Satellite images of the wildfire ignited by Starhopper; infrared with hotspots and true color after/prior the event - data acquired from Sentinel Hub
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Satellite images of the wildfire ignited by Starhopper; infrared with hotspots and true color after/prior the event - data acquired…
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Elon Musk on Twitter: "Now that Hopper has flown, Starship update probably in two weeks or so."
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Now that Hopper has flown, Starship update probably in two weeks or so.
Gorgeous pic of the Falcon 9 on CRS-18 breaking the sound-barrier
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Falcon 9 piercing the sound barrier on reentry
Amos-17 Launch Campaign Thread
Amos-17 Launch Campaign ThreadLiftoff currently scheduled for:3rd August 2019Static fire scheduled for:TBDVehicle component locations:First stage: at the Cape// Second stage: at the Cape // Sat: at the CapePayload:Amos-17Payload mass:? KgDestination orbit:GTOVehicle:Falcon 9 v1.2 Block 5Core:(B1047.3)Flights of this core:(2)Launch site:LC-39A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FloridaLanding:ExpendableMission success criteria:Successful separation & deployment of the Amos-17 Satellite to GTO.Links & Resources:We may keep this self-post occasionally updated with links and relevant news articles, but for the most part, we expect the community to supply the information. This is a great place to discuss the launch, ask mission-specific questions, and track the minor movements of the vehicle, payload, weather and more as we progress towards launch. Sometime after the static fire is complete, the launch thread will be posted. Campaign threads are not launch threads. Normal subreddit rules still apply.
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Amos-17 Launch Campaign ThreadLiftoff currently scheduled for:3rd August 2019Static fire scheduled for:TBDVehicle component locations:First stage: at the Cape// Second stage: at the Cape // Sat: at the CapePayload:Amos-17Payload mass:? KgDestination orbit:GTOVehicle:Falcon 9 v1.2 Block 5Core:(B1047.3)Flights of this core:(2)Launch site:LC-39A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FloridaLanding:ExpendableMission success criteria:Successful separation & deployment of the Amos-17 Satellite to GTO.Links & Resources:We may keep this self-post occasionally updated with links and relevant news articles, but for the most part, we expect the community to supply the information. This is a great place to discuss the launch, ask mission-specific questions, and track the minor movements of the vehicle, payload, weather and more as we progress towards launch. Sometime after the static fire is complete, the launch thread will be posted. Campaign threads are not launch threads. Normal subreddit rules still apply.
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Passed this beauty on I-10 east today & became curious about the challenges of transporting these things at desert temperatures (100 degrees today)
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NASA Announces Industry Partnerships to Advance Moon, Mars Technology
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NASA Announces Industry Partnerships to Advance Moon, Mars Technology
As NASA prepares to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program, commercial companies are developing new technologies, working toward space ventures of their own, and looking to NASA for assistance.
StarHopper 200m hop is NET August 12
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There's already a notice to close the road and beach for the next stage of StarHopper testing, a 200 meter hop. 🔥🚀🔥 @NASASpaceflight
Land clearing has begun for the SpaceX Operations Complex at Kennedy Space Center
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<b>Starship Plan Coming Together</b>
SpaceX have overcome many daunting technical hurdles in the past 17 years since their inception, culminating in mastery of reusable boosters. However, that is only the beginning of the big plan to bring about space colonization using their colossus rocket, which they call the Starship launch system. Given the world spanning importance of this work, it should be interesting to explore how they intend to overcome the remaining technical challenges, including the timeline to meet these ambitious goals. <strong>2020 - Second Stage Reuse</strong><a href="https://youtu.be/yzbFqLOjP4E?t=1513">“Most likely it [Starship hopper tests] will happen at our Brownsville location…by hopper tests I mean it will go up several miles and come down, the ship is capable of single stage to orbit if we fully load the tanks, so we’ll do flights of increasing complexity. We will want to test the heat shield material, fly out, turn around, accelerate back real hard and come in hot, to test the heat shield. We want to have a highly reusable heatshield that’s capable of absorbing the heat from interplanetary entry velocities”</a>So first up, they have chosen to tackle possibly the toughest challenge, i.e. recovery and reuse of their Starship upper stage. This has already begun with Starhopper test flights, which are designed to practise take-off and landing, at Boca Chica Beach Texas. All being well, they should progress to test flights with their orbital Starship prototype, again likely at their development facility in Boca Chica. By early next year, they intend to drive the Starship prototype hard through the atmosphere, reaching ever increasing velocities, to simulate orbital re-entry conditions and prove their new heatshield material. Again, all being well, they should progress to a full stack test launch by year’s end, enabling them to continue re-entry tests from full orbital velocities. <strong>2021 - Orbital Refuelling</strong><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-us-industry-partnerships-to-advance-moon-mars-technology">SpaceX will work with Glenn and Marshall to advance technology needed to transfer propellant in orbit, an important step in the development of the company’s Starship space vehicle.</a>Another big one: transfer of cryogenic propellant in micro-gravity. Originally, it seemed slightly extravagant of SpaceX to build two Starship prototypes in different locations but it seems that's the fastest way to perform orbital refuelling test flights. First the target Starship will launch to orbit, typically from the Cape, then a second Starship tanker will launch from Boca Chica to rendezvous with the target vehicle. If they relied solely on one launch site it could take months to refurbish the launch site and reusable booster, before being able to perform the follow-up tanker launch. Whereas using two sites, they could potentially launch both test vehicles the same day, trimming months off development time for the orbital refuelling test. In addition, this parallel launch strategy should greatly reduce any propellant boil-off, making it more likely to recover both vehicles, again saving the time needed to fabricate any replacements. <strong>2021 - Surface habitats/In Situ Propellant Production</strong><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/590wi9/i_am_elon_musk_ask_me_anything_about_becoming_a/d94t2bv/?context=3">“Initially, [we’ll use] glass panes with carbon fiber frames to build geodesic domes on the surface [of Mars], plus a lot of miner/tunnelling droids. With the latter, you can build out a huge amount of pressurized space for industrial operations and leave the glass domes for green living space.”</a>Hopefully by 2021 SpaceX will have completed their architectural design for pressurized domes, which couldn’t class as easy – but frankly doesn't approach rocket science. Likely too, Boring Company will have produced high speed boring equipment by this time, which SpaceX can…
SpaceX have overcome many daunting technical hurdles in the past 17 years since their inception, culminating in mastery of reusable boosters. However, that is only the beginning of the big plan to bring about space colonization using their colossus rocket, which they call the Starship launch system. Given the world spanning importance of this work, it should be interesting to explore how they intend to overcome the remaining technical challenges, including the timeline to meet these ambitious goals. <strong>2020 - Second Stage Reuse</strong><a href="https://youtu.be/yzbFqLOjP4E?t=1513">“Most likely it [Starship hopper tests] will happen at our Brownsville location…by hopper tests I mean it will go up several miles and come down, the ship is capable of single stage to orbit if we fully load the tanks, so we’ll do flights of increasing complexity. We will want to test the heat shield material, fly out, turn around, accelerate back real hard and come in hot, to test the heat shield. We want to have a highly reusable heatshield that’s capable of absorbing the heat from interplanetary entry velocities”</a>So first up, they have chosen to tackle possibly the toughest challenge, i.e. recovery and reuse of their Starship upper stage. This has already begun with Starhopper test flights, which are designed to practise take-off and landing, at Boca Chica Beach Texas. All being well, they should progress to test flights with their orbital Starship prototype, again likely at their development facility in Boca Chica. By early next year, they intend to drive the Starship prototype hard through the atmosphere, reaching ever increasing velocities, to simulate orbital re-entry conditions and prove their new heatshield material. Again, all being well, they should progress to a full stack test launch by year’s end, enabling them to continue re-entry tests from full orbital velocities. <strong>2021 - Orbital Refuelling</strong><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-us-industry-partnerships-to-advance-moon-mars-technology">SpaceX will work with Glenn and Marshall to advance technology needed to transfer propellant in orbit, an important step in the development of the company’s Starship space vehicle.</a>Another big one: transfer of cryogenic propellant in micro-gravity. Originally, it seemed slightly extravagant of SpaceX to build two Starship prototypes in different locations but it seems that's the fastest way to perform orbital refuelling test flights. First the target Starship will launch to orbit, typically from the Cape, then a second Starship tanker will launch from Boca Chica to rendezvous with the target vehicle. If they relied solely on one launch site it could take months to refurbish the launch site and reusable booster, before being able to perform the follow-up tanker launch. Whereas using two sites, they could potentially launch both test vehicles the same day, trimming months off development time for the orbital refuelling test. In addition, this parallel launch strategy should greatly reduce any propellant boil-off, making it more likely to recover both vehicles, again saving the time needed to fabricate any replacements. <strong>2021 - Surface habitats/In Situ Propellant Production</strong><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/590wi9/i_am_elon_musk_ask_me_anything_about_becoming_a/d94t2bv/?context=3">“Initially, [we’ll use] glass panes with carbon fiber frames to build geodesic domes on the surface [of Mars], plus a lot of miner/tunnelling droids. With the latter, you can build out a huge amount of pressurized space for industrial operations and leave the glass domes for green living space.”</a>Hopefully by 2021 SpaceX will have completed their architectural design for pressurized domes, which couldn’t class as easy – but frankly doesn't approach rocket science. Likely too, Boring Company will have produced high speed boring equipment by this time, which SpaceX can…
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Elon Musk Press Conference Successful Falcon Heavy Launch
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NASA agrees to work with SpaceX on orbital refueling technology
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NASA agrees to work with SpaceX on orbital refueling technology
"The civil servants at Marshall and at Glenn are very talented in this area."
So, Musk is pushing for nuclear rockets now?
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Elon Musk Proposes a Controversial Plan to Speed Up Spaceflight to Mars
Soar to Mars in just 100 days.
Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete and team is assessing data—targeting August 3 for launch of AMOS-17 from Pad 40 in Florida
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Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete and team is assessing data—targeting August 3 for launch of AMOS-17 from Pad 40 in Florida
Falcon Heavy Drag Coefficient
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Falcon Heavy Drag Coefficient
Falcon Heavy -Drag Coefficient- Made by: Jonathan Hellberg Gathering the info - 1 Making sense of the Data - 2 Calculating - 3 Sources - 4 1: -Gathering the information needed- -------------------------------------------------------------------…
Boca Chica Fly Over - LabPadre
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Exclusive! SpaceX Aerial Fly Over
July 31, 2019.
Take an exclusive look at SpaceX Boca Chica Beach, Texas from the cockpit of a Cessna 172. You can clearly see the long line of burnt debris that stretches 1.5 miles. You can also see the clean burn mark on the launch pad. The biggest change…
Take an exclusive look at SpaceX Boca Chica Beach, Texas from the cockpit of a Cessna 172. You can clearly see the long line of burnt debris that stretches 1.5 miles. You can also see the clean burn mark on the launch pad. The biggest change…
SpaceX Monthly Recap | Dragon Anomaly Update, Starhopper Flies, and more!
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JRTI is reserved for the Panama Canal August 15 6am
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SpaceX on Twitter - "Team is setting up an additional static fire test of Falcon 9 after replacing a suspect valve. Will confirm updated target launch date for AMOS-17 once complete. "
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Team is setting up an additional static fire test of Falcon 9 after replacing a suspect valve. Will confirm updated target launch date for AMOS-17 once complete.
KSC pad 39A Starship & Super Heavy draft environmental assessment: up to 24 launches per year, Super Heavy to land on ASDS
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Chris B - NSF
"Draft Environmental Assessment for the SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy Launch Vehicle at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) - https://t.co/V7WLi7H2Qt - heck of a long read, but as we reported (https://t.co/SEUXYQszFR), Starship Pad 'off ramp' on 39A. "
SpaceX present to future: From retesting boosters to planning a Starship pad
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SpaceX present to future: From retesting boosters to planning a Starship pad - NASASpaceFlight.com
SpaceX is busy on all fronts, from its bread and butter commercial satellite launches to…
SpaceX to begin flights using cargo variant of Dragon 2 under new cargo resupply contract next year
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SpaceX to begin flights under new cargo resupply contract next year
SpaceX is set to retire its current fleet of Dragon capsules, in use since 2010, next year and begin flying supplies to the International Space Station on a new variant of the Dragon spacecraft based on the model in development to carry astronauts.