Today's launch is the last prior to IAC 2017. SpaceX has had a very successful YTD. Hopefully this will give Elon more confidence to reveal more than planned on ITSy and the overall Mars plan. Updated schedules would be much appreciated. He still has plenty of time to update his presentation.
Quote from: testguy on 09/07/2017 06:55 pmToday's launch is the last prior to IAC 2017. SpaceX has had a very successful YTD. Hopefully this will give Elon more confidence to reveal more than planned on ITSy and the overall Mars plan. Updated schedules would be much appreciated. He still has plenty of time to update his presentation.EM has likely already decided on the exact amount of new info. on the Mars plan to be revealed before today's launch. So please don't expect any more just because SpaceX have been so successful so far this year.
9m is small enough to make in Hawthorne and move a few miles around on the road then barge to the Atlantic.
Quote from: Robotbeat on 09/09/2017 06:00 pm9m is small enough to make in Hawthorne and move a few miles around on the road then barge to the Atlantic.And yet people thought "it has to be road transportable or built right next to the launch site or else it's too expensive." Looks like it didn't even matter.
It does matter if you're building a lot of expendable ones.
Still matters if BFR is 12-15m.
I agree with your comment about the OMS on the shuttle - not used simultaneously, so that doesn't fit as an example of dynamic interactions.
Are there any existing examples of such a mixture of bell types (atmospheric and vaccum) on a single thrust structure? I'm coming up blank.