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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's so soon!! I can't decide whether Pi Day is a coincidence here. Probably? The 4/20 thing has me permanently suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Seems unlikely to be a coincidence.

[–] 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.

[–] [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.

[–] ptfrd 4 points 9 months ago

From https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-3 :

00:02:42 Booster MECO (most engines cut off)

So we have a 2nd meaning for the acronym "MECO"!

(MECO 2, you could say 😊 )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/03/07/spacex-tentatively-targets-march-14-for-third-starship-flight/

https://spacenews.com/spacex-adds-tests-to-next-starship-flight/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 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
MECO Main Engine Cut-Off
~ MainEngineCutOff podcast
Jargon Definition
Raptor Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX
Starlink SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation

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