SpaceX Launch Thread - Bangabandhu-1

[Anonymous No.9730112]

Welcome to the 9th SpaceX launch thread of 2018!
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Launch Date: May 10th 2018, between 4:12 p.m. EDT (20:12 UTC) and 6:22 p.m. EDT (22:22 UTC)
Payload: Bangabandhu-1 geostationary communications satellite, with 26 Ku-band & 14 C-band transponders; mfg. by Thales Alenia Space on the Spacebus 4000B2 platform
Launch Site: LC-39a @ KSC, Florida
STREAM: http://www.spacex.com/webcast
Direct YouTube Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJWeK-kVB0
Press Kit: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/bangabandhupresskit5918.pdf
Landing?: Yes, on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship
Core ID: B1046; Block 5
Current Forecast: http://www.patrick.af.mil/Portals/14/documents/Weather/L-1%20Forecast%2010%20May%20Launch.pdf?ver=2018-05-09-093054-653 (80% GO)
Fairing recovery?: Mr Steven is not on the east coast, but soft water landing will be attempted

This is the FIRST Falcon 9 block 5 mission and the 54th F9 launch overall!
>What is block 5?
F9 block 5 is the final iteration of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Block 5 F9's will be the first Falcon 9's to be reused more than once. There are many changes associated with block 5 — http://theclimategap.com/falcon9-evolution/ .
Note: block 5 also includes changes to the second stage as well.


>Some Bangabandhu-1 articles
http://spacenews.com/how-bangladesh-became-spacexs-first-block-5-falcon-9-customer/
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/05/07/first-launch-of-enhanced-version-of-spacexs-falcon-9-set-for-thursday/

[Anonymous No.9730132]

[Anonymous No.9730136]

[Anonymous No.9730151]

>JELLO BABIES
>SLS, fly like true american eagle
>BFR will never fly
>Reusability is a meme
>First orbital booster landing

[Anonymous No.9730168]

>>9730151
>No!

[Anonymous No.9730169]

>>9730168

[Anonymous No.9730170]

Fuck yeah block 5. Are they going to be using this same booster for the next few launches I see coming up or are they going to clear out some old block 4 stock on those?

[Anonymous No.9730172]

>>9730170
there are a handful of B4's still to be flown twice. The launch after Bangabandhu, Iridium-6 / GRACE-FO, will be the 2nd flight of a B4. Then there are two more used B4 to be flown after that iirc, one of them going to a CRS mission

[Anonymous No.9730178]

>>9730170
Do they have any block 4 stock left?
I thought that was the point of waiting for block 5, partly also because of changes to the vehicle meant changes needed to the launch pad which is why they haven't used 39A since Heavy, and why the next Heavy will have to be block 5.

[Anonymous No.9730189]

>>9730178
Yeah-
B1040 will be used to launch SES 12. B1042 can still be used for something but nothing is confirmed now. B1043 will be for Iridium 6, and B1045 will be for CRS-15

Those are all of the remaining block 4 boosters. After that it's 100% B5

[Anonymous No.9730249]

According to the Bangladesh government they will have firework displays going off "across the country" during the launch. Pretty neat

[Anonymous No.9730581]

F9 is halfway to the pad

[Anonymous No.9730913]

pls explode
>t.rogozin ex-overlord of roscosmos

[Anonymous No.9730915]

>>9730913
I quietly hope for every rocket to explode on launch, not just SpaceX.
Am I a bad person?

[Anonymous No.9730929]

Reminder that SpaceX PR posts these threads and they stopped posting for a while after I called them out on it last time.

[Anonymous No.9730933]

>>9730929
neck yourself fatty

[Anonymous No.9730934]

>>9730929
lolwhat? I made the TESS thread + most of the other SpX launch threads and didn't "stop posting"

if you think SpaceX spends 1¢ on PR other than their official Flickr and twitter posts then you're delusional.

[Anonymous No.9730936]

>>9730929
Reminder that something something never happened and I want credit even though we are all anonymous.

[Anonymous No.9730956]

>>9730933
>>9730934
>>9730936
How many anons do you know that meticulously post threads like the one in the OP for every single action the company makes, complete with a link to the official SpaceX corporate PR presskit?

[Anonymous No.9730958]

What will you be snacking on for the launch? I have leftover ice cream cake

[Anonymous No.9730971]

>>9730956
Space launches are badass and you should feel bad for implying that having a thorough description of the launch is a negative thing

This launch is especially important since it is the first launch of a vehicle which is designed for true rapid reliability, building on the past decade of SpaceX’s experience. Lowering the cost to space is a big deal

I don’t bother with OPs like this for Arianespace or JAXA launches because they’re not that exciting. Well, the S520 was an exception, and things in the future like JWST will be deserving of a sticky for sure. But even if I did do a detailed OP for a generic Proton launch I doubt it would get more than 10 replies

[Anonymous No.9730974]

>>9730956
How many boards have you visited in your few weeks on this site?

[Anonymous No.9731025]

>>9730974
Implying other boards arent heavily manipulated, too.

Id say on amy given site at least 1/4 of the comments are paid shills nowadays.

[Anonymous No.9731034]

>>9731025
Delusions are a serious problem.

[Anonymous No.9731043]

>>9730971
I'm watching you...

>>9730974
Been here six years tbhfam.

[Anonymous No.9731046]

>>9731043
>Been here six years tbhfam.
Relatively new then.

[Anonymous No.9731055]

>>9731034
Implying corporations and governments dont spend a few million each year on comment writers.

[Anonymous No.9731060]

>>9731055
I'm sure they do.
They just do it in places where that money will be worth something. For example, I'm sure some companies shill products on /g/. But shilling SpaceX? Who are they selling to? What return are they going to get?

[Anonymous No.9731067]

>>9730151
>How dare you? i shall refute your opinion using my own while spamming pics of smug anime girls!

[Anonymous No.9731070]

>>9731060
SpaceX needs to compete with the russian engine builders, who are supplying all of their competitors (currently). Russian engines are cheap, because russian engineers dont make half what western engineers make. To make up for that cost disadvantage they need cheap labour themselves. And they are getting that cheap labour by memeing their company, so they have a constant stream of young engineers (who happen to be here and on reddit) they can burn out with little pay.

[Anonymous No.9731071]

>>9731060
>not worth spending here
nigga u gay?

[Anonymous No.9731075]

>>9731070
>>9731071
No one on 4chan is fit for hire.

[Anonymous No.9731084]

>>9730249
lets just hope that there isnt a similar firework display at the cape around t+25

[Anonymous No.9731092]

>>9730971
> a detailed OP for a generic Proton launch I doubt it would get more than 10 replies

This, sadly. Even the "normal" SpaceX launch treads have died down a lot. Before you could max out 2-3 treads before/during launch, now you are lucky if 1 reaches 200 replies.

Cant wait for the JWST launch though.

[Anonymous No.9731093]

>>9731067

[Anonymous No.9731109]

>>9731075
lies

[Anonymous No.9731113]

>>9731092
>Cant wait for the JWST launch though.
Some of /sci/ will be dead before JWST launches.

[Anonymous No.9731126]

>>9731113
Im ok with that, as long as it leads to a reduction in shitty treads

[Anonymous No.9731141]

Okay, so no excuses now. If Block 5 fails to deliever on the reusability the meme is dead once and for all.

[Anonymous No.9731152]

>>9731141
There's still BO.

[Anonymous No.9731260]

>>9731070
Or they could, you know, not drop them all in the water every launch.

[Anonymous No.9731263]

>>9731260
Reusability is a meme. Saying you're designing a rocket engine that can do dozens of flights without maintenance is like saying you're designing a car that can drive 10 million miles without maintenance. It's just garbage and will never be reality.

Also, despite them reusing some of their boosters, Arianespace is still the cheapest launcher on the market.

[Anonymous No.9731269]

>>9731263

[Anonymous No.9731272]

>>9731269
ULA isn't much more expensive than SpaceX, either.

[Anonymous No.9731278]

>>9731263

There's a section in the Space Shuttle Decision about how rocket engines were already demonstrating multiple firings in the double digits in the 1960s.

"Although the engines of the 1960s had not been designed for long life in service, tests had shown that they already were close to achieving the requirement for an SSME.

The RL-10, with 15,000 pounds of thrust, had been the first to show this. As early as 1963, individual engines had been operated for over two and a half hours, with more than 50 restarts. By 1969, the total duration for a single test engine exceeded that of 50 shuttle missions, while a thrust chamber, sans turbopumps, received a series of test firings that totaled more than 11 hours. 5

The engines of Apollo showed similar life. The F-1 was rated for 20 starts and 2250 seconds in total duration. Yet by replacing the liquid-oxygen pump impeller and the turbine manifold at 3500 seconds, test engines achieved as many as 60 starts and total durations of 5000 to 6000 seconds. The J-2 did even better, with a test engine running for 103 starts and 6.5 hours, without overhaul.

"We never wore out an engine of the J-2 type," recalls Rocketdyne's Paul Castenholz, who managed its development. "We could run it repeatedly; there was no erosion of the chamber, no damage to the turbine blades. If you looked at a J-2 after a hot firing, you would not see any difference from before that firing. The injectors always looked new; there was no erosion or corrosion on the injectors. We had extensive numbers of tests on individual engines," which demonstrated their reliability. "

https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/ch6.htm

[Anonymous No.9731288]

>>9731278
Because going up and down the atmosphere is exactly the same as test firings on the ground.

[Anonymous No.9731325]

>>9731288
Just fire it another 10 times for every planned launch you want to do.

[Anonymous No.9731412]

>>9730915
Not unless there's people in it

[Anonymous No.9731442]

We /vertical/
Also, today will be the 25th 1st stage recovery. Orbcomm-2 seems so long ago...

[Anonymous No.9731447]

[Anonymous No.9731464]

fairing 1.0

[Anonymous No.9731577]

>bangladesh
I don't really get this space thing, but why didn't they go to ISRO for the launch?
t. pajeet

[Anonymous No.9731589]

>>9731577
http://spacenews.com/how-bangladesh-became-spacexs-first-block-5-falcon-9-customer/

[Anonymous No.9731607]

Bangladesh national TV is entirely about the launch for the most part

live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTG4IFk0UuA

[Anonymous No.9731615]

It's kinda sad they'll shelve their Falcons after the BFR is proven to work. What a beautiful rocket.

[Anonymous No.9731624]

>>9731615
I think they'll keep it around just in case. It might end up being the 21st century R7, especially if they get the 2nd stage to be reusable. If BFR is flying humans, it would be nice to have a backup human-rated launch vehicle in case the BFR fleet is grounded

[Anonymous No.9731630]

wonder what's in the rape van

[Anonymous No.9731632]

more Bangladesh TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJlGDN4aKUQ
entirely satellite/launch related too. They just got done touring the rocket garden

[Anonymous No.9731651]

>>9731630
Jeff Bezos's decomposing corpse

[Anonymous No.9731654]

good sense of scale

[Anonymous No.9731656]

all B5's have Ti gridfins

[Anonymous No.9731658]

So SpaceX rockets can launch on higher latitudes than that of Cape Canaveral? Going closer to the equator should obviously not be a problem, but are they taking a hit to LEO yield by launching from a more northern site?

[Anonymous No.9731679]

>>9731658
It's a GTO mission. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Can view it here: https://www.flightclub.io/result?code=BNG1

go to the 3D view

[Anonymous No.9731699]

more Bangladesh TV coverage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r-bTBjM8dc
it's fun just watching all of em at once on multiple monitors

[Anonymous No.9731720]

[Anonymous No.9731731]

>>9731092
imo this inaugural B5 launch is almost as important as FH. It will be the manned F9 version, after all

[Anonymous No.9731765]

Official SpaceX update: launch pushed back, now targeting 4:42 p.m. EDT, 20:42 UTC

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/994632986006978560

[Anonymous No.9731791]

>>9731288
its not substantially different, compared to the immense forces a rocket feels, a couple g's one way or another is nothing

[Anonymous No.9731821]

are we /fairingrecovery/ today? Also can't wait for this thing to fly multiple times and all the anti reusability fags to eat their words. I'm sure they will find something elae though.

[Anonymous No.9731826]

>>9731720
I don't understand what this video is supposed to communicate

[Anonymous No.9731827]

>>9731821
Mr Steven is not on the east coast right now, but GO Pursuit is going to recover the fairing half when it water-lands. It's a 1.0 fairing, so only one half has the recovery hardware onboard.

>>9731826
Ignore him, he posts that in every launch thread. Just a tad autistic

[Anonymous No.9731833]

The Science Channel will be doing a live TV broadcast of the launch!

https://twitter.com/sciencechannel/status/994613806436364288
wish I had a fourth monitor sometimes. Can't handle all of these streams

>>9731827
>>9731821
Speaking of Mr Steven, she has a new net

[Anonymous No.9731867]

>>9731070
>spacex is unfair to the workers
>meanwhile in ULAnd (boeing-lockheed)

[Anonymous No.9731873]

>>9731867
Quite frankly I don't give a shit about employment, if launch costs can be made to BFR claims then they can use fucking slaves for all I care, just get it done.

[Anonymous No.9731876]

https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/994648157576458240

300 flights of B5

[Anonymous No.9731882]

>>9731876
I thought starlink was going up on F9s, how can they deliver thousands of sats+consumer launches with only 300 launches?

[Anonymous No.9731883]

>>9731876
If they get more than 3 out of each booster I'm shooting myself.

[Anonymous No.9731887]

>>9731827
>Just a tad autistic

i think thats putting it lightly. But then again, if he finds some pleasure in posting it and bumping the tread, then by all means

[Anonymous No.9731893]

>>9730956
>How many anons do you know that meticulously post threads like the one in the OP

Is this your first day here newfriend? They are called generals and there are generals A LOT more autistic than these nicely formatted and presented SpaceX ones.

[Anonymous No.9731895]

JUICY NEWS BELOW::::::

>Reflying a single Block 5 within 24hrs "as early as next year," says @elonmusk just now.
>Block 5 exceeds all NASA requirements for crew. And meets all Air Force requirements. "Goal is to be most reliable rocket ever built." - @elonmusk
>Elon thinks they can get even more power out of the engines over what will debut today.
>Stage 2 has the Block 5 engine today, but will operate like a Block 4 engine on this flight.
>Elon talking about how all 9 engines on #Falcon9Block5 are in contained bays. In theory, one engine could have a "bad day" and the other 8 would be completely unaffected.
>Titanium grid fins are now standard and what will be used going forward. Can withstand 2,000 degrees F temps.
>Fairing 2.0 is on this vehicle. It will not be recovered on this flight because the recovery boat is only in California right now.
I was wrong about that! Thought it was 1.0
>SpaceX will start gathering reentry data on Stage 2 over the next few upcoming flights.
>Elon confident that full reusability of the Second Stage is achievable.
>Propellant only cost between $300,000 and $400,000 per launch.
>Musk: Booster is 60 percent of cost, upper stage is 20, fairing is about 10 percent, 10 percent associated with the launch itself
>"We expect no unnecessary action taken between flights - just like an aircraft."
Getting it back, retract legs, go to pad, attach Stage 2, attach payload, go to pad, fuel, launch.


https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF

[Anonymous No.9731897]

>>9731867
>implying elon would let unionised workers anywhere near his firms

[Anonymous No.9731902]

>>9731897
They want the bfr construction to be unionized. The factory already is.

[Anonymous No.9731903]

>>9731882
Must be betting on BFR for launching a crapton of starlink sats then. F9 isn't the best for starlink since it is space limited rather than mass limited

>>9731897
They're allowing union workers for building the BFR factory, but other than that yep

[Anonymous No.9731913]

>>9731895
>Late this year, we should start seeing good reflights of 3rd and 4th times for Block 5 \ By end of next year, we should start seeing Block 5s reaching their 10th reflight.
>Human-rated rockets have to be overdesigned by 40% to meet crew safety requirements


>NEW LAUNCH TIME: 17:47 EDT (2147 GMT). Window closes at 18:22 EDT (22:22 UTC)

[Anonymous No.9731916]

>Musk: Merlin rocket engine thrust increased by 8 percent, to 190,000 lbf.
>Will add thermal protection systems to upper stage; the least amount of mass necessary to return the upper stage in a condition that is reusable. The question is the mass penalty.

[Anonymous No.9731921]

>>9731883
Bfr tm

[Anonymous No.9731925]

>>9731903
After seeing the shameless bullying tactics used by the union at the port lf LA meeting I am glad SpaceX is giving them finger.

>Why won't SpaceX employ our underpaid mexicans to build their interplanetary spaceship waaaaaaah :(

[Anonymous No.9731926]

>>9731883
>"We expect literally no action taken between flights"
>"We expect literally no action taken between flights"
>"We expect literally no action taken between flights"
>"We expect literally no action taken between flights"

https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/994652649252368385

rip anon

[Anonymous No.9731930]

BIG news:
>South Texas launch site will be re-dedicated to BFR
Also:
>About 30-50 Block 5s are planned. Dependent on how many customers demand to launch on a new rocket


Gotta love it when elon does a pre launch conf. So many details

[Anonymous No.9731934]

>>9731926
Big if true

[Anonymous No.9731948]

>Musk: Now charging about $50 million for a flight-proven F9 booster, whereas older versions cost around $60 million.
>Musk says he probably could have pushed the increment between Falcon 9 Block 4 flights to about 10 days, but that wasn't necessary with Block 5 under development.
>Musk noting that China looking at reusable rockets, and says he's glad to see SpaceX is a "forcing function" to drive down launch costs.

[Anonymous No.9731967]

>>9731948
RIP Arianespace

[Anonymous No.9731979]

>>9731826
>>9731827
he's at it again, made his own tread and all.

[Anonymous No.9731983]

>>9731979
nigga you'd better start adding an 'h' in there or I'm gonna slap you

[Anonymous No.9731992]

>>9731948
IT JUST KEEPS GETTING CHEAPER HOLY SHIT IT REALLY IS HABBEBING

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

WE MARS NAO MOTHERFUCKERS

[Anonymous No.9731993]

>>9731983
kek, my apologies

[Anonymous No.9731998]

>>9731967
Why the hell can't we ever do anything right. Come the fuck on.

[Anonymous No.9732005]

>>9731992
You wait till Blue Origin start flying, he'll probably cut the prices to $25 million just to cuck Bezos and because he can. SpaceX are going to be scamming customers hard with Block 5, because it's definite that it's maintenance costs will be way less than $50 million per flight; SpaceX are not going nuts with price cuttings because they want to make as much money as possible for BFR development, while simultaneously undercutting competitors.

[Anonymous No.9732006]

>>9731998
It's quite the reliable rocket at least.
Those fucking frogs better not mess up JWST though.

[Anonymous No.9732009]

>>9732005
no need to decrease launch prices when you're cadence limited. 50 mil gives them a healthy margin, but it shoves all of the future contracts their way at the same time.

[Anonymous No.9732048]

>>9731998
At least Ariane 6 is shaping up to be a pretty decent rocket, I just hope it'll be enough to survive if Block 5 and BO do end up delivering. They really need to start developing reusability though.

For now, we'll have to wallow in LHC and ITER, although the delays on the latter are pretty harsh, too.

[Anonymous No.9732054]

>>9731260

[Anonymous No.9732063]

>>9732048
ITER is dead in the water, now that SPARC has funding they will likely be proving net gain on their commercial prototype while some beauracrats at ITER are still arguing over which country gets to supply the coffe cups in the staff room.

[Anonymous No.9732078]

>>9732063
ARC is incredible, we finally have a cheap non-meme solution for positive Q. MIT is bretty gud ngl

[Anonymous No.9732093]

>>9732078
I wonder if we can get one of these onto the BFR Mars colony. Probably not though, seeing how a 150 Megawatt steam turbine alone weighs 300 tons.

[Anonymous No.9732095]

>>9732005
So you basedbois honestly believe by replacing the grid fins with titanium ones and making the legs removable you can go from barely one reuse to 100, its really incredible.

[Anonymous No.9732097]

>>9732093
that's two full BFR cargo loads. The bigger issue is getting the water to run it. you'd have to have it at the poles somehow.

Solar will be the main mars power source for a while I think. Less restrictions surrounding it, just plop and go

[Anonymous No.9732098]

>>9732095
yes

[Anonymous No.9732101]

>>9732097
There is water literally everywhere on Mars, not just at the poles.

[Anonymous No.9732104]

>>9732101
have to extract it. Which requires energy. So it's a chicken-egg sort of thing

[Anonymous No.9732109]

>>9731930
Can you link us the pre launch conf ?

[Anonymous No.9732117]

>>9732109
it was a voicecall for press members. Not public

these are all of the details. Didn't forgo anything to my knowledge:
>>9731948
>>9731930
>>9731926
>>9731916
>>9731913
>>9731895

[Anonymous No.9732118]

>>9732109
I don't think the conference is public, but the details are on twitter and reddit

[Anonymous No.9732123]

this thread needs more memes

[Anonymous No.9732142]

Those numbers from the conference are quite telling.They don't think a Block 5 will be able to do more than 10 reuses at the very best case, and they don't think the BFR will be ready for service before ~2028.

[Anonymous No.9732147]

>>9732142
where did that 2028 number come from? They're starting short hop tests next year.

[Anonymous No.9732152]

>>9732142
>this is what bezodrones actually believe

[Anonymous No.9732153]

>>9732123
>not "Mmmm Falgons" to mirror the original "Mmmm Grayons"
S m h

[Anonymous No.9732157]

>>9732153
Some people just suck at memes.

[Anonymous No.9732159]

>>9732157
my bad

[Anonymous No.9732160]

>>9732147
If they think 300 Block 5 flights will happen, at 40 flights per year, starting at 2021 (launches up until that point are already contracted and are almost all set on new rockets, so no reused block 5), they will fly it for at least 7 years.

[Anonymous No.9732167]

>>9732160
>>launches up until that point are already contracted and are almost all set on new rockets
wait what ?

[Anonymous No.9732168]

>>9732160
why are you assuming that BFR cannot fly when F9 is flying?

[Anonymous No.9732169]

>>9732160
and why do you think BFR will only start to work after block 5 retires?

[Anonymous No.9732172]

>>9732167
You can decide if you want to launch on a re-used rocket or not, and most customers prefer new rockets.

[Anonymous No.9732177]

>>9732142
The actual reason the number of cores is so high is because of NASA, who currently require that every crewed Dragon 2 mission and CRS-2 mission has to fly on a completely new core. This means that SpaceX needs to build a new Block 5 core for most, if not all NASA missions. Luckily the NASA missions are not frequent, and hopefully NASA becomes more open to reusabillity in the future so they don't have to build so many boosters.

[Anonymous No.9732179]

>>9732168
>>9732169

Because the BFR is supposed to be much cheaper, than the F9, so it will fly everything once its ready.

[Anonymous No.9732181]

>>9732167
he made that part up. The future manifest information does not contain details regarding if they will be using new or used boosters.
The whole market has accepted used boosters anyways.

>>9732172
That's false. Customers want to fly sooner and for cheaper. Used boosters do that.

>>9732177
NASA has already flown a used F9 and used dragons. I think they're past that point

[Anonymous No.9732182]

>>9732179
...

[Anonymous No.9732184]

>>9732182
Elon himself said everything will be done with BFRs.

[Anonymous No.9732187]

>>9732181
As they currently are, reused boosters aren't much cheaper than new ones, the launch price varies by 5-10 million, so most customers prefer the new one.

[Anonymous No.9732193]

>>9732187
Again, you're making that up. flying used shoves you up the manifest, typically. That means your revenue producing bird gets up quicker.

All of SpaceX's major clients are using used boosters, because it's all benefits for them.

[Anonymous No.9732194]

>>9732187
Some customers are still stuck on the old "brand new rocket" meme. They would rather have a virgin new rocket instead of a chad flight-proven rocket.

[Anonymous No.9732203]

>>9732194
it'll be interesting to see how wide the falcon 9 bathtub is. If I were a betting man I'd say 30 launches before retirement

[Anonymous No.9732205]

>>9732193
From 22 flights on the F5 Block 4 in 2018, 8 are on reused boosters.

[Anonymous No.9732208]

>>9732181
>NASA has already flown a used F9 and used dragons. I think they're past that point

I was under that impression to until I read the contracts. Maybe it's because Dragon 2 is unproven? It took 13 Dragon flights for NASA to allow SpaceX to use a flight-proven capsule and booster for a CRS mission...

[Anonymous No.9732210]

>>9732208
NASA is intentionally holding SpaceX back cause once they have the BFR ready, the ridiculous failure of the SLS program can no longer be ignored.

[Anonymous No.9732214]

>>9732208
however, SpaceX didn't even offer used boosters until post-CRS 10

[Anonymous No.9732215]

>>9732205
No shit that's because they only use block 4 twice.

[Anonymous No.9732218]

>>9732210
Blame congress, they keep authorizing the money for SLS. It's mostly big contractors building SLS anyways.

[Anonymous No.9732220]

>>9732208
More like because Block 5 will need to be human-rated, I think having them prove reusability again is pretty fair game in that case. Wouldn't want to rush anything.

[Anonymous No.9732223]

[Anonymous No.9732234]

>>9732223
>Iteration 6
Damnit Elon

[Anonymous No.9732236]

>>9732234
aka V7

the chad agile vs the virgin waterfall

[Anonymous No.9732238]

5 minutes to stream start.

[Anonymous No.9732241]

stream up

[Anonymous No.9732242]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJWeK-kVB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJWeK-kVB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJWeK-kVB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJWeK-kVB0

S T R E A M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJWeK-kVB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJWeK-kVB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJWeK-kVB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJWeK-kVB0

[Anonymous No.9732243]

[Anonymous No.9732244]

>>9732243
pure cringe

[Anonymous No.9732246]

>>9732243
Heh

[Anonymous No.9732251]

>>9731876
>not Block 5 v7

[Anonymous No.9732259]

it's time boys

[Anonymous No.9732261]

gib cute black engineer gf

[Anonymous No.9732264]

>>9732095
and
>uprating the Merlins
>optimizing the thermal protection systems

[Anonymous No.9732265]

>>9732264
plus about a hundred smaller changes

[Anonymous No.9732267]

It will land on the droneship in rain?

[Anonymous No.9732269]

>>9732267
yep

[Anonymous No.9732271]

ANTI-VORTEX

[Anonymous No.9732272]

Bezos fags on suicide watch

[Anonymous No.9732273]

>>9732272
Needs a "cucks Grimes fanboys"

[Anonymous No.9732274]

>>9732272
should add to it "causes a collective suicide on /mu/ by stealing Grimes"

[Anonymous No.9732276]

>>9732272
Didn't Musk's worth drop to 12 billion or so because of Tesla's recent drop?

[Anonymous No.9732278]

>>9732273
>>9732274
you shills need to coordinate better, its getting too obvious.

[Anonymous No.9732279]

T-6 MINUTES

[Anonymous No.9732280]

>>9732274
Do you think they'r gonna make babies?

[Anonymous No.9732281]

>>9732276
Who gives a shit about Tesla. SpaceX is literally the only thing that matters.

[Anonymous No.9732283]

>>9732276
Because Elon is so chad he didn't give a fuck about Wall Street finance guys. Instead, he spent half of the stream talking to some Youtuber.

[Anonymous No.9732284]

>>9732276
Tesla is only down ~5% over the year, the media is way overblowing it as usual

[Anonymous No.9732285]

> Mr. Elon I don't feel so good

[Anonymous No.9732286]

>>9732272

[Anonymous No.9732288]

>>9732284
>A drop from 40 to 30 billion in market cap is an overblow

This is how a bankruptcy starts.

[Anonymous No.9732289]

>>9732286
Pls no reddit falseflagging in this thread.
>>9732278
What can I tell you, great minds think alike.

[Anonymous No.9732290]

ONE MINUTE TO LIFTOFF

GO GO GO

[Anonymous No.9732293]

into the trash it goes

[Anonymous No.9732294]

NOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.9732295]

ABORT ABORT

[Anonymous No.9732296]

>HOLD
damnit

[Anonymous No.9732297]

pls explode

[Anonymous No.9732298]

>>9732290
kek

[Anonymous No.9732299]

cucked

[Anonymous No.9732300]

[Anonymous No.9732302]

>launch abort sequence start
rip

[Anonymous No.9732303]

[Anonymous No.9732304]

SELL SELL SELL

[Anonymous No.9732305]

>>9732290
lelnop

[Anonymous No.9732306]

BOOM

[Anonymous No.9732307]

HOLD

[Anonymous No.9732308]

Why did it stop wtf

[Anonymous No.9732309]

> THE GOYIM KNOW

[Anonymous No.9732310]

ABORT ABORT ABORT

[Anonymous No.9732311]

NO FUCKING ABORT GOD DAMNIT REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.9732314]

SCRUB

[Anonymous No.9732313]

>>9732308
its prepping for explosion

[Anonymous No.9732315]

Aww shucks

[Anonymous No.9732316]

fug

[Anonymous No.9732317]

>Mission failed. We'll get em next time.

[Anonymous No.9732318]

JUST

[Anonymous No.9732319]

>HODL

[Anonymous No.9732320]

>>9732300
all too appropriate today

[Anonymous No.9732321]

"Threw up abort" because not enough hype thrust.

[Anonymous No.9732322]

[Anonymous No.9732324]

>astronomer friend sends me spaceex link
>"don't know if you're interested"
>watch for like 7 seconds
>"aborted"
welp

[Anonymous No.9732325]

It's not happening today is it

[Anonymous No.9732326]

I stayed up for this shit, fuck you Elon.

[Anonymous No.9732327]

>Abort

[Anonymous No.9732328]

It's not an instant window, so there's still a small chance it could resume.

[Anonymous No.9732329]

Pls be a bird that landed on the rocket or smth

[Anonymous No.9732330]

>fully loaded with fuel and out of control
So, it's a bomb?

[Anonymous No.9732332]

>>9732324
It's all your fault, fuck you.

[Anonymous No.9732333]

[Anonymous No.9732334]

MOTHERFUCKER.

[Anonymous No.9732335]

>>9732325
Most likely no.

[Anonymous No.9732336]

35 min in the window remaining

[Anonymous No.9732339]

Titanium grid fins are now standard and what will be used going forward

F

[Anonymous No.9732340]

[Anonymous No.9732341]

>>9732319
i can only imagine how he laughed his ass off when musk stopped twitting but then spammed stupid shit when someone questioned the Tesla stock

[Anonymous No.9732344]

>>9732333

[Anonymous No.9732345]

instead of a lame yellow box the whole screen should flash red and go WHOOP WHOOP ABORT ABORT ABORT WHOOP WHOOP

[Anonymous No.9732346]

why couldn't my mom have aborted me instead???

[Anonymous No.9732348]

>>9732339
Do they have coltan in them for heat resistance?

http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Coltan

[Anonymous No.9732351]

I hate you /sci/, I FUCKING HATE YOU.

[Anonymous No.9732352]

It's 1am and I gotta wake up early well fuck you elon and fuck your falcon i waited for nothing

[Anonymous No.9732353]

Up to 300 flights for the Block 5 seems really surprising, would imply another decade of Falcon 9 use, but probably was just another number they pulled out of their ass and doesn't mean anything.

[Anonymous No.9732354]

>>9732351
would you rather have aborts or kabooms?

[Anonymous No.9732355]

>>9732341

[Anonymous No.9732357]

>>9732351
we want our sex robots, Elon

[Anonymous No.9732358]

The jig is up. Exit scam confirmed.

[Anonymous No.9732360]

vehicle safed, reviewing data

[Anonymous No.9732361]

[Anonymous No.9732363]

>>9732355
and dubz. beautiful

[Anonymous No.9732364]

FUCK that purge sound scared me

[Anonymous No.9732366]

>>9732353
lets focus on 10 and then we will talk

[Anonymous No.9732367]

Launch window closes in 28 minutes so still some chance of launch

[Anonymous No.9732368]

get your ass into space

[Anonymous No.9732370]

>loud gas escaping sound
>evil laughter in background

[Anonymous No.9732371]

>>9732368
NO YOU !

[Anonymous No.9732372]

Assuming this one lands it is going to be ripped apart, right? To see if anything is wrong.

[Anonymous No.9732373]

anything on the countdown net?

[Anonymous No.9732374]

>>9732370
they do the livestream across the hall from the cafeteria

[Anonymous No.9732377]

>>9732373
They said they had an abort code and it takes a while to find out why.

[Anonymous No.9732380]

This is like not being able to be hard right when you try and stick it in

[Anonymous No.9732381]

Only 20 minutes left in launch window. Come back tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.9732383]

>>9732373
they've got to post the problem on stackoverflow and wait for an answer

[Anonymous No.9732384]

>>9732372
mhm

[Anonymous No.9732385]

>>9732368
NASA's better

[Anonymous No.9732387]

>>9732383
>what's wrong with my rocket [urgent]

[Anonymous No.9732389]

>>9732385
NASA had more aborts than anyone.

[Anonymous No.9732391]

>>9732372
most of the hard data is from sensors so if the can leave the engines and pumps alone you can do 24 hour launch

[Anonymous No.9732394]

>>9732389
early spacex had a huuuge number of holds/scrubs. Back when they launched 3 times a year

[Anonymous No.9732397]

chilly boi

[Anonymous No.9732398]

>>9732391
NASA specifically made them redesign these pumps because of microfractures on the old ones. Meaning this rocket has to be ripped apart to see if these don't have the same problem.

[Anonymous No.9732399]

>>9732385

[Anonymous No.9732402]

What's it doing now?

[Anonymous No.9732404]

>>9732385
>>9732368
Hold on a second, are those from /mlp/?

[Anonymous No.9732406]

>>9732402
it's superchilled LOX. gotta keep topping it off

[Anonymous No.9732407]

>>9732402
Preparing to enter FTL with an artificial gravity field.

[Anonymous No.9732408]

>>9732407
no way

[Anonymous No.9732409]

yep, that's a wrap for today. See you all tomorrow!

[Anonymous No.9732411]

For those unaware: The venting means they are putting the propellant out of the tanks. Also, the windows closes at 22 past the hour, so if the countdown doesn't start in 2 minutes, we can go to sleep.

[Anonymous No.9732412]

>>9732408
way

[Anonymous No.9732418]

>>9732412
damn

[Anonymous No.9732420]

>>9732372
They seem to have indicated this, yes.

[Anonymous No.9732422]

>>9732332
I'm sorry

[Anonymous No.9732424]

SCRUBBED

[Anonymous No.9732425]

scrub a dub dubbed

[Anonymous No.9732426]

SCRUBBED

SCRUBBED

SCRUBBED

[Anonymous No.9732427]

so the dude just said it got delayed. sad.

[Anonymous No.9732428]

INTO
THE
TRASH
IT
GOES

[Anonymous No.9732429]

>>9732272
*record scratch*

[Anonymous No.9732431]

FUCK

[Anonymous No.9732432]

4 hours of sleep are still good i guess.

[Anonymous No.9732433]

no spess today

[Anonymous No.9732434]

scrub

[Anonymous No.9732435]

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.9732436]

>>9732428
THIS IS AMERICA

[Anonymous No.9732438]

We will not be going to space today.

[Anonymous No.9732439]

Once again, Elon fails to deliever. Business as usual.

[Anonymous No.9732441]

SHUT. IT. DOWN.

[Anonymous No.9732442]

>>9732438
okay, redbird 9346

[Anonymous No.9732446]

Fucking newfags I swear.

[Anonymous No.9732467]

His smile and optimism, gone.

[Anonymous No.9732479]

>>9732467

[Anonymous No.9732480]

well, at least by tomorrow morning this thread will be saging.

I'll make sure to post a new one with the updated launch date and such. Thanks for tuning in ya'll, today's thread was surprisingly civil

spess is neat

[Anonymous No.9732484]

[Anonymous No.9732488]

[Anonymous No.9732490]

can somebody give me a quick rundown on this Elon guy?

[Anonymous No.9732496]

Update from spacex

[Anonymous No.9732500]

>>9732490
Sold Paypall, some expensive cars, and flamethrowers to buy Mars. A real human bean.

[Anonymous No.9732501]

>>9732496
>standard abort

[Anonymous No.9732506]

>>9732501
probably meaning that the fix is easy and they know what to do, like swapping out hardware or something

[Anonymous No.9732508]

>>9732496
Wow that's fucking sketchy, why don't they tell us the problem?

[Anonymous No.9732511]

>>9732508
It was the pad computers apparently....

[Anonymous No.9732513]

>>9732496
>ground system abort
So it wasn't the internal computer that called the abort.

[Anonymous No.9732516]

>>9732513
data from the GSE triggered it

[Anonymous No.9732517]

>>9732513

[Anonymous No.9732522]

>>9732517

[Anonymous No.9732528]

>>9732517
Hey Jeff, did you cut the cables or something?
>>9732513
Interestingly this is the exact same issue that caused SpaceX's only other launch abort: Intelsat 35e, it happened on the same pad as well...

[Anonymous No.9732533]

>>9732528
they've had other aborts than those two, but the Intelsat one was the most recent.

[Anonymous No.9732534]

>>9732528
Eh, the second abort, at least, was 10 seconds to go so that would have been the internal computer.

[Anonymous No.9732544]

>>9732534
there is literally zero human input after t-60. Human's can't stop the launch after that point, or even activate the FTS

[Anonymous No.9732552]

>>9732496
>uhh we are sorry but Elon took a shit and didn't want to miss it

[Anonymous No.9732621]

>>9732544
Can ground computers cause abort after T-60?
Anyway, internal computers are what's monitoring the Falcon's sensors to call an abort, so if the abort came from the ground system then it would have been something outside the Falcon.

[Anonymous No.9732626]

>>9732621
yeah, the GSE computers + F9 together can call aborts after t-60

[Anonymous No.9732770]

weather is 70% go for tomorrow

[Anonymous No.9732781]

anybody else ever lived und the retur pat of the shuttle?
That fella was loud as hell!
Say goodbye to your kitty for 20 minutes!

[Anonymous No.9732786]

>>9732781
F9 sets off car alarms and such when it does a RTLS

https://twitter.com/gpallone13/status/950173715630907392

[Anonymous No.9732874]

>>9730112
This launch is cursed, what are the smelly Indians planning with this launch anyway?

[Anonymous No.9733113]

>>9732874
TV and stuff

[Anonymous No.9734104]

New thread is up
>>9734009
>>9734009
>>9734009

[Anonymous No.9734203]

[Anonymous No.9734207]

[Anonymous No.9734214]

[Anonymous No.9734227]

spacexmasterrace get out reeeeee

[Anonymous No.9734410]

>>9732272
Didn't he cry like a little bitch because AIs are redpill-tier based?

[Anonymous No.9734416]

>>9732368
>>9732385
I want to fuck that rocket.