News Changes to the SpaceX BFR rocket.

[GLS]

T-25 minutes.
Winds will pickup as time goes on, and currently 1 boat in the danger zone.

 

[GLS]

T-17 minutes, stage 1 pressurization issue might put the kibosh on todays attempt.

 

[GLS]

Launch scrubbed due to the pressurization issue, WDR now.

 

[GLS]

Should go down to T-10s as part of the test.

 

[GLS]

2 mins until the scrub.
48h until the next attempt.

 

[BrianJ]

No go today, then. Looks like a full fuel load, so scratch my fuel off-loading idea

 

[diogom]

The internet will be insufferable with this one:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648092752893313024

In any case, hearing that weather is dodgy for the rest of the week, so I'm predicting a good old weather scrub for the bingo card.

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648435471633231875

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648453425506705409

 

[Urwumpe]

Schrödinger's Launch Window.

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648498635355865089

Schrödinger's Launch Window.

It's a launch, but if you look, it becomes a tanking test.

 

[Urwumpe]

It's a launch, but if you look, it becomes a tanking test.

At the end of the week, they can at least tank and detank it in their sleep.

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648800397279240192

 

[GLS]

Live stream for today:

SpaceX is targeting as soon as Thursday, April 20 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas. The 62 minute launch window opens at 8:28 a.m. CT and closes at 9:30 a.m. CT.

 

[GLS]

Live stream starting... less than 40 minutes to T0.

 

[GLS]

T-20 minutes.
The bar is so low that they even laugh: if it doesn't blow up on the pad, we're happy

 

[Urwumpe]

T-20 minutes.
The bar is so low that they even laugh: if it doesn't blow up on the pad, we're happy

The advantage if you are your own customer....

 

[GLS]

T-10 minutes

 

[GLS]

T-2 minutes

 

[GLS]

Passed T-40 seconds...

 

[GLS]

....aaaand hold.