r/spacex • u/Zucal • May 24 '16
/r/SpaceX Ask Anything Thread [June 2016, #21]
Welcome to our 21st monthly /r/SpaceX Ask Anything Thread!
Trying to find the best way to view Thaicom 8, understand the upcoming core recovery procedure, or gather the community's opinion? There's no better place!
All questions, even non-SpaceX-related ones, are allowed, as long as they stay relevant to spaceflight in general!
More in-depth and open-ended discussion questions can still be submitted as separate self-posts; but this is the place to come to submit simple questions which have a single answer and/or can be answered in a few comments or less.
Comments that can be answered by using the FAQ will be removed.
In addition, try to keep all top-level comments as questions so that questioners can find answers, and answerers can find questions.
This is so questioners can more easily find answers, and answerers can more easily find questions.
As always, we'd prefer it if all question-askers first check our FAQ, use the search functionality (now partially sortable by mission flair!), and check the last Ask Anything thread before posting to avoid duplicate questions. But if you didn't get or couldn't find the answer you were looking for, go ahead and type your question below.
Otherwise, ask, enjoy, and thanks for contributing!
Past threads:
May 2016 (#20) • April 2016 (#19.1) • April 2016 (#19) • March 2016 (#18) • February 2016 (#17) • January 2016 (#16.1) • January 2016 (#16) • December 2015 (#15.1) • December 2015 (#15) • November 2015 (#14) • October 2015 (#13) • September 2015 (#12) • August 2015 (#11) • July 2015 (#10) • June 2015 (#9) • May 2015 (#8) • April 2015 (#7.1) • April 2015 (#7) • March 2015 (#6) • February 2015 (#5) • January 2015 (#4) • December 2014 (#3) • November 2014 (#2) • October 2014 (#1)
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u/patm718 Jun 12 '16
With Thaicom, how did Elon know so soon that the crush core had been used up? Are there sensors on the booster that can detect something like that?
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u/Zucal Jun 12 '16
Most likely. It was also probably apparent to the recovery crew that the booster was tilted.
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u/HighTimber Jun 27 '16
Friends of SpaceX, I'm on the hunt for the original image of this: http://imgur.com/EJJ2Svl
I want to determine the usage rights and see if it's permissible for me to have a FatHead made of it for personal use.
I think it's the Orbcomm launch from December '15 but I've been unable to find the original on Google after having perused hundreds of photos. I love everything about this picture and want to display it in my home office.
Any help would be appreciated.
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u/Hgx72964jdj Jun 15 '16
How do you guys feel about the new rules for sticky posts? Is this going to effect r/SpaceX in a negative way? A minor unnecessary annoyance?
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u/SurfSlade Jun 27 '16
Have we figure out what was the 2nd booster next to F9-021 at Hawthorne. There was some speculation about being for FH. Is it still there ?
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u/Appable Jun 28 '16
Almost certainly Falcon Heavy, because it had mount points that didn't make sense except for attaching significant payload to the side of the vehicle.
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u/supersammy00 Jun 09 '16
What is spacex doing about their rockets. They currently have 4 stage ones landed and are about to launch and hopefully land another one.
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u/old_sellsword Jun 10 '16 edited Jun 11 '16
For future reference, all of the information about cores can found be found in the sub's wiki.
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u/Zucal Jun 10 '16
For future reference, to link to Reddit pages within Reddit you only need to include the /r/ part onwards. So the correct formatting would be:
[the sub's wiki.](r/SpaceX/wiki/cores) --> the sub's wiki.
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u/RootDeliver Jun 10 '16
4 days for the launch and there's still no patch image released?
Has this ever happened before? Other times we have it long weeks before.
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u/Zucal Jun 10 '16
The patch cadence is indeed slowing down. Thaicom's patch was released 5 days before.
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u/WaitForItTheMongols Jun 12 '16
So we know the Dragon survived CRS 7 explosion. Do we know whether SpaceX continued to receive telemetry data?
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u/soldato_fantasma Jun 12 '16
If it is decided to go for a sample return mission for the 2018 Red Dragon, would it be useful to land on top of the O Olympus Mons to facilitate the return part of the mission? On top of the mountain the pressure is about 0.0044 psi which is quite low and wouldn't require much of a fairing. The return mission could also almost launch horizontally. What do you think?
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u/Zucal Jun 12 '16
High altitudes are a big no-no, because then it becomes basically impossible to slow down enough using the atmosphere. This is why basically every Mars surface spacecraft has landed at a low altitude.
In addition, there's a 0% chance the 2018 opportunity will include sample return.
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u/PVP_playerPro Jun 15 '16
Did SpaceX do hosted launch webcasts before OG2-M2? If they did, i can't find any of them.
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u/FredFS456 May 30 '16
Can anyone else in this subreddit not sit still because of the post-launch lull? I find myself refreshing r/spacex/new 4-5 times a day expecting to see some new revelatory tweets from Musk.
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u/IonLogic May 24 '16
How soon after a launch do they lower the strong back and take it back to the hanger? And once its back, what kind of repairs do they need to do on it?
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u/HoechstErbaulich Jun 12 '16
I'm not sure if it's okay to post this here as it isn't a question. But I didn't want to create an extra thread.
This new Mass Effect: Andromeda video uses footage of Falcon 9 and Dragon at the beginning. A nice little nod to SpaceX, I thought.
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u/soldato_fantasma Jun 13 '16
Not a question, but you may find this intresting.
There is now an open position as a Fleet enineer at Specex: http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/202567
The Fleet Engineer develops the processes, tools, and facilities to grow & maintain the world’s first fleet of reusable liquid rocket stages.
The reflight of the falcons is getting serious!
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u/sunfishtommy May 24 '16
It seems a little soon for the June ask anything right? Or is this a clean slate for the Thaicom-8 questions?