Comment by BenoitP | Hacker News Reader

Comment by BenoitP | Hacker News Reader

When: 8:25 AM CT

Launch window: 7:00 AM CT - 8:50 AM CT

--- Updates:

(future)T+40: Starship relight and entry

T+12: Elevator music engaged, please stay tuned for T+40

T+11: Payload door testing

T+8: Upper stage SECO, nominal orbit insertion

T+7: (mine) KSP moment for booster reentry, instabilities. Signal cut off because of exhaust conducts electricity and absorbs RF. Status unknown

T-11: Still no blockers. Watching winds, may have hold at T-40s.

T-30: Broadcast started

T-60: (SpaceX Twitter) The Starship team is go for prop load but keeping an eye on winds, now targeting 8:25 a.m. CT for liftoff

T-65: (SpaceX Twitter) Shifting T-0 a few more minutes to give boats time to clear the keep out area, now targeting 8:10 a.m. CT

T-65: (SpaceX Twitter) New liftoff time is 8:02 a.m. CT, team is clearing a few boats from the keep out area in the Gulf of Mexico

T-45: No blockers

T-90: (SpaceX Twitter) Weather is 70% favorable for today’s third integrated flight test of Starship. The live webcast will begin ~30 minutes before liftoff

---- Streams:

High Quality VLC: Open VLC, Media, Open Network Stream, paste following, Play:

(higher quality) https://prod-ec-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/g...

(lower latency) https://prod-ec-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/g...

NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxCYzixV3s

Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfnkZFtHPmM

Everyday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixZpBOxMopc

LabPadre Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyXho_YCK8

(FR) Techniques Spatiales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRXfWLVMEQ8

---- Mission profile:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

---- Links:

https://twitter.com/SpaceX

https://twitter.com/elonmusk

https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1bb8scf/rspacex_int...

Pretty sure the first YouTube link you provided is some scammy fake stream.

Updated, Thanks!

Thanks, I like the Spaceflight Now commentary the most. Best analysis.

I find those youtube channels far too grifty for my tastes. Sadly as twitter doesn't seem to work ("Something went wrong. Try reloading.") I have lost quite a lot of the excitement I used to have for spacex.

I've been listening to SFN for about 20 minutes now and haven't heard a single reference to donations. Like parent, they're my preferred feed.

If you can get SpaceX's twitter to work, you can use them for audio. If so, EverydayAstronaut will likely have the best video.

What’s grifty about nasa space flight? They’re a private news org that does incredible coverage of SpaceX and spends funds doing as such. They’re mostly donation driven but they don’t solicit them really. They just thank folks that do on their livestream. Their forums are an absolute goldmine of knowledge if you take a look and it is an incredibly friendly community.

Whenever I've seen them (not sure which specific ones) they've been either

1) Whining about donations (and shoutouts every few seconds)

2) Whining about the cost of cameras (I remember one of the early exploding and the commentator spent the next 10 minutes going on about his expensive cameras)

Yes they are funded by begging, that's not something I'm interested in listening too. I've seen US TV occasionally, I find it unwatchable with the jarring commercials, but I guess if you are used to that then the begging streams.

The spacex stream traditionally is a good feed, not too fanboyish, no begging, but it seems it's no longer reliably broadcast

The official SpaceX hosts often don't mention when something goes wrong or looks bad. For example, they didn't comment on the ongoing tumbling of the ship. Of course they want to present themselves in the best possible light. Other streamers are more independent, they do point out those things.

I think the official hosts avoid it because they don't want to have potential speculation be treated as a fact. Mainstream media reporting around these launches is already mostly garbage in quality, having the hosts speculating might make it worse.

Like, Starship was tumbling, but until we saw that it didn't manage to maintain the orientation for reentry, it was possible that the tumbling and venting was expected.

Well, first off, they’re not NASA (or the NSF). I always thought it was sketchy that they used the name, it seems to imply that they are official when they are not.

i get the same message, but if you log into twitter then it says the stream will begin at 5:52am PDT

It's SpaceX's problem that they're not where the public expect them to be.

VLC stream links hit the spot for me... I was really hoping to see the official stream but twitter is... well... not what it used to be. Anyway thanks!

The URL on the „VLC“-links look a lot like „Periscope“ which was acquired by Twitter long ago. Maybe this is actually the official Twitter stream itself?

Whatever the infrastructure spacex is using for the stream, the twitter front end doesn't load for me. That's what I meant.

edit: now it loads but it has 10s delay so I'm sticking to VLC

You can watch the stream directly from the spacex.com website.

Now this one isn't loading on my side. And I got gigabit fiber at a major European city close to a big exchange.

That's just the embedded twitter stream :D

It is, how to reproduce:

Twitter stream page, F12, network tab, look for m3u8 file, right click, copy url, open in VLC

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