Well folks, Starship IFT-3 is finally here!

Scheduled for (UTC) 2024-03-14 13:25
Scheduled for (local) 2024-03-14 08:25 (CDT)
Launch Window (UTC) 2024-03-14 12:00 to 2024-03-14 13:50 (110 minutes)
Launch site OLM-A, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA.
Booster B10
Ship S28
Booster landing B10 to perform a soft water landing in the Gulf of Mexico
Ship landing S28 expected to impact the Indian Ocean

Webcasts

Stream Link
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIde9hGPy18
Everyday Astronaut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixZpBOxMopc
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfnkZFtHPmM
NASASpaceflight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxCYzixV3s
LabPadre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNL6cf1Rww
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Mhe9ZIjo4
SpaceX https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1768258691319689232
The Space Devs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcTxmw_yZ_c

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 3rd Starship Full Stack launch

☑️ 337th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship hops)

☑️ 25th SpaceX launch this year

☑️ 1st launch from OLM-A this year

☑️ 117 days, 0:22:10 turnaround for this pad

Mission Details 🚀

Link to Starship Dev thread

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    LOX Liquid Oxygen
    MECO Main Engine Cut-Off
    ~ MainEngineCutOff podcast
    OLM Orbital Launch Mount
    SECO Second-stage Engine Cut-Off
    Jargon Definition
    Raptor Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 19 acronyms.

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