SpaceX Tuesday...
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Sylvaforever said:
Okay, going back a launch or so what is the effect seem between 00:36 and 00:59 in the link below?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKqY8sy3nkM
Stage 2 ignition - at the very low atmospheric pressure at altitude the exhaust plume is very wide, and as it exits the nozzle can take some time to cool sufficiently to be visiblehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKqY8sy3nkM
Another article about Raptor testing - note the 'juvenile snigger' typo 
http://futurism.com/spacex-is-ready-to-test-the-ro...
http://futurism.com/spacex-is-ready-to-test-the-ro...
I notice the MOAB, the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal also uses grid fins to guide it to the target.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9H50tHiHjs
Although with 11 tons of high explosive, you don't need to be that accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9H50tHiHjs
Although with 11 tons of high explosive, you don't need to be that accurate.
They're currently mounting the first landed Falcon 9 on permanent display outside SpaceX headquarters.
http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/08/20/spacex-puts-h...
http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/08/20/spacex-puts-h...
They've completed the Falcon 9 display outside SpaceX's Hawthorne, California factory & HQ.
http://lhopkins.com/2016/08/22/first-stage-display...
http://lhopkins.com/2016/08/22/first-stage-display...
Also leasing more space for refurbishing rockets at port canaveral + building new
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/spa...
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/spa...
The Dragon supply craft that docked with the ISS a month ago is due back to Earth later today.
If all goes well it'll splashdown in the Pacific about 300 miles off southern California.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-tv-coverage...
If all goes well it'll splashdown in the Pacific about 300 miles off southern California.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-tv-coverage...
Beati Dogu said:
The Dragon supply craft that docked with the ISS a month ago is due back to Earth later today.
If all goes well it'll splashdown in the Pacific about 300 miles off southern California.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-tv-coverage...
Carrying 'crew' for this return.If all goes well it'll splashdown in the Pacific about 300 miles off southern California.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-tv-coverage...
http://www.space.com/33868-spacex-dragon-capsule-l...
SES have agreed with SpaceX to have their SES-10 satellite launched on a re-used (or "flight-proven") Falcon 9 rocket.
This should be sometime in the last quarter of this year.
http://www.ses.com/4233325/news/2016/22407810?plat...
The rocket will be Falcon 9 Flight 23, which sent a resupply Dragon capsule (CRS-8) to the ISS back on April 8th.
The first stage landed & was brought back on the drone ship.
The Dragon capsule returned OK just over a month later.
This should be sometime in the last quarter of this year.
http://www.ses.com/4233325/news/2016/22407810?plat...
The rocket will be Falcon 9 Flight 23, which sent a resupply Dragon capsule (CRS-8) to the ISS back on April 8th.
The first stage landed & was brought back on the drone ship.
The Dragon capsule returned OK just over a month later.
Edited by Beati Dogu on Tuesday 30th August 20:20
The next Falcon 9 launch is planned for Saturday, 3rd Sept from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral.
The payload is the Amos 6 communications satellite for Spacecom of Israel.
Launch window is 8.00 to 9.00 AM, UK time.
They'll try to land it on the ship, which has already left port. It'll be waiting just over 410 miles downrange.
The payload is the Amos 6 communications satellite for Spacecom of Israel.
Launch window is 8.00 to 9.00 AM, UK time.
They'll try to land it on the ship, which has already left port. It'll be waiting just over 410 miles downrange.
"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Recent reports that SpaceX’s inaugural flight of the Falcon Heavy would take place in the spring of next year (2017) don’t gel with what representatives at SpaceX have told SpaceFlight Insider. According to SpaceX, the NewSpace firm is still planning on launching the first of these powerful new rockets “… later this fall.”
SpaceX Stats has reported that the first flight of the Falcon Heavy would take place in April of next year (2017) and that there was a 39 percent chance of launching at that time. The site goes on to state that this will be SpaceX’s first launch of the year.
Seeking to confirm this date, SpaceFlight Insider reached out to SpaceX spokesperson John Taylor who informed us that the Falcon Heavy is currently slated to take to the skies later this fall.
At present, SpaceX, working under a 20-year lease with NASA, is renovating Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39A to support launches of the Falcon Heavy.
SpaceX has been kept busy in 2016 with eight successful launches having already been completed. Up next is the flight of the Amos 6, a 5.5 ton communications satellite that is currently slated for launch at 3 a.m. EDT (07:00 GMT) Sept. 3 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.
Read more at http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/sp...
SpaceX Stats has reported that the first flight of the Falcon Heavy would take place in April of next year (2017) and that there was a 39 percent chance of launching at that time. The site goes on to state that this will be SpaceX’s first launch of the year.
Seeking to confirm this date, SpaceFlight Insider reached out to SpaceX spokesperson John Taylor who informed us that the Falcon Heavy is currently slated to take to the skies later this fall.
At present, SpaceX, working under a 20-year lease with NASA, is renovating Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39A to support launches of the Falcon Heavy.
SpaceX has been kept busy in 2016 with eight successful launches having already been completed. Up next is the flight of the Amos 6, a 5.5 ton communications satellite that is currently slated for launch at 3 a.m. EDT (07:00 GMT) Sept. 3 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.
Read more at http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/sp...
No, it's exactly the same as the Falcon 9's second stage, so it's not recoverable.
It'll burn up in the atmosphere eventually, but that usually takes many months, maybe years, as the orbit slowly decays. In fact several of the second stages are still drifting around up there at the moment. I count 10 of them here:
http://stuffin.space
It'll burn up in the atmosphere eventually, but that usually takes many months, maybe years, as the orbit slowly decays. In fact several of the second stages are still drifting around up there at the moment. I count 10 of them here:
http://stuffin.space
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