Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Central Time

Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by voidUpdate on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:16AM (#40596513)

Its being restreamed to https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-..., no twitter account required =)

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by sva_ on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:02AM (#40596880)

Very strange you can watch it here: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798098040588480826 but not here: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYzDXjWGQ without an account.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by ta1243 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @07:44AM (#40596267)

Some of us aren't interested in the "third parties" like Everyday Astronaut and NSF, we just want to see the official spacex coverage.

Last time there was a VLC compatible stream posted on HN

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by TiredOfLife on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:18AM (#40596536)

$ mpv https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYzDXjWGQ

You will also need latest yt-dlp in path. For linux

$ sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt... -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

$ sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp # Make executable

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by ta1243 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:38AM (#40596684)

Lovely, that's beautiful, makes a change from watching about 180 monitors of very similar looking bars here in Leipzig

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by skissane on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:52AM (#40595535)

I’m going to watch an alternative stream (probably Everyday Astronaut’s or NSF’s) on my TV just because I can’t be bothered with working out how to stream X to it. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

IFT-3 I ended up watching some random restream of the official X stream on YouTube, which was actually less delayed/buffered than X on my phone was

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by adolph on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:17AM (#40596521)

EDA has a thermal cam watching prop load right now, pretty neat

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by sebzim4500 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:22AM (#40595732)

Everyday Astronaut is going to try to get tracking footage of the booster all the way from launch to the landing burn. That might be better than the official footage.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by weberer on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:36AM (#40595810)

Does anyone know of a good Twitter/X add-on for Kodi?

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by inemesitaffia on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:02AM (#40595613)

Space affairs has nothing added

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by gorbypark on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:35AM (#40596662)

If you have an Apple TV (or possibly also Android TV?) it's quite easy with the tvOS VLC app. The top comment here posted the stream link, https://prod-ec-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/G... Just paste that into the network stream option in the tvOS VLC app and bam, good to go. It's really kinda magical with an iPhone, as you can just paste the link into the popup on your phone!

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by cwillu on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:11AM (#40595666)

The youtube video is third party footage, which can also be interesting, but it's definitely not the same as the official broadcast, which is _not_ going to be on youtube (unless you want to watch a badly faked video of Musk giving away bitcoin instead of the launch).

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by belter on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:51AM (#40595521)

If he said it must be true :-)

https://youtu.be/8VESowgMbjA

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by squarefoot on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:59AM (#40595588)

Is this feed live? Asking because I see a ~20 minute gap with the official countdown time.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by belter on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:12AM (#40595670)

It says Live and is showing the correct Central Time(CT). But I would rather watch it with 20 min delay than create an X account... :-)

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by squarefoot on Thursday June 06, 2024 @07:52AM (#40596313)

Same here. Not a fair move from Musk, but I guess he needs to use all tricks to bring some users back to X (did someone say porn?). I'll watch it later on other channels.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by Perz1val on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:24AM (#40595742)

There was a tweet linked somwhere here in which Musk said launch is 7:20 Texas time, 20mins before the "event" starts

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by cwillu on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:18AM (#40595712)

Youtube livestreams are buggy sometimes, make sure you seek to the end.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by cwillu on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:14AM (#40595680)

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by skilled on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:55AM (#40595555)

Thanks! I made an edit to my comment.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by ta1243 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:51AM (#40595517)

"Something went wrong. Try reloading."

Great start.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by tjoff on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:51AM (#40595514)

"Something went wrong. Try reloading"

Is all I get

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by voidUpdate on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:04AM (#40595622)

Does "something went wrong" mean you have to be logged in to view it, like you have to be logged in to do anything on the musk hellsite these days?

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by skilled on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:05AM (#40595627)

Yeah. As a logged-in user I can see it, but it is not playing yet.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by voidUpdate on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:11AM (#40595663)

Well that's aggravating. I can't watch it after I lost access to my account because every time I do the 2FA it just tells me "something went wrong"

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by Perz1val on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:26AM (#40595750)

I wonder if that's also because you're not logged in...

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by rvnx on Thursday June 06, 2024 @07:36AM (#40596213)

Same with Facebook password recovery, eventually leads to "Sorry your request cannot be fulfilled" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so access lost forever.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by numpad0 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:25AM (#40595747)

So many cases of such login walls and/or automatic display bans are seen on Twitter these days. It's insane.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by weberer on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:39AM (#40595830)

>these days

Twitter has been like this since at least 2016.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by voidUpdate on Thursday June 06, 2024 @07:42AM (#40596257)

Maybe but you could at least see a whole thread instead of only the tweet you clicked on without being logged in, and you could see posts on someone's page in chronological order instead of leaving it up to The Algorithm™

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by aaron695 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:17AM (#40595704)

> like you have to be logged in to do anything on the musk hellsite these days?

Why be on HN calling things names while being stupid? These style of comments are constant on HN now.

I get it's autism insulting the users of the site you want help on, but not the stupidity.

But it's a free account for Twitter. A lot of OSINT is on Twitter. A lot of tech info is on Twitter.

If dumb just do what everyone else does for fucks sake or don't ape the media like an NPC with stupid insults. Pretend you are smart, fake it till you make it.

Yes you need a login. There are always other livestreams on youtube.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by krunck on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:07AM (#40596927)

No logged in and am viewing it just fine.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by mensetmanusman on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:43AM (#40595846)

Beware of the YouTube streaming, so many people got crypto scammed with deep fakes last time.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by cwillu on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:46AM (#40595865)

The youtube stream he's linking to is a third party stream, not a rebroadcast of the official stream (which is what bitcoin scams are doing).

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by mensetmanusman on Thursday June 06, 2024 @07:09AM (#40596025)

Exactly, just warning people who search YouTube to be alert, the sophistication of scammers with low cost compute is getting high.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:30AM (#40596631)

Why the exclusivity? What does Spacex gain from streaming only on twitter?

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:57AM (#40596835)

The CEO of SpaceX owns Twitter.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:16AM (#40597037)

I'm aware. What does SpaceX gain from the exclusivity?

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by TiredOfLife on Thursday June 06, 2024 @11:26AM (#40598582)

The CEO of SpaceX owns Twitter.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:21PM (#40600667)

Im sure SpaceX's investors love being used to promote a single private social media platform. Sounds like another case of the CEO enriching themselves to the detriment of investors.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by AnthonyMouse on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:21AM (#40605805)

There are hypothetically advantages. The affiliated company would be more inclined to promote them, so they could get in front of some people who otherwise might not have seen it. Conversely, a company that competes with the affiliated company might be inclined to do the opposite to avoid promoting a competitor's businesses, so the countervailing costs of exclusivity are lower for their company in particular.

They also might be wary of platforms like YouTube which host "Elon Musk wants to give you Bitcoins" scam videos, which Twitter has a stronger incentive to be aggressive in removing because of who owns it, and then there is value to the company in being able to say "none of the YouTube videos are legitimate, you can only see it here."

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by sva_ on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:34AM (#40596653)

Looks like official SpaceX account is streaming though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlBuabzbqX4

Edit: nvm, it is fake

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by TiredOfLife on Thursday June 06, 2024 @11:26AM (#40598575)

The account hijack -> rename to spacex -> push crypto scam livestream thing has been going on for years. I wonder how much money Google gets from those because I see no other reason Youtube doesn't have some "if account with x subscribers changes name to spacex and starts live streaming" alert.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by TrainedMonkey on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:43AM (#40596723)

It looks fake - https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceXForEU . The crazy thing is that this one fake has 360k viewers which is comparable to 560k viewers on official X broadcast. Here is the official channel - https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX

Aha, it is fake see - https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1d5s80x/laminzu_or... . Normally these are used to push crypto scams.

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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by chinathrow on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:43AM (#40596720)

https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceXForEU

Strange user account name.

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