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SpaceX cancelled their Crew Dragon mission to take a paying passenger aeround the Moon due to issues with certifying propulsive landing with NASA. It was assumed this mission would still fly, but on the BFR/BFS vehicles.
This assumption was correct. More on that in a minute.
BFS v-2018 starts hop, jump and sub-orbital test flights in H2 2019 at their South Texas Launch Center near Brownsville, Texas.
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell,
"There are some synergies between [SpaceX and Tesla]. We use Tesla batteries in our technology. We gave Tesla our enterprise information system. I think the first cars on Mars will be Teslas. I also think that we'll be Boring tunnels on Mars to live in."
[The Mars "Teslas" will likely be derivations of their upcoming Pickup truck which is expected to be a Class 6 - similar to a Ford F-650 commercial pickup]
"BFR will allow incredible flexibility. Could be used to retrieve a satellite in it's payload bay. BFR will allow people to work and live in space, and deploy technology that could not be previously. Will have an 8.5m diameter payload bay, which is Big... Big."
"The flexibility that BFR offers will change how we do everything in space."
"BFR has the capability to open its payload bay, bring a satellite back in, close it, pressurize it, work on it, and redeploy it."
"BFR will basically allow people to work and live in space."
Re: the Raptor full-flow staged combustion engine which burns super-chilled liquid methane and liquid oxygen,
* most of the difficulty of designing and building Raptor is already behind SpaceX
* now building flight-grade Raptor hardware
* Raptor is twice as powerful and dramatically more efficient than Merlin 1D
And here.we.go....
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1040397262248005632
@SpaceX
SpaceX has signed the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehiclean important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space. Find out who's flying and why on Monday, September 17.
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BFS closeup
Impressions,
BFS now appears to have a different engine cluster, 1 center and 6 circumferential, and a vertical tail. This new tail, plus larger horizontal fins, would allow BFS to land on its fins like a 1950's sci-fi rocket. The landing pads appear to be on exendable, self-leveling, legs in pods at the fin tips. Also a wider stance and more ground clearance.
Passenger and a BFR/BFS hardware update will be webcast Monday evening; 2100 Eastern, 0100 UT. We'll see then if my guesses are close.
This assumption was correct. More on that in a minute.
BFS v-2018 starts hop, jump and sub-orbital test flights in H2 2019 at their South Texas Launch Center near Brownsville, Texas.
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell,
"There are some synergies between [SpaceX and Tesla]. We use Tesla batteries in our technology. We gave Tesla our enterprise information system. I think the first cars on Mars will be Teslas. I also think that we'll be Boring tunnels on Mars to live in."
[The Mars "Teslas" will likely be derivations of their upcoming Pickup truck which is expected to be a Class 6 - similar to a Ford F-650 commercial pickup]
"BFR will allow incredible flexibility. Could be used to retrieve a satellite in it's payload bay. BFR will allow people to work and live in space, and deploy technology that could not be previously. Will have an 8.5m diameter payload bay, which is Big... Big."
"The flexibility that BFR offers will change how we do everything in space."
"BFR has the capability to open its payload bay, bring a satellite back in, close it, pressurize it, work on it, and redeploy it."
"BFR will basically allow people to work and live in space."
Re: the Raptor full-flow staged combustion engine which burns super-chilled liquid methane and liquid oxygen,
* most of the difficulty of designing and building Raptor is already behind SpaceX
* now building flight-grade Raptor hardware
* Raptor is twice as powerful and dramatically more efficient than Merlin 1D
And here.we.go....
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1040397262248005632
@SpaceX
SpaceX has signed the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehiclean important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space. Find out who's flying and why on Monday, September 17.
Full size image (3840)...
BFS closeup
Impressions,
BFS now appears to have a different engine cluster, 1 center and 6 circumferential, and a vertical tail. This new tail, plus larger horizontal fins, would allow BFS to land on its fins like a 1950's sci-fi rocket. The landing pads appear to be on exendable, self-leveling, legs in pods at the fin tips. Also a wider stance and more ground clearance.
Passenger and a BFR/BFS hardware update will be webcast Monday evening; 2100 Eastern, 0100 UT. We'll see then if my guesses are close.
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