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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #740 on: 05/10/2018 09:37 pm »
They also said something about TPS "tiles"??
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #741 on: 05/10/2018 10:11 pm »
They all said something about TPS "tiles"??

At the base of the rocket.

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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #742 on: 05/10/2018 10:39 pm »
We would want to see the transcript of what Musk actually said.  The Twitter feed I was following said "300 or more."

https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/994648133840920578
I wish this were simply released in its entirety.
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #743 on: 05/10/2018 10:40 pm »
Take 100 flights with a grain of salt. If each F9 B5 could fly up to 10 times it would be already a great achievement.  Currently the most a F9 core has flown is two times with 4-5 months needed for refurbishment.

Also, some parts may be certified to fly 100 times, but if you change 99% of the booster, is it really the same one?

Fairing and US reuse would be needed to really supercharge the flight rate.

If the US can be reused without too high a penalty then the economics of space launch could be shocking. 

If that works out then StarLink deployment and speed could be shocking.
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #744 on: 05/10/2018 11:02 pm »
We would want to see the transcript of what Musk actually said.  The Twitter feed I was following said "300 or more."

https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/994648133840920578
I wish this were simply released in its entirety.

Here you go:
 
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #745 on: 05/10/2018 11:07 pm »
We would want to see the transcript of what Musk actually said.  The Twitter feed I was following said "300 or more."

https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/994648133840920578
I wish this were simply released in its entirety.

Just wait.  I'm sure as soon as someone posts a recording of the call, theinternetFTW will end up posting a transcript to his github.
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #746 on: 05/10/2018 11:37 pm »
Elon said "up to 300 missions" for F9 B5.

Yes, I am having a hard time combining that one with the 30-50 cores...
Sounds like massive overkill or still dozens of stages being expended...
How will they ever get close to even 50 per core?!

For now the 100 number seems purely theoretical and will never be attempted.
But we all know the world hanged rapidly, paradigms are shifting and BFR is looming...

Meanwhile competition with old-space seems way behind them...

How long ago did Russia joke about using a trampoline?

Some customers are specifying brand new boosters, and I'm sure some FH center cores will go into the drink. it's not inconceivable that these two numbers add up to twenty-something boosters over the next 5 or so years.

BFR will probably be here before any boosters hit the century mark.

I've been wondering if SpaceX will start actively pushing customers away from new boosters in a year or so. Beyond simply dropping the price for re-used they could theoretically start jacking up the price for any new contract that requires new hardware.

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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #747 on: 05/11/2018 12:18 am »
We would want to see the transcript of what Musk actually said.  The Twitter feed I was following said "300 or more."

https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/994648133840920578
I wish this were simply released in its entirety.

Just wait.  I'm sure as soon as someone posts a recording of the call, theinternetFTW will end up posting a transcript to his github.

The actual statement by Musk was "we think we'll be probably need something on the order of 300 flights, maybe more, of Falcon 9 Block 5"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCNyCVuN4aM?t=240

He also said "we intend to demonstrate two orbital launches of the same Block 5 vehicle within 24 hours no later than next year".
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #748 on: 05/11/2018 12:49 am »
Active water cooling of the base heat shield during reentry?!

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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #749 on: 05/11/2018 12:56 am »
Active water cooling of the base heat shield during reentry?!
Makes sense. The heat of vaporization of water is very high, and it keeps everything from going beyond like 100C. I’m doing a similar thing for a thermal management problem I’m dealing with right now.

It's a lot like a regeneratively or gas-film cooled rocket engine. In fact, that's how I like to solve engineering problems: "But how would we solve this problem if we treated it like a rocket engine?"
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #750 on: 05/11/2018 05:03 am »
Octaweb upgrade from 2000 series aluminum to 7000 series

Replaced composite structure(?) in the base heat shield with titanium structure. Selected area is actively cooled with water due to hotspot from hypersonic shockwave(?) during re-entry.

Also upgraded all the avionics (flight computer, engine controllers), more fault tolerant. Also eliminated some tower? Avionic tower?


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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #751 on: 05/11/2018 05:28 am »
Just wait.  I'm sure as soon as someone posts a recording of the call, theinternetFTW will end up posting a transcript to his github.

Accurate. Transcript below. (Already in the update thread, too, but for the ease of finding it now and later...)

https://gist.github.com/theinternetftw/5ba82bd5f4099934fa0556b9d09c123e

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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #752 on: 05/11/2018 05:34 am »
Active water cooling of the base heat shield during reentry?!

Yeah that was perhaps the biggest surprise. But cool!  8)

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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #753 on: 05/11/2018 05:52 am »
Active water cooling of the base heat shield during reentry?!

Yeah that was perhaps the biggest surprise. But cool!  8)

So many interesting gems from the call.  Human rating F9 needing 40% extra margin puts a lot of things into perspective; reading between the lines, they had to squeeze out more performance from the Merlin engines to help offset this extra 15% margin required from non-human-rated F9.

From all of Elon's descriptions, they've made F9 B5 both the most reliable, but also the easiest to refly/refurbish rocket.  So, although it was a massive pain in the ass to work with NASA and the Air Force to get to B5, SpaceX should in theory have a crazy good vehicle for their commercial launches as well.

The thing that I'd be interested in is how Atlas V and SLS achieve their human rating.  I assume they have to provide 40% margin as well?  F9 can take a single engine out at any time in the mission and still complete the mission.  Atlas and SLS have fewer engines to offset a single-engine failure, so I would love to know how they pass the NASA human certification.

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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #754 on: 05/11/2018 06:01 am »
40% margin is the typical human rating standard, it is nothing new. Yes, presumably ULA has gone through the same for Atlas V and dual engine Centaur.

As far as making B5 the most reliable rocket - well, it has to be demonstrated first. :)
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #755 on: 05/11/2018 01:13 pm »
40% margin is not a requirement

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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #756 on: 05/11/2018 01:25 pm »
Correct. I don’t think Atlas is designed to those factor of safety specs. But that obviously doesn’t mean Atlas V isn’t reliable.
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #757 on: 05/11/2018 01:40 pm »
40% margin is not a requirement

Jim, I thought 1.4 structure margins were a requirement for manned rating.
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #758 on: 05/11/2018 02:34 pm »
40% margin is not a requirement

Jim, I thought 1.4 structure margins were a requirement for manned rating.

You are showing requirements for pressurized vessels and not structures.

Also, I don't think CCP is under contract for that document.
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Re: F9 Block 5 Updates and Discussion
« Reply #759 on: 05/11/2018 02:36 pm »
F9 can take a single engine out at any time in the mission and still complete the mission.  Atlas and SLS have fewer engines to offset a single-engine failure, so I would love to know how they pass the NASA human certification.

There is no requirement for engine redundancy.
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