SpaceX Gets the Green Light To Resume Rocket Launches (fortune.com) 44
Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket company has been cleared to resume flying following a launch pad explosion four months ago, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday. From a report on Fortune: The decision clears SpaceX to attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium Communications satellites as early as Monday, a day later than originally planned. SpaceX, owned by Tesla Motors Chief Executive Officer Musk, on Friday declined to comment about what caused the delay. Liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is targeted for around 10:26 a.m. PST/1:26 p.m. EST. The FAA, which oversees commercial U.S. space launches, oversaw SpaceX's investigation into why a Falcon 9 rocket burst into flames on a launch pad in Florida as it was being fueled for a routine, prelaunch test on Sept. 1. The accident destroyed the $62 million booster and a $200 million Israeli communications satellite that had been partly leased by Facebook to expand Internet access in Africa.
Re: Capitalist potemkin village (Score:2, Interesting)
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If you are talking about China it's the closest thing around to the old Soviet style communist dictatorships that's still available, albeit with a mixed economy.
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Well if you guys would rather stick to the 'No True Scotsman's Fallacy' I guess that's fine too...
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They were a pure command economy tied to a totalitarian leadership.
NONE of those things are communists. In POF, I doubt that we will ever see a communist nation ever on this planet. Probably the closest things are the farms in Israel.
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the soviets were also not communist.
They were a pure command economy tied to a totalitarian leadership.
NONE of those things are communists. In POF, I doubt that we will ever see a communist nation ever on this planet. Probably the closest things are the farms in Israel.
We actually have seen it, just it doesn't last long at all. The USSR even began that way, but it declined so quickly that they had to replace the economic system with socialism.
For an excellent case study on this, read about the Icarians. They had plenty of resources, including a few cities already built whose prior residents just left, (i.e. Navoo Illinois, when the Mormons who built it were forced to leave by the state government) and even got to pick and choose who joined the commune, selecting those wit
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Where are the soviets now?
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The USA put men on the moon multiple times, sent probes on escape velocity from the solar system,
In the 70s
and now has probes and rovers around and on Mars.
Stuff that the soviets did first in the 60s/70s, including harsher planets like venus
Who's currently transporting people to the ISS?
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Didn't Putin give you guys a vacation after Trump won?
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Re:Capitalist potemkin village (Score:5, Informative)
Chinese famine killed millions [wikipedia.org]
Venezuela's communist system is failing them now [pbs.org] just like the USSR's system went belly up.
Communist Vietnam has almost no human rights [hrw.org]
I could go on, but I think this is sufficient to disprove your bullshit.
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In Soviet Russia, government makes jokes about you!
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Sure. But it's not like the political systems that preceded communism in Russia or China were that much better. Famines are unfortunately a regular occurrence in the history of both those countries.
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Neither were purely man-made. They were mostly due to poor (murderous) policies, in particular the Soviet one, but both had climate issues behind the agricultural production collapse as well.
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So they know what happened now? (Score:3)
Seriously, does this mean they know what caused the thing to explode now?
Anybody know what the reason was?
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Yes, the helium and oxygen loading procedures caused the oxygen to turn to a solid. The solid oxygen got involved in the wrapping on the helium containers and caused it to burst
or... ULA shot it
your pick
Re:So they know what happened now? (Score:5, Informative)
A nice summary of the issue (and work-around) from Scott Manley:
https://plus.google.com/102502... [google.com]
Re:So they know what happened now? (Score:5, Informative)
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A TL;DR version: The outside carbon fiber overwrap for a tank is permeable for liquid oxygen. They tried filling in liquid helium so cold that the liquid oxygen froze. Just like water in pavement cracks freezing, bad things happened. Only, space rocket bad.
This is cool. (Score:1)