Our guy at the Space Tech Expo says the SpaceX person there is saying they are still hopeful to debut Falcon Heavy this year (NET December). We'll write up direct quotes that come back.
Looks like we’ll be spending Xmas 2017 at Cape Canaveral. New TESS launch date “no earlier than 20 December, 2017”
I want to express my appreciation for your project. I find it useful to have the manifest easily accessible.If I could make a suggestion . . . Several times I have found myself wanting to relate the listed flights back to earlier ones. While I recognize that the list started as a collation of what could be guessed about what was coming up, it is increasingly becoming useful as a record of past flights as well.I would weigh in on extending the list back in time to cover previous F9 flights. Perhaps all.Thanks again for your hard work.
Quote from: Senex on 05/31/2016 02:36 am<...>There is a thread called "The SpaceX Scrubs Thread" in the SpaceX General section that serves this function.
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Question: If all goes well and the twin SEP comsats fly around the second full week of June '16, could SpaceX fit in another flight before the schedule window opens for SpX-CRS-9 in mid-July?Maybe a DragonLab cumulative payload, in other words, every experiment that is ready can can fly on reasonably short notice, in a recycled CRS Dragon flying on the CRS-8 core. Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting an ad-hoc flight; I think that's currently impossible (although I can see Musk wanting to work towards something like that). What I'm wondering is if something like this was the re-flight test that Musk stated that they were aiming to fly in this general time-frame.
Latest updates on Spaceflight Now launch schedule are EutelSat/ABS to June 14 10:32 local and Amos-6 postponed until September. Possibility now that SpaceX will only have 7 launches through end of July, which would make the schedule for the rest of the year very interesting.
Delta IV Heavy is scheduled for June 9th... Seems maybe a little tight, especially if it slips.
SpaceX TweetNext launch targeting June 14 from Cape Canaveral – 45 minute launch window opens at 10:32am ET, 2:32pm UTCImage of birds: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkDcGNMUkAAMAZx.jpg:orig
Seems like the move forward of Eutelsat/Abs could be an indication of another launch between this one and CRS-9 (especially if CRS-9 moves to the left some). Is there any indication of what the next launch would be? Are there any birds that could be moved up?
Quote from: rockets4life97 on 06/04/2016 12:25 amSeems like the move forward of Eutelsat/Abs could be an indication of another launch between this one and CRS-9 (especially if CRS-9 moves to the left some). Is there any indication of what the next launch would be? Are there any birds that could be moved up?I haven't seen an indication of anything that could launch before CRS-9. I think it's unlikely anything launches before then.