We launch again in two days! @SpaceX #Falcon9 will deliver the #SES10 communications satellite into orbit at 6:27 p.m. ET.
Not sure what the 6:27pm refers to. GTO insertion?QuoteWe launch again in two days! @SpaceX #Falcon9 will deliver the #SES10 communications satellite into orbit at 6:27 p.m. ET.https://twitter.com/45thspacewing/status/846798843060654081
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/28/2017 07:10 pmNot sure what the 6:27pm refers to. GTO insertion?QuoteWe launch again in two days! @SpaceX #Falcon9 will deliver the #SES10 communications satellite into orbit at 6:27 p.m. ET.https://twitter.com/45thspacewing/status/846798843060654081Likely, this is what the the SES-9 press kit says:00:27:07 2nd stage engine restarts00:27:55 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-2)Edit: Apparently unlikely, as the 45th has updated their website to 6:27pm as well.
This will be a very hot landing, but if it comes back, SES gets "bits" for their boardroom.
Quote from: old_sellsword on 03/28/2017 03:33 pm This will be a very hot landing, but if it comes back, SES gets "bits" for their boardroom.The hot landing probably explains Elon's "fate" tweet from last week, then. Maybe a three-engine landing burn again, and they've never yet been successful with that.
The hot landing probably explains Elon's "fate" tweet from last week, then.
I don't understand why so many people insists it totally must be something else.
The same CEO who puts a four-leaf clover on every mission patch, and on some of his ships as well?A wise engineer understands there are always "unknown unknowns".
Quote from: Mader Levap on 03/28/2017 10:33 pmI don't understand why so many people insists it totally must be something else.Because it's hard to believe the CEO of a launch provider is putting a historic flight (or any flight) in the hands of fate.
The same CEO who puts a four-leaf clover on every mission patch, and on some of his ships as well?A wise engineer understands there are always "unknown unknowns".If anything, the idea of fate (a preordained destiny we are not yet privy to) is more physics-plausible than the idea that painting a clover will affect that future. (But I would personally see the clover as an expression of humility and acceptance of fate, an "offering to the gods" acknowledging we are mortal, rather than a serious attempt to alter the outcome.)
Quote from: old_sellsword on 03/28/2017 10:35 pmQuote from: Mader Levap on 03/28/2017 10:33 pmI don't understand why so many people insists it totally must be something else.Because it's hard to believe the CEO of a launch provider is putting a historic flight (or any flight) in the hands of fate.Someone who has rapidly disassembled 5 rockets so far, the cheapest of which cost more than the average American will earn over their entire lifetime, *just might* be tempted to suggest in a casual comment on a social media site that it's somewhat difficult to control all the factors affecting the success of any given launch, resulting in apparent variability that seems as fickle as fate.
Quote from: cscott on 03/28/2017 08:35 pmThe hot landing probably explains Elon's "fate" tweet from last week, then. It is very obvious from context that "fate" comment is about success of relaunch itself, not landing or anything else.I don't understand why so many people insists it totally must be something else.
1. Space is hard. Space will always be hard.