LAUNCH DAY 🧵! 🚀 This morning I'll be right there with so many other #space fans watching what happens in Texas with the launch of SpaceX's #Starship - the largest rocket ever built.
Current news from SpaceX is launch target of 8:20 CDT (UTC-5), which is about an hour from now.
They say a livestream will start "45 minutes before" launch.
Will it launch successfully? Will it reach orbit? Will it blow up?
My own interest in the #Starship launch is partly just a lifelong fascination with #space and rockets 🚀 ... but it's also because #SpaceX is planning to use Starship to launch their #Starlink "Gen2" satellites up into orbit.
These are larger satellites with more capacity and more capabilities. They'll be able to provide even more #InternetAccess once in orbit.
However, they are too large to fly on the Falcon 9 rocket.
They have to fly on Starship. So... SpaceX needs this all to work.
Some issue with pressurization has caused them to scrub the #Starship launch. They will treat today as a "wet dress rehearsal".
They will apparently try to launch again later this week. The #SpaceX folks on the live stream just said that it will be a minimum of 48 hours before they can launch again.
As mentioned in the ☝️ thread earlier this week, I'm interested because of the potential to launch even more #Starlink satellites to improve #InternetAccess.
Plus, I have just had a lifelong fascination with space and rockets! 😀
Was sort of amusing when commentators where still talking about the flip maneuver after several rotations. My thoughts went to "yeah, there will be seperation, but not that kind of seperation."
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