Graphic from @edzapata showing clear trend lines in Falcon 9 reuse. Days between reuse going down, frequency of booster use going up. Big milestone later this month when humans launch on a used Falcon 9 for the first time.https://zapatatalksnasa.com/2021/04/14/launcher-reusability-priceless/amp/
Musk says he is increasingly confident about the possibility of full and rapid reuse of orbital rockets: "It’s only recently that I feel like full and rapid reusability can be accomplished. I wasn’t sure for a long time, but I am now."
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Limited launch windows may endup slowing SS launch rate.Peter Beck said Wallops has 12 slots are year, while Mahia has 120 due to empty airspace. What is airspace like for launching out of Boca?.Sent from my SM-G570Y using Tapatalk
Quote from: TrevorMonty on 04/23/2021 06:05 pmLimited launch windows may endup slowing SS launch rate.Peter Beck said Wallops has 12 slots are year, while Mahia has 120 due to empty airspace. What is airspace like for launching out of Boca?.Sent from my SM-G570Y using TapatalkBC has some pretty tight limits on launches. These limits on launches are not based on physics, they are arbitrary administrative rules. One possibility is that these rules could be changed. Granted, this is difficult to do.I imagine that the flight rules for flying from an offshore platform won't be as problematic
Quote from: freddo411 on 04/25/2021 02:53 pmQuote from: TrevorMonty on 04/23/2021 06:05 pmLimited launch windows may endup slowing SS launch rate.Peter Beck said Wallops has 12 slots are year, while Mahia has 120 due to empty airspace. What is airspace like for launching out of Boca?.BC has some pretty tight limits on launches. These limits on launches are not based on physics, they are arbitrary administrative rules. One possibility is that these rules could be changed. Granted, this is difficult to do.I imagine that the flight rules for flying from an offshore platform won't be as problematicStill need clear air space and sea space. Why should other businesses put their business on hold to vacant sea and airspace so SpaceX can make money.
Quote from: TrevorMonty on 04/23/2021 06:05 pmLimited launch windows may endup slowing SS launch rate.Peter Beck said Wallops has 12 slots are year, while Mahia has 120 due to empty airspace. What is airspace like for launching out of Boca?.BC has some pretty tight limits on launches. These limits on launches are not based on physics, they are arbitrary administrative rules. One possibility is that these rules could be changed. Granted, this is difficult to do.I imagine that the flight rules for flying from an offshore platform won't be as problematic
Limited launch windows may endup slowing SS launch rate.Peter Beck said Wallops has 12 slots are year, while Mahia has 120 due to empty airspace. What is airspace like for launching out of Boca?.
The average turnaround time for the boosters that have flown this year is 58.2 days. A new record shortest turnaround time happened this year, with two different cores achieving a turnaround time of 27 days.
Quote from: whitelancer64 on 05/18/2021 02:45 pm The average turnaround time for the boosters that have flown this year is 58.2 days. A new record shortest turnaround time happened this year, with two different cores achieving a turnaround time of 27 days.Average turnaround is a useless statistic when you have launches like Crew-2 and GPS III SV05 skewing the numbers. Those boosters were sitting around because of contractual obligations, not any kind of operational reuse limitations.
Quote from: Jansen on 05/21/2021 05:52 pmQuote from: whitelancer64 on 05/18/2021 02:45 pm The average turnaround time for the boosters that have flown this year is 58.2 days. A new record shortest turnaround time happened this year, with two different cores achieving a turnaround time of 27 days.Average turnaround is a useless statistic when you have launches like Crew-2 and GPS III SV05 skewing the numbers. Those boosters were sitting around because of contractual obligations, not any kind of operational reuse limitations.It is also a moving target. Better than a whole fleet average turnaround, you might want to think about using a trailing average. Pick a number of the most recent launches and average over that. Plot a moving average.
Why average at all? The important metric is what's the fastest time.