http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/09/spacex-conducts-falcon-9-improvements-busy-schedule/Notes:Summary of some of the notes we've been working with in L2. Schedule is highly preliminary, but confidence in it was elevated by other sites later noting they think SES-9 will ride first as RTF and the closeness of the CRS-8 date. Still totally preliminary - don't go booking any flights! A lot of media ran with Ms. Shotwell's comments from AIAA, so tried to avoid copying that as you will already have read it. A bit of cool stuff on the Dragons and some things you may not have heard about per the "Deep Dive" work and alternative path evaluations (one of which we think caused one journalist to think the struts weren't at fault. That one took a good bit of evaluation to show it was only a check on the fault tree, not a smoking gun, so I can see how that could have been misinterpreted by that other site).Could have gone on a bit about 2016 with FH, but didn't want to get too wordy and kept it below 1500 words. We'll do something on FH later (probably for a milestone such as pad complete - which it nearly is, or a core shipping, etc.) Same goes with ASDS and Vandy first stage landings.Please copy this post (all of the post) into the relevant manifest and mission threads, so people have the link and also my note about not booking hotels just yet! ) Just thought it would be a good idea to have a standalone thread, otherwise we may end up with people talking about future Dragons in a Jason-3 thread, etc.Hope this is useful to you all.
C'mon guys... Plans change.Reuse is a massive wildcard.Until SX recovers the first stage, even for SX itself its speculation on what they will do next. Whatever they say might (heck, probably will) be altered. The stage might be in better or worse state than expected.There's significant precedent for this. Early re-use tests progressed so much faster than expected it made the GH program mosty obsolete. They quickly changed their focus into the landing aspects of GH, as they managed the soft landing on the ocean prematurely.Let's not go too wild on this debate.
Did I read this will be a v1.2 and not a v1.1?
We are getting closer! Here is the fcc application. https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/STA_Print.cfm?mode=initial&application_seq=67983
Requested Period of OperationOperation Start Date: 11/15/2015Operation End Date: 05/15/2015
Looks like they have invented time travel:QuoteRequested Period of OperationOperation Start Date: 11/15/2015Operation End Date: 05/15/2015
Must be scary to handle that equipment. Especially when the scaffolding comes off. I have seen some pretty scary expensive scientific instruments close up. I was sweating bricks and kept my hands tight in their pockets, never going to touch anything. I cant imagine how handling a satellite must be. Good luck folks!
Quote from: Semmel on 10/21/2015 06:42 pmMust be scary to handle that equipment. Especially when the scaffolding comes off. I have seen some pretty scary expensive scientific instruments close up. I was sweating bricks and kept my hands tight in their pockets, never going to touch anything. I cant imagine how handling a satellite must be. Good luck folks! Even though there have been accidents, when people became too careless while handling these multi-million dollar satellites. You really do not want to cause such a mishap like the NOAA-N-Prime incident: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=10299
SES: We now expect our SES-9 (5,300kg-important-for-2016-rev-forecast) satellite to launch on SpaceX Full-Thrust Falcon 9 in mid-January.
SES reports its SES-9 communications satellite has arrived at Cape Canaveral for mid-January launch to GEO on upgraded SpaceX Falcon 9.