There's fiber all over CCAFS. We had a fiber connection from LC-36 to
the area where SpaceX's control center is, and LC-36 isn't even an
active launch site.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Steve Traugott <stevegt@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh. Yep. That's a thing. If they had a lot of modern high-resolution,
high-color-depth cameras out there, they wouldn't have the bandwidth to
bring much of that video back in real time unless they went with fiber.
Ten gig copper ok, gigabit barely, microwave depends on protocol. (And 5
GHz wifi would be no help at all.)
Thanks Henry,
Steve
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Henry Vanderbilt
<hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I speculate that, if Keller's FB post is correct, a reason for it may be
data bandwidth out to the pad limited by old infrastructure.
On 9/12/2016 4:15 AM, David Spain wrote:
That is certainly one item to look at if they decide to do a pad rebuild.
The question of who is "they" comes up. I'm not clear on SLC40. If still
gov. owned how much accommodation with a lessee?
David
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On Sep 11, 2016, at 4:08 AM, George William Herbert
<george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From FB:
Mim E. Keller: "Their data servers are located at the pad, and those
servers were lost. So they're relying on the data streams that were
recorded
by NASA, which are not as high fidelity as what SX lost. This is going to
be
a hard one."
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On Sep 10, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 4:48 AM, George William Herbert
<george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, I have a theory.
They were loading RP-1, Supercooled LOX, and GHe.
To me it fails the data obviousness test: unless they are vastly
incompetent they have telemetry from during the fill process, and that
sequence of failures would show up really clearly in the data. It
wouldn't be the big mystery and call for 3rd party audio and video to
figure out.
In the end, we are never really going to know what happened. Given
that they weren't compelled to share any in-depth report after
destroying US government property on a government-paid launch, it
seems super unlikely that we'll get anything more than a paragraph on
this failure.
Ben
