SpaceX Falcon 9

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Tom McCool‏ @Cygnusx112 28 мин. назад

One first landing leg has been removed! #SpaceX #Falcon9




8 мин. назад

The second strut has been removed and is hanging from the yellow boom. #SpaceX

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Tom McCool‏ @Cygnusx112 7 мин. назад

All 4 legs are off of the #SpaceX booster.

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B1049

Tom McCool‏ @Cygnusx112 11 мин.назад

Booster 1049 that took #Telstar18 to orbit early Monday morning had been loaded onto the transporter. Cool process to watch @SpaceX @elonmusk @NASASpaceflight

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SpaceX booster going vertical to horizontal

cygnusx112

Опубликовано: 15 сент. 2018 г.

Booster 1049 that took Telstar18 to orbit on 9-10-18 being moved onto the transporter.

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B1049

Julia‏ @julia_bergeron 15 мин. назад

The @SpaceX #Telstar18v booster is leaving Port Canaveral to go back to the hangar in preparation for it's next launch.

[Max Andriyahov]

Лапки опять сняли?

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Max Andriyahov пишет:
Лапки опять сняли?

Ну для начала о5 поигрались-потренировались лапки задирать-опускать - наигралсь, - сняли. Фотоотчёт  и видео - на предыдущей странице, лапы - см с #18750

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B1049

SpaceX Booster being transported

cygnusx112

Опубликовано: 15 сент. 2018 г.

This is SpaceX booster 1049 that took Telstar18v into orbit on 9-10-18. It was being moved from the port back to the SpaceX hanger on CCAFS. Video shot on 401.

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B1049. Работы в Порт Канаверал 13-15 сентября с.г.

SpaceX - Leg Retract and Deploy Testing - B1049 09- 13-15 -2018

USLaunchReport

Опубликовано: 16 сент. 2018 г.

There are very few things we can watch SpaceX develop. In Port Canaveral, we are lucky to get a glimpse of that. This video was shot over a three-day period. Hours of footage had to be both sped up to x3000 or skipped. We do not know the exact material used to lubricate the cylinder joints. Let us know if you do. Next video also unique looking at the evolution of "BLLR", (The Blur" ) or what used to be a simple lift cap.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 15:05 - 19 сент. 2018 г.

ARTICLE:
SpaceX finalizing Pad 39A upgrades for return to crew operations -

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/09/spacex-pad-39a-upgrades-return-crew-operations/ ...

- by Ian Atkinson (@IanPineapple)

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 37 мин. назад

The SpaceX landing zone at Vandenberg appears to be named "LZ-4" based on a filing with the FCC. If anyone knows who originally discovered this let me know (it wasn't me), and I will credit them. I cannot seem to find the person.

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/442_Print.cfm?mode=current&application_seq=86733&license_seq=87645 ...

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https://spacenews.com/japanese-company-ispace-selects-spacex-for-lunar-missions/

Japanese company ispace selects SpaceX for lunar missions
by Jeff Foust — September 26, 2018


Japan's ispace plans to launch its first two missions, including its first lander, as secondary payloads on SpaceX launches in mid-2020 and mid-2021. Credit: ispace

WASHINGTON — A Japanese company that has roots in the former Google Lunar X Prize competition announced Sept. 26 that it has sel ected SpaceX to launch a pair of missions to the moon in 2020 and 2021.

Under the agreement, ispace will fly two HAKUTO-R missions, an orbiter and a lander, as secondary payloads on SpaceX Falcon 9 launches. The orbiter is scheduled to launch in a window that opens in mid-2020 and the lander in mid-2021. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

In an interview, ispace Chief Executive Takeshi Hakamada said that the company sel ected SpaceX over other, unnamed launch providers in part because of price but also because of SpaceX's high flight rate gives the company a number of opportunities to launch its missions.

"Because we are aiming to provide a frequent lunar transportation service, starting relations with SpaceX is very important," he said. "SpaceX offers a huge amount of launch opportunities, and this partnership can promote future collaboration with SpaceX."

The first HAKUTO-R mission will place a spacecraft with a total mass, fully fueled, of 550 kilograms into orbit around the moon. The second mission will be a lander, weighing 1,400 kilograms, including a small rover. Both are intended to demonstrate ispace's capabilities in delivering payloads to the moon for future commercial customers.

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"The first two missions are technology demonstration missions," he said. "The purpose is to validate that our technology is capable of working at the moon. Then, right after that, we want to plan a series of lunar commercial transportation service missions by our lander." There's no specific schedule for those follow-on missions, he said, which will depend on the timing and success of the first two.

Those initial two missions, though, could carry some commercial payloads. Hakamada said he could not discuss specific opportunities for those missions. "We have had several discussions already," he said.

The two spacecraft are currently in development, having recently completed a preliminary design review. Hakamada said ispace brought in a number of external reviewers, including fr om the Japanese space agency JAXA as well as from Europe and the United States, who concluded the company is on the right track. The next milestone, critical design review, is planned for early 2019.

Work on the HAKUTO-R missions is funded by the $90 million ispace raised in a Series A funding round last December. "For further missions we'll need to raise more money to provide a sustainable commercial transportation service," he said, which ispace will seek to raise once the initial missions are successful. The company also anticipates revenue fr om flying commercial payloads as well as fr om sponsorships.

The company currently has more than 60 employees, primarily at its Tokyo headquarters wh ere the spacecraft will be built, as well as an office in Luxembourg that does some business development and research work. The company also has a small office in the United States, currently staffed by a single employee, Hakamada said.

The use of the HAKUTO-R name for the first missions harkens back to the X Prize competition, when the company, competing as Team Hakuto, sought to fly rovers to the moon. As the contest was winding down, it reached an agreement to fly a rover on a lander mission developed by India's Team Indus, but that lander was not ready for launch before the prize expired in March.

While Team Indus is continuing work on its lunar lander, Hakamada said there are no plans to fly an ispace rover on that mission, but wouldn't rule out future collaboration. "The contract with Team Indus was only for the Lunar X Prize competition," he said. "If Team Indus can offer something to us, we are very open to any kind of partnership in the future."

Hakamada noted the "R" in HAKUTO-R stands for "reboot." "The Hakuto mission has not failed. It's still waiting for success," he said. "We rebooted all the activities after the Lunar X Prize competition, and we will have success this time."

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 1 ч. назад

Koenigsmann: F9 performance to GTO depends on recovery:
3,500 kg for a return to launch site;
5,500 kg for drone ship landing;
6,500 kg if first stage expended.
#IAC2018

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 57 мин. назад

Koenigsmann: most of the refurbishment work for recovered boosters is devoted to engines, thermal protection system, and aero covers.
#IAC2018

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 48 мин. назад

Koenigsmann: surprised how well the engines have held up though reentry and reuse. We have the goal of launching twice within two days, would be "tremendous" if we do that.
#IAC2018


47 мин. назад

Someone asked Koenigsmann about drawbacks about using kerosene fuel. Debating fuels, he responds, is "like a religion"; kerosene has advantages of being cheap and easy to handle.
#IAC2018

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tnt22 пишет:

Jeff Foust ‏ @jeff_foust 1 ч. назад

Koenigsmann: F9 performance to GTO depends on recovery:
 3,500 kg for a return to launch site ;
 5,500 kg for drone ship landing ;
 6,500 kg if first stage expended .
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Потери на возврат бустера (на баржу) всего 15%?!   
Да ладно!

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Georgea пишет:
Потери на возврат бустера (на баржу) всего 15%?!    
Да ладно!

Тем более что даже Блок 3 вывел 6761 кг на ГПО-1719.

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Жутко красивая фотография в начале статьи
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-landing-vandenberg-20181007-story.html

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Да, последний пуск был красивый.
За час до рассвета - лучшие время для таких пусков

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https://video-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-2/43232596_937630946430267_7172809046058074112_n.mp4?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJybHIiOjE1MDAsInJsYSI6MTAyNCwidmVuY29kZV90YWciOiJzdmVfaGQifQ%3D%3D&rl=1500&vabr=664&oh=3b8d0efd954e71b812fcb06583b8898b&oe=5BBD24EA