Quote from: Johnnyhinbos on 10/08/2017 05:14 pmWill the roomba be employed this recovery effort I wonder?Is there a west coast roomba?Matthew
Will the roomba be employed this recovery effort I wonder?
Sorry to jump in like this but I was curious as to how far away is the tugboat when the Falcon lands.ThanksJoe Smith
Some rough seas are apparently delaying crew from boarding JRTI. Edit: I should clarify, as of ~24 hours ago.
Quote from: vaporcobra on 10/11/2017 12:12 amSome rough seas are apparently delaying crew from boarding JRTI. Edit: I should clarify, as of ~24 hours ago. No Roomba (as of ~28 hours ago, about 12 hours after landing)
Quote from: Comga on 10/11/2017 03:52 amQuote from: vaporcobra on 10/11/2017 12:12 amSome rough seas are apparently delaying crew from boarding JRTI. Edit: I should clarify, as of ~24 hours ago. No Roomba (as of ~28 hours ago, about 12 hours after landing)The octagrabber lives on OCISLY and doesn't yet have a sibling for JRTI?
I always got the sense ELSBETH III's captain liked to "slow steam" when towing and save on fuel costs for the trip...I mean he and crew lives on board... might as well leave early and come back late unless not an option...When taking OCISLY to the dry-dock in the Bahamas a while back... He did put the 'coal' to it about 2 hours out IIRC and made real good time into port that day...
Quote from: John Alan on 10/09/2017 02:33 pmI always got the sense ELSBETH III's captain liked to "slow steam" when towing and save on fuel costs for the trip...I mean he and crew lives on board... might as well leave early and come back late unless not an option...When taking OCISLY to the dry-dock in the Bahamas a while back... He did put the 'coal' to it about 2 hours out IIRC and made real good time into port that day... Yea, it's much much cheaper to run engines at idle than full thrust. If not in a hurry you can save a huge chunk of fuel (and maintenance) costs.Also, did you account for ocean conditions? Sometimes we can be going 100% engines and making 4 knots, and other times we can be at engine optimal and be making 11 knots, and if we turn off the engines still be making close to 4 knots. Just like headwind/tailwind for a plane, you have the same thing with ocean surface currents.
Do we know what vessel is towing JRTI back? A quick browse of marinetraffic is rather bereft of candidates other than a tug named 'Pacific Falcon', which is very appropriately named, but my natural suspicion doesn't want to conclude that SpaceX may be using a vessel of that name to recover Falcon 9s in the Pacific!
Quote from: vanoord on 10/12/2017 12:34 pmDo we know what vessel is towing JRTI back? A quick browse of marinetraffic is rather bereft of candidates other than a tug named 'Pacific Falcon', which is very appropriately named, but my natural suspicion doesn't want to conclude that SpaceX may be using a vessel of that name to recover Falcon 9s in the Pacific!Betty R Gambella
The octagrabber is almost certainly on the barge, so presumably they'll want to use it. Assuming the first stage behaves itself, we'll no doubt find out at the end of the week.As far as I can tell, the tug has dropped out of range of (land-based) AIS coverage and was last seen about 8 hours ago, heading east at about 7 knots (which is, iirc, somewhat faster than Elsbeth III usually managed).
Quote from: vanoord on 10/09/2017 09:16 amThe octagrabber is almost certainly on the barge, so presumably they'll want to use it. Assuming the first stage behaves itself, we'll no doubt find out at the end of the week.As far as I can tell, the tug has dropped out of range of (land-based) AIS coverage and was last seen about 8 hours ago, heading east at about 7 knots (which is, iirc, somewhat faster than Elsbeth III usually managed). MarineTraffic shows Elsbeth III in Port Canaveral. Nobody tracking the return of OCISLY this time? I was expecting to see first use of the octograbber.
... I was expecting to see first use of the octograbber.
MarineTraffic shows Elsbeth III in Port Canaveral. Nobody tracking the return of OCISLY this time? I was expecting to see first use of the octograbber.