Space-X Appears Ready to Spin Carbon Fiber for the BFR spaceship (Ars Technica)
I'll just share this picture:
I'll just share this picture:
I'd be curious to see that next to a Falcon9 segment to see a size comparison.
That would take a hell of an autoclave.
I wonder if the mandrel itself might be heated to help cure the structure?
I'd be curious to see that next to a Falcon9 segment (or a Sat V stage) to see a size comparison.
Falcon is about 12' in diameter. Compare that to the car, and you should have a pretty good idea.
The really impressive thing to me is that there were barely line drawings of this thing 2.5 years ago.
F9 is 3.66m diameter, Saturn V first stage is 10.1m diameter, and the article says BFR is 9m diameter.
What do they use as a release?
What mechanism do they use to remove this from the mandrel?
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I had another thought today, wonder if this is being cured in the same autoclave that the A380 fuselage pieces are cured in. BFR is 3 ft bigger but maybe it will still fit? A380 production has pretty much ceased. Those ovens might become available.
I had another thought today, wonder if this is being cured in the same autoclave that the A380 fuselage pieces are cured in. BFR is 3 ft bigger but maybe it will still fit? A380 production has pretty much ceased. Those ovens might become available.
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