SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - Thaicom 6 - DISCUSSION THREAD

[cro-magnon gramps]

why not "Pad Thai"

I like this and I don't see anything racist in any of the suggestions.

PC brigade would say your in da-Nile 

[411rocket]

To put it into the running, "Time for a Thai Launch" (mis-spelled Lunch).

Please no MSG.......

That's certainly a challenge, considering that it's named after the people/country... I can however agree using wordplay on a nationality does feel a little bit off

How about something on the lines of "Practice makes perfect" * or "Play it again, Sam"? **

EDIT to add: or "Twice (is) a tradition!"


*I promise I'm not trying to jinx it!
**I know, not the actual line, but still

[kevin-rf]

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not getting the MSG part of it... how is MSG rocket related?

[Heinrich]

Hopefully launching this Thai comes with will have a happy end!

(still appropriate yes?)

[ChefPat]

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not getting the MSG part of it... how is MSG rocket related?

MSG = Monosodium glutamate. It was a common additive to Oriental food, among others. It's not used much anymore.

[kch]

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not getting the MSG part of it... how is MSG rocket related?

MSG = Monosodium glutamate. It was a common additive to Oriental food, among others. It's not used much anymore.

Not directly rocket-related ... more of a culinary Thai-in. 

[robertross]

Need a Party Thread title for this one too.

Thai 6 by 9

[PahTo]

I think robertross is on to something there-- a slight variation:  Thai 5 by 5.

[kevin-rf]

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not getting the MSG part of it... how is MSG rocket related?

MSG = Monosodium glutamate. It was a common additive to Oriental food, among others. It's not used much anymore.

Not directly rocket-related ... more of a culinary Thai-in. 

Thought so...

Personally I think we are trying to get to clever with the name.

Since this will most likely occur on or very close to the new year, how about:

SpaceX's holiday launch party!

[Skyrocket]

May i suggest, that the party thread is first created and then the appropriate name is discussed there?

This would leave this mission discussion thread more readable.

[Garrett]

It'll be a Christmassy launch, so "Deck the halls with boughs of Merlins" party thread.

Or if it's a New Year's launch, "Auld Falcon Nine" party thread?

[dsobin]

May i suggest, that the party thread is first created and then the appropriate name is discussed there?

This would leave this mission discussion thread more readable.

I second that. I'm as much into cute names as anyone, but I would like to find the actual discussion about the launch in this thread.

How about a generic party thread name, like "Thaicom 6 - Party Thread" and discuss the rename there, as suggested by Skyrocket.

[woods170]

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not getting the MSG part of it... how is MSG rocket related?

MSG = Monosodium glutamate. It was a common additive to Oriental food, among others. It's not used much anymore.

This is OT but I'll go there anyway:
Actually, in Europe monosodium glutamate is still widely used. But the name is disguised under the EU E-list of food additives. The number is E621. Find that number on the packaging of your foodstuff and you have monosodium glutamate (which is a flavor enhancer) in there.

[Elmar Moelzer]

This is OT but I'll go there anyway:
Actually, in Europe monosodium glutamate is still widely used. But the name is disguised under the EU E-list of food additives. The number is E621. Find that number on the packaging of your foodstuff and you have monosodium glutamate (which is a flavor enhancer) in there.

Not just in Europe, the US as well, AFAIK.

[Comga]

The Updates thread has become the Discussion thread and this Discussion Thread has become the Party thread.
If we set up the latter, can we clean up the others?

edit:  It's done!  Thanks joffan!  Party thread is open!

[friendly3]

Just read this on USA TODAY :

SpaceX hopes to launch another commercial satellite from the Cape before the year is out, for Thaicom.
Musk said SpaceX might try to recover that rocket's first stage from the ocean, depending in part on data collected during the SES-8 mission.
Link : http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/04/spacex-launch-successful/3866655/

Can someone confirm this?

[mlindner]

Just read this on USA TODAY :

SpaceX hopes to launch another commercial satellite from the Cape before the year is out, for Thaicom.
Musk said SpaceX might try to recover that rocket's first stage from the ocean, depending in part on data collected during the SES-8 mission.
Link : http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/04/spacex-launch-successful/3866655/

Can someone confirm this?

They might have discovered that they only broke up very close to Max-Q meaning they need very little delta-V to prevent breakup.

[Herb Schaltegger]

Just read this on USA TODAY :

SpaceX hopes to launch another commercial satellite from the Cape before the year is out, for Thaicom.
Musk said SpaceX might try to recover that rocket's first stage from the ocean, depending in part on data collected during the SES-8 mission.
Link : http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/04/spacex-launch-successful/3866655/

Can someone confirm this?

They might have discovered that they only broke up very close to Max-Q meaning they need very little delta-V to prevent breakup.

Could be. But unless they have enough delta-V to "soft-land," the impact with the ocean will do a fine job with the breakup.

[Jcc]

Just read this on USA TODAY :

SpaceX hopes to launch another commercial satellite from the Cape before the year is out, for Thaicom.
Musk said SpaceX might try to recover that rocket's first stage from the ocean, depending in part on data collected during the SES-8 mission.
Link : http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/04/spacex-launch-successful/3866655/

Can someone confirm this?

They might have discovered that they only broke up very close to Max-Q meaning they need very little delta-V to prevent breakup.

Also, the "better than required" performance on SES-8 indicates that have extra margin. Maybe.

[meekGee]

Just read this on USA TODAY :

SpaceX hopes to launch another commercial satellite from the Cape before the year is out, for Thaicom.
Musk said SpaceX might try to recover that rocket's first stage from the ocean, depending in part on data collected during the SES-8 mission.
Link : http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/04/spacex-launch-successful/3866655/

Can someone confirm this?

They might have discovered that they only broke up very close to Max-Q meaning they need very little delta-V to prevent breakup.

This has been my hope all along.  That stage break-up is a runaway process, and if the stage remains oriented right, you don't need a lot of authority to keep it there - and so it will slow down with increasing atmospheric density.

SpaceX got to test the two ends of the envelope - I am pretty sure that with CASSIOPE they did a lot of retro-burn, and with SES, they most likely did none. 

Like we always said here - the second burn is the magic sauce.  Everyone understands by now how the first and third burns go.