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Rocket Launch: February 6, 2018 1:30 PM | SpaceX Falcon Heavy Inaugural Flight
KennedySpaceCenter ^ | 02/04/2018

Posted on 02/04/2018 8:35:11 AM PST by WeWaWes

The most powerful rocket this generation has ever seen, SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy rocket, is now targeted to launch February 6, 2018 with the launch time of 1:30 p.m. The Falcon Heavy can lift over double the payload, or cargo, as the next closest rocket...


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KEYWORDS: elonmusk; falcon; falconheavy; space; spacex
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To: WeWaWes

It’s more than a third of a Saturn V’s lift capability.


21 posted on 02/04/2018 10:02:54 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: WeWaWes

All of these companies now think of themselves as “International” companies. How do we know that the technology is not being leaked to Iran, NKorea, and other places? Who is watching them, the FBI?

NASA is controlled by non technical bureaucrats, few competent technologist/engineers are left. So really, not many NASA gov employees left to oversee/plan space contractors.


22 posted on 02/04/2018 10:19:49 AM PST by Swirl
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To: Moonman62

There is room in that design for 4 more boosters.


23 posted on 02/04/2018 10:34:53 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Artemis Webb

It’s about time someone realized this. And the earth is 4,000 years old and Dino bones were in the earth when it was created.

And Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Some folks will believe anything. Believe nothing...


24 posted on 02/04/2018 10:41:23 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: gibsonguy

He’s selling launch services at a competitive rate. Yes, the gov’t is his main customer.
Don’t confuse that with the subsidies, which he has well more than paid back.


25 posted on 02/04/2018 10:43:37 AM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Red Badger; BenLurkin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks WeWaWes. There are some nice short (under 2 minutes each) YT videos of the static fire test of a few weeks ago.

This is an amazing stack -- the 27 open-cycle liquid-fueled engines -- same oxidizer/fuel combo as von Braun's Saturn V -- pump out the same thrust as the two Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) of the Space Shuttle. The SRBs were the muscle that got that contraption off the ground and into the upper atmosphere.

If successful, the Falcon Heavy will be available to throw twice the payload as the Delta IV Heavy -- and watching vids of those launches is also a lot of fun.

26 posted on 02/04/2018 8:27:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: WeWaWes

I understand EST 1:30, right?


27 posted on 02/04/2018 9:54:51 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Moonman62

FH = ??


28 posted on 02/04/2018 9:55:55 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Yes, 1:30pm eastern time...as of now. I haven’t looked this morning to see if it’s on schedule.


29 posted on 02/05/2018 6:11:14 AM PST by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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To: WeWaWes

Wish me luck - I live on the west coast of FL but am driving my aeronautics-loving 13 year old to see the launch. I am only going as far as Orlando, but will park in the top deck of a parking garage at the airport in hopes of being able to see “something.”


30 posted on 02/06/2018 6:49:22 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: All

everything seemed to go well with the possible exception of the core landing, whose status was left hanging with the broadcast linked to by the (failing) NYT... (???)


31 posted on 02/06/2018 12:58:32 PM PST by SteveH
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the simultaneous side by side landings of the two boosters was well worth watching. it looked like something straight out of a 1950s vintage sci-fi novel.


32 posted on 02/06/2018 1:01:10 PM PST by SteveH
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To: SteveH

Awesome mission (even if core booster landing failed).
MAGA!


33 posted on 02/06/2018 1:04:27 PM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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Other thread here:

Watch Elon Musk Launch of Falcon Heavy Live
SpaceX Website ^ | 2.6/2018
Posted on 2/6/2018, 11:36:57 AM by Robert DeLong

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3629850/posts


34 posted on 02/06/2018 1:19:30 PM PST by SteveH
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To: Artemis Webb

Screw you, you’re utterly clueless, it’s not a fraud, it’s not fake, I was there, suck on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5K7HKFkZ8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVQdSGQajj0
It’s real, FreeRepublic needs to ban the flat earthers. They are discrediting the entire board.


35 posted on 04/17/2018 6:54:36 AM PDT by messierhunter
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