They performed a high-altitude escape test today, apparently successfully, and it carried a lot of experiments. I hope this is their last milestone before flying test passengers.
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They performed a high-altitude escape test today, apparently successfully, and it carried a lot of experiments. I hope this is their last milestone before flying test passengers.
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I’m glad to hear that they are taking a step past vaporware.
They haven’t been vaporware for a long time.
I watched the video in real time. It was amazing!
Yes. The capsule landing video was particularly good, showing the braking retros bringing the capsule nearly to a halt just above the ground.
Is the cost benefit of doing 10 or 100 runs unmanned worth the delay?
Depends on how fast they can do them.
Wouldn’t that depend on how confident they are in their vehicle? Perhaps they are doing more with the testing than just preparing for humaned flight. Does the testing support work on their other projects? Also, curious to know if the research payload pay for the flight or just lessen the loss?
Should Boeing or Airbus cut short their flight test programs and let airlines start carrying paying passengers after a couple dozen flights? Today, they build multiple test aircraft and conduct a flight test program that can easily total 2,000 flying hours and take a couple years (or longer) to complete. Even general aviation companies like Cessna, Cirrus, and Piper invest heavily in flight test programs for new designs. What does New Space know about flight safety that the world’s aircraft companies don’t?
Could anyone have imagined back in 2007 that SpaceX would leverage the Merlin engine from the puny Falcon 1 rocket, into the mighty reusable Falcon Heavy of today?
Keep an eye on that odd deep-throttling hydrolox reusable rocket engine, the Blue Origin BE-3. I foresee a glorious future for it.