/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9533353

They are doing fairing recovery with this launch

Is the rocket landing on the ship or not? That's literally all I care about. Please let me know so I can clap and fire my Smith & Wesson into the air

>>9533353
Thread theme: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7lTOnPc9h-c

>>9533362
No, but as >>9533357 mentioned they are going to attempt to recover the fairing using their boat with a big net on it.

It's worth mentioning this is the first launch with an updated fairing design.

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/965999852831363072

>>9533368
>2018
>still putting "tires" on the sides of a ship

Is there really no better design?

/aco/ reporting in

>>9533378
It's simple, cheap, and recycles old tires. Why change it?

>>9533378
they're cheap and effective

>>9533353
Terra forming Mars is impossible due to lack of magnetic field.

Even if you pump breathable air in Mars Atmosphere. It would be readily stripped away by solar winds, due lack of protective magnetic field and low gravity.

>>9533398
In hundreds of years probably.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a25493/magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere/

https://youtu.be/XZ-7nNw-04Q
>3:20+
>"reusability is a dream"
>"no geo capability"
>"launch limited"
>t. richard bowles arianspace aka the guy who was so btfo by nightmares he was replaced few days after the FH launch

Excellent (not so) old video. Puts things into perspective.

>>9533398
>It would be readily stripped away by solar winds

Rapidly meaning over thousands of years

>>9533409
Just like all these people who were saying electric cars are not the way of future.

Fuck. Scrubbed due to wind.

>8m left

>>9533433
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUU

24 hour delay

see you boys tomorrow

So, trying again tomorrow at 9:17am?

>>9534554
Yes, Feb 22 9:17AM Eastern US

>>9533435
Wut

One hour until launch.

Stream Starting

Those tunes would fit well in a X4 strategy game

Neat, they kept the countdown net.

Daily reminder that you can switch camera to the non-babby stream

Did someone say lunch? I'm hungry.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfgHKDNAplx/

>Going to try to catch the giant fairing (nosecone) of Falcon 9 as it falls back from space at about eight times the speed of sound. It has onboard thrusters and a guidance system to bring it through the atmosphere intact, then releases a parafoil and our ship with basically a giant catcher’s mitt welded on tries to catch it.

>>9535952
That's a nice boat.

Oooh they just shown picture of their test sats

brainlet here

will they try to land the rocket parts like the last time ?

when is pozzed launching?

>>9535961
Not this time, it's an older model that's already flown once.

>>9535962
2 minutes

>>9535965
omg and i discovered this on youtube drunk on accident, hope it doesnt blow

The cheers get so more quiet each time

>>9535969
I was going to post that. Hivemind blocked by image duplicate filter.

>>9535971
SpaceX fans are size queens.
Now that they've gotten a taste of Heavy they can't get too excited about F9s anymore.

>>9535971
>there will be a time when no one cheers

>>9535976
>there will be a time when no one cheers for the rocket that sends you anywhere on earth in 1 hour

>>9535977
That's why I always clap when the plane landed.

kino

>>9535977
>I CLAAAAAAAPED!

>no camera on the fairing or the ship
What a let down.

>>9533353
mother fucker i'm late

>>9535984
You didn't miss anything except some cool views of the stage 1 engine plumes changing colors.

>>9535984
I went as smoothly as a scott manley ksp launch

>>9535990
it*

Perfect mission!

Another nail in the coffin of the Russian space industry, which failed to launch PAZ a few years ago on Dnepr, thanks to the Ukraine conflict grounding all Ukrainian-made vehicles.

>>9535990
>>9535989
Well, at least I got to see the big one go up.

>>9535994
Next big'un is in June iirc.

Apparently they're going to try to recover the booster from HispaSat after all.

>>9535994
Next big'un is in June iirc.

>>9535959

>>9536007
Are those zipties? Those looks extremely ghetto, but I guess that's expected for prototypes.

>>9536008
They are made as cheaply as possible since there will be 12000 of them.

>>9536008
I don’t think those are zip ties.

>>9536007
Seems like the pic in the Starlink discussion OP was correct; they’ll be able to fit 40 in a f9 fairing

>>9536007
>>9536011
I can't fucking wait.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/966692641533390848

>>9536040
SPACEX BTFO FAIRING REUSE IS IMPOSSIBLE TAXPAYER DOLLARS WASTED UHHHHHOHOHOHOHUHUHUHU


but really that's pretty good for a first try

>>9536084
yoooooooooooo

>>9536088
poor stage 2 team, they'll be the only ones throwing away hardware once fairing recovery is nailed down. F9 will be 80% reusable! And with block 5, they won't have to take the legs on and off too.

>>9536091

Have they just given up on second stage recovery now?

Would it be possible to refurb some of those extra stage 1 engines to re-use on stage 2? I know at least they would need to make a new bell, but they are the same basic design, right?

Starlink sat deployment.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/966703261699854336

>>9533353
tell me whats the point of all these launches
i'm pretty sure they could just buy a supercomputer of price of a single rocket and use it to simulate flights instead of wasting resources and gaining nothing

>>9536116
no, they're quite different. S2 has an mvac: merlin, vacuum type. Incompatible with atmosphere merlins (on stage 1)

>>9536084
They can probably just hop in, clamp a motor to the back, and pilot the whole thing back to port.

>>9536126
the point of this launch is to put a Spanish radar satellite into orbit you ignoramus

>>9536123
>hughesnet executives begin to sweat

>>9536128
heh, imagine if that was a built in feature...

>>9536112
Yes
>>9536116
I guess the bottom line is that they lose less money when the get rid of old F9 designs. They aim to produce one Merlin every day.

>>9536007
we're just replacing one ISP with another and this time there's even LESS competition in the market

>you will never get to drive the F9 transporter truck thingy

Looks like they're attempting a landing for their next launch, a GTO heavy satellite.

>>9536131
>hughesnet
i get goddamn postcard ads from them in the middle of a city with charter & att, how fed up do you have to be with them to go with satellite internet

>>9536186
6092 kg.... that'll be one hot landing

>>9536197
I had it before anything faster than dial-up was available in my rural area. It is fucking terrible and so bad I purposely defaulted on the contract and didn't pay them the default money states that they couldn't live up tot he services they promised. I haven't heard from them since.

>>9536003
>June
so december of '19

>>9536176
Sad! Many such cases!

>>9536150
Better fund Mars colonization than land in Cali and New York.

>>9536123
what's that tumbling thing off to the right? piece of ice?

>>9536397
Water.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/patriarchal-race-colonize-mars-just-another-example-male-entitlement-ncna849681

ahhhahhhahahahahaahhahahah.

>The desire to colonize — to have unquestioned, unchallenged and automatic access to something, to any type of body, and to use it at will — is a patriarchal one.

>It is the same instinctual and cultural force that teaches men that everything — and everyone — in their line of vision is theirs for the taking. You know, just like walking up to a woman and grabbing her by the pussy. It’s there, so just grab it because you can.

> The raping and pillaging of the Earth, and the environmental chaos that doing so has unleashed, are integral to the process of colonization. And the connection of the treatment of Mother Earth to women is more than symbolic: Study after study has shown that climate change globally affects women more than men.

> “Women in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change because they are highly dependent on local natural resources for their livelihood,” a 2013 United Nations report noted. “Women charged with securing water, food and fuel for cooking and heating face the greatest challenges. Women experience unequal access to resources and decision-making processes, with limited mobility in rural areas.”

>>9536091
Anywhere i can read up on the changes for Block 5? Like the legs?

>>9536126
This is by far the dumbest post on /sci/ today, so at least you have accomplished something with your life

>>9533353
Boldly going where the communist went ~100 years ago.

>>9536499
there's no official source, just a collection of small details that have been announced over the years.

-bolted octaweb
-new heat shielding on inconel mountings
-titanium waffles on all cores
-retractable landing legs
-man-rated Merlin 1D w/ +10% thrust
-new COPV?
-new paint job (black interstage).
-fairing 2.0 (wider, lighter, more recovery hardware
-a number of smaller changes to improve reusability and reliability (100+)

>>9536483

The article raises good points.

Back to /pol/.

>>9536530
no it doesn't you moron, it borders on satirical. The author is mentally ill.

>>9536483
I refuse the believe this is real.....

>>9536613
gotta get those free clicks somehow

>>9536483
Don't they know that SpaceX's CEO is a woman? Elon may be the vision, drive and money behind the mars colonisation project but Gwynne Shotwell is the one actually running the company on a day to day basis.

>>9536633
but she's white

>>9536537
the author is just a typical liberal, this has been the liberal agenda for 100 years now

>>9536084
so I guess they missed catching it?

>>9536660
By a few hundred meters, yeah. Seems like they've got a shot of getting it next time though

>>9536483
>nbcnews

What a bunch of retarded blogshit.

>>9536613
>>9536629
It is funny that we get to see a time where The Onion's articles are no longer satire enough to compete with reality.