Official Space Thread

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Loving NASA’s Daily Moon site at the moment.

Daily Moon Guide | Observe – Moon: NASA Science

(Be sure to change the hemisphere setting in the little menu box on the right.)

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Its been more than the projected 2 months(5 months is still better than what most people estimated after the last test left us a nice crater)
But Flight Test 2 is almost upon us, hardware is ready to go.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1699229958064005624


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This Starfield marketing is getting out of hand :smile:

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Finally a date, still pending approval but everything is ready to go, FTS armed en wat wat.
Epic video below, add hype!
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1723158118706839819

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License acquired, its official, lets send it!

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Found this great infographic just in time then…

Why does this silly system keep down sizing my images!! Here’s a link to the full size version:

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That’s pretty dope, also, the info is different in the two images lol.

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SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 2

The first launch attempt of the second integrated flight test is set to occur during a two-hour window that opens at 8:00 am EST, 7:00 am CST, 13:00 UTC (aka 15:00 SAST).

The launch window opening at 15:00 suggests a launch time of around 17:00 if all goes to schedule. Selected Live streams below, which all start at various times before the launch window opens. Will add the official SpaceX stream as well, once it’s up.

NASASpaceflight

Everyday Astronaut

The Lauch Pad

SpaceX

https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX/streams

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:face_exhaling:

guess it’s not party time yet.

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Livestream not on Youtube, promoting that X video :confused: aka not the greatest quality.
Anyways, link here:
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEWQvrXxB

Lets go!

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GLORIOUS! x2 FTS but that was probably more successful than they expected.

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Can’t wait for all the doomsday articles lol. I’m saying that before reading the one you posted.

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Not sure if this has been posted before but I found this very interesting.

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Herd u liek cadence

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“53 rideshare spacecraft”?? Is that like Space Uber? Is there an app for that?

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Haha there should be

should add a note on one of the nodes saying “your smallsat here”
I believe UCT or CPUT had a small sat on one of these missions a year or two ago.

Edit: it was CPUT with MDASat in Jan 2022(actually their 3rd sat, but first with SpaceX)

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here we go, IFT3 is here. 4 Months after IFT2.
Its currently slated to be in less than 24 hours if all goes as expected(only items keeping this from happening is FAA license(expected to arrive today) and then a bigger problem, weather). But if not, there is 2 backup days, otherwise maybe next week.

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We’re go for launch. and we’re currently t-5 hours away.

My favorite stream is live already with their marathon coverage.

Same for everyone’s favorite Tim Dodd, although he is taking a nap(makes sense since he’s solo) and will be back at t-2 hours.

and SpaceX stream will probably start at T-1hour or less.

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