Tag: deltaIVheavy

December 10th Launch Update: WTAF?

posted on 7th December, 2020 9:24 am by

ETA: Deadlock broken. ULA’s Delta IV Heavy is scheduled for the 10th; SpaceX will launch SXM7 on the 11th.

If you have looked at the latest launch schedule and noticed that two different launches seem to be happening on the same day, and are wondering what’s up with that?

It’s okay. None of the rest of us know, either.

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Next Up: Okay, Wait, What?

posted on 5th December, 2020 1:30 am by

As I write this, it’s 12:37 a.m. on the morning of the fifth and we don’t know yet whether SpaceX’s CRS-21 is going to launch today (ETA: it isn’t; Sunday the 6th at 11:17 am local (GMT-5), instead) and yet already I’m looking past that, because the launch schedule ’round these parts nowadays is just weird.

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