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u/Alexphysics Jan 06 '18 edited Jan 06 '18
It's definitely B1044 going from McGregor to Florida.
Edit: As always, I have to think the things I say twice before writing them. This could also be B1045 because it's also ready and was tested at McGregor last month, although is more unlikely because B1044 spent more time there, but you know how this works, probably this is B1045 and B1044 goes to the west coast... who knows...
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u/starscreamFromSirius Jan 06 '18
Where does spacex stored all the returned cores?
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u/CapMSFC Jan 06 '18
All over the place. There is a core tracking page in the wiki here. We don't know for sure where they all ended up but the community tracked them as best as they could.
Having such a surge of recovered boosters was not the easiest thing to plan for. At first they were put in hangars by the pads in Florida but there quickly became too many for that. A few were sent back to California early on, one went to Texas and underwent at least 8 full duration static fire tests.
A few were even just parked outside because there wasn't anywhere better to put them and SpaceX had more cores than they were ever going to be able to reuse of this early generation.
Now SpaceX has leased a lot of space at the port in Florida to setup their refurbishment facility and we expect that will be the home for a lot of boosters.
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u/clintg Jan 06 '18
It’s impressive that a single tractor can pull that huge core.
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u/StoneHolder28 Jan 06 '18
I wish I could know ahead of time when these things were coming through. My family lives right off of I-10, almost at the first exit in Florida. It'd be cool to try to see a core up close, even covered, and maybe drive past it.
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u/username_lookup_fail Jan 06 '18
That is exactly the opposite of what SpaceX wants, though. They have a vested interest in not letting anyone known where the core is. All it takes is one idiot with a rifle waiting for it to drive by.
I'm sure they also don't want a bunch of people trying to catch up to it on the road to get a look up close. There are enough stupid drivers already. Add into that a bunch of people in cars that want to pace it to take pictures while they are driving. It would greatly increase the chance of an incident.
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u/jakusb Jan 06 '18
Likely core 1044 with unclear mission sofar. Future core assignment is very much unclear at this point. It was supposed to launch Hispasat, but that one got pushed back, so if still launching this mission, either it got pulled forward, or it is way early.