Musk to present SpaceX’s commercial space progress at ISSR&D in Washington D.C. on Wed 19th

[Morgen]

[QUOTE]Elon Musk is scheduled to present a central keynote at the ISS R&D Conference in Washington D.C. this Wednesday. While there are no specific details yet available, Musk is scheduled as a feature speaker and expected to deliver a talk that will be focused on SpaceX’s past and present successes in commercial spaceflight. The SpaceX Founder, CEO and CTO will likely also touch on progress being made towards SpaceX’s human spaceflight program. Artificial intelligence, which Musk spoke of to considerable fanfare recently, will also likely feature in his keynote.
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Musk is scheduled to deliver his keynote between 12:30 – 2:15 PM Eastern Time.
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[url]http://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-spacex-talk-iss-rd-conference-washington-dc/[/url]

Will be streamed at [url]https://www.issconference.org/[/url]

[Bradyns]

Please be F9H launch date!!

[Morgen]

[QUOTE=Bradyns;52483032]Please be F9H launch date!![/QUOTE]

Musk said there's a good chance FH will explode, he just hopes it makes it far enough away from the pad to avoid pad damage :mindblown:

[OvB]

[QUOTE=Morgen;52485758]Musk said there's a good chance FH will explode, he just hopes it makes it far enough away from the pad to avoid pad damage :mindblown:[/QUOTE]

Do you have an exact quote?

[Morgen]

[QUOTE=OvB;52485770]Do you have an exact quote?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]"guaranteed to be exciting." Hard to test on the ground: dynamics, airflow, buffering, MaxQ. "Real good chance that vehicle does not make it to orbit...I would consider no pad damage a win. So yeah...major pucker factor."[/QUOTE]

[Bradyns]

Just the thought of 27 rocket engines igniting at the same time gives me a hard on.

[Saxon]

I'm pretty sure they talked about strapping some gimmick payload on for fun too, since you can't launch anything commercially with that kind of reliability.

[paindoc]

I've got two coworkers at this conference presenting research for in space manufacturing stuff, I can try to keep an ear to the grapevine.

[editline]19th July 2017[/editline]

Wait did I miss it damnit

[OvB]

Red Dragon missions unlikely, landing legs removed from Dragon entirely, no more propulsive landings for Dragon, going to try to make a mini version of the ITS rocket.

[Adeptus]

[QUOTE=OvB;52487077]Red Dragon missions unlikely, landing legs removed from Dragon entirely, no more propulsive landings for Dragon, going to try to make a mini version of the ITS rocket.[/QUOTE]

wtf does that mean

[OvB]

[QUOTE=Adeptus;52488954]wtf does that mean[/QUOTE]

It's pretty straight forward... Science dragon missions to the moon probably won't happen now because the Dragon can no longer land with rockets... and they want to build a mini version of the rocket they unveiled last year.