Launch begins at 9:17AM Eastern US, about 50 minutes from now. No booster recovery this time.
In addition to launching the PAZ radar observation satellite, two test satellites for SpaceX's satellite-based broadband internet service "Starlink" will be launched. Starlink discussion here: youtube.com/watch?v=-p-PToD2URA
>2018 >still putting "tires" on the sides of a ship
Is there really no better design?
Noah White
/aco/ reporting in
Jeremiah Morris
It's simple, cheap, and recycles old tires. Why change it?
William Myers
they're cheap and effective
Zachary Lee
Terra forming Mars is impossible due to lack of magnetic field.
Even if you pump breathable air in Mars Atmosphere. It would be readily stripped away by solar winds, due lack of protective magnetic field and low gravity.
youtu.be/XZ-7nNw-04Q >3:20+ >"reusability is a dream" >"no geo capability" >"launch limited" >t. richard bowles arianspace aka the guy who was so btfo by nightmares he was replaced few days after the FH launch
Excellent (not so) old video. Puts things into perspective.
Logan Ramirez
>It would be readily stripped away by solar winds
Rapidly meaning over thousands of years
Juan Foster
Just like all these people who were saying electric cars are not the way of future.
Elijah Williams
Fuck. Scrubbed due to wind.
Benjamin Collins
>8m left
Brandon Johnson
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUU
Oliver Carter
24 hour delay
see you boys tomorrow
Chase Harris
So, trying again tomorrow at 9:17am?
James Ortiz
Yes, Feb 22 9:17AM Eastern US
Austin Martinez
Wut
Hunter Richardson
One hour until launch.
Joshua Smith
Stream Starting
Dominic Reed
Those tunes would fit well in a X4 strategy game
Christopher Wood
Neat, they kept the countdown net.
Brandon Myers
Daily reminder that you can switch camera to the non-babby stream
>Going to try to catch the giant fairing (nosecone) of Falcon 9 as it falls back from space at about eight times the speed of sound. It has onboard thrusters and a guidance system to bring it through the atmosphere intact, then releases a parafoil and our ship with basically a giant catcher’s mitt welded on tries to catch it.
Jose Hernandez
That's a nice boat.
Brayden Thompson
Oooh they just shown picture of their test sats
Parker Sullivan
brainlet here
will they try to land the rocket parts like the last time ?
Ryder Edwards
when is pozzed launching?
Jonathan Green
Not this time, it's an older model that's already flown once.
Kevin Wood
2 minutes
Nicholas Gonzalez
omg and i discovered this on youtube drunk on accident, hope it doesnt blow
Lincoln Reyes
...
Austin Bailey
The cheers get so more quiet each time
Xavier Davis
I was going to post that. Hivemind blocked by image duplicate filter.
Henry James
SpaceX fans are size queens. Now that they've gotten a taste of Heavy they can't get too excited about F9s anymore.
Isaac Peterson
>there will be a time when no one cheers
Cameron Cooper
>there will be a time when no one cheers for the rocket that sends you anywhere on earth in 1 hour
Austin Myers
That's why I always clap when the plane landed.
Oliver Hughes
kino
Logan Reed
>I CLAAAAAAAPED!
Eli Brooks
>no camera on the fairing or the ship What a let down.
Christopher Bell
mother fucker i'm late
Robert Garcia
You didn't miss anything except some cool views of the stage 1 engine plumes changing colors.
Aiden Edwards
I went as smoothly as a scott manley ksp launch
Oliver Garcia
it*
Isaiah Davis
Perfect mission!
Another nail in the coffin of the Russian space industry, which failed to launch PAZ a few years ago on Dnepr, thanks to the Ukraine conflict grounding all Ukrainian-made vehicles.
Colton Richardson
Well, at least I got to see the big one go up.
Cooper Johnson
Apparently they're going to try to recover the booster from HispaSat after all.
Connor Walker
Next big'un is in June iirc.
Grayson Rivera
...
Jonathan Watson
Are those zipties? Those looks extremely ghetto, but I guess that's expected for prototypes.
Noah Howard
They are made as cheaply as possible since there will be 12000 of them.
Angel Ross
I don’t think those are zip ties.
Seems like the pic in the Starlink discussion OP was correct; they’ll be able to fit 40 in a f9 fairing
SPACEX BTFO FAIRING REUSE IS IMPOSSIBLE TAXPAYER DOLLARS WASTED UHHHHHOHOHOHOHUHUHUHU
but really that's pretty good for a first try
Nicholas Allen
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Oliver Reed
yoooooooooooo
Luis Williams
poor stage 2 team, they'll be the only ones throwing away hardware once fairing recovery is nailed down. F9 will be 80% reusable! And with block 5, they won't have to take the legs on and off too.
Oliver Clark
Have they just given up on second stage recovery now?
Caleb Cruz
Would it be possible to refurb some of those extra stage 1 engines to re-use on stage 2? I know at least they would need to make a new bell, but they are the same basic design, right?
tell me whats the point of all these launches i'm pretty sure they could just buy a supercomputer of price of a single rocket and use it to simulate flights instead of wasting resources and gaining nothing
Jacob Clark
no, they're quite different. S2 has an mvac: merlin, vacuum type. Incompatible with atmosphere merlins (on stage 1)
Landon Wood
They can probably just hop in, clamp a motor to the back, and pilot the whole thing back to port.
Noah Murphy
the point of this launch is to put a Spanish radar satellite into orbit you ignoramus
Jose Walker
>hughesnet executives begin to sweat
Carson Howard
heh, imagine if that was a built in feature...
Carson Adams
Yes I guess the bottom line is that they lose less money when the get rid of old F9 designs. They aim to produce one Merlin every day.
Gabriel Diaz
we're just replacing one ISP with another and this time there's even LESS competition in the market
Levi Miller
>you will never get to drive the F9 transporter truck thingy
Jacob Sullivan
Looks like they're attempting a landing for their next launch, a GTO heavy satellite.
Anthony Ortiz
>hughesnet i get goddamn postcard ads from them in the middle of a city with charter & att, how fed up do you have to be with them to go with satellite internet
Elijah Murphy
6092 kg.... that'll be one hot landing
Joshua Barnes
I had it before anything faster than dial-up was available in my rural area. It is fucking terrible and so bad I purposely defaulted on the contract and didn't pay them the default money states that they couldn't live up tot he services they promised. I haven't heard from them since.
Colton Hall
>June so december of '19
Nolan Cox
Sad! Many such cases!
Brayden Brooks
Better fund Mars colonization than land in Cali and New York.
Carson Allen
what's that tumbling thing off to the right? piece of ice?
>The desire to colonize — to have unquestioned, unchallenged and automatic access to something, to any type of body, and to use it at will — is a patriarchal one.
>It is the same instinctual and cultural force that teaches men that everything — and everyone — in their line of vision is theirs for the taking. You know, just like walking up to a woman and grabbing her by the pussy. It’s there, so just grab it because you can.
> The raping and pillaging of the Earth, and the environmental chaos that doing so has unleashed, are integral to the process of colonization. And the connection of the treatment of Mother Earth to women is more than symbolic: Study after study has shown that climate change globally affects women more than men.
> “Women in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change because they are highly dependent on local natural resources for their livelihood,” a 2013 United Nations report noted. “Women charged with securing water, food and fuel for cooking and heating face the greatest challenges. Women experience unequal access to resources and decision-making processes, with limited mobility in rural areas.”
Logan Martinez
Anywhere i can read up on the changes for Block 5? Like the legs?
Nolan Cruz
This is by far the dumbest post on Veeky Forums today, so at least you have accomplished something with your life
William Young
Boldly going where the communist went ~100 years ago.
Caleb Collins
there's no official source, just a collection of small details that have been announced over the years.
-bolted octaweb -new heat shielding on inconel mountings -titanium waffles on all cores -retractable landing legs -man-rated Merlin 1D w/ +10% thrust -new COPV? -new paint job (black interstage). -fairing 2.0 (wider, lighter, more recovery hardware -a number of smaller changes to improve reusability and reliability (100+)
Aiden Rodriguez
The article raises good points.
Back to /pol/.
Carson Bailey
no it doesn't you moron, it borders on satirical. The author is mentally ill.
Dylan Diaz
I refuse the believe this is real.....
Zachary Perry
gotta get those free clicks somehow
Grayson Perez
Don't they know that SpaceX's CEO is a woman? Elon may be the vision, drive and money behind the mars colonisation project but Gwynne Shotwell is the one actually running the company on a day to day basis.
Leo White
but she's white
Jackson Sanchez
the author is just a typical liberal, this has been the liberal agenda for 100 years now
Aaron Rogers
so I guess they missed catching it?
Jose Perry
By a few hundred meters, yeah. Seems like they've got a shot of getting it next time though
Ethan Rodriguez
>nbcnews
What a bunch of retarded blogshit.
It is funny that we get to see a time where The Onion's articles are no longer satire enough to compete with reality.