Quote from: kaiser on 07/24/2017 04:44 pmIf our biggest concern with regards to feasibility is that traffic on a road might move at 30mph for a half hour at 2am once a month and you might have to get a permit for it..... then I'd say that we're there :-DOnce a month is optimistic.The rate of production for these 9m monsters (booster and upper stage) will be low. They are intended to be reused, a lot.
If our biggest concern with regards to feasibility is that traffic on a road might move at 30mph for a half hour at 2am once a month and you might have to get a permit for it..... then I'd say that we're there :-D
SpaceX has been very successful with their culture of co-locating design engineering and manufacturing and having design engineers get out on the floor. That's a big problem suddenly locating ITS manufacturing elsewhere especially in very different lifestyle locations like Brownsville & vicinity. Another reason why Elon is seemingly interested in building ITSy in Hawthorne.
I read that Elon said "The factory we're using can handle up to 9m"But is that Hawthorn... or whatever Composite assembily facility they used for the demo carbon fiber tanks?
Quote from: philw1776 on 07/24/2017 09:27 pmSpaceX has been very successful with their culture of co-locating design engineering and manufacturing and having design engineers get out on the floor. That's a big problem suddenly locating ITS manufacturing elsewhere especially in very different lifestyle locations like Brownsville & vicinity. Another reason why Elon is seemingly interested in building ITSy in Hawthorne.I read that Elon said "The factory we're using can handle up to 9m"But is that Hawthorn... or whatever Composite assembily facility they used for the demo carbon fiber tanks?
Are we thinking Li-Al instead of carbon fibre for ITSy? If so, it's really like a big Falcon with Raptor engines, isn't it?
Am I right in believing that the ship itself will be about 14m in diameter?
Quote from: moreno7798 on 07/24/2017 10:57 pmAm I right in believing that the ship itself will be about 14m in diameter?Okay, I've seen enough of these questions to feel I need to express my completely unsubstantiated opinion: the spaceship isn't the priority right now. I think ITSy will be a fully reusable two stage launch vehicle for delivering satellites to orbit. i.e., to make money. With that money SpaceX can start work on the spaceship.
Quote from: QuantumG on 07/24/2017 11:32 pmQuote from: moreno7798 on 07/24/2017 10:57 pmAm I right in believing that the ship itself will be about 14m in diameter?Okay, I've seen enough of these questions to feel I need to express my completely unsubstantiated opinion: the spaceship isn't the priority right now. I think ITSy will be a fully reusable two stage launch vehicle for delivering satellites to orbit. i.e., to make money. With that money SpaceX can start work on the spaceship.Just saying . . . if you're just scaling everything down, then it would be about (but perhaps not exactly) 14 meters including the landing gear and assuming they are NOT changing the design.
Okay, I've seen enough of these questions to feel I need to express my completely unsubstantiated opinion: the spaceship isn't the priority right now. I think ITSy will be a fully reusable two stage launch vehicle for delivering satellites to orbit. i.e., to make money. With that money SpaceX can start work on the spaceship.
Quote from: QuantumG on 07/24/2017 11:32 pmOkay, I've seen enough of these questions to feel I need to express my completely unsubstantiated opinion: the spaceship isn't the priority right now. I think ITSy will be a fully reusable two stage launch vehicle for delivering satellites to orbit. i.e., to make money. With that money SpaceX can start work on the spaceship.Building a 9m monster for delivering <1mt satellites to LEO is the most nonsensical thing I can imagine. If anything its about designing a mid-L/D entry vehicle that NASA can use as a Mars lander and would pay billions for if it goes ahead with its Mars plans.
Building a 9m monster for delivering <1mt satellites to LEO is the most nonsensical thing I can imagine.
A large launcher with 100 ton cargo capacity, can handle 100 1mt satellites. Especially with the constellation they want to build which is about 4,000 satellites I think.
Except NASA doesn't have any money for a lander.