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Edit: Starship launch is:

  SPACE X STARSHIP SUPER HEAVY FLT 2  BOCA CHICA, TX
  PRIMARY: 11/17/23 1300Z-1720Z
  BACKUP:  11/18/23 1300Z-1720Z
           11/19/23 1300Z-1720Z

That's 8:00 AM Eastern, 5AM pacific.

Previous: am I missing something? This says 11/14/2023, aka tomorrow. Starting 11:30Z (6:30AM Eastern, 3:30AM Pacific)... like, 9 hours from now? And it seems to be landing somewhere in SFO area? There's a bunch of checks for SFO... [ed: there are also Starlink launches listed: 6-28 and 7-7 (whatever that means)].

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Relevant lines are:

  SPACE X STARSHIP SUPER HEAVY FLT 2  BOCA CHICA, TX
  PRIMARY: 11/17/23 1300Z-1720Z
  BACKUP:  11/18/23 1300Z-1720Z
  11/19/23 1300Z-1720Z

Is that UTC or local?

UTC

Z = Zulu, meaning +0 or UTC.

The Z is Zulu, which is UTC.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/zulu

So it’s Friday, not the weekend !

As I understand it, they can't do launches over the weekend, as that requires closing the beach, which they don't have permission to do.

... Which makes the two backup dates very confusing. A very quick Google didn't turn up the actual rules on Starbase launches over the weekend, though, so I might be crazy.

SpaceX has five weekend closures allocated per year in Boca Chica: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/13/spacex-... (last paragraph)

...Friday is pretty much the weekend, right?

@dang can we update the title to say "Friday" instead of "weekend"?

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Yaaay we did it thanks.

Ok!

Looks like I’ll be setting my alarm early this Friday morning… can’t wait.

Starship is listed towards the bottom of the notice with a primary date of Nov 17.

I mean, still not exactly a weekend but close enough I guess.

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