Quote from: SPITexas on 10/13/2017 01:07 amhttp://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/10/spacexs-gwynne-shotwell-reveals-more-details-about-the-bfr-002085099.htmlIs Texas really SpaceX first & final choice to launch the BFR. First.From the article you linked:QuoteShotwell did not provide any detail about how the Boca Chica spaceport would handle BFR launches and landings, whether they would be from land or, as some illustrations suggest, from an offshore platform.Texas has plenty of firms with expertise in building offshore platforms. Launching from offshore would likely avoid the issue of beach closures that land launches have entailed.Note that we've previously discussed the possibility of a BFR launch pad a few miles offshore from Boca Chica, starting around here.An offshore pad combined with an onshore control center, tracking station, and propellant storage could make getting approvals a lot easier.
http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/10/spacexs-gwynne-shotwell-reveals-more-details-about-the-bfr-002085099.htmlIs Texas really SpaceX first & final choice to launch the BFR. First.
Shotwell did not provide any detail about how the Boca Chica spaceport would handle BFR launches and landings, whether they would be from land or, as some illustrations suggest, from an offshore platform.Texas has plenty of firms with expertise in building offshore platforms. Launching from offshore would likely avoid the issue of beach closures that land launches have entailed.
Shuttle had FTS.
How much experience do you have with how the US federal government promulgates regulations for new and emerging areas? If the answer is anything but "Lots," then I respectfully suggest you - and every other armchair amateur rocket scientist/lawyer - stick to regulations as they exist now, and technologies such as AFTS that exist now - rather than make blanket pronouncements about future PowerPoint vehicles servicing future PowerPoint economic markets that do not yet exist.
Quote from: cppetrie on 10/12/2017 08:29 pmShuttle had FTS.The Shuttle stack had FTS, specifically each of the SRMs. The Orbiter, as far as I know, did not?[EDIT: Point being; the BFS is roughly comparable to Orbiter+ET; the BFR would presumably be required to have an FTS that would fire immediately after emergency separation by the BFS in an abort scenario, or after normal separation in the event of some anomaly].