.... the delta wing control surfaces that are completely missing in all the renders.
So I really wouldn't take any these CGI renders for more than they are. They cannot seriously be depicting an actual design that is going to start construction in 6 months.
Quote from: Nibb31 on 09/30/2017 11:09 amSo I really wouldn't take any these CGI renders for more than they are. They cannot seriously be depicting an actual design that is going to start construction in 6 months.Worth noting that promo-quality CGI models are fundamentally different from engineering drawings. The details on one imply very little about the presence/absence/completeness of the other; one would naively expect that, for efficiency's sake, details would only be added to the CGI models if they were needed to illustrate some particular point in the story told by the animation. --scott
Quote from: cscott on 09/30/2017 02:42 pmQuote from: Nibb31 on 09/30/2017 11:09 amSo I really wouldn't take any these CGI renders for more than they are. They cannot seriously be depicting an actual design that is going to start construction in 6 months.Worth noting that promo-quality CGI models are fundamentally different from engineering drawings. The details on one imply very little about the presence/absence/completeness of the other; one would naively expect that, for efficiency's sake, details would only be added to the CGI models if they were needed to illustrate some particular point in the story told by the animation. --scottYep. And it is also worth noting that these renderings of the updated design are actually *less detailed* then the ones we saw last year of the old design. I think they were deliberate about not revealing as much.
Quote from: QuantumG on 09/30/2017 01:57 amAnyone seen a diagram of the BFS and the Shuttle side-by-side? Too early?Not at all, let's paint BFS in Shuttle color scheme with NASA logo too, I bet there're still Shuttle lovers in NASA.
Anyone seen a diagram of the BFS and the Shuttle side-by-side? Too early?
Quote from: su27k on 09/30/2017 02:51 amQuote from: QuantumG on 09/30/2017 01:57 amAnyone seen a diagram of the BFS and the Shuttle side-by-side? Too early?Not at all, let's paint BFS in Shuttle color scheme with NASA logo too, I bet there're still Shuttle lovers in NASA. From 2030 wikipedia. "It turned out that the key to cancelling SLS and funding BFR by congress was the shuttle-derived artwork".
Has there been any mention of radiators on the BFS?I've always expected them to be behind the solar panels, but are there other solutions? And dos it make sense to pipe the coolant all the way down to where the solar panels are?The space shuttle had large radiators in the doors, but that will not be the case for the BFR spaceship.So where are the radiators going to be?
Can't help thinking that the massive propellant tanks have to be part of the cooling system somehow. You could dump heat there and then compress the boiloff down to put it into the header tanks.Which means that the 'F' in BFR/BFS stands for 'fridge'.