/c/SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!

@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 8 months ago

@Decronym · edit-2 8 months ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
AFTS	Autonomous Flight Termination System, see FTS
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
FTS	Flight Termination System
MECO	Main Engine Cut-Off
~	MainEngineCutOff podcast
NSF	NasaSpaceFlight forum
~	National Science Foundation
RUD	Rapid Unplanned Disassembly
~	Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
~	Rapid Unintended Disassembly
SECO	Second-stage Engine Cut-Off
TVC	Thrust Vector Control

Jargon	Definition
Starlink	SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation

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Scheduled for (UTC)	2023-11-18 13:00
Scheduled for (local)	2023-11-18 07:00 (CST)
Launch Window (UTC)	2023-11-18 13:00 to 2023-11-18 13:20 (20 minutes)
Weather	Good
Launch site	OLM-A, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA.
Booster	B9
Ship	S25
Booster landing	B9 to perform a soft water landing in the Gulf of Mexico
Ship landing	S25 expected to impact Pacific Ocean near Hawaii

Stream	Link
Everyday Astronaut (4k and low latency)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6na40SqzYnU
Spaceflight Now	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LFzFWaACo
LabPadre	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwhcSwQWOHk
NASASpaceflight	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOI35G7cP7o
The Launch Pad	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0K0uSDE6ks
Space Affairs	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbmBspvaHE
SpaceX	https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1725852544587727145#m
The Space Devs	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CREQ3e2Li34

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