tater Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 Soon (tm). Is that soon relative to fruit flies, sea turtles, or geological time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 3 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said: Soon (tm). Is that soon relative to fruit flies, sea turtles, or geological time? If I were to guess, late March/early April, around the time Polaris I launches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sevenperforce Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 1 hour ago, tater said: Expected cryo pressure test today; that appears to be what the extended zone is for. If that goes well, WDR next week before destack and 33-engine test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Beccab Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 The 39A tower now has chopsticks ready to go on it - the next major item would be either protection panels around the tower or the main launch mount, which we know to be almost ready from leaked pics of one Falcon hangar at Cape Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bej Kerman Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 14 minutes ago, tater said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Nice soot Hopefully weather will hold. Lightshow in the sky from three boosters should be spectacular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 26 minutes ago, Scotius said: Nice soot Hopefully weather will hold. Lightshow in the sky from three boosters should be spectacular. 45th Weather Squadron has the weather pretty good, except for fairing recovery—and that's bad tomorrow as well. https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon Heavy USSF-67 L-1 Forecast - 14 Jan Launch.pdf?ver=mD1mH8H7fjdXz9UcmXwnZw%3d%3d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Launch now moved to tomorrow: Maybe fairing recovery better tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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magnemoe Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 22 hours ago, tater said: 5 full stacks sounds like 5 SS and 5 superheavy. Who makes little sense to me as they will start catching SH from first launch while its some time until they can reuse starships. Some early one will be disposable on purpose for starlink 2 launches and launch testing. Most obvious problem outside the technical reentry is that landing in Texas require overflight of Mexico, Florida and US overflight. In short they will be able to reuse superheavy this year but not SS. Yes they might well land one if lucky, two if I was Elon but say 3 SH for spares and focus on SS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Just now, magnemoe said: they will start catching SH from first launch This was never confirmed, it was just speculation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 8 minutes ago, magnemoe said: Who makes little sense to me as they will start catching SH from first launch while its some time until they can reuse starships. They will not attempt a catch for a long time I would wager. They will first boostback to a point in the Gulf, and make sure they can hit a virtual sot with the required accuracy/speed before they think about such an attempt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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magnemoe Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 18 minutes ago, tater said: They will not attempt a catch for a long time I would wager. They will first boostback to a point in the Gulf, and make sure they can hit a virtual sot with the required accuracy/speed before they think about such an attempt. Splashdown was the initial plan for first SH, it was an change to catch attempt. Now it could be changed again. But first stage is mostly like an falcon 9 first stage except grabbing it in the air . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Just now, magnemoe said: Splashdown was the initial plan for first SH, it was an change to catch attempt. Now it could be changed again. But first stage is mostly like an falcon 9 first stage except grabbing it in the air . No it wasn't. It was never changed to a catch. Also, the twitter feed is ahead a few seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 My first live Falcon Heavy launch, this should be fun Weird to see the center booster without any of the landing equipment, was it built for this mission or modified? One minute, lets light this candle Liftoff! BECO and boostback. Gospeed core booster, second stage is away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brotoro Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 The external shots of the double boostback burn was great! Such dirty camera lenses on the boosters. Hopefully that will cook off before landing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Entry burn LANDING! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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