Do we know if they got the booster up and if so early enough to still make the original launch time or will there be a slip to 1.04?
DEIMOS IMAGING @deimosimaging 2m2 minutes ago#LC39A @NASAKennedy looks crowded from the #DEIMOS2 orbit! Everything is getting ready for today’s #Falcon9 #SES10 launch.Good luck @SpaceX!
Quote from: Space Ghost 1962 on 03/30/2017 12:09 amQuote from: Johnnyhinbos on 03/29/2017 07:56 pmI might add that I find it amazing that's there's been almost a deafening silence lately when it comes to the spreadsheet created by Tory Bruno (or at least touted by him) and then vigorously debated on this forum on the cost benefit of reuse.The true significance of the success of this mission is for SX alone. Musk said that he would have considered them to have failed if LV reuse did not succeed.Many have forgotten this. He hasn't.If this mission succeeds, and nothing more comes of it ... SX has, as a venture, succeeded in his opinion.I wish him and SX well in their accomplishment and reaching the goal they set for themselves.I'm willing to agree that they see it as a big step forwards, but I don't think this limited type of reuse rises to level of "Mission Accomplished" for Musk/SX. When Musk made those statements he was at least talking about full reuse, if not a "Fully and Rapidly Reused" LV. That's clearly still a milestone on their pathway to Mars, it's just been postponed to the ITS architecture instead of the Falcon family (i.e. no 2nd stage reuse for F9/FH). Booster reuse is just the (not so) low hanging fruit. The first step. So, while this launch will hopefully be a great success for SpaceX, no. They haven't (capital S) Succeeded, yet.
Quote from: Johnnyhinbos on 03/29/2017 07:56 pmI might add that I find it amazing that's there's been almost a deafening silence lately when it comes to the spreadsheet created by Tory Bruno (or at least touted by him) and then vigorously debated on this forum on the cost benefit of reuse.The true significance of the success of this mission is for SX alone. Musk said that he would have considered them to have failed if LV reuse did not succeed.Many have forgotten this. He hasn't.If this mission succeeds, and nothing more comes of it ... SX has, as a venture, succeeded in his opinion.I wish him and SX well in their accomplishment and reaching the goal they set for themselves.
I might add that I find it amazing that's there's been almost a deafening silence lately when it comes to the spreadsheet created by Tory Bruno (or at least touted by him) and then vigorously debated on this forum on the cost benefit of reuse.
Backup launch slot is Saturday, not Friday:QuoteSpaceX is targeting launch of SES-10 from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two and a half hour launch window opens on Thursday, March 30, at 6:27 p.m. EDT, or 10:27 p.m. UTC. The satellite will deploy approximately 32 minutes after launch. A backup launch window opens on Saturday, April 1, at 6:27 p.m. EDT, or 10:27 p.m. UTC.http://www.spacex.com/webcast
SpaceX is targeting launch of SES-10 from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two and a half hour launch window opens on Thursday, March 30, at 6:27 p.m. EDT, or 10:27 p.m. UTC. The satellite will deploy approximately 32 minutes after launch. A backup launch window opens on Saturday, April 1, at 6:27 p.m. EDT, or 10:27 p.m. UTC.
Also, is 13 hours checkout typical for a satellite - what kind of things would be covered here, and would the checkout time be the same if the satellite had been vertically integrated and not rotated 90' plus ?
Weather looking bad on Friday pushing the backup day to Saturday?
Quote“We’re at the edge of quite significant bit of history here. This is big step for SES, for @SpaceX and for the industry.” M. Halliwell, SEShttps://twitter.com/ses_satellites/status/847434266447196161
“We’re at the edge of quite significant bit of history here. This is big step for SES, for @SpaceX and for the industry.” M. Halliwell, SES
Quote from: Paul_G on 03/30/2017 08:58 amAlso, is 13 hours checkout typical for a satellite - what kind of things would be covered here, and would the checkout time be the same if the satellite had been vertically integrated and not rotated 90' plus ?IIRC, In the SES press briefing linked a few posts back, Martin Halliwell stated that the 13 hour checkout was typical for the satellite bus that they used for SES-10.
Dirty core on the pad. https://twitter.com/nova_road/status/847414851076898817
A question I don’t recall being asked or mentioned. Are the legs on this booster the same ones that were on the CRS-8 flight? Or are they new? Were they ever removed and refurbished in some way? Or just folded back up?
Not the Immersat-35E booster, as it is still at McGregor, it should depart there after this evenings launch.
Quote from: Norm38 on 03/30/2017 01:47 pmA question I don’t recall being asked or mentioned. Are the legs on this booster the same ones that were on the CRS-8 flight? Or are they new? Were they ever removed and refurbished in some way? Or just folded back up?The legs were removed when the booster came back to port. The best public answer we have to this right now is that "all major elements of the booster are the same" from when it flew on CRS-8 last year.
Quote from: Scylla on 03/30/2017 01:18 pmDirty core on the pad. https://twitter.com/nova_road/status/847414851076898817You can barely make out the '21' tag on the booster in this pic.
Do we have an ETA on the launch day article that NSF usually posts?I've been waiting to use that one to tweet NSF, and it is already past 10am local time in the eastern US.Just looked here, and no article, yet:https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/
Quote from: yokem55 on 03/30/2017 01:50 pmQuote from: Scylla on 03/30/2017 01:18 pmDirty core on the pad. https://twitter.com/nova_road/status/847414851076898817You can barely make out the '21' tag on the booster in this pic.It's easier from the original sized image:Edit: The link is to the original image, but the forum doesn't show it.
Quote from: jpo234 on 03/30/2017 02:27 pmQuote from: yokem55 on 03/30/2017 01:50 pmQuote from: Scylla on 03/30/2017 01:18 pmDirty core on the pad. https://twitter.com/nova_road/status/847414851076898817You can barely make out the '21' tag on the booster in this pic.It's easier from the original sized image:Edit: The link is to the original image, but the forum doesn't show it.I thought that re-flights of the same core were supposed to have a -number indicating the number of flights? Very interesting this core does not have 21-1 or 21-2 painted on it...
