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Space Exploration megathread
Since a number of cool things are happening in space exploration these days, we'll widen the scope of this thread a smidge. Conversation about all things space exploration are welcome, whether it be from NASA, SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin, or anyone else. Chances are most of the discussion will still be about SpaceX since they love to make things public and fun, but nothing's off limits. I'll eventually get around to modifying the OP to include resources for other companies too, but in the meantime, feel free to post any cool stuff you run across.

Lists of Upcoming Missions



How to Watch a Live Launch


Where to Learn More
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Glossary
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Old 12-20-2017, 11:30 AM   #1336
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Hot damn! I realize that it's likely to have a major malfunction, but it's great to see it getting ready. Next step to BFR!
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Old 12-20-2017, 11:59 AM   #1337
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The two "boosters" are previously-flown? Wow.
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The two "boosters" are previously-flown? Wow.
Yep. They wanted to do all three, but apparently they had to do more modification on the central core than they'd expected, so it wasn't easy to "convert" it.
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Old 12-20-2017, 12:16 PM   #1339
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Old 12-20-2017, 12:20 PM   #1340
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Yep. They wanted to do all three, but apparently they had to do more modification on the central core than they'd expected, so it wasn't easy to "convert" it.
Love it. Musk's a madman.
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Old 12-21-2017, 01:35 PM   #1342
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Iridium is up tomorrow evening. This will be a previously-flown booster, but sadly they appear to be ready to start moving out some of their old cores in storage, so they aren't landing this one.

This is by choice - they could easily do it within the mission parameters - but the scuttlebutt has it that they're wanting to get rid of most of their "block 3" cores to make room for the block 5 cores which will, theoretically, be able to fly 10+ times.

Still sad to see a perfectly good booster destroyed.
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Today is the 2-year anniversary of the first landing. Crazy how mundane these have gotten to be. It's kind of fun to watch the video of the first landing again and seeing how excited everyone was.
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Oh yeah. It's happening.



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Old 12-22-2017, 02:58 AM   #1345
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Iridium is up tomorrow evening. This will be a previously-flown booster, but sadly they appear to be ready to start moving out some of their old cores in storage, so they aren't landing this one.

This is by choice - they could easily do it within the mission parameters - but the scuttlebutt has it that they're wanting to get rid of most of their "block 3" cores to make room for the block 5 cores which will, theoretically, be able to fly 10+ times.

Still sad to see a perfectly good booster destroyed.
Wait, your launch description in the OP says they are landing on the droneship. Did they recently decide against that?

He needs a booster graveyard. But I suppose it's cheaper to just let it fall into the sea.
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Wait, your launch description in the OP says they are landing on the droneship. Did they recently decide against that?

He needs a booster graveyard. But I suppose it's cheaper to just let it fall into the sea.
Yeah, everyone thought they'd land it as usual, but apparently not. Interestingly, it still has grid fins but no legs.



Aside from storage, I'm sure there are quite a few costs to recovery like the drone ship and crew, extra fuel, the legs, etc. that they just decided to save rather than recover another one that won't ever be used again.
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Yeah, everyone thought they'd land it as usual, but apparently not. Interestingly, it still has grid fins but no legs.



Aside from storage, I'm sure there are quite a few costs to recovery like the drone ship and crew, extra fuel, the legs, etc. that they just decided to save rather than recover another one that won't ever be used again.
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Iridium is up tomorrow evening. This will be a previously-flown booster, but sadly they appear to be ready to start moving out some of their old cores in storage, so they aren't landing this one.

This is by choice - they could easily do it within the mission parameters - but the scuttlebutt has it that they're wanting to get rid of most of their "block 3" cores to make room for the block 5 cores which will, theoretically, be able to fly 10+ times.

Still sad to see a perfectly good booster destroyed.
The closet is getting full. Needs to make some room for the shiny new toys.
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