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Re: SES-10 Mission

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hwillis wrote: post #20
jacquesm wrote: post #8

History was being made today. Super, congratulations to all of SpaceX. Now let's see the landing :) STUCK THE LANDING :) :) :) Apologies to my neighbors who I surely woke up. Hah :) Incredible! Now, will they fly this one again?

That cut to black nearly gave me a damn heart attack haha. Satellite connection lost because rocket exhaust is basically a giant ionized cloud of noise. Elon looks like he hasn't been getting enough sleep or showers, and like he's about to back flip and start happy crying.

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Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by greglindahl »

lazaroclapp wrote: post #26
birken wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And they caught it again. Truly amazing.

Wonder if they will be able to launch it a third time, though, since it seemed it did get a bit more damage on entry this time around. Either way, impressive. Btw, does anyone know how reusable these things are expected to be in the near term? As in, would a perfected Stage 1 be expected to be able to fly 10 missions? 100? 1000?

Headed to a museum, probably, after some testing.

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by ploxiln »

lazaroclapp wrote: post #26
birken wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And they caught it again. Truly amazing.

Wonder if they will be able to launch it a third time, though, since it seemed it did get a bit more damage on entry this time around. Either way, impressive. Btw, does anyone know how reusable these things are expected to be in the near term? As in, would a perfected Stage 1 be expected to be able to fly 10 missions? 100? 1000?

I'm pretty sure the plan is to put this one in a museum. Later variants are supposed to be easier and more reliable to re-fly.

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by neuronexmachina »

vtange wrote: post #4

Does SpaceX have any real competitors in the private sector? Would be a bummer if people decided they were a monopoly of some sort and demanded a break up.

One could argue whether they're truly private sector, but they still haven't quite displaced ULA. In 2016 there were 12 ULA launches, 8 SpaceX launches, and 2 by Orbital ATK. Looking at other countries, there were 20 Chinese launches, 18 Russian launches, 9 European launches, and 7 Indian launches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_spaceflight#Orbital_la...

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by blhack »

madamelic wrote: post #18

That "live" Elon interview seemed really pre-recorded... Did anyone else get that feeling?

I think he was tearing up. I can't even imagine the stress everyone on that team was feeling up until about 3 minutes ago.

One thing is for sure: the party in Los Angeles is going to be incredible tonight, haha!

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by CamperBob2 »

madamelic wrote: post #18

That "live" Elon interview seemed really pre-recorded... Did anyone else get that feeling?

No, because they screwed up and enabled his camera feed a few seconds before they told him he was live. That would have been edited out if it hadn't been live.

Either that, or they're going for that extra touch of verisimilitude, I guess.

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by jacquesm »

ploxiln wrote: post #34
lazaroclapp wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wonder if they will be able to launch it a third time, though, since it seemed it did get a bit more damage on entry this time around. Either way, impressive. Btw, does anyone know how reusable these things are expected to be in the near term? As in, would a perfected Stage 1 be expected to be able to fly 10 missions? 100? 1000?

I'm pretty sure the plan is to put this one in a museum. Later variants are supposed to be easier and more reliable to re-fly.

Something to think about: pretty soon there will be nothing strange about a rocket that has flown before. Contrast it with the feeling you have for a 737 that has done 2500 starts and landing prior to you going on board, it's a sign of confidence that it did that. Now it will be many many years before there will be boosters with numbers of take-offs and landings > 20 or so but at some point insurance premiums for unflown hardware will be higher than for hardware that has been flown before.

Huge game changer this, also in the frequency of launches.

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