https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_orbital_test_flight
The Starship Orbital Flight Test is the planned first spaceflight of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. The planned launch site is Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX plans on using Starship prototypes Ship 24 (second stage) and Booster 7 (first stage). The Starship second stage will enter a transatmospheric Earth orbit with a negative Earth perigee, allowing Ship 24 to reenter the atmosphere after completing most of one orbit without having to restart its engines for a deorbit maneuver. The earliest launch opportunity is currently scheduled for April 17, 2023 at 08:00 CDT (13:00 UTC).
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SpaceX Starship launch countdown: all of the news on its first test flight:
Elon Musk's stated goal of putting humans on Mars relies heavily on the development of a next-generation reusable spacecraft, and Starship (formerly known as Big Falcon Rocket or BFR) is ready for its first orbital test flight. It's not the "six months" goal Musk projected in 2019, but after a number of suborbital tests that included some terrific successes and fantastic, fiery failures, the big day is finally almost here.
With just over five minutes to go before its first scheduled launch attempt Monday morning, SpaceX announced that due to a pressurization issue with the first stage, the attempt became a "wet dress rehearsal," and the countdown ended with 10 seconds to go. SpaceX now says it's targeting April 20th for another attempt, with a launch window between 8:28AM CT (9:28AM ET) and 9:30 AM CT (10:30AM ET).
If all goes according to plan, the Starship will fly to orbital velocity after separating from its Super Heavy booster rocket about three minutes into the trip, then splashdown in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.
The entire trip should take about 90 minutes to complete, and SpaceX is livestreaming the events on its YouTube channel.
Previously: SpaceX's First Orbital Test Flight of Starship Imminent [Scrubbed]
(Score: 2) by nostyle on Monday April 17, @12:45PM
From www.space.com article:
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"Ground Control to Major Tom"
(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Monday April 17, @01:18PM (8 children)
The article title here says the flight has been scrubbed, but SpaceX's steaming site is still counting down. We're at T-2 minutes.
(Score: 3, Informative) by EvilSS on Monday April 17, @01:20PM
(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Monday April 17, @01:20PM
Nevermind. The SpaceX stream has just said the flight has indeed been scrubbed.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17, @01:24PM
IIUC, scrub was called due to pressurization issue, but countdown was continued to T-10 seconds for purpose of practice.
-nostyle
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 17, @01:44PM (3 children)
Still scrubbed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN57x2a_waw [youtube.com]
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(Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 17, @01:51PM (2 children)
But the "Full stack plushies, with velcro-separable stages" are still available, order now!
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(Score: 2) by oumuamua on Tuesday April 18, @12:51AM (1 child)
I'd have gotten the plushies if I had seen them!
but all I saw was the Starship blow torch: https://shop.spacex.com/products/starship-torch [spacex.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday April 18, @12:57AM
Backordered to mid June
https://shop.nasaspaceflight.com/products/starship-fullstack-plush [nasaspaceflight.com]
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 17, @07:23PM
They scrubbed about 10 minutes before launch but continued to make it into a full wet dress rehearsal.
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(Score: 1) by nostyle on Monday April 17, @02:19PM (3 children)
Here is some detail on the launch scrub [usatoday.com]
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Rockets are hard but they're all we've got. I does not seem possible to golf anything useful into orbit.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 17, @02:21PM (2 children)
>I (sic) does not seem possible to golf anything useful into orbit.
No, but...
https://www.spinlaunch.com/ [spinlaunch.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17, @03:09PM (1 child)
Good luck with that. I don't believe that fancy golf club will help - if ever they get it to work.
-nostyle
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Let me say it again (properly): It does not seem possible to golf anything useful into orbit.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 17, @04:44PM
Payloads from Earth would seem to be ... challenging ... to overcome the dizzying problems. Sittin' on the moon, chuckin' rocks at the Earth, one of those could be worth a whole bunch of H-bombs on ICBMs, oh, and it might also deliver useful payloads to space from the lunar surface, too.
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