Also might be time that we start a SpaceX armada thread for all naval activity so people dont go around complaining so much.



I have been an advocate of revising the thread title either directly or by the creation of a new thread for a long time. It needs to be done to reflect the actual work* being done by this group of NSF members which couldn't have been anticipated over 250 pages ago when the name was given. When this thread (and the previous thread (and arguably the one before it)) was started there was just the one drone ship. Now its much beyond that with (as previously posted) two drone ships, two large dedicated support ships, two dedicated tugs, one part time cargo ship, and a smattering of recurring spot hired tugs. There are also two large cranes, (soon to be) two F9 support structures, and associated ground equipment arrayed at two long term bases. Soon there will be an additional increase of 50% when the Texas launch site comes online. We're not tracking all of this because we like gossiping about the equipment (though it may get overly equipment geeky from time to time). We're not tracking this because we think its great or unique to put stationkeeping thrusters on a large barge, those seem to be common in oilfield work. We are collecting information through this thread because its all part of assembling a larger picture about how SpaceX is putting together their recovery operations and how it plans to recover their equipment. If we were to strictly limit our work here to the originally titled "Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship" it couldn't be done because that ship doesn't exist anymore, its been disassembled. All of this that we discuss here is one inseparable thing, and it somewhat corresponds to SpaceX's recovery operations group's equipment and operations. That much to me seems an obvious grouping. If the decision were made to create a new thread or rename this one to be more along the lines of what nearly everyone understands to be the mission of this thread then there would seem to be three lines of questions that would need to be decided upon -a) Would it, should it include ocean recovery of Dragons? I say yes, because the support ships comingle between that and drone ship support, because they share the same base and personnel, and because the people who are on this thread are interested in and good at ship sleuthing.b) What would be the best, most accurate thread title?- SpaceX Naval Operations- SpaceX Armada- SpaceX Ocean Recovery Operationsc) Would recovery operations on land be logically included in this new thread? (I vote no on this)I think if a poll were taken of the regular contributors to this thread there'd be a high level of agreement to this grouping of subject matter though likely some disagreement on the subject of how to properly name what we're working on.* I think "work" accurately describes what is being done here, not just discussion. Members of this group are actively working to tease new information out of various resources to determine how SpaceX is planning to recover their various pieces of space hardware from the oceansEdit: Just reported this post to moderators. Moderators, this is in reference to Chris' post 5x above, under the presumption that the complaint was on discussion wider than the title of the thread.