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Minmus Taster Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 27 minutes ago, tater said: If the inevitable explosion is shrouded by fog I'm going to be very angry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 My employer has me working in the office two days a week and working from home three days a week. I can pick my days. Next week, I have evening commitments that require Tuesday and Wednesday to be WFH days. So -- do I WFH on Monday as well, and go into the office on Thurs and Fri? Or do I go into the office on Monday and WFH Tues-Thurs in case the launch slips to Thursday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 13 hours 30 minutes ago, sevenperforce said: My employer has me working in the office two days a week and working from home three days a week. I can pick my days. Next week, I have evening commitments that require Tuesday and Wednesday to be WFH days. So -- do I WFH on Monday as well, and go into the office on Thurs and Fri? Or do I go into the office on Monday and WFH Tues-Thurs in case the launch slips to Thursday? Hard to tell what is going on at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 FAA: https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt.jsp And yet... I am also hearing the 17th (not via twitter) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceception Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 SpaceX's official account is talking ~2 weeks for launch or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AckSed Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 I see new tiles on the wing roots and nose. Wonder what they're made of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 11 minutes ago, AckSed said: I see new tiles on the wing roots and nose. Wonder what they're made of? As far as I know they're the same as those on the rest of the vehicle, only held on with some special white adhesive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt.jsp FAA now updated to 17th 18th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 22 minutes ago, tater said: https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt.jsp FAA now updated to 17th 18th Or, more likely, the… 20th… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 3 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Or, more likely, the… 20th… Depends on what their recycle times actually are. The 20th is a Thursday, and should they be able to recycles and try again Friday—what if they had some issue detanking? Then the vehicle has to sit around for dunno, an extra day. Beach is then closed on the weekend, something they agreed with the County they were not gonna do. I mean, they might, because 4/20, but it seems like it presents other issues vs a Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Nominal flight so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tater Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 For the test flight, the window is 7am – 11am Central. Hawaii is 5 hours earlier, and the partial orbit might take ~1 hour? If they go at 7, then EDL is at night. If they go towards the end (after 10), the splashdown could be at 6am – 7am. Depends on how they want to visualize it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 1 hour ago, tater said: For the test flight, the window is 7am – 11am Central. Hawaii is 5 hours earlier, and the partial orbit might take ~1 hour? If they go at 7, then EDL is at night. If they go towards the end (after 10), the splashdown could be at 6am – 7am. Depends on how they want to visualize it. It actually end at 10:05, so yeah it's most definitely at night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, Beccab said: It actually end at 10:05, so yeah it's most definitely at night Oh, thought it went to 11. Then add maybe an hour for the partial orbit. So if it did the very end of the window splashdown is at ~6am Hawaii time. I see, the FAA times keep changing to earlier. The first one had it til 12:45 central. Edited April 7, 2023 by tater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 And times are now blank at https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt.jsp It's evolving Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Also… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Alsoalsoalso: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpaget Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 7 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Also… He specifically asked for it to be pointier against better judgement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Aside from humor and aesthetics, and sticking to engineering, what is the issue with "too pointy"? Will it heat more on ascent and descent? Honest question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 For some reason, I had thought the increase in pointiness was to make more room for the landing fuel tanks up there to allow more payload space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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