Quote from: Kabloona on 03/15/2016 08:24 pmI just asked a source at McDonough Marine who told me the deck plate is 9/16" thick, so we won't have to debate that point any further. Now that's a solid report. Case closed forever. Thanks.It seems as if someone else, a newer person IIRC, solved another longstanding ASDS mystery a few weeks back by just simply picking up the phone and calling the authority. I can't recall or find it, I think it was the Eastern Range or Coast Guard??Given these two stepwise advancements in ASDS science it seems to me that rather than filling up hundreds of additional pages of NSF server space with more speculations, calculations, and educated guesses we just need to list our questions and call the sources for answers. Perhaps we need to print up some cool looking NSF credentials so we look official doing it.
I just asked a source at McDonough Marine who told me the deck plate is 9/16" thick, so we won't have to debate that point any further.
I figured by now they would have released the video of the landing attempt.
Quote from: brettreds2k on 03/16/2016 12:15 pmI figured by now they would have released the video of the landing attempt.Yeah. Considering how long it's been, I'm seriously doubting we'll ever see it.Maybe it happens so fast that there's really not much to see.
Is the Octaweb itself so weighty that it would be responsible for the damage alone; or is the mass of the engines as much / more of a factor?Certainly to tear 9/16" plate there's got to have been a fair impact - the footage would be interesting; and might cast a bit of light on whether the impact speed tor the ensuing explosion caused most of the damage.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4aqh3w/ocisly_today_look_at_the_huge_hole_on_the_left/
Quote from: llanitedave on 03/11/2016 11:48 pmThink of the Yorktown before the Battle of Midway.Not sure this is quite as compelling...And, since Yorktown was sunk during the battle, we don't want the same result! - Ed kyle
Think of the Yorktown before the Battle of Midway.Not sure this is quite as compelling...
The deck piece being moved in the video looks much bigger than the original hole made by the rocket. The impact must have damaged deck beams adjacent to the hole.Too bad we can't get a drone's-eye view now, because the hole after they cut that piece out must be much larger.
They still haven't raised that one thruster. Wonder what's up with that.
Quote from: GeneBelcher on 03/17/2016 04:55 pmThey still haven't raised that one thruster. Wonder what's up with that.Could be just an extra measure to keep the ASDS stabilized, since that thruster is too far from the hole to think it was damaged.
Quote from: Kabloona on 03/17/2016 04:50 pmThe deck piece being moved in the video looks much bigger than the original hole made by the rocket. The impact must have damaged deck beams adjacent to the hole.Too bad we can't get a drone's-eye view now, because the hole after they cut that piece out must be much larger.Worse yet, the lifted piece looked to be from only one quadrant of the hole area.Looking more closely a 2nd time full screen, there are quite a few boards covering an area much larger than the original hole, and still a larger actual hole section uncovered, although some or all of the boards may be there just to protect undamaged deck from the machinery, not to keep people or machinery from falling inside.
In summary: What you're looking at is the first stage of a re-build of a section of the barge deck and substructure from the inside out. We'll know when they're nearly done when the new deck plate(s) arrive. McD Marine likely not only know about it, but insisted it be done this way - all paid for by the insurers.