Thanks, interesting! I also noticed that a few times when the fairing was shown, on the far left side of the video there was something wrapped in white sheeting that is shaped roughly like a Dragon capsule. Could it be? Here are two screen shots:
-
Want to remove ads? Register an account and login to see fewer ads, and become a Supporting Member to remove almost all ads.
SpaceX knows for sure. And that video appears to show it in position and attached to the stage.
Elon does not immediately tweet about everything that we enthusiasts want to know. He’s pretty busy.
Nikxice
Active Member
Yes, thanks for pointing that out. My first thought was that there was a fairing catch attempt, but then realized Mr. Steven is probably still on the West Coast.
ecarfan - That is the Dragon testing capsule they drop from helicopters. In the water they test recovering astronauts etc...
Peter Thomas - I seriously doubt it. While the size of OCISLY is wide enough to fit a landed BFR booster, barely, the weight of that booster has to be too much for it to handle. SpaceX will need something much larger. Besides, SpaceX has no intention of moving these boosters around. They will land back on their launching cradle and be refueled there for more launches.
Nikxice - Pictures show the octograbber/roomba was used successfully. The fairing was recovered from a water landing most likely. Mr Steven is on the West Coast with no plans I've heard of that it will be moved to the East Coast. If the Mr. Steven plan ends up working then SpaceX will probably modify one of the East Coast ships to do the same thing.
Peter Thomas - I seriously doubt it. While the size of OCISLY is wide enough to fit a landed BFR booster, barely, the weight of that booster has to be too much for it to handle. SpaceX will need something much larger. Besides, SpaceX has no intention of moving these boosters around. They will land back on their launching cradle and be refueled there for more launches.
Nikxice - Pictures show the octograbber/roomba was used successfully. The fairing was recovered from a water landing most likely. Mr Steven is on the West Coast with no plans I've heard of that it will be moved to the East Coast. If the Mr. Steven plan ends up working then SpaceX will probably modify one of the East Coast ships to do the same thing.
The F9 diameter is 3.7m, plus landing legs sticking out beyond that figure. The BFR is 9m plus legs. While the ASDS are something like 30m along the short axis and likely a BFR could land on them, that isn’t the plan based on what Elon has shown to date. The launch/landing platforms shown in the 2017 IAC presentation appear to be much larger.
One of the results of lofting TESS into space. The first image to come from the satellite:
TESS takes initial test image
TESS takes initial test image
Last edited:
e-FTW
New electron smell
I'd bet the Iridiums and their deployment device come closest. Granted that is a lot more than one satellite though.
That depends on how you define "fill". All of the big GEOcomms are built to physically "fill" the standard[ish] 5m fairing form factor. Of course its the square peg in the round hole problem, but there's typically barely inches of clearance at the tight points, and sometimes even waivers for intrusions into the dynamic stay-out zone. Of course, the really big ones also "fill" the mass capacity as well.
For all of the constellations, its basically a version of stacking rings with radially mounted spacecraft. Iridium and Globastar probably are the most prevalent public domain images if you search Google (like what @Grendal posted); the new, bigger constellations are really just comical scaling of those concepts.
Here's a conceptual A6 with oneweb:
And in the same vein, here's a mid-sequenced image of the upcoming Spaceflight mission:
Updates on the success of TESS:
www.nasaspaceflight.com
Three years on, TESS delivers on discoveries as extended mission continues - NASASpaceFlight.com
Three years ago, on April 18, 2018, NASA’s and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Transiting…
www.nasaspaceflight.com
Similar threads
