Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.
I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.
We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.
@shortmsger ya AST is going to make a post about other company's rocket exploding when it wasn't their launch partner for the next launch.
@AbelAvellan@scottwisniews@AST_SpaceMobile why didn't you report SpaceX's initial failures when you weren't even a company? 😡😤😡😤
@SpectreCap@Tronthetrader you don't know that yet. it probably will not impact launch timeline, it will impact launch costs more. SpaceX have the capability of launching F9s almost everyday. It's just going to be more expensive than launching 8 in a New Glenn.
@DragonMaxGoku@Frank3683544403 It depends, SpaceX has the capability of launching 1 F9 almost everyday. It's just going to be more expensive, that's it.
@DoughNee@Miss1onControl This failure was during static fire. There was not even payload on board. But something is obviously not right and they won't be able to test another booster for almost a year since the pad is completely gone.
@PK_Fund more than fair. I hope we focus solely on spaceX since they have the capabilities to launch almost every day. it's proven, reliable, fast and probably cheaper than ISRO.