Four things SpaceX can do in 2017

[puttelino]

Yes, SpX has to get things in line.

We all know this, SpX certainly know this. A company how ever is not built on the principle "every one on the problem at hand". Think of it like a hockey team. If every one is chasing the puck, no one is guarding the net and the space around the puck gets awfully crowded.

On developing market, a company has to develop stuff or it is dead in a heart beat. ULA did get by on the launcher market for a long time without doing a lot development. This is because no one else did anything new. Space X came along and rattled the market, now every one seems to have a new project going.

On the talent side. Space X talent is not there because they wanted to get to Mars initialy. The talent goes to work in a place that is exciting. Most of us engineers are wiling to take a reasonable pay cut if it means we can build cool stuff and/or are trusted with expensive toys i.e. have a challenging and fun time at work.

This has been a strange post. To sum it up: Having "get your act together" on a list of things they could succeed with is foolish. Getting their act together is always an ongoing task at every company (certainly in the launch business).

So i think the thread starter has a pretty good (challenging) list of accomplishments for this year.

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Edited out the profanity - Carl, Mod.

[Lar]

This thread:

Four things SpaceX can do 2017:

1) Do everything smart and good that they should do.
2) Don't do things which are dumb that they shouldn't do.
3) Be lucky.
4) Don't be unlucky.

Reminds me of Buddhism in a nutshell[0]:

1) Don't do bad things[1]
2) Do good things[1]
3) Clear your mind of distraction

Except of course luck is 99% perspiration and preparedness.

0 - According to my wife... paraphrase errors are mind
1 - These two are different.

[jcliving]

Eric Berger offered up "Four things SpaceX can do in 2017 to Get It's Groove Back"
1. RTF in January
2. First re-flown core in 1st quarter
3. Falcon Heavy by mid-year
4. Dragon 2 by year end

I think 1,2 not a problem, FH maybe, 4 probably not

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/four-things-spacex-can-do-in-2017-to-get-its-groove-back/

#1 and #2 on your list completed successfully.  Spacex is off to a good start.

[dglow]

Eric Berger offered up "Four things SpaceX can do in 2017 to Get It's Groove Back"
1. RTF in January
2. First re-flown core in 1st quarter
3. Falcon Heavy by mid-year
4. Dragon 2 by year end

I think 1,2 not a problem, FH maybe, 4 probably not

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/four-things-spacex-can-do-in-2017-to-get-its-groove-back/

#1 and #2 on your list completed successfully.  Spacex is off to a good start.

Yep, their groove is already back. Nailing 3 and 4 will make a deeper cut / with extra funk / in the Dragon's trunk.

[Ludus]

The next item, FH, has also become more ambitious than it was. Confirmed as using 2 flight tested cores, going for return of all 3, plus attempted recovery of the faring, and even taking a shot at recovering the second stage.

[TripD]

The next item, FH, has also become more ambitious than it was. Confirmed as using 2 flight tested cores, going for return of all 3, plus attempted recovery of the faring, and even taking a shot at recovering the second stage.

That is all well and good, but my heart rate is going to(peg-out/flatline, choose one) from the moment of going vertical on the pad until max Q.

[AncientU]

The next item, FH, has also become more ambitious than it was. Confirmed as using 2 flight tested cores, going for return of all 3, plus attempted recovery of the faring, and even taking a shot at recovering the second stage.

That is all well and good, but my heart rate is going to(peg-out/flatline, choose one) from the moment of going vertical on the pad until max Q.

Wait until separation is clean to resume breathing...