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Don't know if it's just me, but I'm finding it enormously frustrating to work out when this launch will be. I know things change, but would it be so hard to ha
by ColinWright 6y ago
Don't know if it's just me, but I'm finding it enormously frustrating to work out when this launch will be. I know things change, but would it be so hard to have it prominently displayed somewhere the expected time in local, with the timezone, and GMT so others can work out what time it will be where they are?
Currently on this stream it says 15:30 ... what time zone is that?
- bzzzt 6y agoThe YouTube popup gives local time. 15:30 seems to be UTC.
- rbanffy 6y agoUTC is the only civilized timezone.
- ColinWright 6y agoThank you.
- Spare_account 6y agoApologies if I'm covering something you're already aware of, but that time is just Tim's (Everyday Astronaut's) best guess at when to start streaming. The actual launch time is unknown to everyone outside of SpaceX. For SN8 SpaceX published a live stream of their own a few minutes before launch, but we don't even know if they'll do that this time.
- ColinWright 6y agoNoted ... thanks. (I did know, but it's useful to have the comment here for anyone else who's reading this).
- hoseja 6y agoIt's internal testing. I don't think they actually want to encourage people watching.
- gary_0 6y agoFor good reason, I suspect. Most of the friends/family I showed the SN8 belly-flop and "landing" to were like, "oh no, is SpaceX screwed now?" I had to explain that giant explosions are a fact of life when testing rocket prototypes.
- 0x64 6y agoThe launch time changes constantly, as there's no real time provided by SpaceX: everything is an estimate based on road closures and NOTAMs. If you want to keep track of this launch (and all other launches that happen), I've made a tiny Telegram bot that sends notifications before a launch happens: https://t.me/rocketrybot https://t.me/rocketrybot