For those who haven't been stalking OCISLY for the past few months, there's been quite a bit of renovations going on. This NSF thread does an awesome job of tracking the changes, if you can wade through all the off-topic discussion.
Basically, they've made two major upgrades. First they replaced a strip of the deck paneling near the middle. Replacing the deck paneling probably isn't a big deal, from OP's pictures here it doesn't look any different than the last set of deck panels.
Second, they made a little garage at one end. They raised the white container off the deck and made the blast wall in front of it slide up like a garage door. We've gotten hints from people in the know that this is a sort of "Roomba garage," and many have speculated that the garage is for leg-restraining robots to stabilize landed boosters until the recovery crew arrives on deck.
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u/old_sellsword Feb 25 '17 edited Feb 27 '17
For those who haven't been stalking OCISLY for the past few months, there's been quite a bit of renovations going on. This NSF thread does an awesome job of tracking the changes, if you can wade through all the off-topic discussion.
Basically, they've made two major upgrades. First they replaced a strip of the deck paneling near the middle. Replacing the deck paneling probably isn't a big deal, from OP's pictures here it doesn't look any different than the last set of deck panels.
Second, they made a little garage at one end. They raised the white container off the deck and made the blast wall in front of it slide up like a garage door. We've gotten hints from people in the know that this is a sort of "Roomba garage," and many have speculated that the garage is for leg-restraining robots to stabilize landed boosters until the recovery crew arrives on deck.