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Falcon 9 v1.1 Appears on Fast Track To Qualify for Air Force Missions
Mind the word-wrap on the link:
Falcon 9 v1.1 Appears on Fast Track To Qualify for Air Force Missions http://www.spacenews.com/article/mil...0falcon-9-v11- appears-on-fast-track-to-qualify-for-air-force-missions At this point, ULA still has a "sole-source" contract (2012) to provide 36 EELV cores over five years. But, an additional 14 missions will be competitively awarded. The successful launches of Falcon 9 v 1.1 puts SpaceX on track to qualify to bid on these additional missions. I know, the nay-sayers will chime in and now say that SpaceX has yet to fly a DOD payload. But, they keep plodding along, finding and fixing problems each time they fly. Jeff -- "the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer |
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Falcon 9 v1.1 Appears on Fast Track To Qualify for Air Force Missions
Jeff Findley wrote:
But, they keep plodding along, finding and fixing problems each time they fly. Did SpaceX actually say anything about problems found during this last F9 1.1 flight? rick jones -- the road to hell is paved with business decisions... these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... |
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Falcon 9 v1.1 Appears on Fast Track To Qualify for Air ForceMissions
On 1/10/2014 5:40 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
Jeff Findley wrote: But, they keep plodding along, finding and fixing problems each time they fly. Did SpaceX actually say anything about problems found during this last F9 1.1 flight? rick jones Not seen anything negative yet, from SpaceX or elsewhere. Dave |
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Falcon 9 v1.1 Appears on Fast Track To Qualify for Air ForceMissions
On 1/10/2014 4:55 PM, Jeff Findley wrote:
I know, the nay-sayers will chime in and now say that SpaceX has yet to fly a DOD payload. But, they keep plodding along, finding and fixing problems each time they fly. Jeff Nay saying is easy. It was only a few years back you could have said Falcon 9 has yet to fly a commercial payload. And although at the time that would have been a true statement it was not very informative and also somewhat misleading if left at face value, unchallenged. Challenging nay saying is also not very fruitful. At best case you're likely to be met with the response, "you have made many unsubstantiated assumptions there, we'll see". Well in the case of SpaceX, we have seen. Dave |
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Falcon 9 v1.1 Appears on Fast Track To Qualify for Air Force Missions
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says... Jeff Findley wrote: But, they keep plodding along, finding and fixing problems each time they fly. Did SpaceX actually say anything about problems found during this last F9 1.1 flight? I'm not aware of any problems found on this last mission. Their "mission overview" does not say anything about any anomolies: http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/01/0...ssion-overview From the customer's point of view, I believe it went quite well (quote from above link): THAICOM 6 was injected into a perfect 295 x 90,000 km geosynchronous transfer orbit at 22.5 degrees inclination, meeting 100% of mission objectives. Jeff -- "the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer |
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