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[–]Crox22 44ポイント45ポイント  (5子コメント)

She likes us! She really likes us!

[–]peterabbit456 18ポイント19ポイント  (3子コメント)

I'll let you in on a secret. She is one of us.

[–]bNz719 13ポイント14ポイント  (2子コメント)

Gwynn? Is that you?

[–]retiringonmarsWiki & FAQ editor 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I doubt it. Also, seeing as Gwynne isn't even on twitter (as most public figures are), I doubt she's likely to "get" reddit.

[–]Crox22 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Not necessarily, I mean I'm not really on twitter, but I am here. Incidentally, when I read that first reply saying that she is one of us, my first thought was that it would be hilarious if her handle was retiringonmars :-)

[–]ThePlanner 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I get the impression that she's cheerfully bemused at this whole Reddit thing, and we've earned some street cred for the quality of discussion and technical literacy. Compare "our" question (thanks!) to the one from the Fox affiliate that sounded as if they were making it up as they were speaking and had the sudden realization part way through that had no idea what they should ask.

[–]EchoLogic#IAC2016 Attendee[S] 45ポイント46ポイント  (6子コメント)

Many thanks to Stephanie Martin at NASA for asking our question!

[Stephanie] And then, one from the SpaceX Reddit user community...

[Gwynne] smiles

[Stephanie] ...they want to know, does SpaceX currently intend to use a reused first stage or new core for the Inflight abort test?

[Gwynne] Uhh, it's ah, it was one of the stages that we intended to do reusability demonstrations. Similar to the systems that you saw us fly in McGregor. But I believe, for the Inflight abort, it's actually the first flight of that vehicle.

[–]Streetwind 26ポイント27ポイント  (4子コメント)

My unofficial translation: "Weeeell we were going to use that one reusability test core but then F9R-Dev1 blew up and we had to repurpose that core to make F9R-Dev2 out of it. So now we have to bring in a new one for the inflight abort."

I suppose we'll never know all the details, so we might as well speculate ;)

[–]Mader_Levap 15ポイント16ポイント  (1子コメント)

I don't think so. IMO they always wanted to use fresh core for abort test. Why risk more than neccessary? Building reliability of reuse will take years and decades. Only then you will be able to rely on bathtub curve.

For now, everyone will treat (rightly) once-used stage that was launched successfully second time as dark miracle.

[–]MrFlesh 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

 Building reliability of reuse will take years and decades. 

I dont know about that. Musk seems to imply that its mostly red tape and perception that slows them down, not big technical hurdles.

[–]Davecasa 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I got the impression that this is the "F9R-Dev2" core that is no needed for testing because they're you know, doing it fo reelz with CRS5 and now DSCOVR.

[–]laaptop60 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Much needed ty .

[–]peterabbit456 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Wow. That was my conjecture. Probably several other people came up with that idea also, but when I first wrote it in a comment, I had not seen it elsewhere.

Wheee!

[–]bertcox 41ポイント42ポイント  (10子コメント)

Props to the whole community and the admins specifically. That smile said a lot, this is the only community ran group that is known by any of the big boys in old space or new space. I wonder how many times Elon lurkes here or how many people from ULA are here not over at /r/ula. BTW checked /r/ula out and notice one of the moderators is /u/ula_sucks.

[–]guspaz 31ポイント32ポイント  (8子コメント)

I'd expect NSF is pretty well known to SpaceX considering their reconstruction of the landing video.

[–]mlindner 1ポイント2ポイント  (6子コメント)

NSF has been known to SpaceX for a LOOONG time. L2 has regular posts by SpaceX press people and SpaceX employees and Chris keeps regular contact and lists of questions going to SpaceX press officer who gets lots of nice details to them.

[–]Captainpatch 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

L2 has regular posts by SpaceX press people and SpaceX employees

Quick question, is L2 worth it? I'm a space news junkie and I can't get enough but my internet cynicism screams that it can't be worth it.

[–]ethan829Host of SES-9 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

If I understood correctly, /u/EchoLogic has mentioned the possibility of a more affordable, SpaceX-focused site somewhat like L2 in the near-ish future.

[–]mlindner 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

It honestly depends. There was a deal a while back for a lifetime membership for $100. I did that so I have it forever now regardless.

I find it a really good resource and there's lots of exclusive videos on their from the shuttle era. (Like handheld camera recordings of astronauts during shuttle launches or during in-space maneuvers.) There's lots of users that produce original content just for L2 (like daily summaries of what operations were done by the astronauts on station, in detail.) There's also lots of semi-internal NASA documents that get uploaded like detailed service manuals for components of the international space station or the documents that the astronauts themselves use for training on a spacewalk (like grab this handhold, perform this operation, with images/text/etc). The document I like most is the the summary of where everything is attached on station (the visiting vehicle schedule) and when things are predicted to be where. I replied to this post with some examples.

And finally there's several people at SpaceX who post really interesting updates, as well as Chris himself from his responses from SpaceX press officer. We also often find out about delays to a launch several hours to days before the rest of you.

So yeah I think its a good deal if you go for the lifetime membership. But it depends on what you like.

[–]mlindner 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Here's an example of the on-orbit status notes of what's being performed on station day by day that are put on L2 every day or so:

On-Orbit Status 12-01-2014:

Cyclops Operations – On November 26, the crew installed Cyclops and SpinSat on the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) airlock slide table. SpinSat was successfully deployed on November 28, and Cyclops was returned to the JEM airlock this morning.

Remote Power Control Module (RPCM) 3A_B Power On Reset (POR) – On November 28, RPCM 3A_B experienced a POR. There were no downstream impacts, since there are no loads being powered by this RPCM. Console operators executed steps to return RPCM 3A_B to a nominal state.

Sabatier Status – Ground controllers successfully operated Sabatier in a degraded mode throughout the Thanksgiving week. Sabatier showed signs of clearing the water from the laminar flow meter and the reactor inlet filter, however, it is unclear how much water continues to condense and replace the water being pushed out. Sabatier is currently powered down due to Node 3 Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) bed cleaning scheduled this week. A FIT will be convened mid-week to discuss the performance data in detail and forward strategy.

[–]mlindner 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Here's an example of an older copy of the FPIP document (I'm not sure if I should upload this or not so I used an old copy with low resolution). These are in infinite resolution as they're uploaded as PDF format. We get new ones ever couple of months on L2. The one below is like 4 revisions old. They're also multiple pages and go through the first US crew vehicle launch in schedule. They also included what's in the external cargo of every Dragon launch.

http://i.imgur.com/UFeOSik.png

[–]ravedave 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I found it pretty mediocre, but I ignored everything but the spacex part. For the most part you got news on delays/static fires 4-6 hours before it was public. There are also some cool renders that Okan does, but they get published in NSF articles eventually.

If you get the 2 month trial get it like 1-2 days before a launch.

[–]Ambiwlans 20ポイント21ポイント  (0子コメント)

It is a joke name, if the sub grows enough he might want to change it, dunno. Or replace him since I haven't seen him do anything in a while.

Anyways, we all would like to see the various new and oldspace communities grow. The more they do, the more people are inspired by space, the more missions and funding will happen. Most of all though, I think /u/shrubit will eventually collapse under the weight of holding up so many small space subreddits to such a high standard.

Edit: From our sidebar... small space subs

[–]sjogerst 10ポイント11ポイント  (1子コメント)

Not sure if that was a "awww fun, this'll give those loveable rocket nerds a warm fuzzy" kind of smile or a "god damit, i just cant escape them, they're like the paparazzi!" Kind of smile. I like to think the first one.

[–]LEGITIMATE_SOURCE 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Everyone here will make of it what they wish but I'm leaning more toward the second one...

[–]AeroSpiked 7ポイント8ポイント  (4子コメント)

Does that mean that they think they are close enough that they no longer need F9R Dev2?

[–]slograsso 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

Also, I am fairly certain they will use a recovered stage as a Dev vehicle at some point.

[–]FoxhoundBat 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

This subject has been covered multiple times, but SpaceX most certainly do need a test bed capable of doing high "jumps" that can be repeated time after time. So; no. And it might be Dev 3 for all we know that will be the inflight abort one, depending on when "later this year" is.

[–]bob4apples 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think they are close enough that they might feel that a used core is fine for a testbed.

[–]Ambiwlans 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

More like they planned on 3 F9R Dev 2s (I believe). So they can give one up.

[–]waitingForMars 6ポイント7ポイント  (5子コメント)

New SpaceX logo at the end of their intro video - flattened and colored. It reminds me of the iOS 8 look. Time to update the sub, or was this a one-off?

[–]Destructor1701 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

There was something a little tiny bit clunkier about that video than usual, and the encoding was a little craggy, too.

I know Ben was off on an anniversary vacation recently (and I know he'll say that's not his role, anyway) - perhaps an underling did it, and the logo is their work?

[–]Dingoeater 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

A lot of it felt off when compared to their normal style. I wonder if NASA made both videos by compiling previously released clips and took a little too much creative liberty in the process.

[–]Destructor1701 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's a good theory - I've never seen the Dragon 2 reveal with the floating text behind the curtain in anything SpaceX-official, only in NASA coverage of that event.

On the other hand, I didn't notice any poor video compression on the CST-100 video. Maybe Boeing brought their own?

[–]waitingForMars 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I believe I've read that all videos go before brass before they go out. Whatever change that was, it was approved.

Oh, and agreed, that did not seem to meet usual SpaceX standards for quality.

[–]darga89Launch Maps 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Agreed. I much preferred the snazzy cst-100 one.

[–]jdnz82 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

That smile... !

[–]CProphetSpace Author 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

"NASA’s commercial crew program manager, Kathy Lueders, said the average price for a seat aboard the SpaceX Dragon and Boeing CST-100 capsules will be $58 million. That compares with $71 million a seat charged by Russia under its latest NASA contract."

So it isn't that a seat on both the SpaceX capsule AND the Boeing capsule will be $58m, it's that the AVERAGE of the two will be that amount. I'm betting then that SpaceX is charging less, and Boeing will charge considerably more. Way to spin that NASA.

[–]SlitScan 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

ya they really didn't want to answer those cost per seat questions at all. particularly in respect to how much each company was getting.

I was starting to get the vibe that they didn't want Gwen answering direct questions at all actually.

[–]Here_There_B_Dragons 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

The timestamp isn't directly linking for me, but it is at 55:35...

[–]ThePlanner 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I've encountered the same thing on my phone when trying to use a time-stamp YouTube link. For what it's worth, I've got a Blackberry that came off the line around the same time that the Space Shuttle was being retired, so my occasional problem with YouTube is likely on my end, not the website's.

[–]Here_There_B_Dragons 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Mine's a good ol' win 8.1 Firefox, but it could be ublock or httpseverywhere or flashstopper addons, so it's not really too surprising to me.

[–]WinWing -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yes.