Starship will attempt a launch this weekend

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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