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The next Starship mission has a tentative launch date: March 14 (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/spacex
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[โ€“] alphatool 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The change from landing in the Pacific to the Indian Ocean is really interesting but I haven't seen much detail about why it's happening. The best I've come up with is that Starlink improvements allow for enough telemetry that the Pacific Missile Test Range facilities aren't needed any more, but it would be great to find out more about why it's changed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Testing Raptor relighting on the float would be my guess. If the deceleration burn fails, the ballistic trajectory would still bring it down in the IFT-1 and IFT-2 target area.