SpaceX

[zandr]

https://ria.ru/science/20180311/1516104670.html

Илон Маск опубликовал новое видео запуска ракеты Falcon Heavy
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"Почему Falcon Heavy и Starman (манекен, сидящий за рулем автомобиля – ред.)? Жизнь не может быть просто решением одной скучной проблемы за другой. В ней должны быть вещи, которые вдохновляют вас, благодаря которым вы радостно просыпаетесь утром и становитесь частью человечества. Вот почему мы это сделали. Мы сделали это для вас", — написал Маск в своем Twitter.
Как сообщило издание The Verge, видео было создано другом Маска режиссером Джонатаном Ноланом. "Это не трейлер фильма. Это не трейлер для телешоу. Мы надеемся, что это будет трейлер для одной части следующей главы человеческой истории ", — заявил Нолан, впервые продемонстрировав зрителям свой видеоролик на ежегодном фестивале South by Southwest в субботу.

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Видеоролик включает в себя новые кадры, которые еще не видела публика. На них изображена подготовка к запуску, реакция и ликование зрителей, запуск ракеты в космос и видеокадры летящего в космосе автомобиля Tesla Roadster с манекеном за рулем. Кроме того, в видео показан момент крушения центрального ускорителя первой ступени ракеты-носителя Falcon Heavy, который не смог приземлиться на плавучую платформу, рухнул в воды Атлантического океана на скорости более 480 километров в час и разбился.
Успешный запуск новейшей ракеты-носителя Falcon Heavy состоялся в начале февраля с космодрома на мысе Канаверал (штат Флорида, США). Боковые блоки ракеты вернулись на Землю в скором времени после старта, а центральный разбился при посадке. При этом нагрузка первого запуска — спортивный автомобиль Tesla Roadster с манекеном в скафандре за рулем — вышла на гиперболическую орбиту Земли, после чего, согласно задумке компании SpaceX, отправится в путешествие в далекий космос по гелиоцентрической орбите: сначала пролетит орбиту Марса, а затем дальше к поясу астероидов.

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Robin Seemangal‏Подлинная учетная запись @nova_road 16 мин. назад

Shotwell confirmed that 50% of #SpaceX's 2018 launch manifest will use flight-proven Falcon 9 boosters #SATELLITE2018

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Вопросы и ответы с Илоном Маском на конференции SXSW 2018 |10.03.2018| (На русском)

[Apollo13]

https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article/1466539//

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, California, has been awarded a $290,594,130 firm-fixed-price contract for launch services to deliver the GPS III to its intended orbit.  This contract provides launch vehicle production, mission integration/launch operations/spaceflight worthiness and mission unique activities for a GPS III mission, with options for two additional GPS III launch services.  Work will be performed in Hawthorne, California; Cape Canaveral Air Force Space Station, Florida; and McGregor, Texas, and is expected to be complete by March 2020.  This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and two offers were received.  Fiscal 2017 and 2018 space procurement funding in the amount of $96,937,905 will be obligated at the time of award.  The Contracting Division, Launch Systems Enterprise Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California is the contracting activity (FA8811-18-C-0001).

290 млн за 3 пуска GPS III

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https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180314005049/en/Maxar-Technologies'-DigitalGlobe-Selects-SpaceX-Launch-Next-generation

Maxar Technologies' DigitalGlobe Selects SpaceX to Launch its Next-generation WorldView Legion Satellites

WorldView Legion will triple capacity in high-demand areas, with increased capital efficiency

March 14, 2018 07:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies Ltd. company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE and TSX: MAXR), today announced it has contracted with SpaceX to launch the next-generation WorldView Legion satellite imaging constellation.

"SpaceX is proud to partner with DigitalGlobe to launch the WorldView Legion constellation"

DigitalGlobe and SpaceX are two of the leading new space economy innovators, working together for the first time to launch the WorldView Legion constellation. The initial block of the multi-satellite WorldView Legion constellation will be launched by two flight-proven Falcon 9 rockets in 2021.

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The WorldView Legion constellation will incorporate DigitalGlobe's and its parent, Maxar's, most advanced capabilities in Earth observation and satellite construction technologies. It will double DigitalGlobe's ability to collect the world's highest resolution 30 cm satellite imagery and triple the capacity available over the highest-demand regions, while reducing capital investments by half relative to the GeoEye-1, WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellites it will replace. The satellites are being developed by SSL, another Maxar company and the global leader in commercial satellites.

"We are excited to partner with SpaceX, another pioneer in the new space economy, for this mission," said DigitalGlobe President Dan Jablonsky. "With access to more of the world's best imagery, collected more frequently, our government and commercial customers will be able to make decisions with confidence and understand our changing planet like never before."

"SpaceX is proud to partner with DigitalGlobe to launch the WorldView Legion constellation," said Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX. "We appreciate DigitalGlobe selecting two flight-proven Falcon 9's to reliably deliver their satellites to orbit."

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[Apollo13]

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/85i6rd/bfr_production_moves_to_los_angeles_harbor/

On Thursday evening, the Port of San Pedro 'Board of Harbor Commissioners' approved, without discussion, 'Environmental Management- ADOPTION OF THE FINAL INITIAL STUDY/MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION AND APPROVAL OF THE BERTH 240 TRANSPORTATION VESSELS MANUFACTURING FACILITY PROJECT'. SpaceX currently docks and re-cycles F-9's below Berth 54-55, the 16 acre SSA Chilean fruit warehouse; their expired 5 year lease was extended a few months ago and that 1,000 foot 1956 building has only a 30 ft clear-span. Berth 240 is about 18 acres. A pair of 500 X 250 ft archaic drydocks & 3 or 4 250 ft tall traveling cranes stand to the South, for a future expansion. I would think two could be rebuilt nicely    Half a million pounds of pea gravel has been recently brought to the site for upgrading hundred year old paving, and the on-site electric substation is scrap.

The proposed Project involves the issuance of a 10-year Lease (with up to two 10-year lease extension/renewal options) for the construction and operation of a facility to manufacture large commercial transportation vessels at Berth 240 off Seaside Avenue on Terminal Island. The approximately 18-acre proposed Project site includes portions of the former Southwest Marine site. The site is entirely disturbed with abandoned industrial buildings, unused compacted dirt area, and paved areas. Operation would involve research and development of transportation vessels and would likely include general manufacturing procedures such as welding, composite curing, cleaning, painting, and assembly operations. The majority of operations would take place inside the facility, with exterior operations limited to transit of vehicles, forklift traffic, and mobilization of manufactured products onto a barge at the dockside for testing and delivery. Finished vessels would need to be transported via water due to their size; thus there is the need to locate the facility immediately adjacent to the water. In addition, the lease would accommodate recovery operations undertaken by Space Exploration Technologies to bring to shore vehicles returning from space that are retrieved by an autonomous drone ship offshore.

Похоже новый завод для BFR будет в порту ЛА.

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Apollo13 пишет:
Похоже новый завод для BFR будет в порту ЛА.

Вполне возможно:

Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 5 ч. назад

This is believed to be the planned site of the #SpaceX BFR production facility at the Port of LA based on the Board of Harbor Commission's documents. https://www.portoflosangeles.org/Board/2018/March%202018/03_15_18_Special_Agenda_Item_7.pdf ... ... Credit to /u/OGquaker for the find.

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Они собираются возить BFR через Панамский канал, или как?   

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Eric Ralph‏ @13ericralph31 48 мин. назад

SpaceX's plan for a BFR manufacturing facility in Port of San Pedro. Both ~105 ft tall (!!!), a smaller Building A (65k sq. ft.) will be built and become part of the much larger 200k sq. ft. whole, est. completion 16-18 months (NET H2 2019) after demolition begins

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Georgea пишет:
Они собираются возить BFR через Панамский канал, или как?  

Да.

[Apollo13]

An Unexpected Journey: Spacecraft Transit the Panama Canal

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https://www.teslarati.com/spacexs-first-bfr-manufacturing-facility-approved-long-beach-port-la-photos/

SpaceX's first BFR manufacturing facility approved by the Port of LA

Eric Ralph
ByEric RalphPosted on March 19, 2018 REDDIT TWEET SHARE SHARE EMAIL COMMENTS
SpaceX has been given initial approval by the Port of Los Angeles to acquire and develop a massive vacant lot into a facility capable of manufacturing the first BFR prototypes and refurbishing the company's reusable Falcon 9 boosters. This approval is without a doubt the biggest step forward yet for the company's ultimate goal of sending massive spaceships to Mars.

A request summary completed on March 6 details SpaceX's proposal, laying out a bright future of rocket manufacturing for the abandoned 18-acre lot at Berth 240, one that might soon support "composite curing, cleaning, painting, and assembly [of commercial transportation vessels]" that "would need to be transported by water due to their size." This description meshes almost perfectly with past discussion of BFR manufacturing plans from SpaceX executives like Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, both of which have in the recent past affirmed the need for any BFR manufacturing facility to be located adjacent to a large body of water due to the difficulty of transporting rocket hardware as large as BFR.

Berth 240 spy shot (Pauline Acalin)Berth 240 spy shot 2 (Pauline Acalin)spacex san pedro
On March 15, around a week after the environmental impact assessment gave a green light for SpaceX's facility, Port of Los Angeles' Board of Harbor Commissioners approved the proposal, effectively giving SpaceX permission to begin serious demolition and construction activities at Berth 240, an abandoned lot located on the San Pedro side of the greater Port of Los Angeles, which refers to both Ports of San Pedro and Long Beach. To provide context, SpaceX's primary manufacturing facilities in Hawthorne, CA occupy 10-15 acres of urban real estate – in other words, even partial development of Berth 240's 18 acres would mark a huge expansion of the company's available manufacturing and refurbishment space, an absolute necessity for the construction of a launch vehicle as large as BFR.

The construction of such a facility would make it significantly easier for SpaceX to build its first BFR/BFS prototypes, avoiding the massive disruption and cost that transporting the 9m-diameter vehicle through downtown LA. Rather than dealing with that nightmare, SpaceX would instead be able to simply crane an assembled booster or spaceship onto a barge (perhaps a drone ship?) that would then ship the rocket hardware through the Panama Canal to the company's facilities in Cape Canaveral, FL or Boca Chica, TX.

While it is likely to take a fair amount of time to prepare the lot for the construction of a facility capable of manufacturing advanced composite rocket components, the wording in the Port documentation also suggests that SpaceX means to transfer its Falcon 9 recovery work to the new berth as soon as it's available. Indeed, the comparatively massive space would give SpaceX far more room for recovery operations with the drone ship Just Read The Instructions (JRTI), and could potentially become a one-stop-shop for booster recovery and refurbishment. As of now, boosters recovered on the West Coast are transported to the Hawthorne factory for all refurbishment work, operations that themselves already require brief road stoppages to accommodate the sheer size of Falcon 9. As of 2018, SpaceX is planning for BFR to be 50% taller and close to three times as wide as Falcon 9 (350 feet long and 30 feet in diameter).

Although SpaceX is specifically named in the study, the company appears to have created a distinct LLC to lease the lot, referred to as "WW Marine Composites" by the authors. At the point of publishing, WW Marine Composites does at least appear to exist, but that is the sum of all info available on the circa-2016 LLC. This obscure, stealthy LLC appears to continue SpaceX's habit of purchasing and leasing land through shell corporations, a common behavior of businesses thanks to its tax benefits and protection against liability. Finally, an additional document from December 2017 hints that SpaceX is still working closely with Janicki Industries, a globally-renowned carbon composite structures manufacturer that SpaceX tasked with the creation of the first 12m-diameter composite tank, revealed to the surprise of almost everyone in 2016 and soon after tested to destruction in 2017.

Regardless, it will be exciting to watch SpaceX develop what will likely become its newest property acquisition. BFR is a massive rocket and will require commensurately massive manufacturing hardware, hardware that is likely to be spotted by any number of eagle-eyed SpaceX fans and observers in the LA area. Berth 240 may also uniquely lend itself to some incredible photos of the company's progress, thanks in part to the fact that it's all but surrounded by shoreline that is accessible to the public. Teslarati photographer Pauline Acalin visited the site just after receiving insight on the latest development to get a feel for the location.

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https://twitter.com/octagrabber/status/975699747477557248

Она вернулся. Слава роботам!

[Apollo13]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/85f9bl/just_a_photo_from_lunch_today/

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 33 мин. назад

Upcoming boosters for #SpaceX missions:

- Iridium 5: B1041 (previously Iridium 3)
- CRS 14: B1039 (previously CRS-12)
- Bangabandhu: B1046 (new, first Block V)
- NASA TESS: B1045 (new, last Block IV)
- Iridium 6: B1043 (previously Zuma)

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 3 ч. назад

SpaceX commercial crew update. Lueders said in-flight abort test still scheduled between the uncrewed and crewed flight tests.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 3 ч. назад

Lueders: development of DM-1 (uncrewed) Dragon is making progress, on schedule to go to Plum Brook for environmental testing by the end of May.

3 ч. назад

Lueders: work on crew systems at LC-39A, including demolition of remaining part of rotating service structure, resuming after being on hold for a time for Falcon Heavy preps.

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WOW, ELON MUSK JUST DELETED THE FACEBOOK PAGES FOR SPACEX AND TESLA

... In a move that could prove rather harmful for the social media giant, Musk recently responded to the news by deleting the official Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX.  ...

  

... While SpaceX and Tesla still have Facebook pages and show up in searches, the official accounts appear to be gone. Musk chose to maintain the company's official Instagram account though, and used the opportunity to once again stress that he had little use for Facebook:

"Instagram's probably ok imo, so long as it stays fairly independent. I don't use FB & never have, so don't think I'm some kind of martyr or my companies are taking a huge blow. Also, we don't advertise or pay for endorsements, so ... don't care."

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DigitalGlobe books two launches with SpaceX for Earth-imaging fleet

Two Falcon 9 rockets with reused first stage boosters will place the initial block of DigitalGlobe's commercial WorldView Legion satellite fleet in orbit in 2021, the Earth-imaging company recently announced.

Financial terms of DigitalGlobe's contract with SpaceX were not disclosed in the March 14 contract release, and a DigitalGlobe spokesperson declined to specify how many satellites would fly on each Falcon 9 mission, or whether the flights would take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, or Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. ...

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http://tass.ru/kosmos/5083431

SpaceX вывела на орбиту 10 спутников, но не смогла плавно спустить головной обтекатель
НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 30 марта. /ТАСС/. Компания SpaceX в пятницу успешно вывела на орбиту 10 телекоммуникационных спутников Iridium NEXT, однако не смогла осуществить контролируемый спуск одного из элементов ракеты-носителя Falcon 9 - головного обтекателя. Об этом сообщается на страницах в Twitter компании и ее руководителя Илона Маска.
По словам Маска, обтекатель "ударился об воду на большой скорости". Причиной этого предварительно стало то, что не раскрылось должным образом парашютирующее крыло, с помощью которого должен был плавно спуститься данный элемент стоимостью около $6 млн. Глава SpaceX заявил, что последуют новые испытания. Из сообщений в Twitter компании следует, что все 10 спутников успешно вышли на орбиту.
Ракеты была запущена в пятницу с базы ВВС США Ванденберг (штат Калифорния) в 07:13 по времени Западного побережья США (17:13 мск). Первая ступень до этого была использована при отправке в космос спутников Iridium NEXT в октябре 2017 года и была возвращена на Землю. На этот раз осуществлять ее управляемый спуск не стали.
Ранее ожидалось, что запуск состоится в четверг. Операция была отложена в связи с проблемами с одним из спутников.

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Новейшие телекоммуникационные спутники Iridium NEXT принадлежат компании Iridium Communications. Этот международный оператор мобильной связи, базирующийся в американском штате Вирджиния, в партнерстве с франко-итальянской компанией Thales Alenia Space поставил задачу собрать и испытать 81 спутник Iridium NEXT.
Запуск по меньшей мере 75 таких аппаратов поручен SpaceX. Планируется, что все эти спутники будут находиться на орбите уже к середине 2018 года.

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