SpaceX (general discussion)

no, they're not going to stack pointy ends on top of each other. That's 2 nose cones. The separate nose may be the one that fell over a while ago.
 
Hobbes said:
no, they're not going to stack pointy ends on top of each other. That's 2 nose cones. The separate nose may be the one that fell over a while ago.
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That's not what's being illustrated. Go look at the original picture.
 
I see now, somebody copied and pasted the nose cone. But you're the one who posted the picture here, didn't the site where you got it have a caption?
 
Hobbes said:
I see now, somebody copied and pasted the nose cone. But you're the one who posted the picture here, didn't the site where you got it have a caption?
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You're still not seeing. Flyaway posted the original picture with the cylinder on one stand and a nose section on another. I pasted the nose section on the cylinder and asked if that was the final configuration. Nobody said anything about "stacking pointy ends on top of each other". No idea how you would come to that conclusion.
 
sferrin said:
You're still not seeing. Flyaway posted the original picture with the cylinder on one stand and a nose section on another. I pasted the nose section on the cylinder and asked if that was the final configuration. Nobody said anything about "stacking pointy ends on top of each other". No idea how you would come to that conclusion.
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I didn't see the original image because that image wasn't posted here, there's just a link to a Twitter post. I don't open all of those. And you could have made it a bit clearer where you got that image and what you did to it.
 
Hobbes said:
sferrin said:
You're still not seeing. Flyaway posted the original picture with the cylinder on one stand and a nose section on another. I pasted the nose section on the cylinder and asked if that was the final configuration. Nobody said anything about "stacking pointy ends on top of each other". No idea how you would come to that conclusion.
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I didn't see the original image because that image wasn't posted here, there's just a link to a Twitter post. I don't open all of those. And you could have made it a bit clearer where you got that image and what you did to it.
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I don't know how I could have made it clearer. I had a yellow arrow from where it was to where I moved it to.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/1158590084280549376

Great progress by Starship Cape team. Started several months behind, but catching up fast. This will be a super fun race to orbit, moon & Mars!
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1158591193976123394

Will Starship ever go horizontal during the build?
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1158592581862752256

No
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1158593173850951681

Will starship ever launch from Vandenberg?
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1158593599535140864

Not in current plans, but that may change
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1158833487492915201

While the weather didn’t allow for us to get off the media bus to place our remote cameras, it did provide for some stunning photography that will be hard to repeat. Check out that wall cloud! #AMOS17 #SpaceX
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1158827038238789632

An incredible shelf cloud moved over the Cape early this afternoon. We were unable to set remote cameras for the #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Amos17 launch, but we were able to capture this awesome scene! #flwx #lightning
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I suspect you’ve heard by now that after it’s 200m hop the StarHopper will be retired, cannibalised for parts and the test program taken over by Starship Orbital prototype MK1 with three Raptors.
 
This is not a specific criticism of the previous post, because it seems to happen everywhere all the time, but what exactly is the purpose/benefit of posting a tweet and then repeating the text of that tweet?
 
Because, not everyone here bothers with Twitter, Farcebook or any of the other so called 'social media' platforms.

Besides, doesn't posts in twitter disappear after a few days, I thought I read that somewhere.
 
martinbayer said:
This is not a specific criticism of the previous post, because it seems to happen everywhere all the time, but what exactly is the purpose/benefit of posting a tweet and then repeating the text of that tweet?
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It's similar to uploading images to the forum instead of just linking to them: the content will be preserved even when the source website goes offline. For a forum that serves as a library, it's good practice.
 
Michel Van said:
TomcatViP said:
Are the wire bracing pylons around the launching tower a new thing?
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No those wire are part of lightning rod system, the four pylons with white cylinder on top.
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Thanks. But has it been like that before? I find weird that they are braced together (this is not structural). In case of a thunderbolt strikes them, what are the odds that the stream of electrons would gently follow the wire.... Zero?
 
Not zero. The wire offers lower resistance than the air around it, so yes, the lightning will preferentially strike the wire. It won't be gentle and likely melt the wire, but if that's what it takes to prevent a strike on the rocket, that's a small price to pay.
 

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