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  • #242
    tipp_tipp_tipp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭tipp_tipp_tipp


    That was worth the wait :)


  • #243
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,865 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Holy fook!


  • #244
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Bye bye rocket :(


  • #245
    Nate--IRL--
    Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--


    So close!

    Nate


  • #246
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users Posts: 30,021 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    That was great to see... A bit of everything :)


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  • #247
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭MayoForSam


    Almost, add another Raptor and they would have nailed the landing. It was tres cool to see it travelling horizontally then flip upright again before the landing.

    On to SN9, lots of data to review no doubt.


  • #248
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,064 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Looked like one of the raptors failed to burn correctly just at the end. Still awesome though. Onwards and upwards.

    .


  • #249
    tipp_tipp_tipp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭tipp_tipp_tipp


    Don't they had much hopes for this one so to be close is a great result. Flip at the end was very impressive.

    The engines seemed to gimbal like crazy on the ascent as they shut down an engine. Was that expected? I wondered if they'd prematurely lost an engine.


  • #250
    Timmaay
    Registered Users Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Holy **** that was totally worth the month or so delay and like 3days of watching YouTube scrubs!!


  • #251
    afatbollix
    Registered Users Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    Loved the 'Awesome test congrats guys' at the end.


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  • #252
    firemansam4
    Registered Users Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭firemansam4


    Working tonight so missed it ☹ï¸â˜¹ï¸
    Hopefully get the chance to see what happened in next couple of hours.

    Sounds like things didn't go too bad with it anyway...


  • #253
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭MayoForSam


    firemansam4 wrote: »
    Working tonight so missed it ☹ï¸â˜¹ï¸
    Hopefully get the chance to see what happened in next couple of hours.

    Sounds like things didn't go too bad with it anyway...

    Scott Manley has a very good summary here about the flight:

    https://youtu.be/egHxiX40eJY


  • #254
    jogdish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭jogdish


    SN9 has tipped over! might not have a second hop this calendar year.


  • #255
    FFVII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9043767/SpaceXs-latest-Starship-prototype-COLLAPSES-launch-pad.html


  • #256
    Timmaay
    Registered Users Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    The madness continues.


  • #257
    jogdish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭jogdish


    At the start of 2020 I was very cynical of Space X, after watching and getting very hyped for the hops I am very into the whole thing now, albeit still not an Elon fan. But I have heard:

    Starship point to point earth transport,
    Starship to Mars
    Same day reusability
    This grabber arm tweet.

    It's hard to know if Elon actually beleives this, tweets it for headlines or tweets it cause it crossed his mind. Personally I think people on a starship is a goal well into the future and the speed of current progress on Starship is litle indicator once you are attempting to make a human safe vehical which is a completely other task

    I see starship being a hauler to orbit in the near future and it will be a game changer in that respect which is a massive thing. The mars stuff, I still think is just Elon thinking out loud.


  • #258
    Timmaay
    Registered Users Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/spacex-tom-cruise?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3zXDKKPFsjjw_NYvCtLB1pGjxOAAlYaoPTftO76j_eekyPwD9ems3ZcGg

    All purely a publicity stunt, but I'm all up for space tourism if it helps commercialise space travel and therefore help bring in more money for space r&d.


  • #259
    tipp_tipp_tipp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭tipp_tipp_tipp


    jogdish wrote: »
    I see starship being a hauler to orbit in the near future and it will be a game changer in that respect which is a massive thing. The mars stuff, I still think is just Elon thinking out loud.

    I think you make a good point here. In the early days of Falcon 9 I was always under the impressive Elon's talk of Mars was purely to drum up interest/investment in the company. When they went full steam ahead into starship development I found myself second guessing this. However looking at the numbers though, as you say starship promises to be a very cost effective way of getting stuff into Earth orbit, with no intention of going anywhere near Mars. I feel like Elon has been clever and covered all bases. Starship is being built with the intention of getting at least something to Mars, but if that fails it will not be a white elephant, and they will have the hauler that you describe.


  • #260
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,681 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    tipp_tipp_tipp wrote: »
    I think you make a good point here. In the early days of Falcon 9 I was always under the impressive Elon's talk of Mars was purely to drum up interest/investment in the company.

    You may have heard of 2001 :A Space Odyssey

    Anyway in the second book 2010: Odyssey Two the Chinese space station Tsien takes everyone by surprise by firing up and leaving Earth orbit.

    Maybe they'll do the opposite and setup a micro-nation in Low Earth Orbit :pac:


  • #261
    jogdish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭jogdish


    Ya, it's a great albeit risky business and he some how gets Apple like adoration. SpaceX are now in bed with Nasa for missions to the ISS, Boeing still testing starliner.
    Then all of a sudden they are in the last three, and probably the last two for the lander part of NASA's moon mission. Two nice goverment contracts.

    Add in the re use of falcon and the global wifi thing, they seem to be going well. Mars is great and I hope we get there sooner rather than later.


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  • #262
    tipp_tipp_tipp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭tipp_tipp_tipp


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Maybe they'll do the opposite and setup a micro-nation in Low Earth Orbit :pac:

    That'd be gas. :D A bit like that self proclaimed country in the north sea on the old WW2 structures. Can't think of the name of it off the top of my head.

    Does raise some interesting questions about if he sets up a colony on Mars. Does that mean is he own Mars and can define Martian law? :)


  • #263
    Timmaay
    Registered Users Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    tipp_tipp_tipp wrote: »
    That'd be gas. :D A bit like that self proclaimed country in the north sea on the old WW2 structures. Can't think of the name of it off the top of my head.

    Does raise some interesting questions about if he sets up a colony on Mars. Does that mean is he own Mars and can define Martian law? :)

    Cannabis and DMT would definitely be fully legalized on Mars if it was up to Musk anyways ha.


  • #264
    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    tipp_tipp_tipp wrote: »
    That'd be gas. :D A bit like that self proclaimed country in the north sea on the old WW2 structures. Can't think of the name of it off the top of my head.

    Does raise some interesting questions about if he sets up a colony on Mars. Does that mean is he own Mars and can define Martian law? :)

    Wasn't it just called Freeland?

    I was going to make a joke about Trump trying to invoke Martian law, But actually: possibly? At the end of the day, the guy in charge of the company which supplies all your daily life support requirements is going to have a fair say in who's allowed do what (cf: Total Recall).

    By the time it gets dragged through the courts 87 million miles away it's unlikely to help you. Actually, Elon Cohaagen sounds like a good South African name.


  • #265
    donspeekinglesh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭donspeekinglesh


    MOH wrote: »
    Wasn't it just called Freeland?

    I was going to make a joke about Trump trying to invoke Martian law, But actually: possibly? At the end of the day, the guy in charge of the company which supplies all your daily life support requirements is going to have a fair say in who's allowed do what (cf: Total Recall).

    By the time it gets dragged through the courts 87 million miles away it's unlikely to help you. Actually, Elon Cohaagen sounds like a good South African name.

    Sealand


  • #266
    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    donspeekinglesh wrote: »
    Sealand

    Doh! I was so close. And yet that's far more obvious. Thanks, it was bugging me


  • #267
    jogdish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭jogdish


    Another static fire of SN9 it seems tonight after yesterdays shorter than usual static fire. The flight notice for Friday still remains - but there is always some delay it seems (which is to be expected given what they are doing)

    After seeing SN8 I really would not be surprised to see SN9 do a perfect test.


  • #268
    jogdish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭jogdish


    So the three static fires, two engines being replaced and another round of static fires to come for SN9 - Hopefully they can launch and stick the landing.


  • #269
    jogdish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭jogdish


    Just (tried) to watch the Tim Dodd Everyday astronaut drive thru of Boca, cool idea wish his data held up, pretty much unwatchable. It's amazing how much of a cobbled together operation it looks from the outside.


  • #270
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    jogdish wrote:
    Just (tried) to watch the Tim Dodd Everyday astronaut drive thru of Boca, cool idea wish his data held up, pretty much unwatchable. It's amazing how much of a cobbled together operation it looks from the outside.


    NASAspaceflight do a drive round the site most weeks


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  • #271
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,681 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Lets hope the next test doesn't have a green flame. Could mean boron or copper in the exhaust. And it isn't boron.

    Copper is generally used for it's good thermal conductivity not as a propellant.


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