Edit: Does anyone have a link to where I'd find a (rough) model for the aquadynamic properties for the ASDS?
Quote from: The Amazing Catstronaut link=topic=36140.msg1302393#msg1302393Edit: Does anyone have a link to where I'd find a (rough) model for the aquadynamic properties for the ASDS?Brought over from thread 1.
Quote from: deruch on 12/14/2014 08:59 pmQuote from: The Amazing Catstronaut link=topic=36140.msg1302393#msg1302393Edit: Does anyone have a link to where I'd find a (rough) model for the aquadynamic properties for the ASDS?Brought over from thread 1.It's based on a flat bottom, flat fronted barge... it has the aquadynamic properties of a brick... (if a brick would float)
The hull appears to be a stock barge. No need to make things more complicated and expensive than they need to be.
Quote from: darkenfast on 12/15/2014 01:20 amThe hull appears to be a stock barge. No need to make things more complicated and expensive than they need to be.If your requirement is maximum stability (not just the ability to carry stuff), then yes there probably IS a need to make things more complicated and expensive.
Something that occurred to me, which do not know if it has been discussed before. It involves Falcon Heavy, but I think it belongs in this thread as I have begun to wonder if the landing barge (or Autonomus Spaceport Drone Ship) may have been intended all along for Falcon Heavy anyway.- George Gassaway
Something that occurred to me, which do not know if it has been discussed before. ...
So, the barge has been seen departing in the care of a tug and the company o a ship carrying some assorted dishes, per Spaceflight now. Seems to pretty conclusively prove that the flight deck is right on top of the hull, and that it's a cheap, simple, standard barge with a flight deck welded on, not a more lavish setup like some have speculated.
8_ Some weird looking cherry picker (mfr: TEUPEN), with (rubber?) track drive c/w outrigger legs