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

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/c/SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread! - sh.itjust.works

# Welcome to the /c/SpaceX Integrated Flight Test 2 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread! | Scheduled for (UTC) | 2023-11-18 13:00 [https://dateful.com/convert/utc?t=1300&d=2023-11-18] | | — | — | | 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 [https://nitter.net/AdamCuker/status/1725386423723864496#m] | | 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 | # Webcasts | Stream | Link | | — | — | | Everyday Astronaut (4k and low latency) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6na40SqzYnU [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6na40SqzYnU] | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LFzFWaACo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LFzFWaACo] | LabPadre | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwhcSwQWOHk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwhcSwQWOHk] | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOI35G7cP7o [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOI35G7cP7o] | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0K0uSDE6ks [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0K0uSDE6ks] | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbmBspvaHE [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbmBspvaHE] | SpaceX | https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1725852544587727145#m [https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1725852544587727145#m] | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CREQ3e2Li34 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CREQ3e2Li34] # Stats ☑️ 2nd Starship Full Stack launch ☑️ 299th SpaceX launch all time ☑️ 86th SpaceX launch this year ☑️ 2nd launch from OLM-A this year ☑️ 211 days, 23:27:00 turnaround for this pad Stats include F1, F9 , FH and Starship # Mission Details 🚀 - SpaceX website (archived): Starship’s Second Flight Test [https://web.archive.org/web/20231118130541/https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2] (archived) - SpaceX website (current): Starship’s Second Flight Test [https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2] # Starship Dev thread [https://sh.itjust.works/post/8834637]

Prediction time!

Stage Zero: Works with only minor damage. Booster Engine Failures: 5 :( Hot Staging: Works, looks cool. Upper Stage: Flies, with significant issues. FTS: Big boom, on time! End result: Booster re-enters in one piece, Ship in many.

I’d be surprised if they had that many booster engines fail. I suspect we’ll see only a couple of engines fail at most.

I’m less confident about the success of hot staging, since they’ve never tested it before. Excitement guaranteed though!

Totally! I don’t have an engineering reason to think they’ll fail, I’m just suspicious after the static fires couldn’t maintain 33. A hot staging failure would be MUCH more exciting.