SpaceX are going for it

[anth]

Scrubbed. Raptor auto shuts off if it’s not happy like.

Raptor is still a very new design. Considering how far the merlin engine has come it's to be expected that this stuff takes time to develop.

There is a slight possibility that it still may take off?

not today. they'll see what caused the automatic abort. If it's an easy fix they'll go again tomorrow or friday, they have the exclusion zones arranged for those days already. It maybe that they need to swap out the engine that caused it, which might take a bit longer.

 

[tunstall birdman]

Raptor is still a very new design. Considering how far the merlin engine has come it's to be expected that this stuff takes time to develop.

not today. they'll see what caused the automatic abort. If it's an easy fix they'll go again tomorrow or friday, they have the exclusion zones arranged for those days already. It maybe that they need to swap out the engine that caused it, which might take a bit longer.

That's a shame, I was looking forward to this.

 

[anth]

That's a shame, I was looking forward to this.

though that being said they are talking about recycling, I wouldn't rule out another go.

 

[tunstall birdman]

though that being said they are talking about recycling, I wouldn't rule out another go.

I hope so. It should be in another hour or two if so?

 

[ReidysLeftLug]

There is a slight possibility that it still may take off?

Not today

 

[tunstall birdman]

Not today

They are going to have another go in two hours time. Just announced.

 

[ReidysLeftLug]

though that being said they are talking about recycling, I wouldn't rule out another go.

Aye? I turned the stream off as I thought it was over... just put it back on and see that

 

[anth]

I hope so. It should be in another hour or two if so?

window closes at midnight, they have to let people who live nearby back to their homes (midnight is 6pm over there)

 

[Neb_Safc]

Recycle, approx 2hrs to launch.

 

[ReidysLeftLug]

They are going to have another go in two hours time. Just announced.

Just caught it, haway the rockets

 

[anth]

Aye? I turned the stream off as I thought it was over... just put it back on and see that

i was flicking through twitter to see if there was any news to what caused the abort and saw it was being recycled.

 

[Neb_Safc]

Although I fully expect them to scrub it in an hour for an inspection.

 

[anth]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1367213114228318209

new ETA 1045pm uk time, if it goes ahead.

 

[Neb_Safc]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1367213114228318209

new ETA 1045pm uk time, if it goes ahead.

would take ULA 3 months for the next attempt

 

[anth]

would take ULA 3 months for the next attempt

i remember watching a Delta IV heavy where it set itself on fire (normal) then aborted, roughly the same amount of firing time as this one just did and it took months to recycle, including pulling it back into the massively building.

 

[Neb_Safc]

i remember watching a Delta IV heavy where it set itself on fire (normal) then aborted, roughly the same amount of firing time as this one just did and it took months to recycle, including pulling it back into the massively building.

Aye, 1.3 seconds or summit? Granted it did have a 9 billion quid NRA sat on top of it

 

[ReidysLeftLug]

Concord? Pah... get me on one of those rockets, US to UK in an hour

 

[Neb_Safc]

Concord? Pah... get me on one of those rockets, US to UK in an hour

funny thing is, this is probably going to become long haul in 20 years.

short haul on hyper loop

 

[Hue Jorgan]

T-minus ten minutes for SN10

i hope they nail the landing third time lucky

the progress is incredible

 

[ReidysLeftLug]

10 minutes

T-minus ten minutes for SN10

i hope they nail the landing third time lucky

the progress is incredible

5 minute bump for those interested

Might be a little longer than that as they're saying they're using visual cues to determine the launch sequence

A decent stream that to be fair.