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Spacex busy sunday

Postby Burgerman » 30 Aug 2020, 05:41

Spacex are having a very busy sunday. If all goes to plan.

1. the test at boca chika to 150 metres of the half finished starship prototype. Thats always fun.
2. a launch of another bunch of starlink satelites for the internet access network.
3. a military satelite.

All seperate launches/landings. So 3 potential crash landings coming up!

Starship main https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5l9ZxsG9M
Other cams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCKpMjrlWfY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQJInT3-_-s
Infra red https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsfTL-Wr9LE

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Spacex cam
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Also on youtube in various places...

SpaceX is targeting Sunday, August 30th for two launches – a Starlink mission in the morning and the SAOCOM 1B mission in the evening.
Upon completion of the Starlink mission, this page will be updated with information on the SAOCOM 1B mission.
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Re: Spacex busy sunday

Postby Bubbernator » 22 Sep 2020, 05:38

Elon is a busy man. Tonight I'm watching the pressure-to-fail test of SN7.1 at Boca Chica.
Must be nice to have enough $$ to blow things up just to see how much they can take. Better down here than up there, I suppose.

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Re: Spacex busy sunday

Postby Burgerman » 22 Sep 2020, 11:11

Was just depressurised. NO blow up today...

5 cams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5l9ZxsG9M
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Re: Spacex busy sunday

Postby Bubbernator » 22 Sep 2020, 14:49

Try again tonight. Road closure at 21:00 CDT (02:00 GMT). Nine hour window for the pop.
I spent a week camping on the beach at South Padre Island back in 1993, watching the shrimp boats coming in at sunset. It's my "happy place".
And now it has rockets!
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Re: Spacex busy sunday

Postby Burgerman » 22 Sep 2020, 18:22

And loads of beach closures.

Mars or bust.
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Re: Spacex busy sunday

Postby Burgerman » 22 Sep 2020, 18:30

Elons plan fron when he was a youth in south africa was to put a million people on mars. And he was pennyless. He decided that there was only one place on earth that this kind of rapid wealth was possible. The most capitalist place on earth, the US. So he packed his bags (and his brother) and went to the US. He lived in a rented office where he wrote and sold a bit of software called zip2. He sold that and still living in his office started on paypal. Which he sold to eBay. Then solar city. Now Tesla Solar. Then started on electric cars... Obviously, and that almost took his millions, initially. Then he started on the gigafactories. On several continents. Then spacex. Then the other stuff like the boring company, the computer intelligence stuff. And maybe another 4 or 5 smaller spinoffs.

During this time he somehow found tme to have several wives, kids, girlfreinds. Hes not normal. I think he is trying to get back to mars.

Then we get the socialists on here all sulking, because hes got more than they have, while they did nothing to make anything of themselves. Just more drones.
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Re: Spacex busy sunday

Postby Bubbernator » 22 Sep 2020, 20:00

He has re-written the book on what's possible with space exploration. It no longer needs to be a state-funded enterprise. The concept of reusable launch vehicles has changed the economics of space access. They told him it was impossible and he said "Really? Hold my beer for a moment while I do this....."
I've heard the recovery of the Falcon 9 booster stage likened to dropping a pencil from the top of the Empire State Building and having it land on it's eraser. On a postage stamp. A successful propulsive landing was essential for the future of SpaceX and he and his team nailed it. He's becoming the Henry Ford (or Gottlieb Daimler) of rocketry.
There's a Falcon Heavy scheduled for launch in February. I plan on grabbing my grandson and taking a road trip to Cape Canaveral. Sow some seeds in his young brain.
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Re: Spacex busy sunday

Postby Burgerman » 22 Sep 2020, 22:35

He is doing the same with tesla cars... The automotive industry are now attempting to catch up. In vain.
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Re: Spacex busy sunday

Postby Bubbernator » 23 Sep 2020, 00:47

There was an investors meeting today. Some interesting things were said inre: lithium, electrolyte and energy density.
He also announced the pre-sale of this bad boy:

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Re: Spacex busy sunday

Postby Burgerman » 23 Sep 2020, 05:39

Thats superbike speeds. 9 sec quarter mile, 200 mph.
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Re: Spacex busy sunday

Postby Bubbernator » 23 Sep 2020, 14:54

POP at 6:28:45.
Blew the top off of the tank.

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