SpaceX Tuesday...
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SystemParanoia said:
The SpaceX solution is just to incrementally test recovery of the fairings with each successive launch, as they are happening anyway.
Additional development costs and delays: practically zero.
Eric Mc said:
What about a C-17?
Or a C-5?
Both are military, hence unrentable.Or a C-5?
Edited to add: an AN-124 is big enough to do this, and is commercially available.
Also edited to add: reading up on the AN-124, it turn out that this is actually how SpaceX are moving the fairings from Hawthorne to the Cape anyway!
Edited by CraigyMc on Friday 23 February 14:16
CraigyMc said:
Both are military, hence unrentable.
Edited to add: an AN-124 is big enough to do this, and is commercially available.
Also edited to add: reading up on the AN-124, it turn out that this is actually how SpaceX are moving the fairings from Hawthorne to the Cape anyway!
The USAF has dropped all sorts of civiliian space related stuff out the back of its aircraft over the decades.Edited to add: an AN-124 is big enough to do this, and is commercially available.
Also edited to add: reading up on the AN-124, it turn out that this is actually how SpaceX are moving the fairings from Hawthorne to the Cape anyway!
Edited by CraigyMc on Friday 23 February 14:16
There are only two 747s in the world capable of carrying large objects on their backs - and they are both retired. In any case, they only ever air launched Shuttles for a very brief period in 1977 - and it was an extremely dangerous series of tests that were carefully planned for over a year in advance.
I think the An 124 is the only realistic option - although where such a test could be carried out is open to question.
I’ve heard of it, but It was cancelled before I was born & I don’t remember ever seeing repeats. Apparently they showed 13 episodes on ITV in London in 1965, but Granada in the north west showed reruns for years after that. I used to live in the Yorkshire TV region as a kid.
My grandmother lived in Manchester and I always felt sorry for people who had to watch Granada, due the odious Stuart Hall on local TV. Turned out my instincts were right about him.
My grandmother lived in Manchester and I always felt sorry for people who had to watch Granada, due the odious Stuart Hall on local TV. Turned out my instincts were right about him.
Beati Dogu said:
I’ve heard of it, but It was cancelled before I was born & I don’t remember ever seeing repeats. Apparently they showed 13 episodes on ITV in London in 1965, but Granada in the north west showed reruns for years after that. I used to live in the Yorkshire TV region as a kid.
My grandmother lived in Manchester and I always felt sorry for people who had to watch Granada, due the odious Stuart Hall on local TV. Turned out my instincts were right about him.
[a manchester kid]Stuart was well liked at the time.[/a manchester kid]My grandmother lived in Manchester and I always felt sorry for people who had to watch Granada, due the odious Stuart Hall on local TV. Turned out my instincts were right about him.
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