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CBoukal said:
Thursday 3/14 @ 7am CST they are going to attempt to launch the SpaceX StarShip/Super Heavy for the third time

Details about the launch:
everydayastronaut.com

Starship/Super Heavy | Integrated Flight Test #3

All you need to know about, and live updates leading up to, the third flight of SpaceX's Starship/SuperHeavy rocket from Starbase, Texas.
everydayastronaut.com everydayastronaut.com

Official live Stream

Everyday Astronaut's live stream with more commentary
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Starship completes third flight test. SpaceX's new-generation Starship rocket, the most powerful and largest launcher ever built, flew halfway around the world following liftoff from South Texas Thursday, accomplishing a key demonstration of its ability to carry heavyweight payloads into low-Earth orbit. The successful launch builds on two Starship test flights last year that achieved some, but not all, of their objectives and appears to put the privately funded rocket program on course to begin launching satellites, Ars reports.

A few boxes left unchecked ... While it made it closer to splashdown than before, the Super Heavy booster plummeted into the Gulf of Mexico in an uncontrolled manner. If everything went perfectly, the booster would have softly settled into the sea after reigniting its engines for a landing burn. A restart of one of Starship's Raptor engines in space—one of the three new test objectives on this flight—did not happen for reasons SpaceX officials did not immediately explain. All in all, this flight marked an important step forward as SpaceX develops the Starship launch system.
 
So when a rocket like that drops into the gulf, is it retrievable? Or does it just sink to the bottom of the ocean?
 
{tpc} said:
So when a rocket like that drops into the gulf, is it retrievable? Or does it just sink to the bottom of the ocean?
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Its possible to do both. Some companies try and recover them, most don't.
 
Boeing is going to launch their Atlas Starliner (Crewed). The launch window will open at 9:34pm CST tonight. As this is a crewed mission, they will take all needed delays to ensure the safety of the crew. But with that said, Boeing has been bleeding money from this. The delays and reworks have been massive. I heard someone say tongue and cheek that Boeing has been putting all their time and money into this and nothing into their airplanes. Hopefully that's not correct but its possible there is some truth to it.

Here is the link for more info and the links to watch
everydayastronaut.com

Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Crewed Flight Test

After setbacks, Boeing and NASA are launching the Crewed Flight Test of Starliner on a ULA Atlas V rocket from Florida.
everydayastronaut.com everydayastronaut.com

This is also an interesting read into the Boeing failures and why SpaceX beat them to the ISS by almost 4 years with half the awarded money
arstechnica.com

The surprise is not that Boeing lost commercial crew but that it finished at all

"The structural inefficiency was a huge deal."
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
 
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Scrubbed for tonight due to a launch vehicle O2 relief valve on the second stage
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They are talking Friday 4/10 at 745pm CST to try again. I'll update as I see things change.
 
Pushed out until the 17th now. SpaceX will launch 4 more Rockets before they even try again..
 
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