I was so busy watching the FAA ground stop I missed SPACEX SPACE JUNK SHUT DOWN WEST COAST air traffic to Hawaii too today.
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@ai6yr Elon Musk is the biggest conman in history. Even bigger than Trump. Musk's vehicles are no good and his rockets blow up but somehow he's worth a TRILLION dollars!!
@ai6yr The fucking rocket is still I orbit. WTH are they talking about debris?
@ai6yr Double Secret Ground Stop
@ai6yr Which is strange given that the booster stayed in the gulf of mexico and the ship is in orbit right now.
Further checking makes it look like someone pressed the wrong button about alerts during the ground stop? https://www.khon2.com/local-news/faa-grounds-u-s-travel-hdot-director-says-hawaii-trips-continue/
The vehicle did not go into orbit initially. If the burn 26 minutes from launch had not worked, it would have come down again: https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3n2adiiyjhk2c .
I do not immediately find where re-entry would have been; but Hawai'i is in the potential latitude range.
@Newpa_Hasai Possible, someone had no idea what was happening and decided it was SpaceX? Dunno.
@ai6yr Maybe. One of the proposed abort options for the ship would bring it down near Hawaii, though that's very much not how the launch went.
Those pesky billionaires are getting very good at sabotaging modern life.
@ai6yr funny how local CA news failed to mention the debris fallout
Looks like someone jinxed it...
@ai6yr I don't think this one was true. I don't see any sign that this SpaceX launch departed from its designated corridor. And even if it did a launch eastwards from the Texas Gulf Coast shouldn't have any effect on US West Coast flights.
@gparker I can only repeat what the news says the Hawaii Department of Transportation told them https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/117612341004739018
Garbage up, garbage down. This is progress. :-)
(now lifted, this preceded the whole ground stop thing)
@ai6yr Isn't this 1:55 Hawaii time, or 3:55 PST? So not before the ground stop at 1:20 PST.
And Pacific-bound flights from SFO had been allowed since around 3:19 pm, way before the general lifting..
https://sfba.social/@sarahstierch/117611688406269675
So this SpaceX-related issue was indeed another ground stop.
@jeridansky It's all kinda confusing there. 🤷 I am sure a perusal of the FAA alerts would reveal the actual alert at that time, I suppose.
@ai6yr If only America had an agency which could regulate rocket launches and prevent this kind of thing.
@LabSpokane @ai6yr Or some sort of "Space Force" that could be deployed to annihilate anyone using space-related vehicles in a way that interferes with the nation's commerce.
@ai6yr How many more "test launches" has Starship now had than the *entirety* of the Saturn V program, and still not a single success?
@ai6yr these things happen. we should just get over it.
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"EAKING NEW"? Should it be
FREAKING NEWT-BRAIN SPACE KAREN