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« Reply #855 on: 06/21/2012 01:17 PM » |
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There will be more updates when there are more updates, for Heaven's sake!! Complain to Elon if we aren't learning more, faster. And Falcon Heavy has a long way to go before flight yet. Forgive people for showing a little enthusiasm for the subject!
Last time I checked, this was an update thread, not a speculation thread for anything ranging from hybrid boosters to warp coils.
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« Reply #856 on: 06/21/2012 01:43 PM » |
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And Falcon Heavy has a long way to go before flight yet. Forgive people for showing a little enthusiasm for the subject!
... But SpaceX say's it will be onsite by the end of the year... At least they now have a crane to lift it when it arrives <wink>
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« Reply #857 on: 06/21/2012 04:14 PM » |
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There will be more updates when there are more updates, for Heaven's sake!! Complain to Elon if we aren't learning more, faster. And Falcon Heavy has a long way to go before flight yet. Forgive people for showing a little enthusiasm for the subject!
Last time I checked, this was an update thread, not a speculation thread for anything ranging from hybrid boosters to warp coils.
+1!!
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« Reply #858 on: 06/21/2012 04:32 PM » |
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And Falcon Heavy has a long way to go before flight yet. Forgive people for showing a little enthusiasm for the subject!
... But SpaceX say's it will be onsite by the end of the year... At least they now have a crane to lift it when it arrives <wink>
While I feel for the folks that are struggling with "ideas" for future FH design, I have to agree with UGORDON, this thread should be about updates for FH; perhaps a dedicated thread for such could be created, and seeded from this thread; there are a lot of good ideas springing up in fertile soil http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=29214.new#newjust made a new thread, MY FIRST  see the thread for why, but it is called "Falcon Heavy Post May 22/2012, Engineering Master Speculation Thread" edit, Chris, name for thread my be redundant in parts 
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Jorge
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« Reply #859 on: 06/21/2012 06:14 PM » |
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There will be more updates when there are more updates, for Heaven's sake!! Complain to Elon if we aren't learning more, faster. And Falcon Heavy has a long way to go before flight yet. Forgive people for showing a little enthusiasm for the subject!
Last time I checked, this was an update thread, not a speculation thread for anything ranging from hybrid boosters to warp coils.
Right, save the cheerleading for the party thread and the speculation for the general discussion thread. "There will be more updates when there are more updates" is a horrible excuse for cluttering an update thread.
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« Reply #860 on: 06/21/2012 06:23 PM » |
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I haven't read this whole thread, but will the first Falcon heavy have cross feed?
Also, without cross feed what is the LEO capability?
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Robotbeat
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« Reply #861 on: 06/21/2012 06:32 PM » |
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I haven't read this whole thread, but will the first Falcon heavy have cross feed?
Also, without cross feed what is the LEO capability?
A) According to (I think?) Elon it will. Lots of people sort of doubt that it will for the first flight. B) I've heard guesstimates of ~45mT.
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« Reply #862 on: 06/21/2012 07:55 PM » |
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45mt would be a useful amount, for sure. And as for the update thread thought police - this is not an L-2 thread, which understandably tolerates diversion even less. But sure, ok - I'll refrain from speculating much more in this thread.
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« Reply #863 on: 06/22/2012 02:08 AM » |
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All this talk about how many Falcon Heavies can be ganged is just that - talk.
Elon is not interested in building a BFR. What he wants is to build a rocket that's "big enough" and then put his money into spacecraft and mission hardware designed to use it.
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go4mars
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« Reply #864 on: 06/22/2012 05:03 AM » |
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All this talk about how many Falcon Heavies can be ganged is just that - talk.
Elon is not interested in building a BFR. What he wants is to build a rocket that's "big enough" and then put his money into spacecraft and mission hardware designed to use it. I interpreted all the ganged FH stuff as just humor. BFR is a separate discussion for a different thread.
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« Reply #865 on: 06/22/2012 11:21 AM » |
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All this talk about how many Falcon Heavies can be ganged is just that - talk.
Elon is not interested in building a BFR. What he wants is to build a rocket that's "big enough" and then put his money into spacecraft and mission hardware designed to use it.
Did you see the FHHH photoshop? Hilarious. Not serious. To the rest of your point: he's on record saying that FH isn't the one that's gonna go to mars, it's the next-generation one that he's thinking about announcing later this year.
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« Reply #866 on: 06/22/2012 02:19 PM » |
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All this talk about how many Falcon Heavies can be ganged is just that - talk.
Elon is not interested in building a BFR. What he wants is to build a rocket that's "big enough" and then put his money into spacecraft and mission hardware designed to use it.
Did you see the FHHH photoshop? Hilarious. Not serious. To the rest of your point: he's on record saying that FH isn't the one that's gonna go to mars, it's the next-generation one that he's thinking about announcing later this year.
I don't think he'll be announcing a vehicle we don't know about later this year. The unveiling will be likely the Falcon Heavy... Which makes perfect sense. Though it could also be the Falcon 9 v1.1. Chances of it being a new vehicle are low.
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Robotbeat
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« Reply #867 on: 06/22/2012 02:54 PM » |
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All this talk about how many Falcon Heavies can be ganged is just that - talk.
Elon is not interested in building a BFR. What he wants is to build a rocket that's "big enough" and then put his money into spacecraft and mission hardware designed to use it.
Did you see the FHHH photoshop? Hilarious. Not serious. To the rest of your point: he's on record saying that FH isn't the one that's gonna go to mars, it's the next-generation one that he's thinking about announcing later this year.
Not quite correct. He said the FH won't be for mars colonization, not that it can't or won't be used for going to mars.
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Mader Levap
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« Reply #868 on: 06/22/2012 11:36 PM » |
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I don't think he'll be announcing a vehicle we don't know about later this year. The unveiling will be likely the Falcon Heavy... FH was already officially unvelied over year ago.
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/UTwRxtmQ9IY&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/UTwRxtmQ9IY&rel=1</a>]]>F9 1.1 is better bet, AFAIK it was not officilaly revealed.
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« Reply #869 on: 06/22/2012 11:39 PM » |
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I don't think he'll be announcing a vehicle we don't know about later this year. The unveiling will be likely the Falcon Heavy... FH was already officially unvelied over year ago.
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/UTwRxtmQ9IY&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/UTwRxtmQ9IY&rel=1</a>]]>
F9 1.1 is better bet, AFAIK it was not officilaly revealed.
*Pst* That's a computer animation, not a real rocket.
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