JF Mezei wrote on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
16:31:46 -0400:

On 2018-04-26 16:21, Fred J. McCall wrote:

You're going to have to do that to get it from LA to the launch site
anyway. They're building these things in LA because they're too big
to move other than by ship. That means they're going down through
Suez to get to East Coast launch sites, so they're making a very long
ocean voyage anyway.


Why not Panama? The Panamanian government built Panama2 to handle the
current crop of mega container ships that used to be unseen in the Atlantic.


Sorry. I meant Panama.


Any chance BFR/BFS might get to Texas by road/rail and then by barge?


No. Both too long and too wide. Also too heavy for road transport.


Haven't see the diameter numbers, but could a "Beluga" type of aircraft
be used to ferry BRS/BFS segments across?


No. And what do you mean 'segments'? There are precisely two pieces.
One is 48m x 9m (not including wings) x 85 tonnes. The other is 58m x
9m x ???. I don't find a dry mass number for the booster, but I can't
imagine it's less than the BFR Spaceship.


Could an SCA type of carriage of BFS atop a 747/777/whatever be
feasable? (probably multiple flights each carrying a segment).


No. Again, there are only TWO 'segments'; the BFR and the BFR
Spaceship. Each of those pieces is too long and too big around for
rail, road, or air travel. BFR Spaceship is both bigger and heavier
than the Shuttle and it was carried on the biggest airplane they could
find.


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