SpaceX Falcon 9

[Lamort]

Не косяк, а скорее отсутствие второго экземпляра оной. А если он и есть, то уже видимо расписан на следующий пуск к МКС.

Скорее всего в данный момент все заняты подготовкой наиболее ответственной миссии и разделение сил просто запрещено, я бы сделал точно так же, если бы обладал ограниченными ресурсами.

[Salo]

Есть ощущение, что данной численности персонала уже совершенно недостаточно для выполнения законтрактованного объёма работ в заданные сроки. С производственными мощностями похоже картина схожая.

[avmich]

Интересно, до какого уровня у них автоматизация и информатизация подняты.

[Valerij]

Есть ощущение, что данной численности персонала уже совершенно недостаточно для выполнения законтрактованного объёма работ в заданные сроки. С производственными мощностями похоже картина схожая.

О наличии необходимых мощностей Маск заявлял уже давно. А вот персонала и денег у него сейчас может действительно не хватать.

[Lamort]

Есть ощущение, что данной численности персонала уже совершенно недостаточно для выполнения законтрактованного объёма работ в заданные сроки. С производственными мощностями похоже картина схожая.

Главное, что ещё нет опыта, это не "Вась, пойди отвинти там-то гайку на 17", от того, что людей будет больше в ключевых местах работа не станет быстрее или станет очень незначительно.

[Дмитрий Виницкий]

Интересно, чего не хватало у боинга в случае шаттлов? Неужели, технических проблем не могли решить без дополнительных спецов?

[Salo]

О наличии необходимых мощностей Маск заявлял уже давно.

Он заявлял много чего.
Из недавнего: Драгон готов лететь в ноябре- начале декабря. Задержка только за русскими, уронившими Прогресс. Теперь русские уж точно не мешают. Окно в месяц с 7 февраля по 9 марта свободное.

И что мы теперь имеем видеть?

В марте практически нет окна для Драгона.

Current schedule of ISS flight events
UTC time is used in table

2012
January 23 - Progress M-13M undocking (from Pirs)
January 24 - Chibis-M satellite separation from Progress M-13M
January 25 - Progress M-13M deorbit
January 25 - Progress M-14M launch
January 28 - Progress M-14M docking (to Pirs)
February 14 - spacewalk (ISS Russian EVA-30) from Pirs airlock [Kononenko, Shkaplerov]
March 9 - ATV-3 "Edoardo Amaldi" launch
March 16 - Soyuz TMA-22 undocking (from Poisk) and landing [Shkaplerov, Ivanishin, Burbank]
March 19 - ATV-3 "Edoardo Amaldi" docking (to Zvezda)
March 30 - Soyuz TMA-04M launch [Padalka, Revin, Acaba]
April 1 - Soyuz TMA-04M docking (to Poisk)
April 24 - Progress M-14M undocking (from Pirs)
April 25 - Progress M-15M launch
April 27 - Progress M-15M docking (to Pirs)
April - Progress M-14M deorbit
May 16 - Soyuz TMA-03M undocking (from Rassvet) and landing [Kononenko, Kuipers, Pettit]
May 30 - Soyuz TMA-05M launch [Malenchenko, S.Williams, Hoshide]
June 1 - Soyuz TMA-05M docking (to Rassvet)
June - spacewalk (ISS Russian EVA-31) from Pirs airlock [Padalka, TBD]
June 26 - HTV-3 "Kounotori-3" launch
July 1 - HTV-3 "Kounotori-3" capture and berthing (to Harmony nadir) by SSRMS
July 24 - Progress M-15M undocking (from Pirs)
July 25 - Progress M-16M launch
July 27 - Progress M-16M docking (to Pirs)

Есть небольшие окна в апреле, июне и июле.

[Lamort]

О наличии необходимых мощностей Маск заявлял уже давно.

Он заявлял много чего.
Из недавнего: Драгон готов лететь в ноябре- начале декабря. Задержка только за русскими, уронившими Прогресс. Теперь русские уж точно не мешают. Окно в месяц с 7 февраля по 9 марта свободное.

И что мы теперь имеем видеть?

В марте практически нет окна для Драгона.

Current schedule of ISS flight events
UTC time is used in table

2012
January 23 - Progress M-13M undocking (from Pirs)
January 24 - Chibis-M satellite separation from Progress M-13M
January 25 - Progress M-13M deorbit
January 25 - Progress M-14M launch
January 28 - Progress M-14M docking (to Pirs)
February 14 - spacewalk (ISS Russian EVA-30) from Pirs airlock [Kononenko, Shkaplerov]
March 9 - ATV-3 "Edoardo Amaldi" launch
March 16 - Soyuz TMA-22 undocking (from Poisk) and landing [Shkaplerov, Ivanishin, Burbank]
March 19 - ATV-3 "Edoardo Amaldi" docking (to Zvezda)
March 30 - Soyuz TMA-04M launch [Padalka, Revin, Acaba]
April 1 - Soyuz TMA-04M docking (to Poisk)
April 24 - Progress M-14M undocking (from Pirs)
April 25 - Progress M-15M launch
April 27 - Progress M-15M docking (to Pirs)
April - Progress M-14M deorbit
May 16 - Soyuz TMA-03M undocking (from Rassvet) and landing [Kononenko, Kuipers, Pettit]
May 30 - Soyuz TMA-05M launch [Malenchenko, S.Williams, Hoshide]
June 1 - Soyuz TMA-05M docking (to Rassvet)
June - spacewalk (ISS Russian EVA-31) from Pirs airlock [Padalka, TBD]
June 26 - HTV-3 "Kounotori-3" launch
July 1 - HTV-3 "Kounotori-3" capture and berthing (to Harmony nadir) by SSRMS
July 24 - Progress M-15M undocking (from Pirs)
July 25 - Progress M-16M launch
July 27 - Progress M-16M docking (to Pirs)

Есть небольшие окна в апреле, июне и июле.

А от 1-го до 9-го марта, или думаете, не успеют?

[Salo]

В предыдущей реинкарнации:

February 8 - Dragon (SpX-D) launch
February 10 - Dragon (SpX-D) capture and berthing (to Harmony nadir) by SSRMS
February 23 - Dragon (SpX-D) unberthing (from Harmony nadir) and release by SSRMS

[Salo]

По-поводу малочисленности персонала SpaceX: появились данные по конкурентам.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1201/18eelvbuy/

ULA has about 3,600 employees spread across the country at its production facilities, engineering headquarters and launch bases.

Это касается пускового бизнеса. Но разрыв уже не так велик, а если учесть какими темпами он сокращается...

[avmich]

По-поводу малочисленности персонала SpaceX: появились данные по конкурентам.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1201/18eelvbuy/

ULA has about 3,600 employees spread across the country at its production facilities, engineering headquarters and launch bases.

Это касается пускового бизнеса. Но разрыв уже не так велик, а если учесть какими темпами он сокращается...

Но ведь ЮЛА - это СП Локхида с Боингом? То есть, опирается на какие-то мощности обеих компаний?

[Salo]

3600 делим на два, но не забываем, что эти люди не делают двигатели и КК. Но разрыв уже совсем небольшой.

[Петр Зайцев]

Но ведь ЮЛА - это СП Локхида с Боингом? То есть, опирается на какие-то мощности обеих компаний?

В принципе нормальная промышленная кооперация. Мы ведь не включали сотрудников Barber-Nichols в число сотрудников SpaceX во времена Merlin-1 бз "Ц". ИМХО тут все честно, больших кусков ULA не закупает, кроме двигателей. Но с другой стороны, самолетчики тоже их покупают.

[Salo]

А у Вас есть данные, что для Ц они делают ТНА сами? Ссылкой не поделитесь?

[Salo]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/inside-spacex-we-visit-the-companys-california-headquarters#slide-1

Inside SpaceX: We Visit the Company's California Headquarters[/size]

This year, SpaceX hopes to become the first company to send a privately built and owned spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station. And CEO Elon Musk is already thinking far beyond that. Recently, we paid a visit to his company's home base.


Soon, if all goes according to plan, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, will become the first private company to dock with the International Space Station. The mission was originally scheduled to launch on February 7, and though the company just announced a delay to work out some final launch details, its mission should be the first real test to show that spacecraft built, owned, and operated by private American companies can accomplish what space shuttles did in orbit for so many years.

After launching from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the unmanned, solar-powered Dragon, carrying provisions for the station's six astronauts, will perform a flyby of the space station to test precision maneuvering abilities. If these tests go without a hitch, the capsule will draw near enough to be captured by the station's robotic arm. After its mission, the Dragon will splash down off the California coast for recovery. SpaceX stands to gain $1.6 billion for a total of 12 cargo flights to the station, in addition to the upcoming test flight. SpaceX is already working with NASA seed money to prepare the Dragon for manned flights by the end of 2014.

Company founder and CEO Elon Musk is already looking far beyond the ISS flight. SpaceX is also working to make its rockets and its spacecraft reusable; he says that's the key to making space flight affordable enough to allow, say, human colonization of Mars. Musk's plans include incorporating landing gear into future Falcon 9s and Dragon capsules. Each of the two rocket stages would fly a controlled trajectory back to Earth after accomplishing its mission of pushing a Dragon capsule into orbit, and touch down gently on land for refurbishment. Rather than parachuting to a water landing, the Dragon capsule would fire its own onboard rocket motors to make a precision landing on land as well.

When PM paid a visit to SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., last week, the normally cool-under-fire CEO admitted he and his company have their hands full at the moment. "We are just extremely stressed right now preparing for the docking next month," he said, "plus developing the new version of Falcon 9 with upgraded performance and reusability." SpaceX engineers are also working to modify the basic Falcon 9 design for high-altitude launch from what is to be the world's largest airplane—part of the Stratolaunch project announced by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen last month.

Here's a look at what we saw during our stop at Musk's home base.


A model of Iron Man lords it over the SpaceX factory floor. The factory served as the location of the evildoer's lair in the film Iron Man 2 in which Musk had a cameo. Note Iron Man 2 star Scarlett Johansson's autograph on the breastplate.


The main SpaceX factory, which also houses company offices, comprises 550,000 square feet in a three-story building that Boeing first built to assemble 747s. Included are avionics-, rocket-, and capsule-fabrication areas, quality-control testing facilities, and a glass-walled mission control center that will monitor and direct the Dragon capsule in flight.
 

Aluminum panels (foreground) await unpacking and assembly. They will become the shell of a new Dragon capsule, while bigger sheets of aluminum in the background will form the walls of rocket-propellant tanks.


This Dragon, the first private spacecraft to orbit the Earth and return safely, sits on the SpaceX factory floor while another Dragon capsule comes together behind it.


Parts of a SpaceX designed-and-built Merlin rocket engine, the workhorse of the Falcon 9 rocket, undergo quality checks.


Rows of Merlin rocket engines stand at attention in the SpaceX factory in Hawthorne, Calif. Nine Merlins power the first stage of the Falcon 9.


Sections of curved sheet aluminum undergo friction-stir welding. They will form the first-stage propellant tanks of a Falcon 9 rocket.


Workers form sheet aluminum into one of the circular sections that will be welded together to make Falcon 9 propellant tanks.[/size]

[Потусторонний]

Фото разных времен. Хотя статейку из ПопМеханики воспринял как репортаж   :?
Линейка Мерлинов вообще сентябрь 2009.
На нижнем фото слева виден последний Дракон, наполовину покрытый панелями.

[Salo]

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012301210017

Legacy launcher calls out upstarts
SpaceX calls Rocketdyne's pointed ad 'silly'[/size]

8:36 AM, Jan. 21, 2012

Thursday night's successful Delta IV rocket launch could provide the latest highlight for a Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne advertising campaign that takes a thinly veiled swipe at SpaceX.

The company, whose engines power United Launch Alliance's Delta and Atlas rockets and propelled space shuttle crews to orbit, touts its record of producing "smoke and fire" in 14 launches last year, rather than "smoke and mirrors."

"While the other guys launch powerful press conferences, we power launches of people and critical payloads," an ad reads.

The left side of the ad's split image shows a microphone on a table with the tag, "Others' idea of making noise." On the right side, the microphone takes the shape of an Atlas V rocket blasting off, with the retort, "Ours."

An accompanying video shows clips of 14 shuttle and expendable rocket launches last year and concludes, "The only thing that rises above the noise of the rhetoric is the roar of a launch."

The ads appear to take direct shots at SpaceX, which did not launch its Falcon 9 rocket or Dragon capsule last year after two flights in 2010, including one that made the company the first to launch and recover a commercial spacecraft from orbit.

Despite no flights last year, the company never lacked for media buzz, and stepped up its lobbying in Washington, D.C.

Led by celebrity entrepreneur Elon Musk, SpaceX announced plans to develop a heavy-lift Falcon that would be "the world's most powerful rocket," as well as an entirely reusable launch system.

The company lobbied for the opportunity to compete for launches of national security payloads now flown by ULA, and built hype for the Dragon's planned historic visit to the International Space Station on a NASA demonstration flight.

That launch, once planned last November but then targeted for Feb. 7, is now delayed until at least late March to provide more time for system tests.

Musk, who attracts media attention for interests beyond SpaceX, including his personal life, has never been shy about his desire to shake up the launch industry with more affordable access to space for cargo and people.[/size]

[Salo]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151180950060131&set=a.10150303260090131.563831.353851465130&type=3&theater

The 737-sized first stage propellant tank for a future Falcon 9 nears completion at our Hawthorne, California headquarters.

[Bell]

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Я немного не понял...
Это изображение приза главному ракетно-космическому пи..доболу?  :roll:

[Bell]

Фото разных времен. Хотя статейку из ПопМеханики воспринял как репортаж

Агитка, да...