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Reusing Boosters: Launch, Land, and Re-Launch

Discussion in 'SpaceX' started by Grendal, May 16, 2016.

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  1. Cosmacelf

    Cosmacelf Well-Known Member

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    Were they really trying to land it? I mean intact? I saw zero evidence of a landing attempt. Looks to me like just a random spent booster since China launches rockets with the expectation for a land crash. And if a village is nearby, oh well.
     
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    It seemed to oscillate around a vertical position while falling.
    Couldn't see any rocket firing or air control surfaces to support that, though.
    I would expect if it was just falling it would tumble ?
    Also- is that an OLD video? I seem to remember a previous video that was touted to show that Chinese boosters just fell from the sky randomly, near villages or otherwise, but don't remember if it was the same one?
     
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    Grendal SpaceX Moderator

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    The twitterer says it was from a launch that happened the previous day. China has been working on reusability because of SpaceX. I got it from a SpaceX Facebook post where people were commenting on it and no one was refuting the launch and attempt at recovery.
     
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    here's one from 2018 !
     
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    Very unlikely it was a recovery attempt. CZ-4B is pretty old and it’s hard to imagine they’d try to convert a decades old booster into something reusable.

    Since we’re posting Chinese launch videos, here’s the granddaddy: There’s so much to unpack with that one that it’s hard to know where to start. Ask me about it at the bar sometime. :p (I wasn’t there)
     
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  8. e-FTW

    e-FTW New electron smell

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    I think a lot of headlines confused the Long March 2F secret-re-usable-space-plane-that-landed-two-days-later and Long March 4B crash-land-near-a-school-definitely-not-a-landing-attempt launches.

    Long March 2F and X-37B clone:
    China carries out secretive launch of 'reusable experimental spacecraft' - SpaceNews

    Long March 4B first stage crashes, as planned even though the video is reminiscent of views of Falcon 9 boosters coming in for RTLS:
    Another Chinese rocket falls near a school, creating toxic orange cloud
     
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  9. Grendal

    Grendal SpaceX Moderator

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    [​IMG]
     
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    This kinda-sorta fits here:
     
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    Nice to see. Pretty sad that the NROL ULA launch is still grounded and has been since August. At what point does the lightbulb go on and they realize that they should use SpaceX for everything. I guess another couple of years. Actually now that I think about it, that was the point of the recent contact SpaceX got wasn't it? To build vertical integration capability so that they could take these military launches.
     
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    If you are referring to NROL-101, it successfully launched last week (November 13).
     
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    NROL-44
     
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    Ah, thanks! I obviously was not paying close enough attention to the full names.
     
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    How many launches were done with new boosters this year?

    Will there be a time where they don't need to manufacture any new boosters at all.
     
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    At all? I doubt it.
     
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    Only as they get close to sun setting the falcon 9 program and it’s clear the fleet will be able to make it to retirement.
     
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    The same number of newly manufactured Falcon 9 and Atlas V boosters flew this year: 5, but SpaceX was able to achieve nearly 6x as many total flights through reuse of old boosters.
     
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