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Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by MaysonL »

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?

On the prelaunch video, they suggeste a try for at least 10x.

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Post by Eerie »

mijoharas wrote: post #7
r00fus wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Blue Origin count?

I believe they are currently doing sub-orbital flights while they are working up to re-usable orbital flights. Please correct me if i misremembered.

You know there is absolutely no reason for you to "believe" anything about Blue Origin, right? Google, Wikipedia and Blue Origin's own website is 3 seconds away.

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by nraynaud »

Strom wrote: post #30
madamelic wrote: post #18

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

Yeah, everything about that seemed pre-recorded, especially considering how calm everyone in the background was. Understandable though considering how busy Elon is.

might be people focused on their job, like getting a satellite at the agreed-upon position :)

(but I agree, forget this satellite stuff, show me where the trash landed, and tell us where the fairings are!)

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by braymundo »

Fantastic!!! Being able to watch a reusable rocket land perfecty, from my mobile phone while casting to a TV, over a computer network​, while located in southern Brazil makes me SO PROUD to be human!

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by rrmm »

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.

They wouldn't have a monopoly since there are plenty of other launch services out there (ULA,Russians,ESA,etc). The fact that SpaceX will probably be able to do it for much cheaper doesn't factor into it.

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Post by ericcumbee »

r00fus wrote: post #5
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.

Does Blue Origin count?

I'm not sure how valid it is, but i read somewhere that Blue Origin and SpaceX are both shooting for the same target, but taking different paths. Blue Origin is doing Reusability first and orbital second. SpaceX went Orbital first and Reusability second. although to me it seems spacex is clearly ahead.

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Post by jacquesm »

neuronexmachina wrote: post #35
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...

That's why this is so big, dropping the costs significantly could easily pull a significant fraction of those other launches to SpaceX. Pretty soon the ability to re-launch the same booster will be considered a must-have feature if you want to be in the rocket business, unless you fly missions so close the maximum payload or trajectory that recovery is impossible.

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Post by [deleted] »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #37
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.

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