Quote from: gongora on 08/07/2017 08:26 pmI'm not going to believe any dates on this one yet, let's see how the first couple flights go.Isn't this the second FH flight.
I'm not going to believe any dates on this one yet, let's see how the first couple flights go.
I'd talk with NSPO (Taiwan) team today. It's NET Apr,2018 right now.Titus
Quote from: titusou on 08/18/2017 04:36 pmI'd talk with NSPO (Taiwan) team today. It's NET Apr,2018 right now.TitusThanks! Tentatively indicates that the inaugural launch is still relatively stable for now. Can't really read far into future schedules until FH's first success, but SpaceX is clearly relatively confident in the vehicle, at least internally.
....After off the pad, very likely to clear the tower, and find out how well the acoustics worked. Very loud as things don't scale linearly (overtones).
It would be interesting if the combined exhaust plumes have the appearance of the three-engine landing burns, three hydras expanding perpendicular to the core arrangement. Great big eye of Sauron?
My best guess is that you might get a bit of a phased array effect normal to the axis of attachment.
Quote from: tyrred on 08/21/2017 05:03 amIt would be interesting if the combined exhaust plumes have the appearance of the three-engine landing burns, three hydras expanding perpendicular to the core arrangement. Great big eye of Sauron?... Instead the exhaust expands outward radially like you see from the 9 engines of a F9 as it gets closer to MECO. However, the boosters are gone well before the stage gets up as high as the F9 MECO, so we won't see the super-wide plumes we're used to seeing from all three boosters firing simultaneously ...
QuotePeter B. de Selding @pbdes 35s seconds agoTaiwan NSPO: Six US/Taiwan Formosat-7/COSMIC-2 sats to launch Q2 2018 on @SpaceX Falcon Heavy; will be 1st launch after Nov FH demo flight.https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/908619097189027840
Peter B. de Selding @pbdes 35s seconds agoTaiwan NSPO: Six US/Taiwan Formosat-7/COSMIC-2 sats to launch Q2 2018 on @SpaceX Falcon Heavy; will be 1st launch after Nov FH demo flight.
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 09/15/2017 09:11 amQuotePeter B. de Selding @pbdes 35s seconds agoTaiwan NSPO: Six US/Taiwan Formosat-7/COSMIC-2 sats to launch Q2 2018 on @SpaceX Falcon Heavy; will be 1st launch after Nov FH demo flight.https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/908619097189027840If I'm reading the above correctly, that puts 2nd FH flight in Q2 2018 so STP-2 presumably pushes back?
NSPO still hopes to launch Formosat-7 sats in May/June, 2018https://www.inside.com.tw/2017/10/30/formosat-5-cmos-modify
A constellation of six satellites under the FormoSat-7/COSMIC-2 project, a U.S.-Taiwan collaboration, will be launched in May or June next year, Taiwan's Science and Technology Minister Chen Liang-gee (陳良基) said Monday.
“We should ship the first Block 5 this year,” she said. “We are going to spend some time in Texas testing it, [then] it should fly in late Q1.”[...]Shotwell said the Block 5 Falcon 9 should be able to refly “10 or more times” with limited refurbishment. The Falcon Heavy will also use Block 5 cores, she said, with the exception of the first mission.
From Gwynne's recent interview:Quote“We should ship the first Block 5 this year,” she said. “We are going to spend some time in Texas testing it, [then] it should fly in late Q1.”[...]Shotwell said the Block 5 Falcon 9 should be able to refly “10 or more times” with limited refurbishment. The Falcon Heavy will also use Block 5 cores, she said, with the exception of the first mission.Having to wait for F9 block 5 might push back some estimates of FH's second flight.