Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 (F9-B1029.2) East Coast OCISLY return - Coverage  (Read 57823 times)

Offline Swoopert

That'd be the difference between a crushed crush core and not then...;)
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Notice that the octagrabber's "arm" that goes under the most crushed leg isn't deployed.  I wonder if the nominal plan is to actually correct the lean, but in this case one leg was crushed so far that they couldn't deploy that arm.

Edit to add that in somewhat recent pictures, one of the arms wasn't deployed and looked as if it was missing hardware(which one person disputed).  Maybe that arm just isn't ready and the alignment is a coincidence.  Also, during Alicia's periscope, a SpaceX employee verbally referred to the roomba as the octagrabber, which is now the second time that I have seen a SpaceX employee use the term.
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Are you sure about that? The octograbber grips the hold downs which are between the legs not under them. The two hold downs clocked 90 degrees from the one in the middle of the picture are mostly hidden behind the deployed legs. You can see part of the octograbber arm attached to the hold down on the left, but the hold down on the right is almost completely hidden. I think it's possible that it has a grip on all four hold downs. However, hopefully all will become clear when they lift the rocket.
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Are you sure about that? The octograbber grips the hold downs which are between the legs not under them. The two hold downs clocked 90 degrees from the one in the middle of the picture are mostly hidden behind the deployed legs. You can see part of the octograbber arm attached to the hold down on the left, but the hold down on the right is almost completely hidden. I think it's possible that it has a grip on all four hold downs. However, hopefully all will become clear when they lift the rocket.

You can see the hold-down pin below the leg attachment points is missing an arm extending up to it.
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I didn't see this in this thread yet:

Imgur - SpaceX Falcon 9 B1029.2 Returns to Port


Check out all the soot/charring/? from the old grid fin in the last photo.

Falcon 9 Interstage.  Photo credit: Mary Ellen Jelen / We Report Space


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OR OctoSpider, which grabs onto the OctoWeb... Reference Arthur C. Clarke's Rama book series https://goo.gl/images/3tbtfs

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OR OctoSpider, which grabs onto the OctoWeb... Reference Arthur C. Clarke's Rama book series https://goo.gl/images/3tbtfs


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I didn't see this in this thread yet:

Imgur - SpaceX Falcon 9 B1029.2 Returns to Port


Check out all the soot/charring/? from the old grid fin in the last photo.

Falcon 9 Interstage.  Photo credit: Mary Ellen Jelen / We Report Space

Could that be a fluid leakage of some sort?  Just wondering, as it looks like a bit of a splatter pattern to me, like you might see when a fluid leak is blown back by the air flow.
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Top of the rocket.

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I didn't see this in this thread yet:

Imgur - SpaceX Falcon 9 B1029.2 Returns to Port


Check out all the soot/charring/? from the old grid fin in the last photo.

Falcon 9 Interstage.  Photo credit: Mary Ellen Jelen / We Report Space

Could that be a fluid leakage of some sort?  Just wondering, as it looks like a bit of a splatter pattern to me, like you might see when a fluid leak is blown back by the air flow.

I think the fluid in this case is molten aluminum.

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I didn't see this in this thread yet:

Imgur - SpaceX Falcon 9 B1029.2 Returns to Port


Check out all the soot/charring/? from the old grid fin in the last photo.

Falcon 9 Interstage.  Photo credit: Mary Ellen Jelen / We Report Space

Could that be a fluid leakage of some sort?  Just wondering, as it looks like a bit of a splatter pattern to me, like you might see when a fluid leak is blown back by the air flow.

I think the fluid in this case is molten aluminum.

If you're talking about the brown patch forward of the grid fins, that's cork insulation that's been exposed by the ablative SPAM burning off the grid fins and scouring the white paint off the interstage above, exposing the cork insulation beneath.

This is the usual pattern for SPAM-coated aluminum grid fins, and won't happen in future with uncoated titanium grid fins (see the latest Iridium launch with the titanium fins).

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Is it just a trick of the light, or is one of the leg pistons shiny instead of mat black?

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Looks like the front right leg broke and they are keeping it together so it won't flop in the breeze with pink foam and tie wraps...

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Anyone get in the air yet to spy landing spot for the bingo?
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Are you sure about that? The octograbber grips the hold downs which are between the legs not under them. The two hold downs clocked 90 degrees from the one in the middle of the picture are mostly hidden behind the deployed legs. You can see part of the octograbber arm attached to the hold down on the left, but the hold down on the right is almost completely hidden. I think it's possible that it has a grip on all four hold downs. However, hopefully all will become clear when they lift the rocket.

You can see the hold-down pin below the leg attachment points is missing an arm extending up to it.

Yes, I see it now.
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I didn't see this in this thread yet:

Imgur - SpaceX Falcon 9 B1029.2 Returns to Port


Check out all the soot/charring/? from the old grid fin in the last photo.

Falcon 9 Interstage.  Photo credit: Mary Ellen Jelen / We Report Space

Could that be a fluid leakage of some sort?  Just wondering, as it looks like a bit of a splatter pattern to me, like you might see when a fluid leak is blown back by the air flow.
More likely ablated SPAM.

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