Author Topic: SpaceX announcement (2/27/17) speculation thread (Read 82102 times)

R7 · « **Reply #60 on:** 02/27/2017 11:49 am »

Quote from: old_sellsword on 02/27/2017 02:36 am

Quote from: QuantumG on 02/27/2017 02:35 am
Something boring, I expect.

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

Not if they tip the boring machine vertical. SpaceX prepares to honor Jules Verne!

jpo234 · « **Reply #61 on:** 02/27/2017 11:58 am »

Quote from: R7 on 02/27/2017 11:49 am

Not if they tip the boring machine vertical. SpaceX prepares to honor Jules Verne!

You mean to build a Valier-Oberth Moon Gun?

kch · « **Reply #62 on:** 02/27/2017 12:05 pm »

Quote from: jpo234 on 02/27/2017 11:58 am

Quote from: R7 on 02/27/2017 11:49 am
Not if they tip the boring machine vertical. SpaceX prepares to honor Jules Verne!

You mean to build a Valier-Oberth Moon Gun?

"By V-3 To The Moon!"

shuttlefan · « **Reply #63 on:** 02/27/2017 12:11 pm »

Putting a crew on the first Crew Dragon Demo?

zack · « **Reply #64 on:** 02/27/2017 12:13 pm »

Eric Berger seems to think it is suits.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/5wdr7m/elon_on_twitter_spacex_announcement_tomorrow_at/de9twh5/?context=3

meekGee · « **Reply #65 on:** 02/27/2017 12:28 pm »

I really hope it is something positive, but the oddness of the announcement is unnerving to me.

Just sayin'.

BrianNH · « **Reply #66 on:** 02/27/2017 12:36 pm »

It could be announcing a second commercial launch site.

Rocket Science · « **Reply #67 on:** 02/27/2017 12:40 pm »

Maybe they are going to send a crewed Dragon on a loop around the Moon, just because...

Star One · « **Reply #68 on:** 02/27/2017 12:54 pm »

Quote from: zack on 02/27/2017 12:13 pm

Eric Berger seems to think it is suits.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/5wdr7m/elon_on_twitter_spacex_announcement_tomorrow_at/de9twh5/?context=3

Source it says on there has said it is the suits so he claims.

DigitalMan · « **Reply #69 on:** 02/27/2017 01:02 pm »

Perhaps an acquisition

king1999 · « **Reply #70 on:** 02/27/2017 01:04 pm »

In order of likelihood:

1. Spacesuit
2. Customer for Falcon Heavy
3. External investments
4. Google buying SpaceX
5. Mars plan by Trump

beancounter · « **Reply #71 on:** 02/27/2017 01:17 pm »

If it's suits then all I can say is that Elon's losing it.

Nah, gotta be bigger than that. Dragon 2 related. Maybe a name. Yah!!
Cheers

shuttlefan · « **Reply #72 on:** 02/27/2017 01:21 pm »

Quote from: beancounter on 02/27/2017 01:17 pm

If it's suits then all I can say is that Elon's losing it.
Nah, gotta be bigger than that. Dragon 2 related. Maybe a name. Yah!!
Cheers

not to sound like a deadbeat, but I hope more than a name.

Names of crewmembers perhaps.

RotoSequence · « **Reply #73 on:** 02/27/2017 01:23 pm »

Quote from: beancounter on 02/27/2017 01:17 pm

If it's suits then all I can say is that Elon's losing it.
Nah, gotta be bigger than that. Dragon 2 related. Maybe a name. Yah!!
Cheers

Let's not forget that we're the ones whipping ourselves into a frenzy, not Elon.

macpacheco · « **Reply #74 on:** 02/27/2017 01:27 pm »

Rolling out of the first internet satellite prototype, of which at least a half a dozen will be launched on the FH Demo (perhaps dozens).

AncientU · « **Reply #75 on:** 02/27/2017 01:39 pm »

Quote from: RotoSequence on 02/27/2017 02:16 am

Quote from: docmordrid on 02/27/2017 02:10 am
Quote from: watermod on 02/27/2017 02:08 am
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?

This is good... but more likely manufacturing-related news would be where ITS would be built.

My guess is FH inaugural payload/flight profile. FH and Raptor/ITS are non-NASA activities, so non-involvement would be fine. Not so with anything crew-related.

Antares · « **Reply #76 on:** 02/27/2017 01:52 pm »

Quote from: RotoSequence on 02/27/2017 01:23 pm

Let's not forget that we're the ones whipping ourselves into a frenzy, not Elon.

Disagree. Elon tweeted so that the public would frenzy itself. He started it either way.

friendly3 · « **Reply #77 on:** 02/27/2017 01:52 pm »

Trump redirecting all NASA $$$ towards SpaceX in order to colonize Mars and make America greater than ever before.

ElGuapoGuano1 · « **Reply #78 on:** 02/27/2017 01:54 pm »

Would love to hear it's Falcon Heavy throwing a Dragon around the moon, but I think it'll be suits. Hopefully they actually do conform to Elons requirement to look "bad ass".

king1999 · « **Reply #79 on:** 02/27/2017 01:58 pm »

Quote from: friendly3 on 02/27/2017 01:52 pm

Trump redirecting all NASA $$$ towards SpaceX in order to colonize Mars and make America greater than ever before.

You meant "Make Mars Great Again"?