Author Topic: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2  (Read 2965042 times)

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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #400 on: 01/03/2015 04:53 am »
Apologies if this has been brought up already, Surely parking a rocket next to a cruise ship would require zoning? I have been trying to find something/anything on possible legislature or zoning laws so we can better get an idea of the scope. Can anyone use their googlefu to find something? My googlefu is not working today, best I found was http://www.spaceflorida.gov/docs/spaceport-ops/florida-spaceport-systems-plan-2013_final.pdf?sfvrsn=2 but does not mention Jacksonville in regards to SpaceX.

I found this also -

http://www.jacksonvilleor.us/CityDocs/Planning/20+-+Title+17+Zoning.pdf

Also this..

http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2014-11-13/story/barge-port-planned-former-paper-mill-site-st-marys

This last one has me wondering though..


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What would be worse than zoning would be the HOA.  Woe to them if they violate the neighborhood color scheme!
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Strange. Appears the Carnaval Fascination web cams are no longer available on line.

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I suggested nest but gauntlet makes more sense. Elon released his falcon which flew, eventually returning to his gauntlet. Later Elon arranged for the bird to be returned to his mews.
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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #403 on: 01/03/2015 09:03 am »
Strange. Appears the Carnaval Fascination web cams are no longer available on line.

Looks that way to me, too.  And not just the front one, but neither are available, now.  Shame.

Both tugs still in Jacksonville port, and Fascination now heading for the mouth of the river for docking this morning.
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Strange. Appears the Carnival Fascination web cams are no longer available on line.

Looks that way to me, too.  And not just the front one, but neither are available, now.  Shame.

Both tugs still in Jacksonville port, and Fascination now heading for the mouth of the river for docking this morning.
Found another Carnival Fascination web cam feed:
http://ships.carnivalentertainment.com/#ship/carnival-fascination/cameras
Fascination is entering the river. Soon to dock beside GauntletX.

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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #405 on: 01/03/2015 09:37 am »

Because SpX engineers know about the Inversion issue, their grid fin flight control software should be able to compensate for it and still maintain the desired F9 attitude control capability.
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I didn't follow the above discussion in detail but I can imagine that modelling the physics becomes more challenging if you want to allow flow reversal. Numerical stability requires you to use an upwind scheme, cf. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upwind_scheme. This is relevant both for a high fidelity model for simulation/validation and for a simplified model used by a controller and/or state estimator. Sorry if I misunderstood the question.

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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #406 on: 01/03/2015 09:52 am »
I was all set recording the feed woke up to find its gone THANKS for new link PhilW. And  I think we need 'Name the Barge thread"  ;D

EDIT: Updating every minute. If you open image in separate tab and 'refresh' it updates every refresh. So this way is faster than previous 30sec or 1 min refresh rate :D
« Last Edit: 01/03/2015 03:33 pm by Ohsin »
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I was all set recording the feed wake to find its gone THANKS for new link PhilW. And  I think we need 'Name the Barge thread"  ;D

EDIT: Updating every minute. If you open image in separate tab and 'refresh' it updates every refresh. So this way is faster than previous 30sec or 1 min refresh rate :D
Nice find.

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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #408 on: 01/03/2015 10:37 am »
It's there!!! webcam updates every ~7 sec
« Last Edit: 01/03/2015 10:39 am by cartman »

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It's there!!! webcam updates every ~7 sec
Nice.
Best luck the web cam is still there when GauntletX returns with F9 secured to the deck / glove. ;)
« Last Edit: 01/03/2015 10:53 am by PhilW »

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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #410 on: 01/03/2015 11:11 am »
Here is a video from the arrival of Carnival Fascination

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There's at least 5–6 people hangin' out, scurrying on and around the barge.

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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #412 on: 01/03/2015 12:32 pm »
I can see people moving about the other ships as well, so I believe they are preparing to leave port.

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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #413 on: 01/03/2015 03:45 pm »
It's there!!! webcam updates every ~7 sec
Nice.
Best luck the web cam is still there when GauntletX returns with F9 secured to the deck / glove. ;)
There will also be a bridge view, I hope people will be there with cameras.

From the ship cam, we might see the crane work though!
« Last Edit: 01/03/2015 03:45 pm by meekGee »
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Container doors are open. Prep for departure? Go Quest will need 2 move 1st, so ElsBeth III can attach to GauntletX.

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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #415 on: 01/03/2015 04:16 pm »
Here is a video from the arrival of Carnival Fascination

Thanks, cartman.

Does anyone have the programs and ability to keep a screen capture program running to capture every frame (whether 30 s or 7s) so that we might later be able to see and analyze a departure video for ASDS, GoQuest and Elsbeth III?  Watching the prep, no. of people visible on board, etc.
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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #416 on: 01/03/2015 04:20 pm »
Here is a video from the arrival of Carnival Fascination

Thanks, cartman.

Does anyone have the programs and ability to keep a screen capture program running to capture every frame (whether 30 s or 7s) so that we might later be able to see and analyze a departure video for ASDS, GoQuest and Elsbeth III?  Watching the prep, no. of people visible on board, etc.


I have been using a python script to capture every 7 seconds. And reddit user 'doersino' is recording and  releases mp4 and jpegs.

http://tmp.hejnoah.com/webcam_dl/carnival_fascination/
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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #417 on: 01/03/2015 04:28 pm »

It's there!!! webcam updates every ~7 sec
Nice.
Best luck the web cam is still there when GauntletX returns with F9 secured to the deck / glove. ;)

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Thrusters are being tested / run up.

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Re: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Discussion Thread 2
« Reply #419 on: 01/03/2015 05:15 pm »
All I have seen so far is lot of activity in/out/top of containers and deck cleaning...and random huddles over deck...I don't think they did anything to thrusters so far :P
« Last Edit: 01/03/2015 05:16 pm by Ohsin »
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