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Re:SpaceX Halts Rocket Launch 10 Seconds Before Planned Liftoff by monochromatic on Saturday February 18, 2017 @06:42PM (#13677310)
How tight is the launch window for rendezvousing with something in orbit? A second? A few milliseconds?
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Re:SpaceX Halts Rocket Launch 10 Seconds Before Planned Liftoff by JshWright on Saturday February 18, 2017 @07:13PM (#13677430)
It depends on the capabilities of the launcher. For Falcon 9 it's several minutes, but since that's shorter than the amount of time it takes to 'recycle' from an abort (even if the issue can be fixed in zero time), it's effectively an instantaneous window.
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Re:SpaceX Halts Rocket Launch 10 Seconds Before Planned Liftoff by sitharus on Saturday February 18, 2017 @06:55PM (#13677353)
Depends on the orbit and the fuel available anything from seconds to hours. A fully loaded Dragon will have an "instantaneous" window, but with spare fuel for corrections during launch it can be an hour or more.
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Re:SpaceX Halts Rocket Launch 10 Seconds Before Planned Liftoff by maxerickson on Saturday February 18, 2017 @06:54PM (#13677352)
This seems informative:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3vcoxh/why_spacex_h...

Not super tight, but they don't have a lot of leeway either.

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