Falcon Heavy - 7&8 Reuse - Elon's Roadster Demo - LC-39A

[Olds442]

Or in the Indian Ocean, depending on who you listen to

if that were the case, Elon would just find it with his phone.

 

[mongo]

ULA had a delay Thursday due to ground oxygen issue, they should launch today.
SpaceX FH static fire bumped to Saturday 6 hour window starting 2:45 pm ET (1945 UTC).

 

[thenaimis]

Monday. Chris G - NSF on Twitter
Spaceflight Now on Twitter

 

[e-FTW]

Back on today?

Chris G - NSF on Twitter

 

[Nikxice]

Back on today?

Chris G - NSF on Twitter

Lots of speculation about this earlier this morning. Poking around various sources it looks as though today will only be another wet dress rehearsal. With the frequency of this test I wonder if WDR's are becoming a necessary pain in the ASS issue.....as in "Acronyms Seriously Suck", which Elon once famously emailed to employees.

 

[Grendal]

Confirmed that a Wet Dress Rehearsal did happen today and the static fire is currently and will hopefully happen the day after tomorrow: Monday the 22nd.

 

[e-FTW]

Confirmed that a Wet Dress Rehearsal did happen today and the static fire is currently and will hopefully happen tomorrow: Monday the 22nd.

For most of us, that is the day after tomorrow.

 

[Grendal]

For most of us, that is the day after tomorrow.

Thanks. Fixed.

 

[mongo]

Thanks. Fixed.

Don't worry, I'll read your post Sunday.

 

[BluestarE3]

Poking around various sources it looks as though today will only be another wet dress rehearsal. With the frequency of this test I wonder if WDR's are becoming a necessary pain in the ASS issue.....as in "Acronyms Seriously Suck", which Elon once famously emailed to employees.

Thanks for spelling it out... otherwise, I might have assumed it stood for WetDReams.

 

[e-FTW]

Government shutdown is said to be delaying Heavy's static fire test. Doh.

Chris G - NSF on Twitter

 

[swaltner]

Government shutdown is said to be delaying Heavy's static fire test. Doh.

Chris G - NSF on Twitter

Where's the frowny face rating button???

 

[mongo]

Thanks a lot ULA LOX delay. (Insert conspiracy theory here)

 

[Grendal]

Video of Wet Dress Rehearsal from yesterday:

 

[jbcarioca]

I took this photo earlier today. Yesterday I was at the event for the new West Melbourne Supercharger. There was a SpaceX engineer there showing off his new Model 3. He has nothing to do at all with the comments I make below because his discussions were all about the Model 3.

Considering the activity on this morning around 39A, with several road blocked with flashing lights and a visibly high amount of activity plus a few other factors, I suspect they think the static test might actually happen tomorrow.

From listening as carefully as I could I gained the impression that several of the problems causing delays recently were more related to electrical,systems managing the FH than to fundamental,structures. Sadly, my knowledge is well behind my overhearing capacity. Luckily finding the places nearby to overhear is easy, they’re The same ones that have worked for years. Not many options around Titusville.

 

[Grendal]

That makes a lot of sense. FH is a new rocket with new systems that need to be tracked. So making sure the control center is getting all the necessary data for all those new systems and making sure there is a person responsible for watching and responding to that data would be something new.

 

[jbcarioca]

No static test, no launches as well until shutdown ends. 45th SpacevWing is deemed non essential.

 

[ecarfan]

No static test, no launches as well until shutdown ends. 45th SpacevWing is deemed non essential.

Well, it’s essential to us. The political logjam appears to have eased, for the moment. Looks like the 45th could be back on duty in a day or two.

 

[e-FTW]

More analysis of the furlong-based delays here : SpaceX: Iridium-5 to launch in March; government shutdown creates manifest uncertainty – NASASpaceFlight.com

 

[mongo]

More analysis of the furlong-based delays here : SpaceX: Iridium-5 to launch in March; government shutdown creates manifest uncertainty – NASASpaceFlight.com

Interesting line from the article

Overall, SpaceX is allowed to continue to perform Wet Dress Rehearsal tests on Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets as those tests do not require Range support. However, static fires, which involve lighting rocket engines, do require 45th Space Wing and Eastern Range support in the unlikely event of a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of an engine or a conflagration of the rocket.

Given the last conflagration was during fueling for a static fire, I'm not sure the author is correct.