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> The Falcon fairing can only accommodate payloads 11.4m long. Are you sure? I was under impression I've read about 17 meters long fairing. Maybe for FH only.
by avmich 9y ago
> The Falcon fairing can only accommodate payloads 11.4m long.
Are you sure? I was under impression I've read about 17 meters long fairing. Maybe for FH only.
Edit: "The fairing itself is 43 feet high and 17 feet wide, big enough, as the company points out, to hold a city bus." http://www.cleveland.com/science/index.ssf/2013/05/nasas_plum_brook_station_tests.html http://www.cleveland.com/science/index.ssf/2013/05/nasas_plu... So, 43 feet or 13,1 m. And this perhaps include nose part, which is conical rather than cylindrical.
OTOH Bigelow can definitely adjust the size. And from what I saw on the explanation video, B330 grows both in diameter and in length when deployed. So - ?
- nkoren 9y agoYeah, here's a diagram showing the inner fairing dimensions: https://marssettlement.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/falcon9fairing17ft.jpg https://marssettlement.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/falcon9fa... "Fairing 2.0", which just flew yesterday for the first time, is larger but only by a few inches. It would indeed be possible for the Heavy to have a larger fairing, but Musk has said he'll only do that if the BFR looks like it's going to take longer than he expects.