• SpaceX to provide BFR Update + Lunar Tourist announcement at 1am UTC Tuesday
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu7WJD8vpAQ SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle - an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space. Only 24 humans have been to the Moon in history. No one has visited since the last Apollo mission in 1972. Find out who’s flying and why on Monday, September 17 at 6pm PT. Pretty excited to see what progress has been made on the BFR system and the Mars Transportation Architecture in the last 12 months. What we know so far (That has changed since IAC 2017) BFS (Big Falcon Spaceship) has had a third fin added, Spaceship is now triangularly symmetrical. Landing Legs have been moved from main body to the wingtips, providing a wider base. Previously present delta wings now actuate "mostly for pitch control". Large frontal window from 2016 ITS (previous version) has been worked into new BFS design. Canards have been added to the front of the vessel, presumably for better atmospheric control. What we can tell from currently available pictures The previous arrangement of 2 Sea Level Raptors, 1 Intermediate Pressure Raptor and 4 Vacuum Pressure Raptors has been changed. It now appears that 7 Intermediate Pressure Raptors (Hexaweb with Single Central Raptor) are used on the BFS. Engines have been slightly recessed into the rear of the vessel, reason currently unknown. Dimensions seem almost exactly the same on the core of the spaceship. What we learned from the event I'll update this later. Teaser Pictures (From Elon Musk's Twitter) https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/558/73485893-b97b-4553-b16d-23766c4b3b62/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/558/ab3cdfab-6c87-4625-913c-bc78462cdba1/image.png I'll update this post as the event unfolds. It'll be 3am by the time the event is finished so I may not have time (or energy) to write a tl;dw summary. I'm sure some blessed californian may do this for me if I can't manage it. (Mods, I'm not 100% sure if the thread is okay as it is, I debated putting this into the Videos section but I felt this was newsworthy enough, especially as we often have normal rocket launch threads in SH)
It reminds me of Planet Express.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/143062/494ea0e6-11ed-4b5f-87d8-1ce7bac3a50e/image.png
Now people suddenly cheering for SpaceX and Elon Musk, what a weird world
Elon 'Marmite' Musk. You either love him or you hate him.
SpaceX is a good company that deserves support.
People have been cheering for SpaceX basically since the beginning, although it was really only with Flight 20 that they had any sort of mainstream recognition, and FH Test launched them into celebrity status. About the only people booing SpaceX are the competition, because they are fuuuuuuuuuucked. ULA, Ariane and Roscosmos's next-gen rockets don't even compete with Falcon 9 on reusability, and by the time Vulkan or Ariane 6 are ready, SpaceX will be launching BFR. People have likewise been cheering for Elon, because most of his companies are pretty good for humanity. It's only relatively recently that he's faced personal hate. Not undeserved, because that whole "pedo" thing was fucked up, but it's still a departure from how he's been seen.
oldspace was already in a precarious position due to the rising of spacex/potentially bo, but if bfr is actualized to be all it is theorized to be they will be positively fucked. bfr is coming on a timescale they simply can't match, and once its flying 'revolutionary' won't be enough to describe it.
Noooooooooooooooo. Like Marmite I largely don't really care about Elon Musk.
I imagine a really cool idea would be to park 'used' / out of service BFRs in orbit, weld them together into a space station.
Everyday Astronaut seemingly saw the Lunar Tourist arrive at SpaceX HQ. "Young Looking" May well not be the half a dozen middle aged bankers that have been speculated over the weekend.
BFR is v. v. big Tim Dodd for scale https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/558/05337d70-bddd-4c85-8269-3c371d3fdf89/image.png
ICBM but for human transport
spacex FM is live
Pre-Event SpaceX FM has begun! 15 minutes from the start of the event.
Punished Elon
A hero denied by his homeplanet
He's taken off the jacket, shit's getting real
I can't believe how far SpaceX has come in the 10 years that its existed
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/558/d870d298-33ee-4b02-8817-6dabd60fd8f0/image.png Lunar Flyby Mission Plan
Well this is pretty absurd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wrk5u8FgbM&feature=youtu.be
I can see it now Michael Bay going to the moon
can we get Hideo Kojima in on this
Q and A time! http://puu.sh/BwLCF/065c5fc7ec.jpg
AaaaaaaaAaaaaaaaaaaaa this awkwardness hahahahah
Yusaku Maezawa's claim to fame seems to be a mocap program that makes custom fit clothes for you. Here's the mocap suit: https://files.zozo.com/images/home/about_zozosuit_20180830_02.png I hope he goes to space in this.
Typed up that Q&A. It's in the OP. Goodnight y'all. That was some good shit.
I love Elon in press conferences. He gives solid answers, and for things that don't have concrete explanations he does his best to break it down and explain.
To put it to scale, this Yacht is 55 meters, the same length as the spaceship. (note the people at the stern) http://www.superyachts.com/syv2/newsimages/584/290/90/c/3e74/cms/news_item/14538-crn-prepare-the-launch-of-new-55m-superyacht.jpg And this Yacht is 119 meters, just one meter longer than the total length of the rocket. http://www.historyinorbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/TVG-Super-Yacht-A-Philippe-Starck-From-Above.jpg If you think about it, this mission around the moon is the first chartered space-yacht for a billionaire and his friends.
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