SpaceX announcement (2/27/17) speculation thread

[TomH]

ITS manufacturing and launch site?

[QuantumG]

Something boring, I expect.

[old_sellsword]

Something boring, I expect.

The phrase "SpaceX announcement" would disqualify The Boring Company from being involved in any way. They're completely separate.

[VIY]

Announcing the construction of two additional landing sites.

[meberbs]

1 PM PST is 4PM EST or Market Close.

Just saying...

That kind of market defensive tactic (for a partner?) is usually done on Friday. Monday sounds more aggressive.

But also the kind of thing where he'd want people to absorb the information before reacting to it... ...hmm.

...Relocating their manufacturing from Hawthorne?

SpaceX announcement, not Tesla. There is no reason for a non-publicly traded company to care about market close.

Of course if it was a partnership with Google on the satellites as someone suggested above, that is another story, but I doubt Google would care about playing market games with announcement timing.

[dorkmo]

my guess is that itll be about the first booster reuse mission. we all know its a big deal but maybe full on breifing will help explain it more broadly.

not expecting it but personally i'd like to see some falcon heavy hardware pics lol

[Joffan]

Elon stowed away on CRS-10 and is actually on the ISS.

OK, that one's a really long shot.

[Jcc]

1 PM PST is 4PM EST or Market Close.

Just saying...

SpaceX is not publicly traded, so what's the market got to do with it? (Tesla is OT!)

[RotoSequence]

1 PM PST is 4PM EST or Market Close.

Just saying...

That kind of market defensive tactic (for a partner?) is usually done on Friday. Monday sounds more aggressive.

But also the kind of thing where he'd want people to absorb the information before reacting to it... ...hmm.

...Relocating their manufacturing from Hawthorne?

SpaceX announcement, not Tesla. There is no reason for a non-publicly traded company to care about market close.

Of course if it was a partnership with Google on the satellites as someone suggested above, that is another story, but I doubt Google would care about playing market games with announcement timing.

1 PM PST is 4PM EST or Market Close.

Just saying...

SpaceX is not publicly traded, so what's the market got to do with it? (Tesla is OT!)

My earlier operating hypothesis was that if SpaceX ever left California for one reason or another, people might have a knee-jerk reaction about Tesla following suit, which might do messy things to stock prices.

[QuantumG]

Something boring, I expect.

The phrase "SpaceX announcement" would disqualify The Boring Company from being involved in any way. They're completely separate.

That explains the giant hole in the SpaceX car park.

[old_sellsword]

Something boring, I expect.

The phrase "SpaceX announcement" would disqualify The Boring Company from being involved in any way. They're completely separate.

That explains the giant hole in the SpaceX car park.

It was the only place in LA that Elon could find to start digging. The connection starts and ends there.

[Jcc]

Something boring, I expect.

The phrase "SpaceX announcement" would disqualify The Boring Company from being involved in any way. They're completely separate.

That explains the giant hole in the SpaceX car park.

It was the only place in LA that Elon could find to start digging. The connection starts and ends there.

I thought it was meant to end at LAX.

[Robotbeat]

Something boring, I expect.

The phrase "SpaceX announcement" would disqualify The Boring Company from being involved in any way. They're completely separate.

That explains the giant hole in the SpaceX car park.

It was the only place in LA that Elon could find to start digging. The connection starts and ends there.

The connection is that SpaceX has been trying to get a walkway built there for a long time (couldn't get city approval probably due to blocking the street temporarily), but when some employees got hit by a car, Musk decided to just start digging a tunnel. So it's more than what you say.

[mattstep]

It seems unusual for SpaceX to prep for an announcement in advance like this. Usually they let information out at conferences, post-flight pressers, twitter, or through back channels. It seems to me like a formal announcement like this is more for the benefit of a partner. So then my guesses would be something about the CommX project or perhaps a new factory or other major infrastructure location. Either of those might involve partners that want to carefully craft a presentation rather than just mention it in passing.

[old_sellsword]

Something boring, I expect.

The phrase "SpaceX announcement" would disqualify The Boring Company from being involved in any way. They're completely separate.

That explains the giant hole in the SpaceX car park.

It was the only place in LA that Elon could find to start digging. The connection starts and ends there.

The connection is that SpaceX has been trying to get a walkway built there for a long time (couldn't get city approval probably due to blocking the street temporarily), but when some employees got hit by a car, Musk decided to just start digging a tunnel. So it's more than what you say.

Is there any proof of this claim? I don't want to clutter up this thread, but I don't think that's grounded in any actual fact.

[docmordrid]

Something boring, I expect.

The phrase "SpaceX announcement" would disqualify The Boring Company from being involved in any way. They're completely separate.

That explains the giant hole in the SpaceX car park.

It was the only place in LA that Elon could find to start digging. The connection starts and ends there.

The connection is that SpaceX has been trying to get a walkway built there for a long time (couldn't get city approval probably due to blocking the street temporarily), but when some employees got hit by a car, Musk decided to just start digging a tunnel. So it's more than what you say.

Is there any proof of this claim? I don't want to clutter up this thread, but I don't think that's grounded in any actual fact.

This is the auto incident Robotbeat is referring to

KTLA....

[Greg Hullender]

The last time I remember Musk holding a mystery press conference, it was to announce SpaceX was suing the Air Force for not letting them bid. This might be another legal announcement or maybe a financial one.

[old_sellsword]

Something boring, I expect.

The phrase "SpaceX announcement" would disqualify The Boring Company from being involved in any way. They're completely separate.

That explains the giant hole in the SpaceX car park.

It was the only place in LA that Elon could find to start digging. The connection starts and ends there.

The connection is that SpaceX has been trying to get a walkway built there for a long time (couldn't get city approval probably due to blocking the street temporarily), but when some employees got hit by a car, Musk decided to just start digging a tunnel. So it's more than what you say.

Is there any proof of this claim? I don't want to clutter up this thread, but I don't think that's grounded in any actual fact.

This is the auto incident he's referring to

 http://ktla.com/2016/12/29/surveillance-video-showing-hawthorne-hit-and-run-that-injured-3-women-released-amid-search-for-driver/

I heard about that, but the tunnel isn't confirmed to be connected to SpaceX's plans for a pedestrian bridge across Crenshaw. It's all speculation.

Edit: Back on topic, it's probably the spacesuits.

[Comga]

Could it be about the resumption of Dragon 2 testing that was originally planned for McGregor?
Could they have performed a test, like the drop test with Soyuz style braking?

[IanThePineapple]

Maybe they will do a drop test, like what they did for Dragon parachute tests. Drop it from miles up, and do a propulsive landing.