Just call it Vertical Landing Complex 1.
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Quote from: xpete on 03/13/2015 10:03 pmJust call it Vertical Landing Complex 1.VLC? Knowing the wags around there, it would be a moniker for "Very Large Crater"
“It’s more a range safety activity. We basically have to get clearance from the range. I think the Eastern Range is going to let us, but they’d like to see us land on the drone ship first. But they have their finger on the button.“If you think about the decision-making before you blow up a launch vehicle for safety reasons, on ascent it’s a harder decision. You’ve got a payload onboard. Someone’s bird is not getting to orbit if you press the Command Destruct button.“If you hit Destruct an incoming stage, it’s an experiment at this point anyhow, it doesn’t have a ton of fuel on it, it’s probably going to hit a barge. You can imagine if a rocket with a bunch of fuel hit a building, there would be a huge explosion. You can be a little twitchier with your finger on the button for incoming.”
Sorry but LC-1 seems perfectly reasonable.
Ya know, it's great to see increased market forces and ordinary commercial practices begin to affect the space industry. It is quite common for long-term leaseholders in ordinary commercial business deals, to have a certain amount of freedom in naming their facility. I think it is a great thing to see this happening, at some limited margins, in the traditionally national-government-centric space industry. I very much look forward to a time when these sorts of commercial ventures are changing things up in the other space-going nations as well!
Quote from: Llian Rhydderch on 03/14/2015 01:22 amYa know, it's great to see increased market forces and ordinary commercial practices begin to affect the space industry. It is quite common for long-term leaseholders in ordinary commercial business deals, to have a certain amount of freedom in naming their facility. I think it is a great thing to see this happening, at some limited margins, in the traditionally national-government-centric space industry. I very much look forward to a time when these sorts of commercial ventures are changing things up in the other space-going nations as well!It is nothing new. The commercial companies (Boeing and LM) renamed facilities they reutilized. Same broken record about market forces and ordinary commercial practices.Missile Inert Storage became Atlas Spaceflight Operations CenterCentaur Processing Facility became Delta Operations CenterOrbiter Processing Facility-3 became Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility
Quote from: Jim on 03/21/2015 02:04 amQuote from: Llian Rhydderch on 03/14/2015 01:22 amYa know, it's great to see increased market forces and ordinary commercial practices begin to affect the space industry. It is quite common for long-term leaseholders in ordinary commercial business deals, to have a certain amount of freedom in naming their facility. I think it is a great thing to see this happening, at some limited margins, in the traditionally national-government-centric space industry. I very much look forward to a time when these sorts of commercial ventures are changing things up in the other space-going nations as well!It is nothing new. The commercial companies (Boeing and LM) renamed facilities they reutilized. Same broken record about market forces and ordinary commercial practices.Missile Inert Storage became Atlas Spaceflight Operations CenterCentaur Processing Facility became Delta Operations CenterOrbiter Processing Facility-3 became Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing FacilitySo, just wondering, since you have a great deal of knowledge on the historical way things have been done with the US government launch programs at the cape over the past several decades, which other "Launch Complexes", or "Launch Pads", have been renamed when they were leased by a commercial company, even one of the traditional cost-plus space contractors?
So, just wondering, since you have a great deal of knowledge on the historical way things have been done with the US government launch programs at the cape over the past several decades, which other "Launch Complexes", or "Launch Pads", have been renamed when they were leased by a commercial company, even one of the traditional cost-plus space contractors?
So, just wondering, since you have a great deal of knowledge on the historical way things have been done with the US government launch programs
Speaking of craters, some comments from Gwynne on range safety for incoming stages:Quote“It’s more a range safety activity. We basically have to get clearance from the range. I think the Eastern Range is going to let us, but they’d like to see us land on the drone ship first. But they have their finger on the button.“If you think about the decision-making before you blow up a launch vehicle for safety reasons, on ascent it’s a harder decision. You’ve got a payload onboard. Someone’s bird is not getting to orbit if you press the Command Destruct button.“If you hit Destruct an incoming stage, it’s an experiment at this point anyhow, it doesn’t have a ton of fuel on it, it’s probably going to hit a barge. You can imagine if a rocket with a bunch of fuel hit a building, there would be a huge explosion. You can be a little twitchier with your finger on the button for incoming.”http://spacenews.com/spacex-aims-to-debut-new-version-of-falcon-9-this-summer/Not sure I understand the "probably going to hit a barge" comment. Maybe she meant that's the worst that could happen in case of a destruct command. But how many barges are going to be in the vicinity of an RTLS attempt?Or does she mean that they will be doing a near-shore barge landing demo for the range with live FTS in case the stage overshoots towards land?
Quote from: Llian Rhydderch on 03/23/2015 01:10 amSo, just wondering, since you have a great deal of knowledge on the historical way things have been done with the US government launch programs at the cape over the past several decades, which other "Launch Complexes", or "Launch Pads", have been renamed when they were leased by a commercial company, even one of the traditional cost-plus space contractors?None of the launch sites have been renamed. Falcon 9 launches from SLC-40, which always was the numeric designator.Landing Site-1 is on the site of LC-13. So, no real change.
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