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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3475 on: July 25, 2024, 04:03:00 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on July 25, 2024, 03:52:25 PM
Hopefully no sticky valves that slow down ISS's orbit.  Boeing didn't even enter the competition for ISS deorbit vehicle, it'd be a dick move to poach it.

Yeah but there are some people who just might want to get off first.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3476 on: July 25, 2024, 10:31:56 PM »
Crew 9 with two astronauts and two suits is said to be in the works to launch. Let's see what happens.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3477 on: July 26, 2024, 10:08:51 AM »
Quote from: Jim147 on July 25, 2024, 10:31:56 PM
Crew 9 with two astronauts and two suits is said to be in the works to launch. Let's see what happens.

What's your source for that?
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3478 on: July 26, 2024, 10:19:04 AM »
Crew 9 is currently scheduled for late August

https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/falcon-9-block-5-crew-9/

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-9/

Doubt that has anything to do with a rescue mission since it was already scheduled well in advance but if they suddenly pull 2 or 3 of the crew off then we'll know there's been a change of plans.

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3479 on: July 26, 2024, 12:34:16 PM »
Looks like it is Eric Berger, the great war criminal, reporting it.

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1816501562388390335
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3480 on: July 26, 2024, 12:51:24 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on July 26, 2024, 12:34:16 PM
Looks like it is Eric Berger, the great war criminal, reporting it.

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1816501562388390335

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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3481 on: July 26, 2024, 01:00:18 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on July 26, 2024, 12:51:24 PM
The name is not ringing a bell

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/ykdf04/whats_going_on_with_eric_berger_being_called_a/

He's a space journalist.  Writes for arstechnica.  Dmitri Rogozin (former head of Roscosmos) called him a war criminal, before getting his penis blown off in Ukraine.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3482 on: July 26, 2024, 04:30:57 PM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3483 on: July 26, 2024, 11:07:13 PM »
First launch since the grounding
Suppose to go live at midnight

SpaceX Falcon 9 Returns to Flight / Starlink 10-9
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3484 on: July 27, 2024, 03:00:52 PM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3485 on: July 28, 2024, 07:43:42 AM »
Slow mo view of S30's engines during it's static fire.
Don't recall seeing this view before looking up at the engines as they fire

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1817312715758862485
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3486 on: July 28, 2024, 09:07:07 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on July 26, 2024, 10:19:04 AM
Crew 9 is currently scheduled for late August

https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/falcon-9-block-5-crew-9/

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-9/

Doubt that has anything to do with a rescue mission since it was already scheduled well in advance but if they suddenly pull 2 or 3 of the crew off then we'll know there's been a change of plans.

Currently showing Aug 18, 05:49 EDT https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/falcon-9-block-5-crew-9/

Edit: corrected date error
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3487 on: August 02, 2024, 12:29:45 PM »
T -10 minutes at time of posting

Rocket Lab - 'Owl For One, One For Owl' Launch
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3488 on: August 02, 2024, 02:53:49 PM »
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/nasa-may-return-starliner-astronauts-on-boeing-or-spacex.html

If NASA decides on the Starliner return and something bad happens, it will be like the Challenger disaster all over again for them.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3489 on: August 02, 2024, 03:21:38 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on August 02, 2024, 02:53:49 PM
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/nasa-may-return-starliner-astronauts-on-boeing-or-spacex.html

If NASA decides on the Starliner return and something bad happens, it will be like the Challenger disaster all over again for them.

Crew 9 is scheduled to go up Aug 18 and my guess they're have to make a decision a week or so before then assuming they don't move the date.
But to add a political element to this Elon is now openly supporting Trump and I fear that will color their decision making.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3490 on: August 02, 2024, 04:15:00 PM »
According to Scott Manley NASA needs to clear that docking port for Crew 9 so one way or another they need to do something with Starliner  before C9 launches
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3491 on: August 02, 2024, 07:18:47 PM »
https://x.com/TimFernholz/status/1819398918893195523/photo/1

That might make the decision for them. It is going to get crowded if the don't do something.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3492 on: August 03, 2024, 07:46:29 AM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3493 on: August 03, 2024, 09:47:14 AM »
Quote from: MillCreek on August 02, 2024, 02:53:49 PM
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/nasa-may-return-starliner-astronauts-on-boeing-or-spacex.html

If NASA decides on the Starliner return and something bad happens, it will be like the Challenger disaster all over again for them.

There's a thread on reddit with what seems to be a very knowledgeable person using pictures of the Starliner OMS/RCS "doghouse" enclosures to show why Starliner isn't likely to return with crew aboard, and NASA is almost certainly going to bring the crew back on Dragon.  They did piss poor thermal management.  Engine bells that only have radiative cooling are way too close to propellant lines.  Prop temperatures were getting too high, which is the reason the engines were shutting down.  Add to that, the heat is damaging pipe junctures and contributing to more and more helium leaks.

It can't burn enough to do a controlled de-orbit burn and not overheat the system.  De-orbit is even more demanding than the maneuvers already done to arrive at the ISS.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starliner/comments/1eiggns/boeing_cst100_starliner_crewed_flight_test_cft/#lightbox

My money is on this being the final nail in the Starliner coffin.  It will never fly again, and Boeing is going to have a big black eye for decades over this.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3494 on: August 03, 2024, 10:25:42 AM »
There's a lot of money and egos tied up in this thing coming back.  Asking SpaceX for a ride is something NASA REALLY doesn't want to do.

I wonder what they real (as opposed to what they tell the press) success percentage NASA and Boeing brass are prepared to accept to make this test end "successfully".  80%?  85%?  If they get it down with those guys on board, it's just some hicups that can be fixed with more money.  If Elon brings them home, I bet WLJ is right, Starliner is dead.  Of course if they pull a Cdr. Shepard* in the upper atmosphere, NASA and Boeing will get congressional hearings that make what the USSS went through this month seem calm and friendly.




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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3495 on: August 03, 2024, 10:43:47 AM »
Quote from: dogmush on August 03, 2024, 10:25:42 AM
If Elon brings them home, I bet WLJ is right, Starliner is dead. 

Wasn't me as I'm taking a wait and see attitude as to what they do with Starliner.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3496 on: August 03, 2024, 10:57:31 AM »
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3497 on: August 03, 2024, 06:14:25 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on August 03, 2024, 10:43:47 AM
Wasn't me as I'm taking a wait and see attitude as to what they do with Starliner.

My bad, AZRedhawk44 made that comment.
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3498 on: August 04, 2024, 10:14:38 AM »
2nd try
T-48 minutes at time of posting

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches CRS Cygnus NG-21
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Re: SpaceX News
« Reply #3499 on: August 04, 2024, 10:27:31 AM »
Quote from: dogmush on August 03, 2024, 06:14:25 PM
My bad, AZRedhawk44 made that comment.

I'm just not ready to write off Starliner just yet despite considering it a colossal waste of money that could of have been spend better elsewhere. One wonders where our space program would be right now if it wasn't for SpX.
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