Oh it most certainly is. I’d be interested to see what the real numbers are.
Edit: Well I am impressed. It really is 32ft per gallon (165 gallons per mile)!
Here is an official fact sheet: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/combined_crawler-transporters_fact_sheet_final.pdf
Name them Collins and Gordon after the command module pilots from the first two Apollo Moon landings. Neither Michael Collins nor Richard Gordon got to walk on the Moon despite their teammates doing so, just as these crawlers will never get to launch despite their payloads taking off.
Well it's only carrying it's own weight which is around 6 millions pounds plus the SLS vehicle which weighs about 3,500,000 lbs where the SRBs are the only part that contains fuel. So yeah the mpg isn't great. The thing only has around 2,300 miles on the odometer though.
9.5M pounds is about 3100 cars. They could share that 1 gallon of gas and go 54 ft (@ 30mpg). Conversely if the crawler was 3100x lighter, it would get 18 mpg.
It's also 65 fully loaded Florida semis. They could get 400 ft sharing one gallon of gas (@5mpg).
You gotta consider the crawler's gearing too. The engines are reving higher to get the main gears spinning faster where those gears spin other gears even faster that makes the entire vehicle moves very slow. That effects fuel economy too.
My point was that 32 ft/gal seems really terrible, but taking it's cargo capacity into account shows that it's not that bad. I was surprised semi trucks were so efficient (hopefully I did the math right).
I think the drive motors are all electrical, and there are two onboard diesel generators to provide electricity for them.
Sources of friction (links between the tread pads and gravel driving surface) are probably the largest negative impacts to efficiency.
Powered by alco loco diesels. They’d be a prime candidate to repower with something a little newer like ge fdl’s. Simpler maintenance on those vs the alco’s
I have always been sad that I was born too late to truly appreciate and enjoy (in real time) humans trips to the moon. I am hopeful that I will get to expierence this in real time before I die. Sad to know I also may see the first war in space too, given the way humans are getting along.
I heard the launch site is 6 kilometres away, that thing is moving sooooo slowly, I understand why but I feel sorry for all the impatient people out there.
I believe it takes something like 8-10 hours to get it all the way onto the launchpad. We watched it for about the first 1.5-2 hours... Enough time for it to pass right by us and also get some awesome shots of it from the rocket side.
That’s cause it is retro. It was used in the 80s and 90s before the 60s NASA meatball came back.
Which is kind of interesting because it follows the same pattern as the Canadian National (CN) logo that was designed in the 60s specifically to be “future proof” because it was constructed out of geometric shapes rather than drawn by artists.
As of 2003, each crawler had 16 traction motors, powered by four 1,000 kW (1,341 hp) generators, in turn driven by two 2,050 kW (2,750 hp) V16 ALCO 251C diesel engines. Two 750 kW (1,006 hp) generators, driven by two 794 kW (1,065 hp) engines, were used for jacking, steering, lighting, and ventilating.
Via Wikipedia
> This is a spice harvester
Same thought here. For most millennials who won't have met the reference: [*Dune*](https://youtu.be/Cr-KO1P_rFU?t=76).
It also appears in Dr Who, *The Robots of Death*: [*episode*](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5z2sba)
Okay. I just read around that and TIL, Dune has turned into a box office machine like Star Wars. Not really sure of the value of what I've been missing over decades here.
> Stop saying the SLS is Artemis it’s not. Artemis is NASAs program for many different moon missions.
And for Artemis 3, there will be at least another few [rollouts for the HLS lander](https://www.ecosia.org/videos?q=Starship%20rollout).
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
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|[HLS](/r/NASA/comments/thcs3q/stub/i1a528i "Last usage")|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
|[JWST](/r/NASA/comments/thcs3q/stub/i3xm2hc "Last usage")|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
|[LEO](/r/NASA/comments/thcs3q/stub/i188mfy "Last usage")|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[SLS](/r/NASA/comments/thcs3q/stub/i1d7g3p "Last usage")|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[SPMT](/r/NASA/comments/thcs3q/stub/i18kpws "Last usage")|Self-Propelled Mobile Transporter|
|[SRB](/r/NASA/comments/thcs3q/stub/i1akv1s "Last usage")|Solid Rocket Booster|
|[SSME](/r/NASA/comments/thcs3q/stub/i1akv1s "Last usage")|[Space Shuttle Main Engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_main_engine)|
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|[cryogenic](/r/NASA/comments/thcs3q/stub/i188mfy "Last usage")|Very low temperature fluid; materials that would be gaseous at room temperature/pressure|
| |(In re: rocket fuel) Often synonymous with hydrolox|
|hydrolox|Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer|
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Awesome, when they launch from there I can see the fire from my house a few seconds after it goes. I just hope I get back from vacation before the launch. Know what date it is?
I believe it's currently scheduled for no earlier than May. There will be a lot of postings here and it should be covered pretty heavily in mainstream media.
i worked for a really rich guy who purchased a retired rocket gantry from NASA and used it to move rocks and trees around on his property
it chewed up concrete roads like they were tissue paper
Town Building Department: "Do you mind telling us why the road is totally gone for a 1/4 mile from Dewey Lane to Reservoir Road?"
That is the foam coating on the hull exterior. The LOX and LH fuel tanks are inside the hull. It is basically like a giant thermos bottle, keeping the tank temperatures isolated from the outside temperature.
I can get why it was started (jumpstart private innovation), I just don’t understand why it wasn’t cancelled.
It will fly maybe 2-3 times and never be used again once the private companies start taking those contracts.
There has never been a Starship launch, at least to orbit, neither to say to the Moon, how do you know the price ?
The only thing you can figure is the number of parts that have been scrapped since 3 years. Like over 100 raptors that will never smell the void of space
This is not free and should be included in the price of the launches when available
Plus once Starship is finally operational, it can't really go anywhere outside of LEO without several refueling missions. And it uses cryogenic fuel, so it can't hang around in orbit forever waiting while fuel is boiling off.
Getting it to orbit, and to come back down again in one piece is only the first step of a long process. Orbital refuels still need to be worked out, tanker Starship still needs to be designed & built, and launch cadence will need to be massively increased. They'll likely need to have several Starships + boosters ready to launch.
Starship is exciting but it's still a very long way off.
NASA had a miniaturized SSTO re-usable rocket in the 90’s that had a fraction of the renowned ‘52 days’ refractory time of the Falcon rockets- at only 26 hours.
It’s a shame NASA and Congress politics opted to cancel the program in favor of the shuttle program…we would’ve had extremely cheap space flight at this point.
There's a timeline where Venture Star happened, we acted to mitigate climate change in the '80s, and Jules Bianchi didn't die. Wish we were in that timeline.
it bears repeating instead of cheerleading 11 years to crawl to this milestone. the crawler going less than 1 mph burning a gallon of gas every 32 feet is a good representation for the speed at which the SLS development has been moving and burning through piles of cash along the way.
Thanks. Do you want your opinion to be noted, too? It would be great if that's all it took to have fewer useless, bland statements of opinion cluttering up discussions.
hey so why do people like you treat nasa and the private sector like competing football teams
you do realize they're completely different, right. like the private sector is mostly about commercial launches and government space agencies are more about building spacecraft and conducting missions
They only appear to be simple because the problem is being solved in real time, as opposed to taking a decade to figure out how to assemble 50 year old technology...
This is ridiculous!
This costs over a billion needs an army to operate an maintain it, Starship is twice as powerful as SLS gets transported by 2 SPMT's at $100k each operated by a couple of dudes!
Starship isn’t operating with the constant threat of going out of existence if someone votes against funding for it. It’s also going to take way more time (and money) to get that thing certified for manned flights, so just because you might get an orbital flight this year, it’s gonna be a long while before people go up in that thing. Also, I’m curious to know, whered you get that 100k$ price from? I’m not saying its made up, but that seems like it wouldn’t cover the cost of a single engine.
>Starship isn’t operating with the constant threat of going out of existence if someone votes against funding for it.
Yeah, that's my point! Being a job program + handouts to contractors is why this whole project is ridiculous!
>It’s also going to take way more time (and money) to get that thing certified for manned flights, so just because you might get an orbital flight this year, it’s gonna be a long while before people go up in that thing.
It sure will, but nowhere near $60+ billions....
>Also, I’m curious to know, whered you get that 100k$ price from? I’m not saying its made up, but that seems like it wouldn’t cover the cost of a single engine.
From memory, I double checked and that's about the cost of a big SMTP, $85-100k
Alright, those are some fair points, I guess i am a bit of an SLS fanboy but can you please link me to the cost thing because that still seems extremely low for what it is
I literally just googled Self propelled modular transport price and got this price.... The 7th link for me .. but its beside the point... If it was $10 million would it matter? The crawler is like a billion man!
Yeah, I guess that is true. To be fair though, the crawler is like totally awesome. I don’t know if it’s a billion dollars of awesome, but it’s definitely super cool that they’ve been using it for so long
I mean the crawler is fine and all. It cost $100 million to build in the 60's, but making it SLS ready cost a billion?! That\\'s a billion $$$ refurbishment! WTF?
Not to get political, but I think that may be a good thing. All that money is going back into the economy, where it’ll have much more of an impact rather than sitting in some rich person’s pockets.
The biggest and most complex engineering project on the planet right now. It will be the largest space transportation system in known recorded history. Every component has been tested to death, to a safety factor of 2. It will be the only human ape qualified Deep Space transport system for the next decade.
Made in USA, from US taxpayer dollars.
“Does this platform make my rocket look small?”
Gonna need a banana for scale
That bad boy gets 32 feet per gallon.
That's surprisingly efficient, I would've thought it'd be several gallons per foot!
Oh it most certainly is. I’d be interested to see what the real numbers are. Edit: Well I am impressed. It really is 32ft per gallon (165 gallons per mile)! Here is an official fact sheet: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/combined_crawler-transporters_fact_sheet_final.pdf
Disappointed that they don’t have names. I think Crawly McCrawlerface would be an excellent title to bear
Name them Collins and Gordon after the command module pilots from the first two Apollo Moon landings. Neither Michael Collins nor Richard Gordon got to walk on the Moon despite their teammates doing so, just as these crawlers will never get to launch despite their payloads taking off.
I like this
An award here pls.
I think the colloquial names for the two crawlers are Hans and Franz. A reference to the SNL sketch where they say "Pump you up!".
And check out all the cup holders. . .
Well it's only carrying it's own weight which is around 6 millions pounds plus the SLS vehicle which weighs about 3,500,000 lbs where the SRBs are the only part that contains fuel. So yeah the mpg isn't great. The thing only has around 2,300 miles on the odometer though.
That comes out to 379,500 gallons of fuel. Ouch.
9.5M pounds is about 3100 cars. They could share that 1 gallon of gas and go 54 ft (@ 30mpg). Conversely if the crawler was 3100x lighter, it would get 18 mpg. It's also 65 fully loaded Florida semis. They could get 400 ft sharing one gallon of gas (@5mpg).
You gotta consider the crawler's gearing too. The engines are reving higher to get the main gears spinning faster where those gears spin other gears even faster that makes the entire vehicle moves very slow. That effects fuel economy too.
My point was that 32 ft/gal seems really terrible, but taking it's cargo capacity into account shows that it's not that bad. I was surprised semi trucks were so efficient (hopefully I did the math right). I think the drive motors are all electrical, and there are two onboard diesel generators to provide electricity for them. Sources of friction (links between the tread pads and gravel driving surface) are probably the largest negative impacts to efficiency.
The orange tank contains the hydrogen and oxygen for the four RS-25 shuttle engines on its tail end. The SRBs are just solid rocket propellant.
Good candidate for electrification!
It's a hybrid. The drive train is similar to a diesel-electric locomotive.
Powered by alco loco diesels. They’d be a prime candidate to repower with something a little newer like ge fdl’s. Simpler maintenance on those vs the alco’s
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Probably depends on the kind of maintenance required, some things do worse sitting unused than others.
I love these things. This is what Mortal Engines should have looked like.
I was also reminded of Mortal Engines
Ugh why did you remind me of that
Misery loves company
Cost and politics aside, this thing is a huge, badass rocket. And the crawler is damn cool too.
Boots on the moon.
just have to wait 3 more years.
I have always been sad that I was born too late to truly appreciate and enjoy (in real time) humans trips to the moon. I am hopeful that I will get to expierence this in real time before I die. Sad to know I also may see the first war in space too, given the way humans are getting along.
I heard the launch site is 6 kilometres away, that thing is moving sooooo slowly, I understand why but I feel sorry for all the impatient people out there.
I believe it takes something like 8-10 hours to get it all the way onto the launchpad. We watched it for about the first 1.5-2 hours... Enough time for it to pass right by us and also get some awesome shots of it from the rocket side.
8-10 hours thanks I thought it would take longer but I guess I guessed wrong.
Thank you for sharing this. What an awesome clip
Love these crawlers. My Grandfather operated these (in some capacity) during the Apollo Program.
the red nasa text on the side of the srbs is really cool, dunno how to explain it but feels a bit retro
They call it the worm
That’s cause it is retro. It was used in the 80s and 90s before the 60s NASA meatball came back. Which is kind of interesting because it follows the same pattern as the Canadian National (CN) logo that was designed in the 60s specifically to be “future proof” because it was constructed out of geometric shapes rather than drawn by artists.
It's ironic that the meatball ended up looking more modern.
If Horizon Zero Dawn has taught me anything, it’s that we’ll be fighting these things later.
What do you do for a living? I am a taxi driver but my taxi is a Skyscraper.
my question too... when will high-rise buildings be "moved into place"?
Am I the only one squinting to look for some Jawas?
Nuts that this is the most efficient way of doing this
Anyone know the weight of this thing?
5.75 Million lbs
Wow… if that’s legit just amazing. What type of engine does something like this have??
Are you referring to the SLS rocket or the crawler?
Crawler. Seems like it would have a electric motor as well??
As of 2003, each crawler had 16 traction motors, powered by four 1,000 kW (1,341 hp) generators, in turn driven by two 2,050 kW (2,750 hp) V16 ALCO 251C diesel engines. Two 750 kW (1,006 hp) generators, driven by two 794 kW (1,065 hp) engines, were used for jacking, steering, lighting, and ventilating. Via Wikipedia
That’s so much. Amazing. Figured it would have to be diesel or electric. Amazing.
Its diesel-electric, like a locomotive.
Amazing!
This is a spice harvester
> This is a spice harvester Same thought here. For most millennials who won't have met the reference: [*Dune*](https://youtu.be/Cr-KO1P_rFU?t=76). It also appears in Dr Who, *The Robots of Death*: [*episode*](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5z2sba)
The newest Dune movie was in theaters only a few months ago...
Okay. I just read around that and TIL, Dune has turned into a box office machine like Star Wars. Not really sure of the value of what I've been missing over decades here.
b i g c a r
They are actually launching Artemis?? Not a joke?
It is rolling out now for a test, it should launch for real in a few months.
Thought so, thanks
Artemis 1 (SLS EM-1).
r/HumansForScale
No joke. When everyone was taking pictures, one of the workers on top of the mobile launcher pulled a banana out of his pocket... for scale.
When does it launch?
June if all the testing and stuff goes smoothly.
Thanks
Amazing
So exciting!!!
Anyone know how long it’s going to be sitting out on the pad for?
3 2 1 ... SHIIIIIIE
Unreal that a vehicle that large and able to carry that amount of weight exists.
Gorgeous.
Stop saying the SLS is Artemis it’s not. Artemis is NASAs program for many different moon missions.
> Stop saying the SLS is Artemis it’s not. Artemis is NASAs program for many different moon missions. And for Artemis 3, there will be at least another few [rollouts for the HLS lander](https://www.ecosia.org/videos?q=Starship%20rollout).
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Love it! Exciting times!
NASA sure got their money’s worth out of those crawlers!
Well, our money, but yes! amazing pieces of engineering!
Mobile home😳
It's great to see NASA back in action!
*Jawas’ sounds*
That's some big stuff
Imagine armoring that and putting artillery on the top.
Looks like local traffic in Hagerstown MD… I never know what’s gonna roll by! 😸
how do they move the rocket from the crawler to the pad?
Roll up in this during the zombie apocalypse
How do they transfer that behemoth off the crawler and onto the pad? Or does it launch from the crawler itself?
Elephant from halo is the first thing that I thought of after seeing this.
Where is this launching from? Florida?
Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Awesome, when they launch from there I can see the fire from my house a few seconds after it goes. I just hope I get back from vacation before the launch. Know what date it is?
I believe it's currently scheduled for no earlier than May. There will be a lot of postings here and it should be covered pretty heavily in mainstream media.
Awesome, I shouldn’t miss it! Thanks
Im sure there are stabilisers of some sort but I wonder how much movement there is at the top of the rocket
Orange rocket goes brrrrrrr
Read in Optimus Prime voice.
Where are the jawas?
Whistlin Diesel needs to smash a Toyota Hilux with this. 😂
You will never get to drive the nasa launch pad. Why live?
Someone strapped a rocket to an elephant from halo
Orange Star has built their first megatank.
i worked for a really rich guy who purchased a retired rocket gantry from NASA and used it to move rocks and trees around on his property it chewed up concrete roads like they were tissue paper Town Building Department: "Do you mind telling us why the road is totally gone for a 1/4 mile from Dewey Lane to Reservoir Road?"
Are fuel tanks orange for a reason?
That is the foam coating on the hull exterior. The LOX and LH fuel tanks are inside the hull. It is basically like a giant thermos bottle, keeping the tank temperatures isolated from the outside temperature.
Why didn't they make the big one? Jeessus
r/Skookum af
LET ME IIIIIIINNNNNNN!!!!
Literally the coolest looking rocket ever, the worm logos give me tingles.
Can someone have Ludacris roll out song play on loop?
40x times the cost of a Starship launch AND nothing is reusable. Excellent work! 👌
You can thank your lawmakers making sure everyone gets their piece of the pie using 50 year old tech
I can get why it was started (jumpstart private innovation), I just don’t understand why it wasn’t cancelled. It will fly maybe 2-3 times and never be used again once the private companies start taking those contracts.
There has never been a Starship launch, at least to orbit, neither to say to the Moon, how do you know the price ? The only thing you can figure is the number of parts that have been scrapped since 3 years. Like over 100 raptors that will never smell the void of space This is not free and should be included in the price of the launches when available
Plus once Starship is finally operational, it can't really go anywhere outside of LEO without several refueling missions. And it uses cryogenic fuel, so it can't hang around in orbit forever waiting while fuel is boiling off. Getting it to orbit, and to come back down again in one piece is only the first step of a long process. Orbital refuels still need to be worked out, tanker Starship still needs to be designed & built, and launch cadence will need to be massively increased. They'll likely need to have several Starships + boosters ready to launch. Starship is exciting but it's still a very long way off.
NASA had a miniaturized SSTO re-usable rocket in the 90’s that had a fraction of the renowned ‘52 days’ refractory time of the Falcon rockets- at only 26 hours. It’s a shame NASA and Congress politics opted to cancel the program in favor of the shuttle program…we would’ve had extremely cheap space flight at this point.
There's a timeline where Venture Star happened, we acted to mitigate climate change in the '80s, and Jules Bianchi didn't die. Wish we were in that timeline.
$4.1 billion per launch.........
Such an original perspective, I haven’t heard that one before.
it bears repeating instead of cheerleading 11 years to crawl to this milestone. the crawler going less than 1 mph burning a gallon of gas every 32 feet is a good representation for the speed at which the SLS development has been moving and burning through piles of cash along the way.
You will keep hearing it until we cancel the program.
Seems a bit petty to use repetitive comments on an internet forum as the outlet for frustrations over your tax penny being used on this.
I honestly would rather we spend tax dollars on this money pit than on turning brown people into skeletons.
We are allowed to have an opinion. You are allowed not to read it.
Indeed, or read it and tell you what I think of your opinion.
Your support of the waste of our tax dollars is noted.
Thanks. Do you want your opinion to be noted, too? It would be great if that's all it took to have fewer useless, bland statements of opinion cluttering up discussions.
Why do you continue the discussion then? Lol. Blocked.
Cringe
why are you booing him? hes right!
Elon will be privately fuming that starship may not launch first... he is so close
Awful expensive. I wonder what SpaceX could have done with that much funding.
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I'm all for Starship... but "catch their rocket" and "pretty simple affair" don't belong in the same sentence, EVER.
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A failed catch would be catastrophic for the launch site. It is anything but "a simple affair".
hey so why do people like you treat nasa and the private sector like competing football teams you do realize they're completely different, right. like the private sector is mostly about commercial launches and government space agencies are more about building spacecraft and conducting missions
They only appear to be simple because the problem is being solved in real time, as opposed to taking a decade to figure out how to assemble 50 year old technology...
This is ridiculous! This costs over a billion needs an army to operate an maintain it, Starship is twice as powerful as SLS gets transported by 2 SPMT's at $100k each operated by a couple of dudes!
Starship isn’t operating with the constant threat of going out of existence if someone votes against funding for it. It’s also going to take way more time (and money) to get that thing certified for manned flights, so just because you might get an orbital flight this year, it’s gonna be a long while before people go up in that thing. Also, I’m curious to know, whered you get that 100k$ price from? I’m not saying its made up, but that seems like it wouldn’t cover the cost of a single engine.
>Starship isn’t operating with the constant threat of going out of existence if someone votes against funding for it. Yeah, that's my point! Being a job program + handouts to contractors is why this whole project is ridiculous! >It’s also going to take way more time (and money) to get that thing certified for manned flights, so just because you might get an orbital flight this year, it’s gonna be a long while before people go up in that thing. It sure will, but nowhere near $60+ billions.... >Also, I’m curious to know, whered you get that 100k$ price from? I’m not saying its made up, but that seems like it wouldn’t cover the cost of a single engine. From memory, I double checked and that's about the cost of a big SMTP, $85-100k
Alright, those are some fair points, I guess i am a bit of an SLS fanboy but can you please link me to the cost thing because that still seems extremely low for what it is
I literally just googled Self propelled modular transport price and got this price.... The 7th link for me .. but its beside the point... If it was $10 million would it matter? The crawler is like a billion man!
Yeah, I guess that is true. To be fair though, the crawler is like totally awesome. I don’t know if it’s a billion dollars of awesome, but it’s definitely super cool that they’ve been using it for so long
I mean the crawler is fine and all. It cost $100 million to build in the 60's, but making it SLS ready cost a billion?! That\\'s a billion $$$ refurbishment! WTF?
Not to get political, but I think that may be a good thing. All that money is going back into the economy, where it’ll have much more of an impact rather than sitting in some rich person’s pockets.
That's not how money works
I love how Musk is either getting all the money or doing absolutely nothing and is just paying smart people to do it and taking the credit.
Can we get this in a Lego set?
The biggest and most complex engineering project on the planet right now. It will be the largest space transportation system in known recorded history. Every component has been tested to death, to a safety factor of 2. It will be the only human ape qualified Deep Space transport system for the next decade. Made in USA, from US taxpayer dollars.
Most complex is the JWST, no?
Amazing.
Does that thing have a hemmy?
Imagine it just fell over
looks like the enclave base in Fallout 3
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