Liberty Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 This is cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doughishere Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 This is cool: Another Angle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardboard Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Has anyone been to a launch in Florida? Is this worth it? Thinking to combine along with a visit of the Kennedy Space Center on Jan 4. Merry Christmas fellows! Cardboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamecock-YT Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Has anyone been to a launch in Florida? Is this worth it? Thinking to combine along with a visit of the Kennedy Space Center on Jan 4. Merry Christmas fellows! Cardboard Been to plenty of space shuttle launches (including the last one), if it's anything like that, it's spectacular...night launch even more so. Regardless, don't think you'll regret going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardboard Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 I'd like to thank Elon Musk for looking out for us all. "Sorry NSA, I don't know what happened to your secret spy satellite" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/08/highly-classified-us-spy-satellite-appears-to-be-a-total-loss-after-spacex-launch.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookie71 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 article about a Space X engineer https://www.adn.com/opinions/2018/01/07/how-rural-alaska-tinkering-prepared-a-spacex-engineer-to-launch-rockets/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Falcon Heavy static fire: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hjorth Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgis Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Great Falcon Heavy launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 view from a Tesla roadster in space https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/elon-musk-starman-space-adventure/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelagic Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 What's most impressive IMO is just how cheap sending a payload to LEO using a Falcon Heavy is compared to the alternatives. Falcon Heavy can launch 70 tons for roughly 100 million putting the price around $700 per pound. For comparison the next cheapest option, Falcon 9, runs around $1600/lb with costs going up from there. Something to be said for economies of scale, although there's a lot more incentive to make sure everything works right when you have that large, and expensive, a payload aboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpRaider Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 They had a live video feed from the roadster for a while...It was amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/three-years-of-sls-development-could-buy-86-falcon-heavy-launches/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 10th launch so far this year already: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorontoRaptorsFan Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 Musk needs to hire a CEO for Tesla. He's done it with SpaceX and look how well Gywnne Shotwell has done. Musk needs to be the visionary to push the envelope further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamic Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4624 Skeptoid's latest (Read or Listen from the link above) explains that the fate of Zuma, launched by SpaceX and allegedly lost due to a failure to separate from Northrup Grumman's payload adaptor's unusually gentle release mechanism, is genuinely an open question as it might well be, like MISTY in the 1990s, a stealth satellite. It's rather unusual for Skeptoid not to be able to simply debunk a conspiracy theory or pseudoscientific myth with solid facts by the end of the episode, but this is one where secrecy and potential cover stories remain a real possibility, though perhaps mission failure is a fraction more likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 30 minute interview with Jeff Bezos about space exploration and blue origin: https://overcast.fm/+HGVU3-Hjc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Feature about Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/she-launches-spaceships-sells-rockets-and-deals-with-elon-musk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Interesting piece about full-flow staged combustion rocket engines: https://hackaday.com/2019/02/13/the-impossible-tech-behind-spacexs-new-engine/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spekulatius Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Feature about Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/she-launches-spaceships-sells-rockets-and-deals-with-elon-musk You know the photo is staged when she wears high heels on the factory floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Feature about Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/she-launches-spaceships-sells-rockets-and-deals-with-elon-musk You know the photo is staged when she wears high heels on the factory floor. Was there any expectation that it wasn't staged? As in, a photographer sneaked in the high-security ITAR-compliant factory and just happened to catch in a candid moment the COO of SpaceX admiring some hardware on the factory floor? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spekulatius Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Feature about Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/she-launches-spaceships-sells-rockets-and-deals-with-elon-musk You know the photo is staged when she wears high heels on the factory floor. Was there any expectation that it wasn't staged? As in, a photographer sneaked in the high-security ITAR-compliant factory and just happened to catch in a candid moment the COO of SpaceX admiring some hardware on the factory floor? ;) Because I like nit pick: 1) High heels are not allowed on the factory floor typically, because they are considered a safety concern. 2) The fact that the COO wears high heels on the factory floor means that she either doesn’t care about safety violations and/or she is almost never on the factory floor (except for PR). Or perhaps nobody cares about safety violations 3) It’s not a big deal, but sometimes, these little things give you and insight into the company culture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Feature about Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/she-launches-spaceships-sells-rockets-and-deals-with-elon-musk You know the photo is staged when she wears high heels on the factory floor. Was there any expectation that it wasn't staged? As in, a photographer sneaked in the high-security ITAR-compliant factory and just happened to catch in a candid moment the COO of SpaceX admiring some hardware on the factory floor? ;) Because I like nit pick: 1) High heels are not allowed on the factory floor typically, because they are considered a safety concern. 2) The fact that the COO wears high heels on the factory floor means that she either doesn’t care about safety violations and/or she is almost never on the factory floor (except for PR). Or perhaps nobody cares about safety violations 3) It’s not a big deal, but sometimes, these little things give you and insight into the company culture. Or maybe she only wears high heels on the factory floor when she knows she is dressing up to be photographed by the press? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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