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Repairs taking place on SpaceX drone ship following SES-11 booster landing

67 points by johnny313 9y ago

lemoncucumber 9y ago
The drone ship was quoted as having no hard feelings about the incident. When asked to comment its only response was, "of course I still love you."
- walrus01 9y ago
  in my opinion they really missed the opportunity to name it: Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath or the Rocinante, which would be a nice meta-Expanse reference and itself a pretty decent literary reference.
  - m_mueller 9y ago
    wouldn't Rocinante be better for one of the BFS?
iaw 9y ago
I have to hand it to them, they are doing a damn good job on safety. I wonder how this bodes for the future of hazardous professions like offshore oil-drilling.
- SEJeff 9y ago
  They probably won't be landing rockets on oil rigs, so probably not very much related.
  - ceejayoz 9y ago
    If they keep upping their launch cadence, I suspect they'll actually need something similar to an oil rig permanently sited instead of running the ships back and forth all the time.
    - Analemma_ 9y ago
      Are all those landings in the same spot? I was under the impression that the LZ can be all over the place depending on the weight/trajectory of the payload.
      - ceejayoz 9y ago
        Heavy payloads and ones destined for geostationary orbit currently need a drone ship, whereas lighter payloads or ones for low orbit can return to the launch site. I'm not sure how much the drone ship launches deviate in a north/south or east/west direction for ship landings (couldn't find a map). The boosters have a fairly significant ability to maneuver, and a fixed platform may offer enough benefits to slightly limit payload sizes. Falcon Heavy will also help there.
        mikeash 9y ago
        Eventually, BFR will have enough performance margin to return to the launch site on all missions. I suspect SpaceX wouldn't want to invest in any fixed oceanic infrastructure when their next generation system wouldn't have any use for it.
        ceejayoz 9y ago
        Their BFR video showed sea platforms near cities being used for launch/landing for Earth-to-Earth transit, though.
        tcheard 9y ago
        I believe that is more because most cities won't want a really loud rocket launching/landing nearby.
        gozur88 9y ago
        BFR will have enough performance margin to RTL for missions with F9 sized payloads. But eventually customers will want heavier payloads, and that will mean no RTL.
speeq 9y ago
More pics from /r/spacex: https://imgur.com/a/CwL5w https://imgur.com/a/CwL5w
mikeash 9y ago
This used to happen a lot, when they were regularly crashing rockets into the ship rather than landing them. There was a joke in the fan community that the Falcon 9 was actually a really ineffective anti-ship missile. At least one of them punched a nice hole through the deck: https://imgur.com/fWNb1zo https://imgur.com/fWNb1zo
- SEJeff 9y ago
  Talk about RUD!
  - mikeash 9y ago
    I almost miss photos of debris-covered ships coming back into port. Almost.
eltoozero 9y ago
Intrigued by the Octograbber, haven't seen it before but here's some discussion[0]. Looks like it scoots under the landing legs, latches on to the booster and provides additional vertical support via hydraulic jacks until the booster can be welded to the deck by the crew. GIS has a bunch of pics too. Maybe they could just leave it attached and drive around the stack on those little tank treads. [0]: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42511.0 http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42511.0
dang 9y ago
Url changed from http://www.parabolicarc.com/2017/10/24/spacex-drone-ship-damaged-after-falcon-landing/ http://www.parabolicarc.com/2017/10/24/spacex-drone-ship-dam..., which points to this.
thezealot 9y ago
Can't wait to see one continuous shot of a rocket from launchpad to entering space.
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67 points by johnny313 9y ago

The drone ship was quoted as having no hard feelings about the incident. When asked to comment its only response was, "of course I still love you."

walrus01 9y ago
in my opinion they really missed the opportunity to name it: Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath or the Rocinante, which would be a nice meta-Expanse reference and itself a pretty decent literary reference.
- m_mueller 9y ago
  wouldn't Rocinante be better for one of the BFS?

iaw 9y ago

I have to hand it to them, they are doing a damn good job on safety. I wonder how this bodes for the future of hazardous professions like offshore oil-drilling.

SEJeff 9y ago
They probably won't be landing rockets on oil rigs, so probably not very much related.
- ceejayoz 9y ago
  If they keep upping their launch cadence, I suspect they'll actually need something similar to an oil rig permanently sited instead of running the ships back and forth all the time.
  - Analemma_ 9y ago
    Are all those landings in the same spot? I was under the impression that the LZ can be all over the place depending on the weight/trajectory of the payload.
    - ceejayoz 9y ago
      Heavy payloads and ones destined for geostationary orbit currently need a drone ship, whereas lighter payloads or ones for low orbit can return to the launch site. I'm not sure how much the drone ship launches deviate in a north/south or east/west direction for ship landings (couldn't find a map). The boosters have a fairly significant ability to maneuver, and a fixed platform may offer enough benefits to slightly limit payload sizes. Falcon Heavy will also help there.
      - mikeash 9y ago
        Eventually, BFR will have enough performance margin to return to the launch site on all missions. I suspect SpaceX wouldn't want to invest in any fixed oceanic infrastructure when their next generation system wouldn't have any use for it.
        ceejayoz 9y ago
        Their BFR video showed sea platforms near cities being used for launch/landing for Earth-to-Earth transit, though.
        tcheard 9y ago
        I believe that is more because most cities won't want a really loud rocket launching/landing nearby.
        gozur88 9y ago
        BFR will have enough performance margin to RTL for missions with F9 sized payloads. But eventually customers will want heavier payloads, and that will mean no RTL.

speeq 9y ago

More pics from /r/spacex: https://imgur.com/a/CwL5w https://imgur.com/a/CwL5w

mikeash 9y ago

This used to happen a lot, when they were regularly crashing rockets into the ship rather than landing them. There was a joke in the fan community that the Falcon 9 was actually a really ineffective anti-ship missile. At least one of them punched a nice hole through the deck: https://imgur.com/fWNb1zo https://imgur.com/fWNb1zo

SEJeff 9y ago
Talk about RUD!
- mikeash 9y ago
  I almost miss photos of debris-covered ships coming back into port. Almost.

eltoozero 9y ago

Intrigued by the Octograbber, haven't seen it before but here's some discussion[0]. Looks like it scoots under the landing legs, latches on to the booster and provides additional vertical support via hydraulic jacks until the booster can be welded to the deck by the crew. GIS has a bunch of pics too. Maybe they could just leave it attached and drive around the stack on those little tank treads. [0]: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42511.0 http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42511.0

dang 9y ago

Url changed from http://www.parabolicarc.com/2017/10/24/spacex-drone-ship-damaged-after-falcon-landing/ http://www.parabolicarc.com/2017/10/24/spacex-drone-ship-dam..., which points to this.

thezealot 9y ago

Can't wait to see one continuous shot of a rocket from launchpad to entering space.

soniawalker234 9y ago

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