Now if you could just finish the petty squabbles. Something worth talking about out of ses. Do you think there looking at doing extra burns or longer burns? I assume they are going to try and get closer to the final on station orbit.How close do you think f9ft can get them? How close would they want to get?
So they could achieve a super synchronous orbit with an extended 1 stage burn, would they need to change the number of burns for the 2nd stage?
Given that important role Dragon plays, its development is worthy of a book. Unfortunately, it probably deserves a better book than SpaceX’s Dragon: America’s Next Generation Spacecraft. Erik Seedhouse offers a history of Dragon’s development for cargo and crew missions, and its potential future on missions to Mars, but there’s very little insight about Dragon beyond what’s already publicly available, and even that information is sometimes wrong.
Anyone an Idea about where exactly the dragon itself is fueled on LC 40?
Quote from: Baranquilla on 02/09/2016 06:47 pmAnyone an Idea about where exactly the dragon itself is fueled on LC 40?Not at LC-40 but at the SPIF in the SMAB
Quote from: Jim on 02/09/2016 07:31 pmQuote from: Baranquilla on 02/09/2016 06:47 pmAnyone an Idea about where exactly the dragon itself is fueled on LC 40?Not at LC-40 but at the SPIF in the SMABIt has also previously been loaded in the SLC-40 hangar and the SLC-40 hangar annex.
Interstage: 6.75m 2nd stage 14.3m estimated. Source: http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/falcon-9-ft/
Quote from: GWH on 02/16/2016 05:40 amInterstage: 6.75m 2nd stage 14.3m estimated. Source: http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/falcon-9-ft/It says the 14.3m is separated length for stage 2. A lot of that (nearly half?) is inside the interstage when the rocket launches, and a little would be sticking up into the payload fairing. If you're trying to figure out the height of the rocket you would only count the side walls of the propellant tanks on the second stage.
Rocket diameter is 3.2 m diameter, with a 5.2 m-diameter fairing.
The Orbcomm OG2-2 launch license has finally been posted on the faa website. It refers to the new vehicle as "Falcon 9 Version 1.2"http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/licenses_permits/media/LLS%2014-089%20Rev_1%20ORBCOMM-2%20-%20License%20and%20Orders%20-%20Signed.pdf
Quote from: Llian Rhydderch on 02/16/2016 08:33 pmRocket diameter is 3.2 m diameter, with a 5.2 m-diameter fairing.Typo on the diameter? SpaceX web site shows it as 3.7m diameter
SpaceX wins 5 new space station cargo missions in NASA contract estimated at $700 millionNASA has awarded five additional space station cargo-supply missions to SpaceX in a late-December contract with an undisclosed value that industry officials estimate at around $700 million.>