Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur in October 2023?
Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur in October 2023?
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Resolution criteria for what counts as an attempt adapted 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 Flight Test" or similar, which shows a live feed of a Starship–Super Heavy full stack vehicle and a countdown, for a flight trajectory that is intended to be orbital or near-orbital, 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.

The relevant timezone is the local time at the launch site.

Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur in May 2023?NO

Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur in June 2023?NO

Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur in July 2023?NO

Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur in August 2023?NO

Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur in September 2023?NO

Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur in October 2023?NO (you are here)

Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur in November 2023?YES

Will a Starship orbital flight attempt occur in December 2023?NO

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predictedNO 1y

Resolves NO

This month, maybe, next month, definitely.

A marine notice has been posted for November 6th for rocket launching operations near Boca Chica Beach!

https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/lnms/lnm0843g2023.pdf

They have done this before for 8 September onwards and earlier dates so it is hard to know whether this time it is because SpaceX believe they may get permission by then or it is just routine easy to cancel if not needed and file another one. Still even with latter interpretation, it may indicate launch is not likely to be possible before November 6th.

There is also things like

https://twitter.com/wapodavenport/status/1716985374633837050

"SpaceX progressing while I hear the FAA and Fish and Wildlife are as well. Next launch attempt coming before too long, I’d think."

Anyone got different thoughts on these or other indicators?

predictedYES 1y

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predictedNO 1y

Are you all factoring in a shutdown affecting FAA launch license approval and FWS review? From market probabilities it looks like the government shutdown will last a couple weeks and given they said that the FAA hopes to have a license at the end of October, this much seems less likely now.

https://manifold.markets/SimonGrayson/how-long-will-the-2023-us-governmen#jwOPF0ahqLvxoqOId1Ng

1y

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-18/spacex-s-starship-still-needs-fish-and-wildlife-review-to-start#xj4y7vzkg

FWS review could take 30-135 days that hasn't even started yet... Remember it was thought September might be possible?

predictedYES 1y

@parhizj why would they stack ready to launch if they are waiting for some degenerate government dog catchers, or whatever, to drag their heels for months?

predictedNO

@AlQuinn As I speculated before: pressure tactics or politicking (Musk is now Republican/favors less regulations). I would be surprised if this was bad forecasting on their part but the tweets Elon made in response to that article hint otherwise.

1y

@AlQuinn cope harder

predictedYES 1y

@NGK oh noes, might lose M10 on this question!

1y

@AlQuinn I can literally predict all of your positions on markets just by the market name.

predictedYES 1y

@NGK I truly doubt your claim, but yes, it's true that I've made correlated bets across similar markets based on my view they were systemically mispriced here (and you can ignore my M10 bets because I do that just as a way to follow news and discussion on questions that interest me). But if you think my bets are wrong you know what you can do about that, right?

predictedNO 1y

dont be fooled by musks tweets - guy loves to talk more than anything, some have called it his ruin!

predictedYES 1y

@conradgetty the main problem is the FAA, which for some reason wants to degrade the US space program to the point we are all speaking Mandarin in our reeducation camps within 30 years.

predictedNO 1y

@AlQuinn Ha. When the current problem facing your rocket development program is a few-weeks delay on your second flight due to bureaucracy around some (fairly serious: e.g. the FTS) mishaps in the first, you are doing extremely well.

The main problem will continue to be that space is very hard. Barring major safety incidents, after the next flight I don't think regulatory delays will be near the top of the list of bottlenecks for Starship development.

1y

I feel like betting against starship launching is always an okay bet at this stage

1y

@NGK in general, yes, but it's literally sitting on the pad ready to go. The only hold up is FAA approval, and they've indicated their report could be ready as early as October 2. This is more a bet on whether SpaceX can address all the things in that report within a month.

predictedNO 1y

@JohnKossa I don't even think it's that - SpaceX say they have addressed all the things (they wrote the list of things). We're betting on FAA approval and anything else unanticipated.

1y

@JohnKossa There’s been “pending” FAA approval periods of much longer than a month.

predictedYES 1y

@JohnKossa FAA and now some Fish and Chips Agency which is allowed to drag its leg for half an eternity and then some.

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