What to launch on a brand new rocket?
It seems unwise to put a billion-dollar satellite on it if you're worried it might go bang. Why not do this instead?
The original picture seems to have been erased from the internet, so have a new one instead:
Bonus pics of the rocket in question:
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 22 Dec 2017, 9:30,
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Seems a bit of a waste.
Bet they're a lot of Universities that would love to add a mini sat into that payload for nowt.
Guess there's no such thing as a free launch.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 22 Dec 2017, 10:59,
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ISWYDT
Very good.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 22 Dec 2017, 11:26,
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Is he going to claim it as the fastest electric car in history?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 22 Dec 2017, 12:38,
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In all honesty, why dont NASA sell the design or license Musk to build
Teh original F1 lift engines from the Saturn V?
With modern materiels these would make an awesome engine.
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fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Fri 22 Dec 2017, 18:41,
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Well I'm sure Rocketdyne would still make them if anyone asked them. They built the original engines under contract for the Saturn rockets and there's still some talk about using them on an uprated SLS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1
Ultimately though SpaceX built their own engine from scratch as they wanted to control their supply lines to keep costs as low as possible. The Merlin engine they built is a pretty impressive beast in it's own right as it is fully reusable. Their next gen engine the Raptor is going to be a good deal more powerful than the Merlin and much more efficient than either.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 22 Dec 2017, 21:30,
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Efficiency and availability of welders
Also, each engine was unique and fiddled with until it reached specs...
Some info here:
arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-monstrous-f-1-moon-rocket-back-to-life/
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why is it I don't fully trust Musk?
And once saw a video of spacex engineers that looked like some weird cult of high-fiving brogrammers
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Erm, most engineering teams are.
That why management never allows clients near us.
It does not help that last time they did, due to excessive grinding, my fireproof boilersuit caught fire, my colleagues put it out using a garden hose and we were laughing so hard tears were rolling down our faces.
Then the watertight door started beeping as it slowly opened.
And we laughed even harder.
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I was thinking more the current cult of hacker man-children
Calling themselves 'ninjas' 'rockstars' and other such bollocks. I'm thinking more IT than physical engineering.
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OH you’re talking about electricians.
Bloody electricians/soft engineers ruin EVERYTHING.
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^this
I saw an ad for Javascript programmer in Shoreditch. They were asking for a 'software ronin'
FUCKOFFUCKOFFFUCKOFF
Fucking hipsters and their fucking Javascript and fucking black theme editors
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simbosan is too tired, Sat 23 Dec 2017, 14:52,
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yep, exactly that
but at least there their mad skillz are only breaking websites rather than rockets
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In other rocket news:
Mitsubishi sent one up: youtube.com/watch?v=6AOFDc6zs8U
And Space X added 10 iridium satellites: www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/23/spacex-rocket-dazzles-in-california-sky-as-it-carries-10-satellites-into-space
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