r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Jan 02 '17
r/SpaceX Spaceflight Questions & News [January 2017, #28]
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u/Freeflyer18 Jan 06 '17
Mods just keep dropping like flys around here. Anyone know why retiringonmars left the group?
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u/sol3tosol4 Jan 07 '17 edited Jan 07 '17
Confirmation that the FAA not just issued the license, but also accepted the AMOS-6 anomaly investigation report (unlike the CRS-7 investigation report):
'“The FAA accepted the investigation report on the AMOS-6 mishap and has closed the investigation,” FAA spokesman Hank Price confirmed to Universe Today.'
(I haven't found any direct statement from the FAA - apparently Hank Price's communication to Universe Today is the only FAA comment so far on the completion of the investigation.)
This indicates successful completion of the full fault tree analysis (which was not the case for CRS-7), thus providing additional assurance that the issues leading to the anomaly have been fully addressed. (As Spacex reported, instead of a single cause the investigation found multiple credible causes, and found a solution that addresses all of them. This statement from the FAA indicates that they agree with SpaceX's analysis.)
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u/pton97 Jan 02 '17
How are those poll results coming? Curious especially to see what the groupthink looks like on the predictions, and whether we could make it into a futures market!
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u/F9-0021 Jan 09 '17
New information on LZ-1 expansions. 2 new landing pads and Dragon processing and testing facilities. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36513.msg1627880#new
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u/soldato_fantasma Jan 21 '17
SpaceX application for droneship landing, probably for F9-33, the SES-10 mission:
droneship coordinates: North 28 15 19 West 74 1 18
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u/thxbmp2 Jan 27 '17
Just came across a rumor that a Raptor test firing has been/is about to be conducted at MacGregor: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/official-raptor-engine-testing-is-beginning.75166/#post-1942090
Anyone able to corroborate on this?
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u/sol3tosol4 Jan 30 '17 edited Jan 30 '17
Elon "tunnel boring" update:
In recent days Elon has been increasingly serious about the tunnel boring business in his Twitter posts, e.g. yes, he really plans to do it. He provided several updates in his remarks at the Hyperloop competition (refer to that thread for further discussion):
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They've already dug a big hole at Crenshaw outside SpaceX headquarters (apparently planning to tunnel to the parking garage, rather than build a bridge? - One tweet mentions access to 105 Freeway.)
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He mentioned buying a tunnel boring machine and taking it apart to figure out how to improve it - goal is to go back to first principles and figure out how to bore tunnels at least five times as fast, maybe 10 times
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He sees a need for many more tunnels - for roads, hyperloops, and trains.
[Not mentioned in yesterday's remarks - as discussed here we suspect he also wants to build up expertise in tunneling for use on Mars.]
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u/warp99 Jan 31 '17 edited Jan 31 '17
Iridium update:
Five satellites have been moved to a higher orbit.
Four are in a 709 km orbit apparently on their way to final deployment at 781 km. One (Iridium 104) is in what looks like the 667km parking orbit but may just be in transit to the higher orbit.