SpaceX Launch Thread - GovSat-1

But you do paint them you mong

no you don't retard

Not him but actualy some rockets are "painted" with special "paint" for white colour to reduce boiloff. Check out first STS launches.

and then they stopped painting the tank because its pointless.

Because STS launches were more expansive than expected and they were doing everything they could to reduce mass.

>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

pretty

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

How's the weather today?

looks like 10-20% chance of weather violation

patrick.af.mil/Portals/14/documents/Weather/L-0 Forecast 31 Jan Launch.pdf?ver=2018-01-31-100335-990