I can almost imagine the 2-second pit stops for landed boosters...
Quote from: butters on 05/11/2017 05:00 pmI can almost imagine the 2-second pit stops for landed boosters... Seriously, do not give Elon any ideas.
Quote from: deruch on 05/11/2017 06:47 pmQuote from: butters on 05/11/2017 05:00 pmI can almost imagine the 2-second pit stops for landed boosters... Seriously, do not give Elon any ideas. Seriously, don't give Bernie Ecclestone funny ideas. He might be in search of a new racing format now that they kicked him out of F1.What's the lap-time record in the Earth Orbit racetrack?Edit: I calculated 01:27:05.12 at 130km. but you can probably get it under 01:26:30 if you dip a bit into the atmosphere. With constant propulsion to keep the speed up of course. Maybe even less if you use propulsion for centripetal force at even higher speeds.
Quote from: CorvusCorax on 05/11/2017 09:14 pmQuote from: deruch on 05/11/2017 06:47 pmQuote from: butters on 05/11/2017 05:00 pmI can almost imagine the 2-second pit stops for landed boosters... Seriously, do not give Elon any ideas. Seriously, don't give Bernie Ecclestone funny ideas. He might be in search of a new racing format now that they kicked him out of F1.What's the lap-time record in the Earth Orbit racetrack?Edit: I calculated 01:27:05.12 at 130km. but you can probably get it under 01:26:30 if you dip a bit into the atmosphere. With constant propulsion to keep the speed up of course. Maybe even less if you use propulsion for centripetal force at even higher speeds.Rocket racing! The general public could really get behind this! Lets forget all that boring scientific and commercial stuff and just see how FAST we can go. F1 may be in trouble.
Rocket League failed and it was set up for people to watch!
Hmm and people complain that cricket test matches (which last up to 5 days) are too long for spectators
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My sense is he used numbers from his latest Merlin D test engines to go across their test stand and then rounded (either up or down) for the audience he was speaking to (the people who set up the video call)...Any engineer I know can rattle off where they stand on meeting a target and the numbers to back his standing.That said... those numbers made me and they MAY hint at what percent power they have run M1D max on the test stand...As I understand it... to "crank up" the M1D... you just add more "power" at the pump power turbine... spin the pumps a bit faster... and run it till it blows... Beef up what let go and and repeat till you hit the laws of physics... Then you call that "11" and turn it back down to "10"... Doing so, that 10500 kN figure makes sense with the quoted 215 Klb thrust M1vac number, my opinion...
From Chris Gebhardt's tweet today it looks like Inmarsat 5 F4 in going to launch on a Proton 9 tomorrow. Never heard of a Proton 9 before. Maybe SpaceX has gone Russian or nuclear... Or something.
Quote from: CharlieWildman on 05/15/2017 03:44 amFrom Chris Gebhardt's tweet today it looks like Inmarsat 5 F4 in going to launch on a Proton 9 tomorrow. Never heard of a Proton 9 before. Maybe SpaceX has gone Russian or nuclear... Or something. Maybe they decided to reverse the neutrality of the Proton flow?