Falcon Heavy at the Capepic.twitter.com/hizfDVsU7X
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Max thrust at lift-off is 5.1 million pounds or 2300 metric tons. First mission will run at 92%.
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Falcon Heavy launching from same
@NASA pad as the Saturn V Apollo 11 moon rocket. It was 50% higher thrust with five F-1 engines at 7.5M lb-F. I love that rocket so much.Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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Is your Tesla aboard?
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This will be an interesting engineering problem... I'd say mating the roadster could be rough bc cars aren't designed to bear their weight on the long axis, but then you have the G forces of an accelerating roadster which have to be transmitted via the wheels, vs the FH accell.
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0-60 in 3.9 (roadster) is .7 G, and I'd have to guess the car will experience far more than that during an FH launch (esp since the car is a light payload for FH). No question the roadster wins in the 1/4 mile, but we'd need
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Cars are quite capable of handling force in the longitudinal axis because they’re required to protect occupant during head on collisions. It’ll be fine.
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They handle a lot of that crash force by crumpling/deforming, which is a bad trait for a rocket payload.... Source:
@andyweirauthor, The Martian, a book which I have read
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The crumpling is really just a way to spread an instantaneous force at front region into a longer lasting but weaker force through the rest of vehicle.
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When's static fire?
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You're not giving up, aren't you? hahahahah
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NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!
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I really wish I understood what you are talking about... I’m thinking 92% is a good thing?
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Not full power, but, presumably, enough to get the Roadster into a Hohmann transfer orbit to Mars.
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Sweet... thanks for taking the time!
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You're welcome.
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What’s a Hohmann transfer
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Short answer: an elliptical orbit used to transfer between two circular orbits of different radii in the same plane (for example, fr Earth orbit to Mars orbit). Detailed answer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohmann_transfer_orbit …
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I think I almost understand... almost being the word to focus on
thanks @SmileSimplify for your efforts
I learn a little more each day...
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Will be watching it live from the front row!
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for real??
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Yes boss! Kennedy space center first option.. else Cocoa beach. Aaja tu bhi.
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Awesome! Aata hu mai bhi.
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