Could you compare with JCSAT-16? It's a close match telemetry-wise, but the final orbit from F9 was 184 km × 35,912 km × 20.85°.
You are looking at it in vacuum. Even a tiny bit of gas inside the blanket would "puff it up". Also once it is "puffed up", there is nothing to make it collapse again. Even if all that gas just escapes from under the blanket, it stays puffed up unless something pushes it from the outside.
Anybody noticed that one of the LOX tank panels is significantly darker?
It seems they're going to manually retract the legs with cables running down from the lifting cap to the legsThis was the rumor that was going on since yesterday about the leg retraction:https://twitter.com/MatthewCable6/status/1022285498612690944Now it seems real:https://twitter.com/ThAerospaceGeek/status/1022507131331911680Edit: Another picture in this tweet (I don't know how to add photos here) of the cables being lowered down from the cap to the bottom https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1022514478355763200
Quote from: Alexphysics on 07/26/2018 03:59 pmIt seems they're going to manually retract the legs with cables running down from the lifting cap to the legsThis was the rumor that was going on since yesterday about the leg retraction:https://twitter.com/MatthewCable6/status/1022285498612690944Now it seems real:https://twitter.com/ThAerospaceGeek/status/1022507131331911680Edit: Another picture in this tweet (I don't know how to add photos here) of the cables being lowered down from the cap to the bottom https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1022514478355763200Personally I find this highly suspect. It's been common practice for SpaceX to run guy wires from cap to automatic tensioners on the ground to keep the rocket stable. To me these images look like they are rigging those lines. I'd be happy to be proven wrong however...
Quote from: theonlyspace on 07/22/2018 12:49 pmWere the fairings halves recovered?If you mean were they caught by a ship with the net on it? No. If the fairings had the recovery hardware installed, they may get picked up from the ocean surface. But SpaceX doesn't currently have a fairing catching ship on the east coast. Their only one Mr. Steven, which operates out of Los Angeles and attempts catching fairing halves from launches out of VAFB. Next attempt will be on the upcoming Iridium 7 launch.
Were the fairings halves recovered?
Quote from: deruch on 07/22/2018 01:08 pmQuote from: theonlyspace on 07/22/2018 12:49 pmWere the fairings halves recovered?If you mean were they caught by a ship with the net on it? No. If the fairings had the recovery hardware installed, they may get picked up from the ocean surface. But SpaceX doesn't currently have a fairing catching ship on the east coast. Their only one Mr. Steven, which operates out of Los Angeles and attempts catching fairing halves from launches out of VAFB. Next attempt will be on the upcoming Iridium 7 launch.This is an actual headline on CNN: SpaceX loses multi million dollar fairingThe headline doesn't mention that the launch and primary mission were successful, nor does it mention that SpaceX landed the first stage in the worst conditions ever. Nope, the headline is about how SpaceX FAILED to catch the fairing.Wow, are we disappointed in SpaceX for failing to do something that has NEVER been done by anyone before.
Quote from: TOG on 07/27/2018 12:47 amQuote from: deruch on 07/22/2018 01:08 pmQuote from: theonlyspace on 07/22/2018 12:49 pmWere the fairings halves recovered?If you mean were they caught by a ship with the net on it? No. If the fairings had the recovery hardware installed, they may get picked up from the ocean surface. But SpaceX doesn't currently have a fairing catching ship on the east coast. Their only one Mr. Steven, which operates out of Los Angeles and attempts catching fairing halves from launches out of VAFB. Next attempt will be on the upcoming Iridium 7 launch.This is an actual headline on CNN: SpaceX loses multi million dollar fairingThe headline doesn't mention that the launch and primary mission were successful, nor does it mention that SpaceX landed the first stage in the worst conditions ever. Nope, the headline is about how SpaceX FAILED to catch the fairing.Wow, are we disappointed in SpaceX for failing to do something that has NEVER been done by anyone before. just saw the CNN story it was in my view not that negative I guess mileage might vary