Quote from: Damon Hill on 01/18/2017 10:02 pmA polar launch would require a hellacious dogleg trajectory to avoid overflight of Mexico and the rest of Central America, and then South America. Might be technically possible, but not economically nor politically.OK but what is the minimal distance required? At some point, *any* polar launch will pass over some land, I guess the question is, how much downrange is orbit achieved
A polar launch would require a hellacious dogleg trajectory to avoid overflight of Mexico and the rest of Central America, and then South America. Might be technically possible, but not economically nor politically.
Quote from: Nomadd on 01/19/2017 09:00 pmQuote from: Wolfram66 on 01/19/2017 07:10 pmYes we all await report from NOMAAD That's actually where I got this handle. Some started calling me that in the army 42 years ago because I reminded him of the Star Trek character.Is it because you wanted to destroy all carbon-based units or because you were in a centuries-long quest to find Roykirk?
Quote from: Wolfram66 on 01/19/2017 07:10 pmYes we all await report from NOMAAD That's actually where I got this handle. Some started calling me that in the army 42 years ago because I reminded him of the Star Trek character.
Yes we all await report from NOMAAD
Roofing proceeding and the inside of the wall where the shaft is going, which is no help at all.
Just when you thought this thread couldn't get any more surreal...
Quote from: Nomadd on 01/20/2017 01:32 amRoofing proceeding and the inside of the wall where the shaft is going, which is no help at all.I see where the front Entrance is, I know there gonna put the STARGATE sign there I wonder what's gonna be inside STARGATE tho?
Quote from: SPITexas on 01/20/2017 01:31 pmQuote from: Nomadd on 01/20/2017 01:32 amRoofing proceeding and the inside of the wall where the shaft is going, which is no help at all.I see where the front Entrance is, I know there gonna put the STARGATE sign there I wonder what's gonna be inside STARGATE tho?Every time I see the name of that facility, I can't help but expect a truck to show up there one day carrying a large ring covered in strange symbols.
Quote from: meberbs on 01/20/2017 03:55 pmQuote from: SPITexas on 01/20/2017 01:31 pmQuote from: Nomadd on 01/20/2017 01:32 am.Every time I see the name of that facility, I can't help but expect a truck to show up there one day carrying a large ring covered in strange symbols.There is an unfortunate problem with this facility in the future - F9H will not fit through the stargate assembled.ITS has no hope.
Quote from: SPITexas on 01/20/2017 01:31 pmQuote from: Nomadd on 01/20/2017 01:32 am.Every time I see the name of that facility, I can't help but expect a truck to show up there one day carrying a large ring covered in strange symbols.
Quote from: Nomadd on 01/20/2017 01:32 am.
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http://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/SpaceX-leads-space-exploration-renaissance-and-10872954.php Got something good for you all "Space X Boca Chica 2018" Everyday I wait for something like this,now we got news.
The (ULA) facility in Harlingen has been on the same site since 1987 assembling Atlas payload fairing components — the nose cones used to protect spacecraft...“It’s not a secret that the reason that companies come to South Texas is labor costs less than it does in other parts in the country, there’s no doubt about it,” Piller said. “That’s why we still exist because we can fabricate cheaper than they can in Decatur or any other part in the country.”Cheap laborThe Bureau of Labor Statistics said that in May 2015, people working in the Brownsville-Harlingen metropolitan area made a mean hourly wage of $16.21 an hour — or a little more than $33,000 a year.Every occupation except health care practitioners and technical categories made less in Brownsville-Harlingen than their national counterparts. Mathmaticians and computer programmers make 34 percent below the national average while architects and engineers earn 20 percent below average U.S. incomes, according to federal wage data.
STARGATESTARGATE will have a facility next to the SpaceX integration facility in Boca Chica, giving students and professors a unique ability to interact with and view SpaceX’s missions...The program is being supported by a $4.4 million grant from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund matched by $4.6 million from the University of Texas System...Space discoveriesThe school’s main initiative for a decade has been its Arecibo Remote Control Center, or ARCC, which takes data from the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center’s Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and has students sift through it to find radio pulsars and other exotic galactic bodies.To date, at least 63 discoveries have been made at ARCC, including the 10th known double-neutron star system.Jenet said that students from his program are the ones who led the charge to engage SpaceX and persuade them to partner with local educational institutions.“We basically have these programs that were developed, we have these students that were at this level and then SpaceX comes nosing around. Our students immediately take advantage of this and they start organizing themselves to talk to SpaceX and organizing themselves to talk at the forums,” he said.Part of the practical use of STARGATE will be developing new radio frequency communications to increase the bandwidth of information that can be sent to and from space.“At the end of the day it’s the same bag of tools that you learn to get a radio telescope to work, function and detect astronomical objects, it’s the same kind of stuff that you learn that ultimately can be used to get a rocket to launch, to track it, to communicate with it,” Jenet said.
Paywall, unfortunately. Thanks for distilling it out for us, Dave G.
Maybe the stargate goes to Mars, and ITS is just a distraction from it!
Very interesting, Stargate is in a great location. I like how SpaceX is expanding their collaborations with schools. I'd love to watch a launch from that second-floor balcony, may be the best location to watch the launch from.
Hold on question if you don't mind, have you all talked about when there gonna build the Control center the very first thing they put out there a long fence & Portable if so when can we expect It. It's supposedly looks like this? We know STARGATE has started the Construction then the 1 of 2 satellites some activity at the Launch site, it's coming along slowly don't you think.
SpaceX has not identified the final design of the proposed control center area. Therefore, this EISincludes the most conservative scenario and assumes that the proposed control center would compriseportions of all three privately-owned parcels, as described below. However, the final site design mayonly include portions of one or two of the parcels.