Repairs taking place on SpaceX drone ship following SES-11 booster landing

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/10/repairs-asds-ses-11-booster-landing/

by johnny313 • 9 years ago

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The drone ship was quoted as having no hard feelings about the incident. When asked to comment its only response was, "of course I still love you."

walrus01• 9 years ago

in my opinion they really missed the opportunity to name it:

Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath

or the Rocinante, which would be a nice meta-Expanse reference and itself a pretty decent literary reference.

m_mueller2• 9 years ago

wouldn't Rocinante be better for one of the BFS?

iaw• 9 years ago

I have to hand it to them, they are doing a damn good job on safety.

I wonder how this bodes for the future of hazardous professions like offshore oil-drilling.

SEJeff4• 9 years ago

They probably won't be landing rockets on oil rigs, so probably not very much related.

ceejayoz4• 9 years ago

If they keep upping their launch cadence, I suspect they'll actually need something similar to an oil rig permanently sited instead of running the ships back and forth all the time.

speeq• 9 years ago

More pics from /r/spacex: https://imgur.com/a/CwL5w

mikeash5• 9 years ago

This used to happen a lot, when they were regularly crashing rockets into the ship rather than landing them. There was a joke in the fan community that the Falcon 9 was actually a really ineffective anti-ship missile. At least one of them punched a nice hole through the deck: https://imgur.com/fWNb1zo

SEJeff4• 9 years ago

Talk about RUD!

mikeash5• 9 years ago

I almost miss photos of debris-covered ships coming back into port. Almost.

eltoozero2• 9 years ago

Intrigued by the Octograbber, haven't seen it before but here's some discussion[0].

Looks like it scoots under the landing legs, latches on to the booster and provides additional vertical support via hydraulic jacks until the booster can be welded to the deck by the crew.

GIS has a bunch of pics too.

Maybe they could just leave it attached and drive around the stack on those little tank treads.

[0] http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42511.0

dang• 9 years ago

Url changed from http://www.parabolicarc.com/2017/10/24/spacex-drone-ship-dam..., which points to this.

Repairs taking place on SpaceX drone ship following SES-11 booster landing

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