SpaceX Tuesday...

[anonymous-user]

RobDickinson said:

This reusability thing won't catch on...

Agreed, no future in it at all.

[Beati Dogu]

Even more impressive that they managed to land it in the rough weather conditions. Mr Steven was unable to even attempt a fairing recovery.


"Highest reentry heating to date. Burning metal sparks from base heat shield visible in landing video. Fourth relight scheduled for April." - Elon

[JonChalk]

garyhun said:

RobDickinson said:

This reusability thing won't catch on...

Agreed, no future in it at all.

Same as EV's; guy doesn't have a clue!

[rovermorris999]

JonChalk said:

Same as EV's; guy doesn't have a clue!

Sadly, with mass production, he doesn't. And the finances of the whole shebang - Boring Co, SolarCity, Tesla and SpaceX- are interesting to say the least.

[RobDickinson]

rovermorris999 said:

Sadly, with mass production, he doesn't.

Lets not thread derail but Tesla produced more EVs than anyone last year and all the major manufacturers with decades of experience are having massive delays and/or producing far inferior evs.

[Beati Dogu]

Saturday, March 2nd is looking like the date for the first commercial crew flight test of the Dragon 2 capsule. Just 2 weeks away.

They passed a Flight Readiness Review (FRR) earlier today.

Launch time is scheduled to be at 2:48 am EST (7:48 am UK time)



Also it seem that Mr Steven lost a couple of its 4 giant arms last night. Shows how rough it was out there.

[MartG]

Beati Dogu said:

...Just 2 weeks away...

Check your calendar - it's just a week tomorrow

[Beati Dogu]

Which was two weeks away. And is now one week away.

NASA are also paying for new boosters for crewed flights. Cargo can use pre-flown ones.

[rovermorris999]

RobDickinson said:

Lets not thread derail but Tesla produced more EVs than anyone last year and all the major manufacturers with decades of experience are having massive delays and/or producing far inferior evs.

Yes. let's not derail the thread. But please do some research. It ain't pretty.

[Beati Dogu]

SpaceX Demo-1: Crew Dragon explained, with some nice footage:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm43QmRpacY


Full NASA / SpaceX DM-1 Post Flight Readiness Review Press Conference:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOHE-LCT_s&fe...

[MartG]

Apparently Mister Steven returned to port damaged

https://twitter.com/SpaceXFleet/status/10990253557...

[Beati Dogu]

The booster is back in port now too.

https://imgur.com/gallery/fVO5RkL

Looks like its 4th and final flight will be the Crew Dragon inflight abort test in June. That'll be too violent to survive.

[MartG]

Test dummy will be aboard Crew Dragon test flight

"We prefer to not call them dummies," NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Kath Lueders said at the briefing. ( presumably to avoid confusion with politicians )

https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/25/...

[MartG]

Apparently the 1950s design ethic was...( in Elon's own words)...." If in doubt....go with Tintin "

[Eric Mc]

Or "Destination Moon".

[Beati Dogu]

MartG said:

Test dummy will be aboard Crew Dragon test flight

"We prefer to not call them dummies," NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Kath Lueders said at the briefing. ( presumably to avoid confusion with politicians )

https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/25/...

The test manikin is called "Ripley".

Let's hope there's no Alien aboard too, or it'll make short work of the ISS crew.

[Beati Dogu]

On its way up the hill to the launchpad...




They're going to have cameras inside the capsule, so we should get some new shots from that.

For the launch, SpaceX will have a team alongside NASA in Firing Room 4 at the Kennedy Space Center. This was also used for the Apollo & Shuttle programs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Iwrdg-6UM

Edited by Beati Dogu on Friday 1st March 00:41

[DoubleSix]

so when is this launch (UK Time)?

[Einion Yrth]

DoubleSix said:

so when is this launch (UK Time)?

07:49

[Beati Dogu]

Inside the capsule:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE_hCTfMdng

Quite snazzy really.


And here's Ripley, all ready to go: