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[MechAg94]

What is the scope of this flight?  Are they going to orbit or just going high, flying around, and coming back down?

[WLJ]

Launch license is confirmed.
SX is targeting Friday Nov 17. Launch window is, subject to change, 07:00-9:00 CST.

[WLJ]

What is the scope of this flight?  Are they going to orbit or just going high, flying around, and coming back down?

Same as the last one.
Not go boom
Clear the tower
Not go boom
Stage separation
Not go boom
Booster is suppose to then perform a landing in the Gulf
Not go boom
SS is suppose to then go sub-orbitial and come down off Hawaii.
Expected to go splash
Baby steps

[WLJ]

Stacking

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Weather Forecast During Launch

The forecast calls for a temperature of 66°F, clear skies, 10% cloud cover and a wind speed of 1mph.
Mission
Integrated Flight Test 2

Type: Test Flight

Second test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster is expected to separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage will follow a suborbital trajectory and perform an unpowered splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii).
Trajectory

View the rocket launch trajectory, velocity, altitude, thrust and much more at FlightClub.io

https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/starship-integrated-flight-test-2/

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Good Morning

[Ben]

NSF is live on the matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB_FzncBgq0

They even did calculations on the chance of Starship hitting a whale. 

Maritime and marine mammal impact analyses are actually a standard part of all spacelifts and missile tests.

[WLJ]

Maritime and marine mammal impact analyses are actually a standard part of all spacelifts and missile tests.

I figured but what are the odds of SS hitting a whale?

[WLJ]

Starship says hi

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1725132055279747319

[Ben]

I figured but what are the odds of SS hitting a whale?

Low, because they also do range clearance flights beforehand and if mammal congregations (or dumbass boaters) are spotted in the restricted area in a high debris probability area, they'll delay the launch.

[MechAg94]

I wonder what the odds of hitting a whale with a spaceship launch would be if that was their goal?

[RoadKingLarry]

I wonder what the odds of hitting a whale with a spaceship launch would be if that was their goal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsfHVM5x_I

[WLJ]

People rush out and buy lottery tickets at 1/300,000,000 odds

[AZRedhawk44]

I wonder what the odds of hitting a whale with a spaceship launch would be if that was their goal?

Didn't Gewehr98, a former member here, fly on an air force anti-submarine aircraft of some sort?  I bet those craft could deliberately hit a whale with an air deployed depth charge or bomb or torpedo.

[WLJ]

NSF reported the HSR stand has been moved to the launch site saying this could a sign of a potential delay.

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Chris Bergin - NSF
@NASASpaceflight
Ship Quick Disconnect (SQD) has retracted ahead of destack. LR11000 is going over to the launch site to follow up with removing the Hot Staging Ring.

http://nsf.live/starbase

[WLJ]

SS stand at the pad.
Crap

[BobR]

Didn't Gewehr98, a former member here, fly on an air force anti-submarine aircraft of some sort?  I bet those craft could deliberately hit a whale with an air deployed depth charge or bomb or torpedo.

Gewehr flew on Air Force RC135s and other Air Force variants that did different snooping missions. BobR OTOH flew on US Navy P3 Orions performing maritime surveillance and patrol (lots of ASW during the cold war) for quite a few years. I imagine we could target a whale if we wanted but close targeting isn't really necessary when you have the capability to use nuclear depth charges.

bob

[WLJ]

Launch delayed to Nov 18 per Elon

[WLJ]

Chris Bergin - NSF
@NASASpaceflight
Slip to Saturday official now, as Elon has noted and cited the issue is with a grid fin actuator.

Meanwhile, can you spot the human for scale!

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1725234153128354227

[AZRedhawk44]

Gewehr flew on Air Force RC135s and other Air Force variants that did different snooping missions. BobR OTOH flew on US Navy P3 Orions performing maritime surveillance and patrol (lots of ASW during the cold war) for quite a few years. I imagine we could target a whale if we wanted but close targeting isn't really necessary when you have the capability to use nuclear depth charges.

bob

Sorry, got my forum members' histories mixed up! 

[WLJ]

Issue with a grid fin actuator is what is causing the delay.