#SpaceX: Starship/Superheavy stacking and waiting for a launch window. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 6 April 2023
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#SpaceX: Starship/Superheavy stacking and waiting for a launch window. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/faa-issues-travel-advisory-for-boca-chica-for-april-10-2023-starship-launch/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I Am The World. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm John Batchett from the surface of the planet Earth. |
| 0:10.1 | We go to Boca Chica, Texas. |
| 0:11.7 | There's very big promise from the FAA. |
| 0:15.7 | Bob Zimmerman, he keeps the website behind the black. |
| 0:18.3 | Bob, we've been waiting for the federal government to speak of the ambition for Starship Heavy |
| 0:24.2 | on top of Super Heavy to launch. |
| 0:27.2 | What is the latest information we have? |
| 0:30.2 | Well, the FAA has not yet issued the launch license, but all signs now point to a launch attempt |
| 0:37.4 | of Starship on top of Super Heavy for the first orbital mission test flight for April 10th |
| 0:45.3 | is coming Monday. |
| 0:48.1 | What has happened is the both Starship and Super Heavy is already on the launch pad. |
| 0:53.6 | Our Starship has been moved right next door for stacking purposes, so it can be lifted |
| 0:58.0 | up by the chopsticks and placed on top of Super Heavy. |
| 1:01.3 | They're in position. |
| 1:04.2 | This week, the FAA has issued a travel advisory for the Boca Chica area for April 10th and |
| 1:12.6 | 11th, basically telling airplanes as well as ships that this area is a potential launch |
| 1:20.2 | on those two days. |
| 1:22.0 | The primary area is the 10th of April from about 1 to 6 o'clock, I think, these times |
| 1:32.8 | might be wrong, but that's what the FAA is looking at. |
| 1:36.4 | I would say that the launch license is going to be issued almost any moment now, because |
| 1:42.8 | the FAA itself wouldn't issue this advisory. |
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