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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Aha! So the string of lights was debris...
https://mastodon.social/@inawhilecrocodile/117614282523819839
Damn! I wished it was aliens.
Is the AI FAA introduced named something like grok?
@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
@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 I wonder how costly these launches are, adding in the ground stops. Pretty pricey, I bet.