Nikxice
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How come I see Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse? Guess must old!
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How come I see Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse? Guess must old!
It's being claimed as such, but it looks far too small to provide that. I'd be inclined to think that it's another building for the school. Here's a tweet of it under construction back on September 7 (and here's the 4K image). Amazingly, it is a 3D printed structure. I guess Elon wants to get some experience with such structures in anticipation of his Mars visit.apparently SpaceX has built something new at that location, but is the round building really a “Mission Control”?
My personal speculation is that perhaps the suborbital launch area is going to be converted into a second Stage Zero.
My completely uneducated eyes say “yes”.Could the suborbital GSE area hold as much infrastructure as the current orbital area?
Thanks for that reminder. SpaceX has a lot of land to expand onto. But that land is not stable and would require a massive amount of fill and then years of settling before building on it. That’s what SpaceX did with the currently developed launch areathis is supposed to be a map of the area of land that SpaceX owns. Purple is the developed area.
Yes, I can see why that second launch tower was planned to be in that location. But now I suspect (my guess!) Elon wants to start second tower construction ASAP and that long ago planned location would requires years of preparation before any construction would start. Is he willing to wait that long?And this was how they wanted to develop it. Note the two big landing pads. But also note the second launch tower in the bottom right, placed on the currently-undeveloped land.
Certainly a possible risk.If anything goes wrong, you could compromise access to your launch site. The suborbital site is by the road, underground cables, etc
True, but that risk exists only for what, the first 20 seconds of the mission? If all goes well we could see 10+ Starship flights in the next year and a half and if none of them fail in the first 20 seconds then one might conclude that risk is very low. But certainly not zero.You're launching over your entire launch site. If anything goes wrong, you could take out the entire site. With launches from the extreme east end, you're departing the launch site as soon as possible.
The wall doesn't cover the side away from the road, so the only thing I can think of is that the county wants them to avoid putting debris on the road. Or they want to avoid putting debris on the road. They put the cargo container wall up pretty early on, and only along the road. The only other purpose that I can think of is that it discourages casual camera coverage. I guess it works as a wind break as well, cutting down the sand and crap that blows across SpaceX's hardware. We'll have to see if dunes pile up anywhere around the walls.So I return to my initial question; why is SpaceX investing significant resources into building that massive wall partway around the suborbital tank farm?
I'd buy that. But no period.It will spell "Gateway To Mars."
You may be correct.So the purpose of the wall is to hold the sign?
I just checked the livestream. They're up to "GA WAY TO MARS".It will spell "Gateway To Mars."
It would have been hilarious if they had swapped those letters.Typo? They're selling Martian vacation timeshares? "GETAWAY TO MARS"