JCC The Official SpaceX Launch/Disaster Thread

Hence it was a test launch the Musk thought would fail entirely, and not a more concentrated effort to be precise in trajectory with aspects that were not going to be reused.

 

Now it all makes sense! Hidden in plain sight:

 

Of course there were some mistakes. That's why it's a test. Do people not know about all the messed up rockets we made before we made successful ones to send the Mercury Seven up? This is how it goes and how you learn.

 

What. Of all the useful things you could shoot into space...a car? Heck, we could've used that electric car down here on Earth. If Elon Musk doesn't need it then should've just given it to some random person and that'd be one less petroleum-burning vehicle driving around.

 

Trump admin to privatize the ISS

There's really only SpaceX and ULA.

 

So that's what happened to Jimmy Hoffa!

 

Here comes your future web service

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Wednesday he would ask the commission to vote to approve SpaceX's plan to use satellites to beam broadband around the world. "If adopted, it would be the first approval given to an American-based company to provide broadband services using a new generation of low-Earth orbit satellite technologies," he said in a statement.

 

And yet, he wants to dismantle net neutrality.

 

What where? I was not aware he voiced his view.

 

http://variety.com/2017/politics/news/fcc-net-neutrality-repeal-1202620531/

 

OH! I thought you meant Musk.

 

Postedponed until Wednesday

The first of Musk's new satellite internet was due to launch today.

 

Reusable rockets and the dawn of the next space age

The cost savings possible with reusability will dwarf even that. After only a few launches, the reusable variant of the Falcon 9 has substantially reduced SpaceX's cost per launch. The company believes that once it has worked out the kinks and assembled an adequately large fleet of reusable craft, it may be able to further lower the price of a launch to as little as $700,000. That means that in 10 years' time, private companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin, Bezos' firm, may be able to stage 214 launches for the price of a single NASA launch today.

 

Someone saw this and did math. If the BFR launches for $700,000 and can carry 100 people that's $7000 per person to space.

 

The next launch window is 9:17 this morning

Part of the payload are 2 test satellites for Musk's internet service.

Bigelow wants to be the new ISS

 

A Chinese company...

Doing an up and down test and a sideways test.

 

Patent infringement on Robert Goddard!

 

Live launch happening.

 

Hell of a launch frequency. This is starting to get routine

The next Falcon Heavy launch will be in June

• Six small weather satellites for the U.S.-Taiwanese Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) program;
• LightSail 2, a solar-sail propelled cubesat built by the Planetary Society. This mission follows the society's first LightSail mission in 2015;
• The Air Force Research Laboratory's Demonstration and Science Experiments satellite (DSX) to study space radiation;
• NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission to test non-toxic fuels for spacecraft;
• The Orbital Test Bed satellite carrying NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clockalong with other military and commercial payloads;
• The Prox-1 satellite built by students at George Institute of Technology, and other small satellites built by the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Michigan Institute of Technology, and the California Polytechnic Institute.

 

Relativity

This is a new rocket company founded by former employees of Blue Origin and SpaceX who want to put emphasis on 3D printing rockets.

 

The FCC approved the SpaceX plan for 4425 broadband satellite network

I think there is a launch this morning as well.

 

I don't know if I mentioned having been to the Kennedy Center a few weeks ago, but it was amazing.