What SpaceX Just Did With Falcon 9 Reusability is Unusual, Shocked FAA!
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What SpaceX Just Did With Falcon 9 Reusability is Unusual, Shocked FAA!
The scene of the Falcon 9’s booster successfully landing while its second stage returns to Earth has become the most anticipated scene for every SpaceX Falcon 9 mission.
However, this was not the case for the European Space Agency’s Hera asteroid mission which launched on October 7.
It’s sad, but it’s a necessary trade-off for the FAA to approve the Falcon 9 to return to flight after a few-day grounding.
But, is that the primary reason why the FAA gave SpaceX a concession this time?
Find out everything in today’s Techmap episode.
After 9 days of landing, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket finally got the sole ticket to launch the European Space Agency’s Hera mission. The launch happened on October 7 at 10:52 AM EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in coastal Florida. Hera successfully separated from the upper stage of its Falcon 9 rocket about 1 hour and 16 minutes after liftoff.
ESA’s Hera spacecraft soared into a cloudy sky above Florida to begin a multimillion-mile trek across the solar system to the binary asteroid system Didymos. It became famous in September 2022 after NASA smacked its DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Mission) into Didymos’ smaller companion, Dimorphos. That impact altered the orbit of Dimorphos, demonstrating the utility of a planetary defense strategy that could help keep Earth safe from rogue asteroids in the future. Hera will follow up on the DART mission to check on its aftermath.
What SpaceX Just Did With Falcon 9 Reusability is Unusual, Shocked FAA!
Unlike typical SpaceX launches, the October 7 mission didn’t witness the landing of Falcon 9’s first-stage booster, called B1061.
“Due to the additional performance required to deliver the payload to an interplanetary transfer orbit, this mission marks the 23rd and final launch for this Falcon 9 first stage booster” SpaceX wrote on its website.
In order to launch Hera on its asteroid mission, SpaceX had to use all the fuel on the Falcon 9 booster for the launch.
B1061 launched two crewed missions, Crew-1 and Crew-2, but most launches for this workhorse have been supply runs to the International Space Station and satellites for different space companies and global government operations. Most of its later launches have been done from California.
What SpaceX Just Did With Falcon 9 Reusability is Unusual, Shocked FAA!
In addition to B1061’s sacrifice, the second stage in this mission will not reenter. This aims to be in exchange for the FAA’s approval for the launch of the Hera mission.
The agency said it has “determined that the absence of a second stage reentry for this mission adequately mitigates the primary risk to the public in the event of a reoccurrence of the mishap experienced with the Crew-9 mission.”
Deorbit burn is a compulsory procedure for a controlled reentry but in the Hera mission, the second stage doesn’t conduct the deorbit burn so it would remain in orbit until atmospheric drag gradually pulls it down.
Its purpose is to avoid a repeat of the incident on the Crew 9 mission on September 28 where the Falcon 9’s second stage failed to ignite the engine for a standard deorbit burn. The malfunction caused the upper stage to land in the ocean outside its target disposal area. Subsequently, the FAA grounded SpaceX’s Falcon 9 fleet and required SpaceX to investigate the root cause.
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I would seriously suspect sabotage as the culprit
The solar system is a finely balanced system acquired over millions of years. Any tampering with the balance of planetoids or the like may cause serious consequences.
It's like the FAA is trying to govern the tides. The FAA needs to get out of the way
Then let the FAA do the launches and pay penalties for failure to launch. SpaceX can sit on their hands for a couple months and work on Starship/Booster V4.
Govt bureaucrats are idiots.
Great so no investigation is needed with Vulcan… Apparently nozzle falling of SRB is business as usual 😀
I’m tired of naming things after Pagan deities and the such. Let’s go back to the creative names from science fiction and also humans of merit whose names can be related to a craft’s function, design or ultimate demise.
AI crap
This is actually funny ironic, instead of a deorbit to a controlled area, they will just let it gradually deorbit and re-enter wherever it likes. Two thumbs up FAA, you really thought that one out. FAA is trying to split hairs to keep SpaceX from gaining any more, Elon is the enemy to them, even the booster landing fail was still to the exact location on a drone ship… solution, don't land in Florida until the cause is fixed.
Everything's good to go when it suits the government.
this AI narration is getting annoying
Grounding in "unplanned area" was exchanged for burn in atmosphere and fall of the debris in complere random area !!! Congratularion to American FAA for protecting public safety – Boeing 737 MAX style !!!
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Well, we are living in convoluted times that clearly demonstrate the powers of the few that can 'de-rail' even the most altruistic 'players'. As Shotwell has been the most povital at making SpaceX the only privately held company that can consistently under bid space launches.. by a long shot, by using a futuristicly expanded spread-sheet with optimism not shown through-out the majority of the space-race community, one now has to think that SpaceX should be re-thinking theor spread-sheet model to a more immediate monetary outlook that reflect the represented cost outlays of the remainder of this fledgling corporate community that attempts to compete with them and even thinks of selling off their proven boosters, like premium used cars. LoL
It's a bumpy road ahead and perhaps SpaceX needs to think about achiving more versatile (sea-based) and 'hardened facilities. Affitionly, Shotwell needs to demonstrate that she is not the sole leader at SpaceX and that her team is resilant enough that with her impending 'retirement' yjst the attitude and resolve of SpaceX is still on track, especially in the area of the Space Junk issue, as SpaceX is the clear world leader in S[pace these days.
(disclaimer, I just invested in being a Star:Link customer)
The FAA needs to get out of the way, this IS A PRIVATE COMPANY.
Have a question, these inspectors? What makes THEM experts?
It doesn't help that Elon Musk has endorsed The Donald.
Elections have consequences.
Continued weaponization of the FAA to punish/cancel Musk for his public support of Trump. The Biden/Harris administration's compromising America's leadership and dominance in space over petty politics and crony capitalism should show everyone Democrats cannot be trusted to run and oversee pivotal national security agencies. The only winners are China, Bezos, ULA, and Boeing, while the losers are the American people.
Some serious International pressure (aka diplomacy) applied?
The reality is due to the speed required for this specific mission the rocket could not be recovered anyway.
FAA IS A BIDEN SUCK BUDDY
ULA isn't owned by musk so all good