Starship will attempt a launch this weekend

Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by jauntywundrkind on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:24PM (#38258182)

Edit: Starship launch is:

  SPACE X STARSHIP SUPER HEAVY FLT 2  BOCA CHICA, TX
  PRIMARY: 11/17/23 1300Z-1720Z
  BACKUP:  11/18/23 1300Z-1720Z
           11/19/23 1300Z-1720Z

That's 8:00 AM Eastern, 5AM pacific.

Previous: am I missing something? This says 11/14/2023, aka tomorrow. Starting 11:30Z (6:30AM Eastern, 3:30AM Pacific)... like, 9 hours from now? And it seems to be landing somewhere in SFO area? There's a bunch of checks for SFO... [ed: there are also Starlink launches listed: 6-28 and 7-7 (whatever that means)].

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by 9cb14c1ec0 on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:26PM (#38258207)

Relevant lines are:

  SPACE X STARSHIP SUPER HEAVY FLT 2  BOCA CHICA, TX
  PRIMARY: 11/17/23 1300Z-1720Z
  BACKUP:  11/18/23 1300Z-1720Z
  11/19/23 1300Z-1720Z

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by idontwantthis on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:30PM (#38258234)

Is that UTC or local?

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by jayknight on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:37PM (#38258285)

The Z is Zulu, which is UTC.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/zulu

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by andrewstuart2 on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:35PM (#38258272)

Z = Zulu, meaning +0 or UTC.

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by 9cb14c1ec0 on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:33PM (#38258260)

UTC

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by two_handfuls on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:43PM (#38258330)

So it’s Friday, not the weekend !

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by TaylorAlexander on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:16PM (#38258594)

@dang can we update the title to say "Friday" instead of "weekend"?

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by cylinder714 on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:41PM (#38259266)

Shoot an email to [email protected]

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by TaylorAlexander on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:58PM (#38259364)

Yaaay we did it thanks.

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by dang on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:55PM (#38259354)

Ok!

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by shawnlower2 on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:45PM (#38258349)

As I understand it, they can't do launches over the weekend, as that requires closing the beach, which they don't have permission to do.

... Which makes the two backup dates very confusing. A very quick Google didn't turn up the actual rules on Starbase launches over the weekend, though, so I might be crazy.

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by LorenDB on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:54PM (#38258433)

SpaceX has five weekend closures allocated per year in Boca Chica: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/13/spacex-... (last paragraph)

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by LorenDB on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:52PM (#38258416)

...Friday is pretty much the weekend, right?

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by MontagFTB on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:26PM (#38258208)

Starship is listed towards the bottom of the notice with a primary date of Nov 17.

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by foobarian on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:38PM (#38258290)

I mean, still not exactly a weekend but close enough I guess.

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by jwells89 on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:08PM (#38258539)

Looks like I’ll be setting my alarm early this Friday morning… can’t wait.

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