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How on earth are all your answers so informative and authoritative? Do you work in the industry? SpaceX employee? Enthusiast? Honestly; thank you for taking th
by igravious 9y ago
How on earth are all your answers so informative and authoritative? Do you work in the industry? SpaceX employee? Enthusiast?
Honestly; thank you for taking the time to spread the knowledge.
- ragebol 9y ago/r/SpaceX [0] is very very informative [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/ https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/
- JshWright 9y agoIt can be, but the moderation is very heavy handed... I don't tend to visit there much anymore.
- jccooper 9y agoThat's why it's informative.
- JshWright 9y agoIt's rarely the only (or even first) source of any particular piece of information, and with only a couple new posts a day from "approved" posters, there's just not enough there to warrant visiting often.
- SEJeff 9y agor/SpaceXLounge for the same people with less moderation
- JshWright 9y agoJust a passionate enthusiast with some friends in the industry. Here's a source on the engines being started in pairs: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/spacex-aims-december-launch-falcon-heavy/ https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/spacex-aims-december...
- robocat 9y agoRelevant quote from that link: "Instead, Falcon Heavy will take a page from the Space Shuttle’s book and will employ a staggered start sequence – like main engine start on Shuttle where each main engine started 120 milliseconds after the previous. For Falcon Heavy, it is understood that two engines will be lit simultaneously followed by the next two… and so on until all 27 are up and running."
- igravious 9y agoWell, thanks very much. Go Falcon Heavy!
- w8vY7ER 9y agoI read this thread much deeper than I normally would because of the interesting comments that user made, thanks indeed!