Whew. Scrubs before RUDs, everyone. Wonder what caused the abort. Engines seemed to briefly fire up.
Yeah shoulda said spooled, not fired.
Elon trolling bruh.
The whole system is automated. Final human interaction occurs far before the final countdown. The system monitors everything and if something is out of spec shuts it down. A human merely sees the reading and audibly calls it out.They guys on stream said it was a "Raptor Abort", basically the rocket decided on its own to not ignite, because its sensors/computers decided that "something's not how its supposed to be so don't launch".
It's not rocket science, it's rocket engineering ;)
The NASA plane is supposed to take off in 40 minutes (2.30pm), so based on yesterday's timing we can expect launch at around 3.30pm, earlier than yesterday.Definitely seeming as though they're prepping for the tail end of the window, so 5ish local time.
Yeah the assumption was based on the NASA craft taxiing and then delaying. But things are happening. 3:00 local time is looking like a good place to start paying attention.The NASA plane is supposed to take off in 40 minutes (2.30pm), so based on yesterday's timing we can expect launch at around 3.30pm, earlier than yesterday.
Edit: well, tank farm activity is picking up, so maybe even earlier?
#FrostRing