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Re: SpaceX launch
« Reply #300 on: November 04, 2019, 02:20:43 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NLQ4bO-f58

Our competion at work, FF to 24:50 for the action, notice the brown clowd

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« Reply #301 on: November 04, 2019, 05:01:37 PM »
Phil,
Just guessing but is the brown cloud due to solid rocket fuel vs liquid? Or can you not say the importance of the brown cloud.  :popcorn:
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« Reply #302 on: November 04, 2019, 07:42:41 PM »
Most RCS(Reaction Control Systems) thrusters are what is known as Biprop, a fuel and an oxidizer.  Typically for Fuel Hydrzine, MMH, N2H4 and then NTO Nitrogen Tetroxide, N2O4  so the Hydrizine and NTO are hypergolic (burn when come in contact) so in VERY basic terms you spray the two at one another into a chamber that burning mixture goes out thru a orifice and you make thrust.

 The big brown cloud you see is the NTO, your life expectancy is pretty short after a couple breaths as the NTO breaks down to Nitric Acid in your lungs so you drown on your own fluids.  The hydrazine attacks the central nervous system it wont kill you right away but your days a numbered as long term exposure is what dose you in.  Your body cannot process the Hydzine so it just rides around in you system until it gives you cancer or some other problem.  I hate to think how many years i have shaved off my life!!!! 

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« Reply #303 on: November 04, 2019, 08:47:59 PM »
Most RCS(Reaction Control Systems) thrusters are what is known as Biprop, a fuel and an oxidizer.  Typically for Fuel Hydrzine, MMH, N2H4 and then NTO Nitrogen Tetroxide, N2O4  so the Hydrizine and NTO are hypergolic (burn when come in contact) so in VERY basic terms you spray the two at one another into a chamber that burning mixture goes out thru a orifice and you make thrust.

 The big brown cloud you see is the NTO, your life expectancy is pretty short after a couple breaths as the NTO breaks down to Nitric Acid in your lungs so you drown on your own fluids.  The hydrazine attacks the central nervous system it wont kill you right away but your days a numbered as long term exposure is what dose you in.  Your body cannot process the Hydzine so it just rides around in you system until it gives you cancer or some other problem.  I hate to think how many years i have shaved off my life!!!!
Yikes. Check. Stay away from NTO and Hydrazine.

How does that propellant differ from the SpaceX fuel?


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« Reply #304 on: November 05, 2019, 10:00:55 AM »
Didn't the Nazi war machine have problems with hydrazine when fuelling the rockets they flew during WW2. I believe that fuel was hyopgolic as well. First used in the manned comet, then the V2 as well...Do I have that right?
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« Reply #305 on: November 05, 2019, 10:32:09 AM »
Didn't the Nazi war machine have problems with hydrazine when fuelling the rockets they flew during WW2. I believe that fuel was hyopgolic as well. First used in the manned comet, then the V2 as well...Do I have that right?

Negative, they were using ethanol Among other things that didn't play nice with people and equipment, it was liquid fuel LOX and ethanol.  Of note the V2 was a copy of Goddard's design the Germans just copied the design for the info they got off the patent they got a copy of the patent from the US patent office.

Hydrazine didn't start to be used in space applications until the 50's, made by Olin(Winchester).  The French are the ones that came up with a very weak from of Hydrazine in the 1800's, they developed it to use as fungicide for grapes but it has a great secondary feature as it breaks down it forms ammonia which is a great fertilizer. 

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« Reply #306 on: November 05, 2019, 10:53:00 AM »
more to come on this if anyone is interested
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« Reply #307 on: November 05, 2019, 11:37:06 AM »
OK, copy that
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« Reply #308 on: November 05, 2019, 12:23:50 PM »
more to come on this if anyone is interested

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« Reply #309 on: November 05, 2019, 01:16:44 PM »
Count me in as always interested in what you post Phil!  :beercheers:
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« Reply #310 on: November 05, 2019, 07:10:28 PM »
Phil is the cliff Clavin of space travel. I’m totally in for more history lessons. Fascinating stuff!!


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« Reply #311 on: November 06, 2019, 07:54:50 AM »
Phil,

Not sure if you follow this stuff but what I find amazing is that after hurling through space for 42 years it is still working and sending back data.

This was created when they had rooms full of computers that equal the computing power that we have on our wrist now.

I wonder if the stuff we are making today will have the same resilience.   


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« Reply #312 on: November 10, 2019, 08:36:37 PM »
ok back to real space work,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIDuv0Ta0XQ


This is the second launch of 60ea Spacex built birds, to date 120ea have been launched

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« Reply #313 on: November 11, 2019, 08:48:34 AM »
All is looking good for this morning

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« Reply #314 on: November 11, 2019, 09:44:51 AM »
T-minus 10min

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« Reply #315 on: November 11, 2019, 11:35:56 AM »
Still get chills watching it!  :likebutton:
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« Reply #316 on: November 11, 2019, 12:41:47 PM »
From this morning, pretty fitting on veterans day

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« Reply #317 on: November 11, 2019, 04:55:13 PM »
An actual booster rocket on its 4th flight!

SpaceX is setting records with each launch.

Incredible is a word that doesn't seem adequate to describe all of this!

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« Reply #318 on: November 11, 2019, 09:16:58 PM »
+ the payload fairing was a refly also.

BUT the best part of the day is watching the satellites fly over the factory where it was all built about 12 hours later.  Really cool to see them go shooting by.  Pictures to come!
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« Reply #319 on: November 12, 2019, 10:06:40 AM »
This is so cool.  :likebutton:
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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« Reply #320 on: November 12, 2019, 09:08:25 PM »
From last nights pass over Hawthorne

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« Reply #321 on: November 13, 2019, 10:59:18 AM »
cool timelapse
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« Reply #322 on: January 17, 2020, 11:16:47 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhrkdHshb3E

If you have time tomorrow and the weather holds, please try to watch this as it will be a first for the USA space program.

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« Reply #323 on: January 17, 2020, 09:30:33 PM »
And it will probably hit orbit correctly unlike Boeing....just sayin


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« Reply #324 on: January 17, 2020, 10:50:49 PM »
This launch will never make orbit, this is the test of our IFA (in flight abort) so we will blow up the first stage and demonstrate the capsule can get away and return every alive.

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« Reply #325 on: January 18, 2020, 01:35:28 PM »
Did you say, "Blow up" something?

Yea, something I can sink ma teeth into! :evil:

So you do have ex-Armee Rangers werkin for the Space X'ers! :likebutton:

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« Reply #326 on: January 18, 2020, 01:55:31 PM »
I surmised as much..Was a poor attempt at throwing shade at Boeing and their latest failure.


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« Reply #327 on: January 19, 2020, 10:42:36 AM »
If you didnt get to see it,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhrkdHshb3E

Lots of hard work to get to this point.

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« Reply #328 on: January 19, 2020, 10:43:12 AM »
Just watched the live launch and test. Complete success!


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« Reply #329 on: January 19, 2020, 11:10:51 AM »
Next up is people, then no more Russian money.


AND we are launching another 60 satellites tomorrow if all goes well.

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« Reply #330 on: January 19, 2020, 01:38:53 PM »
Congrats Phil.  That engineer narrator’s voice reminds me of the guy on Motor Trend


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« Reply #331 on: January 19, 2020, 03:55:17 PM »
You guys seem to have a good lead on the Boeing at this point

Congrats for the SX team!
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« Reply #332 on: January 19, 2020, 07:31:19 PM »
It not that Boeing dose bad engineering but they are a perfect example of what happens when you farm many aspects of a program out to different groups and companies and rely on them to deliver a good product.

Reason you dont see that happen with SpaceX is we do 90% of everything ourselves.

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« Reply #333 on: January 19, 2020, 08:49:24 PM »
I get feedback from someone in the (pilot) industry the whole issue was trying to fix a problem that was not there. Old system worked fine and would have on the new Max. Sensors not needed and fed to system that overroad the pilots input. 
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« Reply #334 on: January 24, 2020, 08:49:20 PM »
So just witnessed the weirdest thing.
I’m hopin Phil will confirm the launch of 60 new satellites.

Was out dumping the ash pail and a satellite caugh my eye.
Then another shortly behind.
Then another, then like 20-30-40 more. Had time to get a look at a line of satellites all the way to the horizon, holler at mama to come out, and her to see as well.

All in a row, neatly and evenly spaced, far as the eye could see, all on about he same trajectory.
Got cold without a coat but t here was many of them.

Danged if it wasn’t one of the coolest things I’ve seen in the sky.
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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« Reply #335 on: January 24, 2020, 09:32:19 PM »
That is so cool, glad you were able to pick them out. Who says living way up there doesn't have advantages.

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« Reply #336 on: January 25, 2020, 08:19:33 PM »
So just witnessed the weirdest thing.
I’m hopin Phil will confirm the launch of 60 new satellites.

Was out dumping the ash pail and a satellite caugh my eye.
Then another shortly behind.
Then another, then like 20-30-40 more. Had time to get a look at a line of satellites all the way to the horizon, holler at mama to come out, and her to see as well.

All in a row, neatly and evenly spaced, far as the eye could see, all on about he same trajectory.
Got cold without a coat but t here was many of them.

Danged if it wasn’t one of the coolest things I’ve seen in the sky.

Yes what you are seeing was the last group of 60 we put up a couple weeks ago,  in a couple more weeks you wont see them like that anymore.  But dont worry we are putting up 60 more on Monday if the weather holds.  BTW SpaceX is now the largest operator of satellites in the world now.

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« Reply #338 on: February 26, 2020, 02:11:34 PM »
a literal "sky-net"  :likebutton:
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« Reply #339 on: February 27, 2020, 07:51:45 AM »
Where can I get my "pizza box" receiver  :popcorn:

I would love 3.6ms Latency between here and Germany!

It really is amazing that all of this exciting stuff is going on and you rarely see anything in the press about it.
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« Reply #340 on: March 04, 2020, 06:57:31 PM »
Coming Very Soon, well the press is something we will not talk about there.

We are living in exciting times!!

for those of you that are in Texas or will be in Texas.

https://spacecenter.org/spacex/

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« Reply #342 on: April 18, 2020, 12:09:57 AM »
I read about that earlier, exciting stuff
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« Reply #343 on: April 18, 2020, 11:07:49 AM »
SpaceX now firmly entrenched in the defense contractor/governmental complex

The outright brilliance and vision of Elon Musk is staggering.
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« Reply #344 on: April 19, 2020, 08:49:52 AM »
Must be the weed.  His is probably better than what I had in high school. 

Seriously though makes me want to stand up and shout ‘Merica!

About time we stopped relying on Russia. Now to deal with the Chicoms


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« Reply #346 on: April 30, 2020, 02:22:40 PM »
A very good thing!  :likebutton:

We need to take it all away from the Russian's and never use them again.
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« Reply #347 on: April 30, 2020, 06:57:24 PM »
Milestone stuff!

But, like everything the "X" has done is milestone!

I wonder who the first gal will be?
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« Reply #349 on: May 10, 2020, 05:08:19 PM »
its going to be an interesting year

 

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