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How far will Falcon Heavy fly - and how many boosters will land succesfuly

  • Explode on launchpad

    Votes: 1 2.8%

  • Explode in flight before max Q (maximum dynamic pressure)

    Votes: 3 8.3%

  • Explode at Max Q

    Votes: 2 5.6%

  • Explode before fairing release

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No explosion

    Votes: 10 27.8%

  • 1 Landing booster

    Votes: 1 2.8%

  • 2 Landing boosters

    Votes: 14 38.9%

  • 3 Landing boosters

    Votes: 17 47.2%
  • Total voters
    36
Cepak said:
OK, a more fair comparison. During the joint Senate-NASA presentation in September 2011, it was stated that the SLS program has a projected development cost of $18 billion through 2017, with $10 billion for the SLS rocket, $6 billion for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and $2 billion for upgrades to the launch pad and other facilities at Kennedy Space Center.

Do we really know what the true costs of the SLS program are?
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I don't know but the SLS is a huge waste of money imo.

They could of used the existing shuttle large tank, its boosters, the shuttle main engines and most of the ground launching system to make an expandable rocket with planetary trajectory without slingshotting at a fraction of the cost.

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But the politicians got involved and wanted more jobs programs for their states. That's all the SLS is, it doesn't even have a defined purpose yet. How fucking sad is that.
 
Cepak said:
OK, a more fair comparison. During the joint Senate-NASA presentation in September 2011, it was stated that the SLS program has a projected development cost of $18 billion through 2017, with $10 billion for the SLS rocket, $6 billion for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and $2 billion for upgrades to the launch pad and other facilities at Kennedy Space Center.

Do we really know what the true costs of the SLS program are?
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And that is reusing a decent amount of manufacturing and parts from the shuttle program.
 
ElFenix said:
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That is awesome.

I bet Elon has a giant OLED wall in his man cave that simply displays the feed from the Starman cam. I mean, why wouldn't you?

"Yep. That's my car. I own that company and helped design that car. I put it in space with my own rocketship company. And it's going to Mars"
 
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Thebobo said:
Correction, there was a small problem with the burn.

https://www.inverse.com/article/41032-elon-musk-tesla-roadster-miss-mars-deep-space

Tuesday’s test mission of the Falcon Heavy proved that the SpaceX rocket is in fact the world’s most powerful operational booster. But it might have even been a little too powerful for its precious payload.

The launch was supposed to send Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster into orbit around the sun, where it would fly by Mars and Earth over and over again. But late on Tuesday night, Musk tweeted an image depicting the current trajectory of his vehicle, and it’s not going according to plan.

“Third burn successful,” wrote Musk. “Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt.”

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Trajectory of Musk's Roadster.
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Check this out with headphones

I would recommend you watch the whole thing but you can go to the Launch at 3:15 and the landing sonic booms at 6:40. But wear headphones and turn up the volume!

 
Thebobo said:
Yea I mentioned that in an earlier post. You would need a control system and thrusters to keep the space craft oriented to the sun. I was hoping someone would of asked him about that last night at the press conference.

One thing I did learn from the press conference is that it was his investment alone in the falcon heavy, costing him around $500 million to develop.
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Would of? LOL
 
Elon Musk runs an electric car company, puts an electric car into space, and the batteries running the cameras and radio die after just a few hours?
 
IronWing said:
Elon Musk runs an electric car company, puts an electric car into space, and the batteries running the cameras and radio die after just a few hours?
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Not to mention a certain solar company 😀

Maybe the Roadster is actually a Transformer-like, space energy weapons platform. Pew pew pew.
 
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Anyone have a picture of what the car looked like with the stage 2 attached to it?

EDIT: found it
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TXHokie said:
Let's hope when the Mars mission comes, they'll do better orbital trajectory calculation. Altho missing an exit and ending up taking a leisure cruise in a Tesla convertible isn't such a bad thing.
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As the article mentioned, SpaceX was more interested in “showing off” a maneuver to the Air Force than an exact Mars orbit. (Plus, there are companies interested in mining on the asteroid belt, so suggesting that distance capability is good for business, too.)
 
NoTine42 said:
As the article mentioned, SpaceX was more interested in “showing off” a maneuver to the Air Force than an exact Mars orbit. (Plus, there are companies interested in mining on the asteroid belt, so suggesting that distance capability is good for business, too.)
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This is the part that interests me. Without actually trying for it, they squeezed out the delta-v required to push to the belt, that's huge for prospects for commercial mining (or at least scouting missions) should anyone be willing to put up the scratch to cover it.
 
[DHT]Osiris said:
This is the part that interests me. Without actually trying for it, they squeezed out the delta-v required to push to the belt, that's huge for prospects for commercial mining (or at least scouting missions) should anyone be willing to put up the scratch to cover it.
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Yea that's one thing Elon said in the press conference after the launch that the FH can launch heavy payloads straight to the outer planets no longer having to swing around the sun and slingshot around other planets get to the outer Solar system.

The Cassini probe took 7 years to get Saturn

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