Flight test 6 has been reset 24 hours to Tuesday. As before, the launch window begins a 5:00 PM ET, and lasts 30 minutes. As always, subject to change.
Since Thursday's update, they completed stacking Ship 31 on booster 13, making this stack either 3113 or1331, depending on whether you think top down or bottoms up. The Flight Termination Systems (explosives) have been installed, and preparations for launch have been proceeding. Safety regulations restrict the number of people who can be working on the vehicle at one time, and that everyone working on it to have some special certifications.
Reports are going around that the ship and booster for flight test 7 have been
chosen and are going to be ready almost immediately.
A little more detail on my favorite image of the last week:
And if you're within a few years of my age, you'll remember a song by English artist Donovan called "Mellow Yellow". Sort of a nonsense lyrics song, full lyrics here. Since seeing this image a verse from that song has been stuck in my head and it had to be modified. It started as:
Electrical bananaIs gonna be a sudden crazeElectrical bananaIs bound to be the very next phaseThey call it mellow yellow(Quite rightly)They call me mellow yellow(Quite rightly)
and it has morphed into
Anthropomorphic bananaIs gonna be a sudden crazeAnthropomorphic bananaIs bound to be the very next phase
Yeah, electrical has four syllables while anthropomorphic has five, but if you say "anthropo" really fast, it kinda fits.
I wonder what the chances are of flight 7 taking place before the end of the year? Now that I'm old, that's the type of gift I would love to get for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteAnd you could also sing Harry Chapin's "30,000 pounds of Bananas" song.
ReplyDeleteOf course Amazon sells a squeezy banana for scale.
The Donovan song will be torturing me for most of today.
"And you could also sing Harry Chapin's "30,000 pounds of Bananas" song."
DeleteWhat makes you think I haven't?
"Mellow Yellow" was a song about a vibrator. They got the idea looking through the cheap ads in the back of the paper.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea. I thought saffron was a yellow spice, and still have no idea what he meant by Fotine.
DeleteFotine is a Greek name meaning light or immortal.
DeleteSo, maybe since Mellow Yellow means a personal appliance, Fotine is the user of said personal appliance.
It's Peanut butter jelly time!!
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