Shouldn't Zuma be green? The launch was successful from SpaceX's perspective. The loss of payload occurred after SpaceX's portion of the mission was over.
Quote from: rockets4life97 on 02/04/2018 11:12 amShouldn't Zuma be green? The launch was successful from SpaceX's perspective. The loss of payload occurred after SpaceX's portion of the mission was over.Which loss of payload? There has been no confirmed loss of payload.
How can an expendable return (Govsat) be unsuccessful?
Quote from: Norm38 on 02/07/2018 03:03 pmHow can an expendable return (Govsat) be unsuccessful? Because they tried to expend the booster, and failed...
Pursuant to that, it's too early to put any notional StarLink launches on, no? Or is it?
On the leading post, for GovSat, you marked a yellow "X" as the landing disposition - an "unsuccessful expendable" - meaning they failed to expend it since it wouldn't sink?If on purpose, that's awesome.
Quote from: meekGee on 02/12/2018 02:39 amOn the leading post, for GovSat, you marked a yellow "X" as the landing disposition - an "unsuccessful expendable" - meaning they failed to expend it since it wouldn't sink?If on purpose, that's awesome.You're a little behind. But now we have to decide what to do to denote that the booster they didn't intend to recover ended up having to be destroyed... blinking yellow X
Agree about the abbreviation order, it should be consistent, and side/center/side is better than center/side/side or side/side/center
So[1] should the chart be extended/expanded with a new column to track fairings?
If each of the five components: core, left boooster, right booster, left fairing half, right fairing half, has three potential states: expended, failed recovery, successful recovery, there are 243 combinations. That is less than the 256 ASCII characters, so each outcome can be denoted, albeit cryptically, with a single character. Now if we add in the characters of the Klingon alphabet.....Let’s not get carried away here.
So you are saying we could use ASCII if we use 2 or 3 colors. I am afraid that you are not kidding, launchwatcherI was“Things should be kept as simple as possible, but no simpler.”