I am unable to access that PDF from the Swedish website. Can you attach it rather than the link? Does it have any additional explanation?
Quote from: Comga on 09/20/2012 03:36 pmI am unable to access that PDF from the Swedish website. Can you attach it rather than the link? Does it have any additional explanation?
Quote from: ChefPat on 09/20/2012 04:39 pmQuote from: Comga on 09/20/2012 03:36 pmI am unable to access that PDF from the Swedish website. Can you attach it rather than the link? Does it have any additional explanation?Thanks. That makes it easy.The lower image displays a file name "Iridium 5-4 configuration with fairing 2.jpg" so apparently is is the configuration with nine Iridium Next satellites, portrayed in a highly stylized manner.A small length of the Merlin 1D engine bells is obscured behind that image. My system just can't tease them apart. Oh well.
Quote from: Nydoc on 05/17/2012 03:09 amThis is because the entire graphic is not visible in the Iridium PDF. The bottom part of the image is obscured by a close-up of the fairing and payload. A print screen results in a cropped image and the file has document assembly disallowed so you can't move or delete the image on top. Steve E. Kunszabo is the creator of this file, so presumably he has the original image.Document disassembly disallowed? Don't be too sure! Here's the image directly ripped from the pdf (thanks, pdfimages!). Note that full engine nozzles are now visible.
This is because the entire graphic is not visible in the Iridium PDF. The bottom part of the image is obscured by a close-up of the fairing and payload. A print screen results in a cropped image and the file has document assembly disallowed so you can't move or delete the image on top. Steve E. Kunszabo is the creator of this file, so presumably he has the original image.
Quote from: Pedantic Twit on 05/17/2012 03:29 amDocument disassembly disallowed? Don't be too sure! Here's the image directly ripped from the pdf (thanks, pdfimages!). Note that full engine nozzles are now visible.
Document disassembly disallowed? Don't be too sure! Here's the image directly ripped from the pdf (thanks, pdfimages!). Note that full engine nozzles are now visible.
Quote from: 2552 on 09/21/2012 06:23 amQuote from: Pedantic Twit on 05/17/2012 03:29 amDocument disassembly disallowed? Don't be too sure! Here's the image directly ripped from the pdf (thanks, pdfimages!). Note that full engine nozzles are now visible.That is very clear.(I didn't say it wasn't allowed. I just said my machine couldn't do it.)It looks like the center engine sticks out just a bit past the outer 8.Interesting.
That configuration would have an impact on Falcon Heavy. Would the boosters need a little more distance from the center stage? Otherwise the engines would be very close together. Unlike the old configuration.
Quick drawing.
Quote from: modemeagle on 09/22/2012 11:40 amQuick drawing.Thanks modemeagle, nice illustration, but to my eye you have moved the cores closer together also.
Thank you Joffan for catching that. I did not notice it but they were 6 inches closer then they were supposed to be. I corrected the original drawing.
Quote from: modemeagle on 09/22/2012 05:14 pmThank you Joffan for catching that. I did not notice it but they were 6 inches closer then they were supposed to be. I corrected the original drawing.Thanks again. It looks like a comfortable distance, if that is the distance of the actual Falcon cores.