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2021-08-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Due to FL Covid hospital needs of LOX, SpaceX may need to delay launches in FL.

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Shotwell says one supply chain issue for SpaceX is a lack of liquid oxygen because of demands to treat COVID-19 patients. Will impact launch plans, she says. #SpaceSymposium
— Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) August 24, 2021

In their Boca Chica TX Starbase, SpaceX has their own LOX and LNG plants with NG wells.

Posted by 3dc 2021-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Florida C-19 Stats
Note: Last updated figures are for YESTERDAY and what the NEWS would be based on.

#1 in the USA for New C-19 Cases = +21,208
#29 for New C-19 Deaths = 6
#2 for Active C-19 cases = 779,088

OTHER STATES & STATS
#1 for New C-19 Deaths = Texas @ 215
Note: This figure includes illegal immigrant deaths.

ICE DATA
Remember to make a mental note as you read this in that currently CBP has a less than 48% capture rate for illegal border crossings.

ICE politically screened and provided data as of 08/20/2021.
25,512 of the 306,313 detainees tested, 8.32% were found infected.

We also know reading around the way the ICE data is provided.
ICE as of 08/22/2021 claims only to be holding 1,248 COVID-19 Infected persons in custody.

So the question is: If ICE is only claiming to hold 1,248 infected Illegal immigrants now. Then what did it do with the 280,801 it acknowledges it found infected so far this year?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-25 06:12|| 2021-08-25 06:12|| Front Page Top

#2 When you see those pretty vapor clouds rolling off those rockets on the pad before launch, you are seeing pure waste. It took a lot of energy to concentrate and liquefy that O2...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-25 07:01|| 2021-08-25 07:01|| Front Page Top

#3

Correction to my comment for better accuracy.
The figures are Feb. 2020 to date, NOT year to date.

See ICE-COVID Numbers for deeper details.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-25 08:02|| 2021-08-25 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Pure waste? Rather a design decision like the F-111s that deliberately leaked hydraulic fluid so that the actuators wouldn't have clogs in flight. The early F-111s actually had drip pans the ground crew placed under their wings on the ground and, as an USAF vet told me "You could tell that F-111s were on the base when you got near the runways from the smell of the hydraulics".

Posted by magpie 2021-08-25 10:23|| 2021-08-25 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 The rear trans on a Chinook used do leak badly as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-25 10:37|| 2021-08-25 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Once had a ride on a USMC C130 out of Corpus Christi. There was a steady trickle of red hydraulic fluid running down along the inside airframe (they were using Dextron; long story).
Crew chief said if the leak stopped, to let him know.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-08-25 10:59|| 2021-08-25 10:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Or is this a 'as it heats materials expand to close those gaps' a la SR-71?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-25 11:01|| 2021-08-25 11:01|| Front Page Top

#8 IIRC, Robert Goddard chose Roswell, NM for the fact that he could easily get LOX from TX via the ATSF railroad since it was a by product of the time (ca1930's) of the natural gas industry. There is a liquid gas plant next to Patrick AFB. There is also a new one in Lakeland near the power plant.

Posted by Vinegar Spolusing6485 2021-08-25 13:06|| 2021-08-25 13:06|| Front Page Top

#9 That explains the Roswell Incident, they where here for the bagels & lox

Posted by Heriberto Bluetooth8854 2021-08-25 14:33|| 2021-08-25 14:33|| Front Page Top

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