I believe there were either eight or ten of these COPVs on the booster that you are finding them from, used to spin up the center thirteen engines. Then two more high pressure tanks slightly thinner but as long as four or five of these used to pump CO2 into the engine bay during launch preventing any fires from causing damage.

Did Elon or SpaceX get back to you? You should at least get compensation for cleaning up their rubbish!!! That sucks that it got confiscated! >:(

Is that Walter white!?!?

What will you be doing with that tank by the way, will you be making your own way to space soon?

@musicduck4538

7 ай бұрын

Re-using them for his own rocket he's secretly working on 😁

Could there be pressure left in these tanks, or is that impossible?

@bobloblaw1636

7 ай бұрын

probably not possible since they've been ripped away from tubing, but I guess you never know

Wow I do not realize how big the copv's are. Do you think they where the same size on SN8 - SN15?

@ronhardrock468

7 ай бұрын

Yes ,there are 2 sizes with a 12' one and two 6' ones together at several locations under the skirt .

Such a shame I would collect all that you can find and then send the bill to musk and the EPA

@MrAlbertaSurfer

7 ай бұрын

Why is it a shame? It's part of history, and such a cool piece to find.

@iditarod4081

7 ай бұрын

@@MrAlbertaSurfer oh just because spacex is polluting the ocean. They don't care about the second stage on facon launches. They've sent dozens of rockets and hundreds of engines to the bottom of the ocean. It's good someone's trying to salvage them. I've thought about doing that myself but it's expensive to put together a boat and crew to go out into the middle of the Atlantic

@bobloblaw1636

7 ай бұрын

@@iditarod4081 I think it's strange to pick on spacex for polluting the ocean. Spacex reuses more of each rocket than any other company by a large margin. I think the second stage mostly burns up on reentry because it's going so fast.

@iditarod4081

7 ай бұрын

@@bobloblaw1636 I think I saw a big shooting star ✨ this week relaxing in the hot tub, it seemed so close, heading eastbound into the rising Moon 🌝 from overhead after midnight. It reminds me that to see a burnup a meteor is traveling tens of thousands of miles per hour. (Dozens of kilometers per second!). I highly doubt the falcons and engines they abandon burn up at all traveling at such relatively slow speeds falling from a 0v vertical vector at orbit. Maybe something warps or melts but nothing disintegrates. It's all there scattered in the ocean forever in the icy deep. A nice escapade for submersible tourism someday perhaps. Of course they smack the water surface pretty hard, someday maybe some random trawler will catch a video of an awesome cannonball. I've suggested they live stream the smackdowns before without response. I'm sure many people would tune in for the fin de siecle.

@MrAlbertaSurfer

7 ай бұрын

@@iditarod4081 Interesting you say they "don't care", about the second stage on F9. They very much care. Tons of research went into trying to recover and reuse second stage rockets, but it's difficult and not cost effective. The second stage has a vacuum engine which can't be used at sea level, so it cannot return to land like the boosters do. It's left to burn up in the atmosphere. Sure, it's a shame when rockets like Starship Superheavy fail during testing and Sparta make it to the ocean, but to say they "don't care" is to not understand the company at all. There are far more companies doing far more irreparable damage to the world's oceans than SpaceX.

I would expect Customs would seize the whale bones and fine you for importing prohibited items. It makes me wonder what would happen with Ambergris.

@ronhardrock468

7 ай бұрын

I did declare them because I thought they might not be allowed but I would never have brought them had I known they were illegal. I think Ambergris would be ok since it couldn’t harm a whale.

@dontwannaatellu

3 ай бұрын

​​@@ronhardrock468to bad its all gone:(