Second Shot At Space Launch

[stokesdale]

Remember that the second shot at the Space X launch will be tomorrow (Saturday) at 3:22 pm, with the third possible shot at it on Sunday. However, the weather report right now actually looks worse than it was on Wednesday with about a 50% chance of thunderstorms during that time of day. On the other hand, you never know with Florida storms, especially on the east coast of Florida. Here is a good article updating everyone of the possible launch windows. Launch Windows

 

[augiebd]

Thanks for the reminder. It must be frustrating to be at the mercy of the weather for such a major event. You can’t just plan an alternate indoor rocket launch.

 

[stokesdale]

Thanks for the reminder. It must be frustrating to be at the mercy of the weather for such a major event. You can’t just plan an alternate indoor rocket launch.

That would be interesting...

 

[mso489]

Boy, I hope everything goes well, whenever it goes. Especially, I hope the private sector and NASA interface works, with all the infinite detail involved. We need a bright light of optimism about now. Just an aside about weather events and their impact, here in North Carolina, every celestial event -- meteor showers, eclipses, blue moons, you name it -- are comically accompanied by heavy overcast that completely block them. I think it works better in the mountains, and maybe even at the coast from time to time. And occasionally there is a "mistake" with the weather and we actually see something we could never expect to see. Beautiful country here, but it's no country for amateur astronomers, or even just star gazers.

 

[radrick96]

I’m excited to smoke my pipe and watch this

 

[brian64]

Well, this was bad timing:

SpaceX's Starship SN4 launch vehicle prototype explodes after static engine fire test | TechCrunch

SpaceX had just conducted yet another static fire test of the Raptor engine in its Starship SN4 prototype launch vehicle on Friday when the test vehicle

techcrunch.com

 

[peckinpahhombre]

Cigrmaster was almost chosen for the flight, but he was dumped at the last minute when he insisted on bringing a hooker on the trip.

 

[jguss]

Cigrmaster was almost chosen for the flight, but he was dumped at the last minute when he insisted on bringing a hooker on the trip.

Turns out it was a miscommunication caused by Cigrmaster’s accent. He wanted to bring a hookah on the flight.

 

[peckinpahhombre]

Turns out it was a miscommunication caused by Cigrmaster’s accent. He wanted to bring a hookah on the flight.

That makes a lot of sense. I wondered what possible use Cigrmaster could have for a hooker. I mean, you can't shoot pool with a rope.

 

[stokesdale]

Here is a weather update for the launch time which is set for 3:22 pm today. As of 7:20 am this morning, Weather.com in Cape Canaveral is reporting 95% of Tstorms at 1 pm, 90% at 2 pm, but drops off to 60% at 3 pm and 45% at 4 pm. NOAAs static (i.e., not hourly) forecast says roughly 60% chance all day which makes sense given Weather.com's forecast. Weather Underground of course says the same thing as Weather.com now that the latter owns the former.

Let's hope that the intensive storm activity down there early afternoon burns out any energy leading to later activity and helps prevent any storms during the launch period to form. Fingers crossed....

 

[Casual]

Looks like long odds to me, stokes.

 

[Chasing Embers]

The never-ending human search for ways to die.

 

[smokey789]

Huge waste of money, imo. We need jobs not space men and rockets.

 

[mso489]

Hey, it keeps Elon and his money out of worse trouble. For the astronauts' sakes, I'm hoping for a perfect flight.

 

[bnichols23]

That would be interesting...

Zzzoooom! -laugh-

 

[Chasing Embers]

And still over 80% of the ocean is unexplored.

 

[tbradsim1]

Yesterday a Musk SpaceX rocket on test site exploded in Texas, Astronuts if they heard that must be squeezing their sphincter. Hope it all goes well, Musk needs the taxpayers money.

 

[Civil War]

1-1/2 hrs out not looking very promising right now.

 

[Civil War]

Weather looking good now?

 

[Casual]

And still over 80% of the ocean is unexplored.

Jimmy Hoffa is working on that.