Falcon 9 Airhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_Air
Yes, definitely "Falcon Air" (whatever number). How about Merlin 1B? Is that generally acknowledged to be "cool but never happened"?
Revolutionizing the smallsat market with the Falcon 1e.
Quote from: QuantumG on 07/30/2014 12:30 amRevolutionizing the smallsat market with the Falcon 1e.Now FireFly picked up the torch with their Alpha.
I suppose there's also Mars Oasis, which essentially started it all.
Quote from: sdsds on 07/30/2014 12:14 amYes, definitely "Falcon Air" (whatever number). How about Merlin 1B? Is that generally acknowledged to be "cool but never happened"?I'm pretty sure the Merlin 1B "happened" in that it was developed, but it was definitely never flown.
Quote from: neilh on 07/30/2014 04:56 amI suppose there's also Mars Oasis, which essentially started it all.Ah, indeed! But didn't that predate SpaceX, i.e. wasn't SpaceX founded because Mars Oasis couldn't find a launch vehicle?I've added Falcon Air and Merlin 1B to the list in the first post. (Falcon 1e was already there.)What about parachute recovery of a Falcon first stage? It would have been cool, and it almost happened. So... yes?
- Falcon 9 Block II
Quote from: sdsds on 07/29/2014 11:03 pm- Falcon 9 Block IIIsn't this the Falcon 9 v1.1?
They discovered after the first launch of v1.0 that the cores were burning on atmosphere reentry
Quote from: baldusi on 07/31/2014 02:02 pmThey discovered after the first launch of v1.0 that the cores were burning on atmosphere reentry I thought they were just torn apart during the uncontrolled and way to fast reentry. I never heard that they were actually burning. That would be rather odd given the speeds involved.
Merlin 2 [...] got to a fairly high level of design before being cancelled in favour of Raptor
Hydrogen fuel upper stage cancelled for methane fuel Raptor.
I never heard of a serious LH2 plan at SpaceX. Details?