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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #400 on: 05/25/2016 10:56 pm »
Less than 24 hrs till go time. 

It gets good from here on out. I'm liking this 3 week cycle. 
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #401 on: 05/26/2016 02:23 am »
Less than 24 hrs till go time. 

It gets good from here on out. I'm liking this 3 week cycle.

The dosage isn't ramping up with the dependency. Two weeks, two weeks says I!
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #402 on: 05/26/2016 02:35 am »
Less than 24 hrs till go time. 

It gets good from here on out. I'm liking this 3 week cycle.

The dosage isn't ramping up with the dependency. Two weeks, two weeks says I!

Don't get me wrong.  2 weeks would be amazing.  I hope we see it get there. 

I just mean a consistent 3 is nice.  The 'more than a month' stuff is painful.

Edit:  If they get to 26 launches a year, they would own how much of the global launch market?
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #403 on: 05/26/2016 02:39 am »
Less than 24 hrs till go time. 

It gets good from here on out. I'm liking this 3 week cycle.

The dosage isn't ramping up with the dependency. Two weeks, two weeks says I!

Don't get me wrong.  2 weeks would be amazing.  I hope we see it get there. 

I just mean a consistent 3 is nice.  The 'more than a month' stuff is painful.

Edit:  If they get to 26 launches a year, they would own how much of the global launch market?

Oh don't worry, I was just enjoying the party thread levity.

Hrm. In the lieu of being awake enough to do the basic math to figure out what the answer to that question is, but I'm going to go with a ludicrous amount.
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #404 on: 05/26/2016 03:32 am »
Rockets are not LEGO elements... :)

Everyone come up with your best answer: If Rockets are not LEGO elements, what are they? 


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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #405 on: 05/26/2016 05:21 am »

Edit:  If they get to 26 launches a year, they would own how much of the global launch market?

Ideally:  10%
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #406 on: 05/26/2016 05:33 am »
The Falcon 9. Now with racing stripes.  ;)

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #407 on: 05/26/2016 06:57 am »
The Falcon 9. Now with racing stripes.  ;)

That's how they make it go faster.
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #408 on: 05/26/2016 10:23 am »
We've cracked the secret of SpaceX's sudden performance increases - they design the LVs to be iteratively more visually appealing, so space is less likely to shun their advances.

Bulletproof physics.
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #409 on: 05/26/2016 01:17 pm »
Before the last Spacex mission I posted a photo of a visit I made to a house  of voodoo in New Orleans. While there I beseeched the support of mystic powers in success of the flight. Apparently they listened. Unable to be in the Big Easy for this one I visited a rural tabernacle of snake handling Pentecostals in East Tennessee and asked for divine protection on Spacex before departing the premises with greatest alacrity. Fret not 'cause I think we're gonna be good on this one too.
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #410 on: 05/26/2016 01:29 pm »
Well, that settles it. Voodoo is the spice the space program has been missing for years.
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #411 on: 05/26/2016 01:49 pm »
Well, that settles it. Voodoo is the spice the space program has been missing for years.

     Welp. looks like there's gonna be a run on chickens and snakes in the not too distant future...
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #412 on: 05/26/2016 01:53 pm »
I have been meaning to do this juxtaposition for a few weeks... (rough based on the people)

DAD BURN it folks, we went and landed on the WRONG BARGE!
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #413 on: 05/26/2016 01:54 pm »
The Falcon 9. Now with racing stripes.  ;)


Please, somebody tell me that's an engine getting reused!!!  I want evidence!!

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #414 on: 05/26/2016 03:31 pm »
The Falcon 9. Now with racing stripes.  ;)

Please, somebody tell me that's an engine getting reused!!!  I want evidence!!

unless They purposely took a brand new engine and made it not-shiney. I speculate this picture is proof enough.
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #415 on: 05/26/2016 03:53 pm »
All right since no one has guessed it yet....
The stripped engine is a new engine and the painted black stripes not white.
The black paint allows better readings for an infrared heat sensor.
Stripes cause a complete coat might change the heat dissipation rate.

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #416 on: 05/26/2016 04:00 pm »
If they were reusing engine, it would be known already officially. No one will sneak this kind of thing in hope no one notices.
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #417 on: 05/26/2016 04:09 pm »
If they were reusing engine, it would be known already officially. No one will sneak this kind of thing in hope no one notices.
Why not? I can easily see Elon at the press conference now. "We chose not to announce it beforehand, but this was the first relaunch of a previously used engine, which we identified prior to launch using stripes. We knew we had enough margin for a single-engine landing burn, so..." blah blah blah.

The stripes (if that's what they are) could serve as a visual indicator in a worst-case-scenario RUD. If the bird rips herself apart at MaxQ, there won't be much left of her when she hits the ground, so they would want a visual indicator of which engine was new, just in case video footage was all they had available. This could at least tell them whether that particular engine was the culprit.

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #418 on: 05/26/2016 04:23 pm »
I'm lost, is this actually a real suggestion, that they striped a (reused) engine and might launch with a used engine in place for testing? or are we just having fun...
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #419 on: 05/26/2016 04:26 pm »
I'm lost, is this actually a real suggestion, that they striped a (reused) engine and might launch with a used engine in place for testing? or are we just having fun...
The question is, we have seen 20+ F9 launches and have never seen anything like this.  So, what does this mean?

SpaceX has been in possession of nine recovered engines for five months now.  It's hardly beyond the bounds of reason that they could have qualified one of those engines for reflight.  It's certainly possible it is a new engine with something done to it to characterize re-entry better or something like that.  Beyond those two things, I haven't a guess.

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