Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur on April 20th, 2023?
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YES

Resolution criteria for what counts as an attempt copied from this market.

For the purposes of this market the test doesn't have to be successful or even conclusive - a scrub is fine as long as it's clear that SpaceX was trying to do an orbital flight test.

I'll resolve YES if an official SpaceX social media channel puts up a livestream entitled "Starship Orbital Flight Test", "Starship Orbital Launch", or similar, which shows a live feed of Starship and a countdown, NO if there is clearly no such livestream by market close, and N/A if it is ambiguous whether this has happened at market close.

April 20th refers to local time at the launch site.

Note: if there is a successful launch or vehicle destruction prior to the 20th, I will resolve this market NO immediately.

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Weekend:

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Chris Billingtonpredicted YES

@Akzzz123 Similar but not quite the same - my markets are just for whether there will be an attempt, not for whether it gets off the ground, which I think are two separate questions it's interesting to have!

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AKpredicted YES

@chrisjbillington Mine's for attempt as well but resolves for any time before the end date.

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Chris Billingtonpredicted YES

@Akzzz123 Ah, apologies. Yours is for an attempt, @JoshuaWilkes' appears to be for a launch, though I'm not 100% sure.

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AKpredicted YES

@chrisjbillington I guess the url shortens it to look like launch.

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Josh Wilkespredicted YES

@chrisjbillington yes, for a launch

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Chris Billington

FAA advisory now listing all dates from Apr 21st to Apr 28th inclusive as backup dates

Saturday the 22nd was new so new market for that date:


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Chris Billingtonbought Ṁ130 of YES
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Chris Billingtonbought Ṁ30 of YES

20th is once again the primary launch date as per FAA advisory

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Mqrius

@chrisjbillington they added 22 now as well 😅

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Chris Billingtonsold Ṁ906 of NO

What is going on

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Chris Billingtonsold Ṁ404 of NO

@chrisjbillington Looks like the TFR for the 20th vanished, then reappeared with a 35m longer window. In the meantime, TFRs for the 23rd, 24th and 25th popped up.

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Peter Wildefordsold Ṁ301 of NO

@chrisjbillington Wow, so glad I sold all my NO at 3% 😅

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Chris Billington

@PeterWildeford I bet it down to 2%. Bought far too much so could only sell a little bit without moving the probability implausibly high. Am unsure whether I should consider that a bad call given how things looked an hour ago, or just bad luck.

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Mqrius

@chrisjbillington 2% is very low but it's also almost unheard of for rockets to fly ahead of schedule. It's SpaceX so I guess we should never have extreme confidences

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Mqrius

pov you're betting on SpaceX

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Chris Billingtonbought Ṁ500 of NO

Wow you folks are fast.

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Mqriusbought Ṁ90 of NO

@chrisjbillington Berger is slow, TFR has been removed over 40 minutes ago :p

I happened to spot discussion on Reddit. But the ~90% it touched was way too high anyway, I shoulda put my limit order lower than 85 I think!

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Chris Billington

@Mqrius I was too aggressive trying to sell my NO shares off, which was helping push it up. Should've just kept 'em if the probability looked right.

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Mqrius

Now if only Nathan would resolve his markets then I would've been able to buy down more of it 🙈

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Mqrius

@chrisjbillington you wanna make some new markets? I'm on my phone atm

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Chris Billington

@Mqrius Done