And, when I looked it up, the text said that the hopper is tied/bolted to the ground so even when the engines fire, it's not going anywhere.
And, when I looked it up, the text said that the hopper is tied/bolted to the ground so even when the engines fire, it's not going anywhere.
The Falcon Heavy is now standing upright at launch pad 39A in readiness for a hold-down engine test as early as this evening.
Space X Falcon Heavy has been rescheduled to Tuesday April 9th 2019.
Launch windows opens at 6:36 PM EDT.
I don't see anything on spaceflightnow that says where the boosters will be landing. Does anyone know if we'll see two return to launch site again and the main land on a barge? Three barges? Three dropped into the ocean? One landed on barge and the other two dropped? Some other combination?
In this picture it looks like the engines are covered in soot. Do they test each engine on a test stand before they are mounted to the boosters?
This entire configuration has already been hot-fired on the pad.
Yes I know that but the picture I am referring to is in the SpaceX assembly hangar before it has been taken to the pad.
I'm not sure which photo this is. It looks just like the one that I just saw after the hotfire. That assembled configuration was taken to the pad, hot-fired, and returned to the hanger. So is this photo the "before" or the "after"? I'm not sure.
They started that after the BOOM on the pad. Now they take it back to put the payload on.Oh I didn’t know they take the rocket back to the hangar after the static fire.
I don't see anything on spaceflightnow that says where the boosters will be landing. Does anyone know if we'll see two return to launch site again and the main land on a barge? Three barges? Three dropped into the ocean? One landed on barge and the other two dropped? Some other combination?
Yep, window is from 8:00 to 8:32 PM EDT.They're watching upper level winds. Also they got the rocket vertical late and have pushed the window to 8:00pm - 8:32pm.
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