A good update on the highly exciting IFT5:
https://www.spacex.com/updates

Note from the SpaceX update:
“animals exposed to the sonic booms may be briefly startled”.


So trading Butch and Suni return for a launch license would be (excessively) juvenile?

A lot of that reads surprisingly similar to G100UL saga :(

Spacex website says launch on Oct 13th.
If they are doing a chopstick landing I'm 100% going to go.
anyone else going?

NET 10132024.
http://spacex.com/launches/mission/?mis ... p-flight-5

Interesting there is a manual intervention for the Catch attempt.




I think I’ll hold my 1000+ mile position

It’s not even an intervention, it’s a manual authorization, without which the booster stays on a trajectory for the Gulf. I’m surprised that their default is not the Atlantic, but I don’t know the overall flight path.

If you're returning the booster to a site on the western side of the gulf, the Atlantic doesn't make much sense as a last-minute alternate.

You’re right of course.

For some reason my head was thinking about the cape, not Boca Chica.

FAA License granted.
WDR complete.
Ship and Booster ready.

One of the most insane spectacles of all time in Space Launch is poised to happen tomorrow morning Sunday the 13th of October.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission ... p-flight-5

The catch system: https://youtu.be/ub6HdADut50

I’m on south Padre island right now in Port Aransas. I probably won’t be able to see it but I’m going to watch.

These people are amazing.

They pulled it off.

A successful catch of the booster!

Beyond wild.