You could be right. I'm pretty sure that the long-term hope is that they can basically take off and land from the same place so that they can just roll it off of the landing pad and into a hangar to re-check and re-fuel, but no clue what the constraints are that they're working through between now and then.

I do have to think that landing in a place with lower winds and more room for error has to be easier at least.

Not that I think a ton of you are anxiously looking for the webcast tonight, but it was bumped back to the 19th in the evening. I'll bump this an hour or so before because I'm a nerd.

did you see see the same launch?

If I may, can you bump it like way before? I would have missed this tonight as this is my goto spot for launch talk and I was busy with the dorks in DC.

Sure, I'll try to remember to give you a heads-up. Launch window is open for 3 hours (8:25-11:25 p.m. EST) on the 19th (Saturday).

Huh?

^ Gentleman and a scholar.

I don't really want to bump the thread every time there's some insignificant news to report, so I added a box to the OP that I'll update from time to time with the latest news. If you ever want to know what's up, search for the thread.

But for now, I'm bumping it because eDave wanted to know about the launch scheduled for tomorrow, and now it's NET (no earlier than) Sunday night.

Now that is what I'm talking about! All you other CP ****s should follow DaFace's lead.

Thanks compadre.

Reddit /r/spacex thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comm...update_thread/

Thanks DaFace...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Currently looking good for a Sunday night (~8pm local) attempted orbital launch and rocket landing at Cape Canaveral</p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/678152249369952258">December 19, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Kind of cool summary of the sequence of events:

https://i.imgur.com/D9BdO86.png

bumping anyway at the 2 hour countdown!

:D

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New photo of <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX">@SpaceX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash">#Falcon9</a> in advance of tonight&#39;s ORBCOMM <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OG2?src=hash">#OG2</a> launch. She&#39;s a beauty. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash">#SpaceX</a> <a href="https://t.co/cUhCgGieiP">pic.twitter.com/cUhCgGieiP</a></p>&mdash; ORBCOMM (@ORBCOMM_Inc) <a href="https://twitter.com/ORBCOMM_Inc/status/678649734505058304">December 20, 2015</a></blockquote>
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New Reddit /r/spacex launch thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comm...ficial_launch/

Current weather loop:

https://i.imgur.com/qIDcuT2.webm

https://i.imgur.com/k98RbOf.webm

Summary: sporadic showers with the possibility to be an issue are still around, and probably will remain that way through the attempt. That being said, these clouds remain pretty small / short and it seems like metar continues to report that the cloud deck isn't full overcast, so we definitely have a shot here. A instantaneous window I'd feel better about, but let's see what happens.