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notes. SpaceX is planning to launch
their massive Starship rocket next week on the 14th of March
at around 7:30 AM in the morning.
So let's get ready for this. I have some information to share
with you. We're gonna talk about the
flight restrictions. We're gonna be talking about
where the flight is actually going to land this time, and
what's gonna be happening during this flight.
There's some really cool and interesting technology that
SpaceX is going to reveal during this next flight, And as
Starship is being prepared for this gigantic launch, SpaceX has
taken the Starship itself off of the booster, put it next to it,
and they've armed the flight termination system, which is the
mechanism they use to explode the rocket during flight if
anything were to go wrong. SpaceX posted an update on their
website about this third test flight that they're going to
build on what they've learned from previous flights.
Now they said they're including a successful ascent burn on both
stages opening and closing starships payload door which
they're gonna be using for Starlink in the future and a
propellant transfer demonstration during the upper
stages coast phase which is more than likely used for the
Artemis, NASA's program that will be getting humans back to
the moon. Now this will be the first ever
relight of a Raptor engine while in space as well and a
controlled re entry of the Starship.
Now, before the Starship was supposed to land in the Pacific
Ocean off the coast of Hawaii, but this time it will possibly
land in the Indian Ocean, according to Jonathan McDowell.
That's at Planet 4589 on X or Twitter Ellie in Space, one of
our friends here on the channel, she said.
Why do you think they made the change from Hawaii to the Indian
Ocean? Jonathan McDowell on X said
they're testing firing the Raptor for a second burn,
possibly AD orbit burn. But of course, as usual, they
haven't provided any real details of the trajectory of the
flight, such as perigee or apogee before and after the
burn. So annoying.
I wouldn't say top secret, but they're working with the
government, with these things, with NASA, so they can't really
tell you where they're going to be going.
In particular, there's another comment here that says this
leaves a lot of room if the engines failed to fire for the
quasi deorbit burn. If so, where in the Pacific
would the ship land? And thanks for posting this,
Jonathan McDowell said. My guess is it still lands in
the Indian Ocean, not the Pacific.
The deorbit burn likely is small, and the length of the no
Tam area corresponds to the range of complete burn to no
burn. The no Tam basically is where
the rocket's going to be headed and to stay.
It's a stay out of that region area.
And Lynch, Silla says, is the landing anywhere near Diego
Garcia? Jonathan McDowell says, yes,
it's on the same planet. Oh, you're not an astronomer.
No, it's over two 2000 kilometers away, so 2000
kilometers away from Diego Garcia.
Jonathan McDowell is really great on X Twitter planet 4589
if you want to give him a follow.
And now let's take a look at the road closures for Hwy. 4 where
the Starship is located on March 14th, they have between 12:00 AM
and 2:00 PM possible closure. That's when SpaceX says they are
ready to launch the rocket. March 15th, another one, and
March 16th as well. All from 12:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
Now, SpaceX says they want to launch at around 7:30 in the
morning. Now, as we know, rocket launches
more than likely don't go with the time that they're supposed
to go. So sometimes it could take an
hour, maybe 2 hours to get these things right.
So up until two gives them a little bit of padding to launch
the rocket for that day. So they have three days to do
this, 14th, 15th, and 16th at this point.
But they could get an extension. They could get other dates.
Now, mind you, the FAA has not approved this SpaceX flight as
of this recording. So these are numbers, these are
dates that SpaceX is not guaranteeing, but they're hoping
for the best from the FAA and they're in direct contact with
the FAA. So there's probably somebody at
the FAA said, yeah, we'll probably be done before the
14th, so it should be safe for you to say that you can launch
on the 14th SpaceX, we just have a few more things to button up
and then you'll be ready to go. And right here is the actual
proof. I have ordered the closure of
Boca Chica Beach and Hwy. 4 for the purpose of protecting public
health and safety during Space XS flight activities on March
14th, 2024. In the time period between 12:00
AM CST and 2:00 PM CST, they're closing the roads officially
here. This is from the government of
Cameron County itself. They say SpaceX may use the
alternative dates to complete its testing activities.
Now, the important part is that it says public health and safety
during SpaceX flight activities. Not testing activities, but
flight. They're going to be flying
something that day. So SpaceX is ready to fly this.
And Next up we have some more proof that SpaceX isn't quite
ready yet with the FAA. This is the FA as TFR list.
Now the TFR list is it's a document that the Federal
Aviation Administration puts out to tell people to stay away from
this flight, to say, hey, we're going to fly this gigantic
rocket into the Gulf of Mexico area and further on.
So don't float your boats, don't fly your planes in there.
It's a keep out zone for everybody.
Now as you can see from at this point we don't have
authorization from the FAA for ATFR for Starship.
The closest we have for Starship is way, way, way, way, way way
down here. Last year actually Brownsville,
TX 2/27/24 was security detail, but the last one was last year
when they did the last Starship flight.
So it's keep out zone not updated yet.
So as we can see right now SpaceX isn't quite ready to fly
the Starship according to the government of the United States.
And I wanted to jump back to the SpaceX website real quick before
we get out of here. As you can see, payload door
open at 11 minutes and 56 seconds into the flight here.
Propellant transfer demo. During the door being open,
payload door closes about 17 minutes later, 16 or 17 minutes
later. That's a long time for a payload
door to be open in space for the first demonstration flight.
What if something happens? What if something freezes up?
I mean, it is space. So they're doing a lot of
testing right here. In this same amount of time,
1156 to 2821 door opens, propellant transfer demo
happens, door closes, and then about 12 minutes later Raptor in
space Re light demo happens. This is all happening within a
30 minute ish time range and then about 10 minutes later
Starship starts entering and going back to Earth.
This is gonna be a wild ride from the I don't know from the
from the 12 minute mark on the whole flight is gonna be wild
and hopefully they have onboard cameras to show us what's going
on. I'm not sure if they're going to
be able to yet because it might be Department of Defense things
that they're working on. We're not 100% sure.
The payload door could be Starlink, could be something
that they're working on with the Department of Defense.
SpaceX works with the Department of Defense and they've been
working on them with Starships. So more than likely Starlink.
But you can't rule out that this is kind of a secret thing.
But they do tell you that the payload doors are opening, but
we might not give visuals. It's kind of tricky there,
right? So let me know what you think.
Do you think it's going to be successful?
IFT three, 100% successful. I think it's going to be 20%
successful. Let me know the comments down
below. I want to know what you think,
because I think this is going to be perfect flight, 100% perfect
flight. Nothing's going to go wrong in
this flight. I'm gonna give it two thumbs up
to Starship 2, thumbs up to SpaceX and their engineers.
Everything's gonna work perfect. The except for the booster.
I think the booster's gonna blow up.
And I think the starship's going to make it to the Indian Ocean,
but not in one piece. I think it's gonna be in pieces
in the Indian Ocean. Let me know what you think down
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