Quote from: Martin FL on 09/29/2017 02:06 pmElon mentioned buidling a stock pile of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavys for customers before buulding nothing but BFR. Where could he store all of these stages?Hopefully not all in the same place. In Florida they could all be taken out by a hurricane. In California they could all be taken out by an earthquake.
Elon mentioned buidling a stock pile of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavys for customers before buulding nothing but BFR. Where could he store all of these stages?
When comes to moon SpaceX are transport company, somebody else has to own and build base. While BFR may lower transport costs considerably. It doesn't lower build costs of lunar habitats designed for lunar enviroment.
A friend who works on Falcon 9 in Hawthorne told me last month that they were all "looking forward to moving onto BFR in a couple of years." Evidently, this talk (and Elon's timeline) was also a surprise to the working-level troops at SpaceX.
Quote from: TrevorMonty on 09/29/2017 03:11 pmWhen comes to moon SpaceX are transport company, somebody else has to own and build base. While BFR may lower transport costs considerably. It doesn't lower build costs of lunar habitats designed for lunar enviroment.That's right. Elon threw that Lunar base slide in there since why get into that fight... But as far as planning, he listed the first Mars Flights, but didn't list any moon flights, since somebody still has to show real interest in that. (Beyond words).
One important thing we didn't see was a requirement for $100B in government money to make this vision a reality. This is the true innovation Elon is making. He says, instead, we will create this and others may find it useful. Ultimately there will be govt partners I suspect, just from a wish to avoid the embarrassment of having a future boots and flags mission met by 1000 waiting SpaceX colonizers with a welcome banner.
Interesting.This is Musk's HMS Dreadnought moment. He's got the reusability advantage with Falcon 9 and presumably Falcon Heavy and he's going to throw it all away.
Tim Urban had an advance briefing with Elon:https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/spacexs-big-fking-rocket-the-full-story.html
Presentation was focused primarily on the upper stage, and not so much the booster; Did anyone else see any mention of grid fins? Seems the booster has lost its grid fins in the renders we saw last night.
They were there (on silver interstage).At 17:00 in videohttps://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43839.0