Liftoff currently scheduled for January 30th 2018, 16:25-18:46 EST (2125-2346 UTC). Payloaf: ses.com/our-coverage/satellites/371 Launch Site: SLC-40 Previous flights of stage 1: NROL-76
Photo of Luxembourgian prime minister, prince and princess infront of F9
Ryder Jackson
>that image
HAHAHAHAH
Americans are so broke you can't even afford to paint fucking rockets lmao
Aaron Jenkins
Here's the current weather forecast.
it is painted you dunce, they just don't bother to wash it off after each flight. I think it looks neat. An "aliens" type future of rugged and dirty spaceships is cooler than a sterile one don't you think?
Joshua Mitchell
will it blend?
Lincoln Powell
>can't really contribute man power to alliance >can pay for mil comm satellite
not a bad way to fulfill your nato obligations
Camden Davis
Scrubbed for the day. Replacing 2nd stage sensor
Levi Rogers
no you don't paint rockets idiot, why would they add 1000 lbs of unnecessary paint
Juan Reyes
S C R U B B E D C R U B B E D
James Cox
But you do paint them you mong
Ethan Cruz
no you don't retard
Jeremiah Sanchez
Not him but actualy some rockets are "painted" with special "paint" for white colour to reduce boiloff. Check out first STS launches.
Connor Watson
and then they stopped painting the tank because its pointless.
Lucas Russell
Because STS launches were more expansive than expected and they were doing everything they could to reduce mass.
Luke Lee
>The first two, used for STS-1 and STS-2, were painted white to protect the tanks from ultraviolet light during the extended time that the shuttle spends on the launch pad prior to launch.
According to wikipedia it was not painted white to insulate it
Grayson Bennett
pretty
Matthew Wood
Because hydrolox rockets with outside isolation are not painted you have the isolation in place but rockets without deep cryo are painted because simple layer of paint decreases the thermal transfer and protects the metal from outside weather. Rockets from R7 to Falcon 9 and Angara are painted
why does the booster have the legs if they're not recovering it?
Jayden Gomez
Are you sure those aren't just the shadows where the soot didn't go? Or maybe they're empty fairings.
Blake Morales
might as well get testing data. Rumor is they are testing extra aerobraking by deploying them earlier
Grayson Stewart
SES got more dishes than the NSA
Henry Wright
theyre hovering it over the sea in a simulated landing they're basically trashing all the Block 3/4 boosters since Block 5 makes them obselete.
Ryan Ortiz
no, it does have legs and gridfins. It'll "land", but sink.
Camden Gray
Millennium Falcon
Owen Bennett
Is this an used booster?
Andrew Diaz
yes, as the OP said it previously flew NROL 76. 6th reuse to date
Brandon Turner
>theyre hovering it over the sea in a simulated landing so they are just littering the ocean full of garbage? cunts!
Ryder Williams
stage 1 has splashed down
Jackson Morris
I wonder how much rocket trash there's under the sea.
Jayden Morris
S1 rip in pieces
Justin Nguyen
a lot. There is a "rocket graveyard" as well where most of it ends up
Lucas Rogers
F
Liam Reed
legs deployed really early. So they definitely tested a new landing burn profile
Oliver Sanders
also, just 10 seconds of landing burn. probably full-on 3 engine all the way.
Isaac Taylor
maybe not, if the early leg deployment helped slow it down.
Noah Bennett
Ah shit, i've missed it. No booster recovery?
Hudson Phillips
>Livestream is also now the thread theme YGYL boys
Grayson Nelson
Yes, from the mission with the best footage of launch and landing so far, NROL-76: youtube.com/watch?v=EzQpkQ1etdA It's ground footage almost all the way through.
Quite a bit. Bezos even had a team recover two F-1 engines a couple years back.
No, they're trashing the block 3 and 4 stages to make way for block 5 which they expect to be more robust.
Aiden Scott
OH SHI
Jonathan Brooks
the 4th F1 flight was the first to have a clover on the patch. If it hadn't made it to orbit, SpaceX would not be here today. Thus why its been on every single patch afterwards.
Jonathan Sullivan
>trashing the block 3 and 4 stages
Well, could you ever sell it rag and bone? Bring out your junk and we'll give it a home A broken trumpet or a telephone Ah, come on, ah, come on, ah, come on Come on and give it to me
Angel Taylor
good orbit
Camden Reyes
second burn complete, GTO attained
Brandon Rodriguez
>it's not 30° off of the correct inclination Ariane btfo
Gabriel Hughes
lel
Josiah Wilson
WHY
Wyatt Cook
>Ari-ain't
Joseph Martin
and spacecraft sep. Mission complete.
Evan Price
There's one on the ASDS, too. They like their luck symbol.
I'm still amazed they didn't activate FTS on that one. There might be some nasty consequences yet.
Chase Butler
Nifty fact
Asher Perry
where will YOU be for the falcon heavy launch?
>eating lunch at uni cafeteria
Jaxson Kelly
>reusability is the future >rocket is to expensive to recover twice lmao what a fucking joke this whole thing is
Caleb Wilson
they're phasing out the older boosters for block five, which comes on-line this year. No reason to keep outdated stages lying around.
if the Russians can do one thing right, it's launch Soyuz
Brandon Wright
Soyuz is one hell of a workhorse, almost a thousand successful launches over half a century!
Thomas Gutierrez
Anyone know why the soyuz has a roll program just after launch?
Logan Jenkins
Probably to simplify the pitch maneuver. As you probably know, to reach the desired orbit inclination, the rocket needs to travel to a specific direction.
If you roll the rocket to orient it correctly (it has an internal reference plane, probably), then you only need a simple pitch program to begin the tilt maneuver, instead of both pitch and yaw programs to orient it correctly.
Ian Harris
PS: another possible reason is that it could provide some stability
Brayden Evans
No, it doesn't keep rolling. It rolls a few degrees to a certain orientation then starts pitching over.
Nicholas Anderson
Well, then it fits the first explanation I gave. It makes the tilt maneuver simpler.
Bentley Jones
Old Soyuz was unable to roll and it had the platform rotate to match the launch azimuth now they do it after liftoff
Logan Ortiz
I was under the impression that having the platform rotate was a design choice to eliminate the need for a roll program, not a solution to the Soyuz' lack of an ability to roll. Interesting that they would have reverted to a fixed structure launch with an added roll maneuver
Colton Perez
i will sat at home drinking brain fluid when fred ring