** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

Current (4th April) production diagram on Twitter -
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Does anyone know what the plan is in terms of what Booster with what Ship is getting launched? Is it 7 and 24?

Grim5 said:
Yeah I doubt it

They'll probably still need at least one more test fire first
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This is my thinking; is anything currently stacked?
The original timeline was end of the this month or next, iirc, and i would assume that's a safer bet than Monday.
 
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@visibleman I think 7 and 24 are the frontrunners. None of the others have progressed anywhere near as far on testing. I know at one point people wondered about 26 because of the lack of heat shields but none of the usual commentators are suggesting that at the moment.
 
BBC News is streaming an ESA rocket launch at 12.30pm today. It'll take 8 years to arrive at Jupiter.

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EDIT: Launch scrubbed, trying again tomorrow.

April 13 Ariane 5 • JUICE
Launch time: 1215:01 GMT (8:15:01 a.m. EDT)
Launch site: ELA-3, Guiana Space Center, French Guiana
Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA260, to launch the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or JUICE. The JUICE spacecraft, built by Airbus, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons — Ganymede, Callisto and Europa — with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. JUICE will enter orbit around Jupiter in July 2031. This will mark the penultimate launch of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket.
 
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PlacidCasual said:
I think reentry of both vehicles might be a bit dicey. I'm hoping the booster doesn't let go on the way up at any stage, that would be a bit of a problem.
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Once a few hundred feet off the pad it’ll be over the ocean for the rest of the flight so there won’t be any problems if it fails - it’s why the always launch rockets out to sea, and why all Israeli satellites orbit retrograde, as the have to launch westwards over the Mediterranean.

The size of the explosion if it gives up on the pad will be phenomenal, and look awesome in 4K slowmo.

I honestly hope it doesn’t though - the more competition in the space industry the better, and SpaceX have a history of making things work eventually, as much as I have issues with their boss.
 
19hrs and we are GO....

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Colonel_Klinck said:
I thought I saw a tweet saying there had been an issue with the tower overnight, lift failure or something like it that could push the launch back.
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Spacex account posted this 1 hr ago. so I ssume whatever those sparks and bangs were (someone said it was a welding plant falling off a crane) wasn't a big issue.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX
@SpaceX


Teams are completing final checkouts and reviews ahead of Starship’s first flight test attempt; weather is looking pretty good for tomorrow morning but we're keeping an eye on wind shear http://spacex.com/launches/missi
 
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Fuzz said:
Spacex account posted this 1 hr ago. so I ssume whatever those sparks and bangs were (someone said it was a welding plant falling off a crane) wasn't a big issue.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX
@SpaceX


Teams are completing final checkouts and reviews ahead of Starship’s first flight test attempt; weather is looking pretty good for tomorrow morning but we're keeping an eye on wind shear http://spacex.com/launches/missi
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Sweet! Oh man its going to either be the biggest bang ever or an epic flight. Either way its going to be spectacular.
 
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