SpaceX Tuesday...

[Beati Dogu]

RizzoTheRat said:

The fastest and cheapest way is apparently to get a gravity assist from Venus but I'm not sure how often that window occurs.

More often than waiting for Earth and Mars to align.

Earth - Mars is every 26 months.
Earth - Venus is every 19 months.

Longer flight time though I expect.

[RizzoTheRat]

Yeah I think I'd misinterpreted it on a first glance. Looks like the flight time's longer but the total duration of a return mission would be shorter because you can go closer to the return window. So not much point for one way cargo or test missions, unless you want to take a look at Venus, but worthwhile for a crewed mission if you don't want to spend the best part of a year on the surface of Mars.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2006/2006.04900...

[Beati Dogu]

And you get a rather pretty flyby of Venus as well for a bonus.

[Eric Mc]

One of the options for Apollo was a manned flyby of Venus.

[MiniMan64]

So it looks like we’re getting SN10 tonight then?

[garyhun]

MiniMan64 said:

So it looks like we’re getting SN10 tonight then?

That’s the plan.

[C n C]

garyhun said:

MiniMan64 said:

So it looks like we’re getting SN10 tonight then?

That’s the plan.

Tank farm activity/venting started a couple of minutes ago.

NASA Spaceflight stream here.

Possibility of launch within next 30-60 minutes.

[Einion Yrth]

Eric Mc said:

One of the options for Apollo was a manned flyby of Venus.

Really shouldn't have missed out the "applications program" part of that Eric; via Venus is a bloody long way to get to the moon.

[MiniMan64]

C n C said:

garyhun said:

MiniMan64 said:

So it looks like we’re getting SN10 tonight then?

That’s the plan.

Tank farm activity/venting started a couple of minutes ago.

NASA Spaceflight stream here.

Possibility of launch within next 30-60 minutes.

Twitter says range violation (again!!) and people back on the pad so a fairly long delay or more likely tomorrow I guess

[Caruso]

Eric Mc said:

One of the options for Apollo was a manned flyby of Venus.

The nearest they got to that mission was Skylab.

[F20CN16]

MiniMan64 said:

Twitter says range violation (again!!) and people back on the pad so a fairly long delay or more likely tomorrow I guess

Dodgy valve at the tank farm was what I heard. Still on - fingers crossed.

[MartG]

Current guess is just before 20:00 UTC

[MiniMan64]

F20CN16 said:

MiniMan64 said:

Twitter says range violation (again!!) and people back on the pad so a fairly long delay or more likely tomorrow I guess

Dodgy valve at the tank farm was what I heard. Still on - fingers crossed.

Twitter now seems to think 10-20 mins.

[Dog Star]

I watch the labpadre and NSF stuff all day, this might be it.

I’ve actually had a bottle of champagne ready for when it lands - been stuck in the fridge since December

It’s even got a Starship on it

[MartG]

'Official' time is 20:14 UTC

Tank venting started

[MiniMan64]

MartG said:

'Official' time is 20:14 UTC

Tank venting started

They’ll say quarter past and then it’ll go up at 8!

What is everyone’s preferred YT channel by the way?

Edited by MiniMan64 on Wednesday 3rd March 19:57

[Stan the Bat]

What;s the 'methane venting' going on at the moment ?

What do they use the methane for ?

[Dark85]

MiniMan64 said:

They’ll say quarter past and then it’ll go up at 8!

What is everyone’s preferred YT channel by the way?

Edited by MiniMan64 on Wednesday 3rd March 19:57

Live I use Nasaspaceflight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQkk3ojNfM)

Marcus House does a good weekly round up

And, of course, Scott Manley for analysis

[Stan the Bat]

MiniMan64 said:

MartG said:

'Official' time is 20:14 UTC

Tank venting started

They’ll say quarter past and then it’ll go up at 8!

What is everyone’s preferred YT channel by the way?

Edited by MiniMan64 on Wednesday 3rd March 19:57

I'm using the one you linked .

[Buzz84]

MiniMan64 said:

MartG said:

'Official' time is 20:14 UTC

Tank venting started

They’ll say quarter past and then it’ll go up at 8!

What is everyone’s preferred YT channel by the way?

Edited by MiniMan64 on Wednesday 3rd March 19:57

Last time with SN9 I asked that question and 2 mins before launch the offical SpaceX YouTube started its live stream which included onboard camera views, which I presume all the other ground based commentators miss out on.