The booster's sixth successful landing pushed SpaceX's record to 58 first stage recoveries, 39 on drone ships.
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Still, I am a pest. I have wondered why they just don't use a U.A.V. with grabber jaws (Rubbery), to fly out to it bite it and fly it home on a it's own lifting capability of the fairing itself (Not sure it has such), and it's gliding parachute.
The U.A.V would be air breathing.
If they really go good at it they might do similar for other packages dropped from orbit.
This would likely be a aircraft with an airbreathing, Hydrocarbon fuel engine. They could fly it to the net, or maybe even just fly it to a spaceport. (That's a longer haul).
Have I missed a problem with that?
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Looks like a titanium check valve on the Super Draco portion of the system (separate from the Draco attitude thrusters) between the helium pressurant and the NTO oxidizer leaked NTO into the helium side. Upon sudden pressurization, conditions were energetic enough to cause ignition between the titantium and the NTO, bursting the valve and causing the explosion.
The check valve is being replaced with a burst disc, which cannot leak until pressurized to burst.
Be aware that a burst disc is a one-shot device. This means the Super Draco thrusters can only be ignited once. In turn that means the Super Dracos can never be used for a powered landing that requires more than one burn. No one is talking about that.
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SpaceX filed documents in late 2017 with the US FCC to clarify their space debris mitigation plan. The company will "implement an operations plan for the orderly de-orbit of satellites nearing the end of their useful lives (roughly five to seven years) at a rate far faster than is required under international standards. [Satellites] will de-orbit by propulsively moving to a disposal orbit from which they will reenter the Earth's atmosphere within approximately one year after completion of their mission."
Quote (From the link of my previous post):
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The master plan calls for an initial constellation of more than 4,400 satellites, followed by a second set of 7,500 satellites. All those satellites, plus up to a million ground terminals, are meant to serve as the foundation for an Internet access service that Musk hopes will generate the revenue for building a city on Mars.
So....Umm....I don't know all that much about this. But sometimes I like to dip into the unknown. That is how it might get better known.
All I know is that they will have competition, and that includes Amazon now. Why are both of my tech parents daddies and why are they younger than me? How does that work? Ummm… really, we won't know until we know, if we can recognize that we know when we do know, if we do...ever.
real stupid and admitting it.
Dompe.
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