Weds June 5, launch of SpaceX Starship *AND* Boeing Starliner???
Keith Lofstrom
Wednesday June 5 at 10:52 EDT, from KSC in Florida.
I hope they've fixed the bugs.
A May 29 story on space.com
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-second-fueling-test-may-2024
... suggests a fourth SpaceX Starship launch attempt from
Boca Chica Texas may also happen Wednesday June 5. No time
of day provided, and when that article was written, no FAA
approval. Yet.
Soon (I hope), we will launch many proven manned rockets
from many launch centers frequently, often with overlapping
launch windows. And land the stages back at the launch
site on landing struts, as the holy Astounding Stories of
Super-Science ordained, no heavy wings and wheels to orbit.
For now, I wonder if near-simultaneous launches will overwhelm
some under-provisioned national infrastructure system (radar
tracking redundancy, emergency recovery, flight termination)
that hasn't yet been evaluated for "two on one day".
("Oh no, the SpaceX flight-plan floppy disk is loaded instead
of the Starship flight-plan floppy disk on the forty-year-old
computer the FAA always uses for manned mission radar")
Ah well. All planning, pontificating, and prognosticating
aside, humans have always made stuff up as we go along.
Keith L.
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Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
a.p.kothari astrox.com
("Oh no, the SpaceX flight-plan floppy disk is loaded instead of the Starship flight-plan floppy disk on the forty-year-old computer the FAA always uses for manned mission radar")
Ha ha! Funny!
(just yesterday I was watching “Big Bang Theory” where Sheldon was storing data on a floppy (since childhood) and it broke down! (J)
Keith, you have a good sense of humor….
-Ajay
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John K. Strickland, Jr.
How about the first launch of the Ariane 5, where they used the flight plan data for the previous version ---- BOOM.
John S
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