Comments on: More Boca Chica residents move out, accepting SpaceX offers

By: Zed_WEASEL

Zed_WEASEL — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:30:38 +0000

Problem with Michoud is that you are limited to about 8.4 meter diameter cores with the current facilities, AIUI.

SpaceX is more likely to build up their future facilities mostly with Sprung Instant Structures.

Also interesting factoid from the NSF forum is that the FAA mandated the no residents allowed in Boca Chica Village due to its proximity to the nearby launch site.

By: Dick Eagleson

Dick Eagleson — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:57:56 +0000

Well, SpaceX probably wouldn't find much use for what's inside Michoud, but the buildings are another matter. The SpaceX mothership in Hawthorne is a repurposed ex-Northrop facility and word is that SpaceX also intends to rehab and refit at least the bigger derelict structures on the Terminal Island site it just leased in the L.A. harbor. The initial refit at Hawthorne was done in about six weeks. The Terminal Island buildings are in much worse shape so will probably take longer. Compared to either Terminal Island or Hawthorne, though, Michoud would be a piece of cake.

By: Blair Ivey

Blair Ivey — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 07:23:09 +0000

@ Chris Lopes: Well played, sir.

By: Chris Lopes

Chris Lopes — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 04:10:06 +0000

“I expect the SLS production lines to be converted over to manufacturing SpaceX components.”

Musk would never accept such inefficient manufacturing facilities.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 22:00:09 +0000

If the French, Russian and legacy American launch service providers are not shaking in their boots, they are head-in-the-sand fools. And, I’m sure that by now, the Chinese have made the exfiltration (read stealing) of SpaceX and Blue Origin trade secrets a top priority, if not their #1 priority.

Lastly, the wonders that were SLS are fading fast into history and will forever more be cited as the perfect tortoise and hare use case example! That program may get the axe before they get stack #2 off the ground. We’ll never see #3. I expect the SLS production lines to be converted over to manufacturing SpaceX components.