Author Topic: SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Updates and Discussion Thread 3  (Read 1424116 times)

Offline Arb

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It's been there a while has it not. For training the recovery crews, perhaps.

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Any clues to whether JRtI has been away being inspected at a dry dock recently?

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MarineTraffic esitmates ASDS return for tomorrow afternoon.

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Go twins are showing up on land based AIS on vesselfinder.com.
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Both ships are making over 8 knots. Where's Elsbeth III?
« Last Edit: 06/18/2016 03:02 am by Scylla »
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Both ships are making over 8 knots. Where's Elsbeth III?

Probably plodding along behind at her usual 5 knots. Since OCISLY is carrying only debris, no need for the GO twins to hang around as escorts.
« Last Edit: 06/18/2016 03:42 am by Kabloona »

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GO twins back in port.

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Elsbeth III is now in range of the AIS stations, about 70NM south east of Port Canaveral.

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Elsbeth III is now in range of the AIS stations, about 70NM south east of Port Canaveral.

Looks like a probable late night arrival in port.

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Elsbeth III is now in range of the AIS stations, about 70NM south east of Port Canaveral.

Looks like a probable late night arrival in port.

Just heard the Canaveral pilot talking to dredge in west basin about anchor lines
and he said there was a "CARGO VESSEL" scheduled to docki near the cranes about 3am EST (7am UDT)
which is probably OCISLY.

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Go Quest has left port and is on course to Elsbeth III.
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It's seriously hauling too, going at over 9 knots.
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As of the last AIS update just a few minutes ago they are only about 4 standard miles from the mouth of the port!

Edit: I've never seen them updating so often, every 2 or 3 minutes. Wonder what that means. Coming in at 5.5 knots BTW.
« Last Edit: 06/19/2016 12:19 am by CyndyC »
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« Last Edit: 06/19/2016 12:31 am by Scylla »
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Passing into the harbor now on the surf cam.

Edit: Tough to see, but it appears there's a large chunk of debris.
« Last Edit: 06/19/2016 12:47 am by pb2000 »
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Screenshot of the Jetty Cam from reddit user vaporcobra
« Last Edit: 06/19/2016 12:53 am by cartman »

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It was very difficult to make out, but it appeared as if most, if not all, of S1 was lying on the deck with the aft (octoweb) middle-ish of the deck and the interstage toward the corner nearest the camera.

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Looks like just the lump in the middle, which is probably what's left of the accordion (octaweb). Hopefully someone will be able to grab a better shot before it's hauled away.
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I looked at the PTZtv archive (portfever.com) and there are three shots of OCISLY at 9:02 PM.  I couldn't make out anything on the deck.

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