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Post subject: Re: Spacex Starship OFT  Posted: 16 Oct 2024, 11:05 |
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Username Protected wrote: https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1846265336602963986 Attachment: IMG_1834.png I love when things are cited that have no references, if you goto the latest official documents, the estimate was closer to 1.5b, not 2.7b and that's 100% NASA's fault for doing a cost plus contract, also it's for the mobile launch platform, not a "stationary tower" so much misinformation here
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Post subject: Re: Spacex Starship OFT Posted: 16 Oct 2024, 11:45 |
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Username Protected wrote: so much misinformation here Yes, sensationalism at it's best. Doesn't change the fact that SpaceX would probably build it faster and cheaper. If (and that's a big one) they would believe in it as a means to an end. I fully expect that Musk would say 'having mobile launch platform is stupid, we're not doing it no matter what'. SpaceX achieves extraordinary results because every single employee believes they are pulling in the right direction.
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Post subject: Re: Spacex Starship OFT Posted: 17 Oct 2024, 10:29 |
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Username Protected wrote: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dhJ-zYTQHgw Impressive how they caught it by these tiny hard points. Earlier images looked like it was hanging by the grid fins, which are a somewhat larger target. The timing to accomplish that had to be just perfect.
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Post subject: Re: Spacex Starship OFT Posted: 17 Oct 2024, 10:51 |
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Username Protected wrote: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dhJ-zYTQHgw Impressive how they caught it by these tiny hard points. Earlier images looked like it was hanging by the grid fins, which are a somewhat larger target. The timing to accomplish that had to be just perfect.
The grid fins are moveable, wouldn't make any sense to design that system to both move and be able to suspend all that weight.
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Post subject: Re: Spacex Starship OFT Posted: 17 Oct 2024, 10:58 |
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Username Protected wrote: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dhJ-zYTQHgw Impressive how they caught it by these tiny hard points. Earlier images looked like it was hanging by the grid fins, which are a somewhat larger target. The timing to accomplish that had to be just perfect.
This is one of the best analysis I've seen on it, and it was published before the catch, this guy has spent thousands of hours reverse engineering and developing cad assets of the designs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub6HdADut50
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Post subject: Re: Spacex Starship OFT Posted: 18 Oct 2024, 17:46 |
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Username Protected wrote: Impressive how they caught it by these tiny hard points. Earlier images looked like it was hanging by the grid fins, which are a somewhat larger target. The timing to accomplish that had to be just perfect. Not just hanging on those tiny hard points, but perfectly oriented in all three axes while doing so. The hard points have to be oriented almost perfectly perpendicular to the catch arms, the booster has to be close to vertical and horizontally aligned within the reach of the arms, then it has to be hovering. They literally put it on a dime.
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Post subject: Re: Spacex Starship OFT Posted: 26 Oct 2024, 17:22 |
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Username Protected wrote: Last I heard they’re looking at NET November 11. That’s crazy. I have to think there wasn’t great hope of the S-0 infrastructure being intact.
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