SpaceX Tuesday...

[Beati Dogu]

They're changing a valve out it seems. The range is pretty quiet in June anyway. No ULA launches & only 2 (now 3) for SpaceX scheduled.


Meanwhile they've released a few photos of the Falcon 9 fairings coming back from the last Vandenberg launch:



The closest one got to within about 50m of Mr Steven.

More here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjdAcCuFegz/

[anonymous-user]

[RobDickinson]

Its utter bks, Boeing dont fly rockets and wont give nasa one free, nasa cant afford and wont go to mars until 2040 or later

[djdest]

These Space X competitors still don't seem to grasp the fact that Elon WANTS people to join in and get on with similar things!
It's a bold claim though, so they better get moving.
Another space race would be very welcome, because I missed the first one!

[Kccv23highliftcam]

Have a read of this ...garbage. Note the opening subject to reel you in...

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorial...

[MartG]

Kccv23highliftcam said:

Have a read of this ...garbage. Note the opening subject to reel you in...

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorial...

What a ste article !

SpaceX are only doing what countless contractors have done previously - provided NASA with their services for a cost. How many millions have Boeing, Lockheed, Martin, Douglas, et al been paid by NASA over the decades ?

[Beati Dogu]

It's just another hit piece. Pretty much all the modern lamestream media has reduced itself to.

Plus they forgot Musk plans to start a confectionery company. "I’m starting a candy company & it’s going to be amazing" - May 5th 2018.

[hyphen]

In todays news:

Plans to send paying tourists into Space this year have been cancelled, hoping for mid 2019 now but far from guaranteed.
Expected to be a 40% drop in SpaceX launches in 2019

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-580...

[MartG]

hyphen said:

In todays news:

Plans to send paying tourists into Space this year have been cancelled, hoping for mid 2019 now but far from guaranteed.
Expected to be a 40% drop in SpaceX launches in 2019

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-580...

Article is old news and inaccurate - the tourist flight was never supposed to use BFR, it was going to be on FH

[RobDickinson]

hyphen said:

In todays news:

Plans to send paying tourists into Space this year have been cancelled, hoping for mid 2019 now but far from guaranteed.
Expected to be a 40% drop in SpaceX launches in 2019

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-580...

ahahaha hatchet job or what..

They have 40+ missions already listed on their web page including 4 FH launches.

FH wasnt ever going to be a popular option, the Delta V heavy has launched only a handful of times, we dont need that kind of launch potential very often.

[Beati Dogu]

"The plan was for tourists to fly on a Dragon Crew spacecraft launched by the firm's 'Big F****ing Rocket' (BFR)."

Huh, what now?

[RobDickinson]

Basically journo hack doesnt know what they are talking about..

[MartG]

RobDickinson said:

Basically journo hack doesnt know what they are talking about..

...and/or is being influenced by a Spacex competitor

[loudlashadjuster]

RobDickinson said:

Basically journo hack doesnt know what they are talking about..

Given that this is the Daily Mail, I am truly shocked.

[anonymous-user]

Journalists are just lazy feckers who will do the bare minimum of research, if any, to put a story together.

I had a few colleagues who were ex-fleet street and they told me numerous tales of journalists preferring to be given a story rather than write something themselves.

[MartG]

Brief article on FH manifest

http://spacenews.com/arabsat-falcon-heavy-mission-...

[MartG]

Apart from a suborbital flight to demonstrate Crew Dragon in-flight abort, the next F9 flight will be the last Block 4

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-transition-all-fa...

[Beati Dogu]

They can build new Falcon 9s at a rate of two per month.

Merlin engines can be produced at one per day.

[hyphen]

garyhun said:

Journalists are just lazy feckers who will do the bare minimum of research, if any, to put a story together.

I had a few colleagues who were ex-fleet street and they told me numerous tales of journalists preferring to be given a story rather than write something themselves.

Do these colleagues now work on PH news articles

[MartG]