Elon Musk @elonmusk 37s38 seconds agoMaybe some debris ingestion. Engine data looks ok. Will borescope tonight. This is one of the outer engines.
Quote from: Tuts36 on 01/16/2016 12:43 amPer Elon's tweet re: engine 9 showing thrust fluctuations, is that the center engine?Yes.Edit: Hmmmm...Quote from: Elon MuskMaybe some debris ingestion. Engine data looks ok. Will borescope tonight. This is one of the outer engines.https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/688175650570547202Then the User Guide is wrong...
Per Elon's tweet re: engine 9 showing thrust fluctuations, is that the center engine?
Maybe some debris ingestion. Engine data looks ok. Will borescope tonight. This is one of the outer engines.
It's only engine 9 going up. It's engine 6 coming back.
Quote from: 1 on 01/16/2016 12:52 amIt's only engine 9 going up. It's engine 6 coming back.After a couple of puzzled reads I FINALLY saw what you did there.
Short article http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/01/spacex-fire-up-falcon-9-first-stage-slc-40/
On a somewhat serious note though, I'm continually grateful for Elon's relative transparency. This seems like such a simple thing to keep under wraps with a simple 'data looks good overall'; at least until they know more.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 01/16/2016 12:22 amQuote from: ugordan on 01/16/2016 12:20 amHans Koenigsmann during Jason-3 briefing just now said that the static fire was performed.They were looking at a 8pm Eastern T-0, so it fits! I'm not on the webcast, I assume he specifically said the returned OG2 core?Yes they asked for an update on the static fire of the recovered first stage. But it was a guy in the audience that said that.
Quote from: ugordan on 01/16/2016 12:20 amHans Koenigsmann during Jason-3 briefing just now said that the static fire was performed.They were looking at a 8pm Eastern T-0, so it fits! I'm not on the webcast, I assume he specifically said the returned OG2 core?
Hans Koenigsmann during Jason-3 briefing just now said that the static fire was performed.
Are there any photos or videos of the ORBCOMM-2 Static Fire #2?
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 01/16/2016 01:03 amShort article http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/01/spacex-fire-up-falcon-9-first-stage-slc-40/Chris, do you have any info on the duration of the SF burn you could share with us? From the video is appears to have gone on far longer than the usual ~3 seconds and according to the video description it was for 8 min which can't possibly be right since S1 cant even carry this much fuel.