pretty remarkable. Old space providers like ULA and Ariane are scrambling with halfhearted measures like SMART and Adelaine. Even if Musk ends up failing financially, he's changed the space game for the better.
Trainmaster?
That's epic.
Props to Mr Musk, and all of humanity.
going to end up between mars and Jupiter!!!
going to end up between mars and Jupiter!!!
Starman - Don't Panic!
the craziest part
a launch of Falcon Heavy is going to cost $90 million per flight
Nasa's planned SLS rocket, a comparable system, is expected to cost about $1bn per flight
Who cares...There are always going to be idiots. Just ignore them.
Wow. Wtf.
Can someone post a dumbed down recap?
So Musk launches this crazy rocket into space, sends a tesla car into orbit? And why? Then sends something else toward mars?? And has the main engines Land safely back on earth??? Wtf??? No wonder why some people think it's staged that's insane!!!!
Good stuff though
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here are the rockets landing simultaneously...
Wow. Wtf.
Can someone post a dumbed down recap?
So Musk launches this crazy rocket into space, sends a tesla car into orbit? And why? Then sends something else toward mars?? And has the main engines Land safely back on earth??? Wtf??? No wonder why some people think it's staged that's insane!!!!
Good stuff though
Elon Musk’s SpaceX currently has the falcon 9 rocket which launched 18 pay loads to low earth orbit, the space station and other orbits. They developed a new rocket that can launch a whole lot more,. Whole.lot farther. This was the first launch and had a lot that could fail, so instead of risking hundreds of millions of dollars, they launched a "mass simulator" to make sure the rocket functioned properly.
Except for fun, they used an electric car with a mannequin in a prototype space suit.
SpaceX has been regularly landing and reusing their boosters... The first reflight was last year.
SpaceX has significantly reduced the cost of launching rockets. Even without reuse they are about half to a third cheaper than their competition. With reuse, the cost of access to space is going to fall from.the sky.
Looking forward to the next launch