Author Topic: SpaceX progress towards a 144 launch year in 2024  (Read 112067 times)

Offline ZachS09

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Re: SpaceX progress towards a 144 launch year in 2024
« Reply #460 on: 10/01/2024 01:03 pm »
LES presence/absence/operation is irrelevant. If your main engine is not conducting burns as commanded, then the first thing to do is to figure out why it did that and rule out that it cannot happen in other stages of flight.
This could be something unique to disposal burns, or it could be an issue that could occur at any time but just happened to luckily crop up in a disposal burn this time. If it's the former, then RTF can be as rapid as with the last two F9 standdowns. If it's the latter then the issue needs to be resolved before RTF which will take longer.

I didn't mean to make an irrelevant point. I was just trying to back up king1999's statement of the crew not being at risk. But since it was irrelevant, I deleted every post of mine related to the LES. Sorry for clogging up the thread with something not related to SpaceX aiming for 144 launches this year.
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Re: SpaceX progress towards a 144 launch year in 2024
« Reply #461 on: 10/01/2024 01:27 pm »
There is nothing new in this video, but at least an informed local news update on the current issue:

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SpaceX pauses Falcon 9 launches after rocket second-stage anomaly

It's Tony De La Rosa, ...I don't create this stuff, I just report it.

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