It's in the OP as always, but the window opens 1:30pm EST.

Thanks!!

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Nice homage:

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Random quotes from Elon from a sort of press conference today.

• doing a six-hour coast before final second-stage burn; going through Van Allen Belts. Also fuel could freeze or oxygen lost.
• Tesla will be placed into a heliocentric orbit and become a Earth-Mars cycler; only extremely tiny chance of hitting Mars in foreseeable future.
• one area of concern is relative interactions of the three booster cores; could be resonance or shockwave impingement. Once second stage separates, we’re in much more known territory other than long-duration coast.
• looks like development of BFR is moving quickly, and won’t be necessary to qualify Falcon Heavy for crewed spaceflight.
• if we’re successful, offer near super-heavy-lift for little more than Falcon 9. “Game over” for all other heavy-lift rockets.
• if successful with this test launch, we’ll be ready to put a satellite on the next Falcon Heavy launch.
• if successful should be able to d another FH in three to six months. Can produce them at a pretty rapid rate.
• if we wanted to, we could add to more side boosters, make it Falcon Super Heavy.
• If FH blows up the pad, it'll take at least 9 - 12 months to get the pad back in action. It won't affect production.
• However if it clears the pad and doesn't go well, can launch FH again in 3 to 4 months

Press kit is up.

http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/f...resskit_v1.pdf

The timing is the most interesting to me. Max-Q happens in only 1:06, and BECO (booster engine cutoff) happens at 2:29. And almost most interestingly, all three boosters will land within 21 seconds of each other at ~8 minutes - two on land and one at sea.

My fiancé has been giving me a hard time because I have been talking nonstop about this for a week now. I have a viewing party set up at work and I may cry if this works like it should.

Too go or not was going to be a last minute thing. Planned everything, just had to pull a series of triggers to make it happen. Unfortunately, my little guy came up with a fever of 101.8. Needless to say, our plans were scrapped.

If they don't blow up the launch pad today, they could have another launch in 3-4 months.

Hope they light it right at 10:30. I really want to see this one live...

30 minute slip

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The countdown clock has been reset to target a new Falcon Heavy launch time of 2pm EST (1900 GMT). Live coverage from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida: <a href="https://t.co/j9nQKPiCdX">https://t.co/j9nQKPiCdX</a> <a href="https://t.co/sCHIy9EYb2">pic.twitter.com/sCHIy9EYb2</a></p>&mdash; Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/960914804046290945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Damnit!! LMAO

Make that 50.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy from the Kennedy Space Center is now targeted for 2:20pm EST (1920 GMT). Live coverage: <a href="https://t.co/j9nQKPiCdX">https://t.co/j9nQKPiCdX</a></p>&mdash; Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/960918664185860098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I really hope this doesn't get scrubbed.