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/c/SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread! (nitter.net)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
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Welcome to the /c/SpaceX Integrated Flight Test 2 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2023-11-18 13:00 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2023-11-18 07:00 (CST) | | Launch Window (UTC) | 2023-11-18 13:00 to 2023-11-18 13:20 (20 minutes) | | Weather | Good | | Launch site | OLM-A, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA. | | Booster | B9 | | Ship | S25 | | Booster landing | B9 to perform a soft water landing in the Gulf of Mexico | | Ship landing | S25 expected to impact Pacific Ocean near Hawaii |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Everyday Astronaut (4k and low latency) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6na40SqzYnU | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LFzFWaACo | LabPadre | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwhcSwQWOHk | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOI35G7cP7o | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0K0uSDE6ks | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbmBspvaHE | SpaceX | https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1725852544587727145#m | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CREQ3e2Li34

Stats

☑️ 2nd Starship Full Stack launch

☑️ 299th SpaceX launch all time

☑️ 86th SpaceX launch this year

☑️ 2nd launch from OLM-A this year

☑️ 211 days, 23:27:00 turnaround for this pad

Stats include F1, F9 , FH and Starship

Mission Details 🚀

Link to Starship Dev thread

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[–] few@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

SpaceX live streaming starts at 12:24 UTC here: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEWQvrXxB

[–] xvlc@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

For people like me without an X/Twitter account, there is also the spacex.com livestream (which is just the Twitter livestream embedded, but no login is required).

[–] clothes@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Prediction time!

Stage Zero: Works with only minor damage.

Booster Engine Failures: 5 :(

Hot Staging: Works, looks cool.

Upper Stage: Flies, with significant issues.

FTS: Big boom, on time!

End result: Booster re-enters in one piece, Ship in many.

[–] xvlc@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hmm, I am a bit more confident in the ships abilities (at least for anything between hot staging and SECO).

Anyways, if it gets to the point to initiate hot staging (regardless of the outcome) and the FTS works, it‘s a success. But we should also remember that SN9 landed (crashed) harder than SN8, and SN12 was way worse than the previous three tests. If stage zero is mostly unharmed, the FTS works, and the authorities are not too unhappy, SpaceX has already produced enough hardware for several tests to get it right within the next few months. A good test is a test where you learn a lot, and can try again soon.