Does anyone know which test stand is this? It looks different from the photos of the two position test stand that were posted before and what can be seen on the recently updated Google maps satellite imagery.
Hard to image any test that runs the full 3 minutes is anything other than good.
Quote from: wannamoonbase on 11/11/2015 02:11 amHard to image any test that runs the full 3 minutes is anything other than good.I want an imagination like yours! Instead mine comes up will all kinds of truly dreadful scenarios.... My guess is that after a test burn SpaceX at a minimum does photographic inspection of the engines' exteriors and up into the nozzles. Possibly boroscopic inspection of the combustion chambers as well. But maybe the perceived need for that is merely pessimism rearing its ugly head.... Seriously though there's always a chance that after shutdown was commanded some transient behavior didn't look right. That would be a difficult case for us on the outside to distinguish from a fully successful test.
SpaceX recently posted a beautiful mosaic of the SuperDraco test photos, from a lower angle than the video. The original is 3000x3000 resolution.Based on the middle right photo, it appears that the right engine may have run much hotter than the left, which would explain the difference in the volume of dripping depending on the boiling point of the liquid in question.
Eh... You do realize that they were running throttling them separately, right?
Quote from: Lars-J on 11/14/2015 11:30 pmEh... You do realize that they were running throttling them separately, right?Of course. Don't be silly.
Uhm, any word on the Full Duration Static fire test of Stage 1? I mean, december is getting closer and closer, and still no word of a test.