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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@gparker I can only repeat what the news says the Hawaii Department of Transportation told them https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/117612341004739018
@ai6yr I can only guess that Hawaii DOT was confused? Nothing of interest happened during that launch.
@gparker I dunno, giant fireball is interesting, lol.
(that said, man, that sucks for the wildlife again)
@ai6yr Destruction of the first stage is routine, happens on almost every launch everywhere, no effect on air traffic assuming it stays within the planned launch corridor. (SpaceX was hoping it wouldn't happen, of course, but that's their problem…)
@gparker Do they all do a right handed salute when it happens? (I do not give one iota about what is and isn't routine at SpaceX)
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?
@leon_p_smith @ai6yr SpaceX is currently running 22 launches *behind* Saturn, or 7 behind if you only count the Saturn IB and Saturn V (same upper stage, different lower stages), and by any reasonable definition, Starship flight 11 was a success: all mission objectives accomplished with no damage to either the booster or orbiter.
@carnildo @leon_p_smith Ah, but did the Saturn V program have a right wing Nazi wanna be in charge?
@ai6yr these things happen. we should just get over it.
completely sus
@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.