Is the strategy of catching fairings in a net at least getting closer? The recent video is cool but the system is still failing even in more controlled settings.
Maybe they should invest in waterproofing the fairing instead.
Quote from: DreamyPickle on 01/12/2019 05:01 pm Maybe they should invest in waterproofing the fairing instead.It’s almost as if you intentionally miss Elon statements about this issue. He tweeted about it recently.
Why'z it that my previous post isn't of any interest to anyone other than myself?
Quote from: OxCartMark on 01/24/2019 06:53 pmWhy'z it that my previous post isn't of any interest to anyone other than myself?It's of interest, but nobody knows what the floaty bouncy castle is for.
Do we know about the bouncy raft that's behind Mr. Steven? This goes back into late December but I haven't seen it discussed here. Looks to me like a smaller, less maneuverable target.?. The location of the video is just out of the port.https://twitter.com/Eugen_Chigarin/status/1079727702553382912https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrC02qu2sP4&feature=youtu.be
My guess is it's for dragon as well, it's a fair bit denser than the fairings so perhaps a net won't work.
Quote from: nacnud on 01/25/2019 01:27 pmMy guess is it's for dragon as well, it's a fair bit denser than the fairings so perhaps a net won't work.Dragon is incapable of steering, so that seems unlikely. Unless the boat pulling it is super fast and maneuverable.
Will crew dragon, while under chutes, have enough cross range and control to hit what looks like the works largest paddling pool?
this is the fairing thread though...
I think if you put a 9000 kg thing that isn't a fairing in the middle of that flat rubber diaphragm bottom you'd have the 9000 kg thing go down until it found its own buoyancy with the water, perhaps 2 feet down and the flat bottom would be wrapped around it the way a half inflated air matress in a pool would be if you sat crossways on the middle of it. And the outer flotation ring would be puckered up and uninvolved with bouying the 9000 kg thing.[...]
1) Landing accuracy is good for dragon, I can't find a reference but I have it in my head that it's on the order of a few km
2) It knows where is it, it can be told where to land and winds before starting entry, no need for com between landing inflatable and dragon although that may help.
3) I can, I guess I'm more imaginative
4) You could almost pick shuttle tiles out of a furnace and not get burned, they take a few seconds to cool, youtube has some amazing vids. Small meteorites that reach the Earth are at ambient temperature or even cold, the heat all being used to ablate away the surface. These things are counter intuitive. I'm only suggesting that the RCS would be used to have a cross range of a few hundred meters, if that, over the course of its parachute decent and really only for terminal guidance.
Still no closer to answering the questions, this is the fairing thread though...
https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1090400806703001600
Cross posting (video attached to original post), getting closer:Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 01/29/2019 11:18 pmhttps://twitter.com/spacex/status/1090400806703001600