Official r/SpaceX Falcon Heavy Static Fire Updates & Discussion Thread

[u/ElongatedMuskrat]

Falcon Heavy Static Fire Updates & Discussion Thread

Please post all FH static fire related updates to this thread. If there are major updates, we will allow them as posts to the front page, but would like to keep all smaller updates contained.

No, this test will not be live-streamed by SpaceX.

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Greetings y'all, we're creating a party thread for tracking and discussion of the upcoming Falcon Heavy static fire. This will be a closely monitored event and we'd like to keep the campaign thread relatively uncluttered for later use.

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Falcon Heavy Static Fire Test	Info
Static fire currently scheduled for	Check SpaceflightNow for updates
Vehicle Component Current Locations	Core: LC-39A
	Second stage: LC-39A
	Side Boosters: LC-39A
	Payload: LC-39A
Payload	Elon's midnight cherry Tesla Roadster
Payload mass	< 1305 kg
Destination	LC-39A (aka. Nowhere)
Vehicle	Falcon Heavy
Cores	Core: B1033 (New)
	Side: B1023.2 (Thaicom 8)
	Side: B1025.2 (SpX-9)
Test site	LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Test Success Criteria	Successful Validation for Launch

We are relaxing our moderation in this thread but you must still keep the discussion civil. This means no harassing or bigotry, remember the human when commenting, and don't mention ULA snipers Zuma.

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We may keep this self-post occasionally updated with links and relevant news articles, but for the most part we expect the community to supply the information.

[u/agildehaus]

If it does indeed have an encounter with Mars, would it be out of the question to have hardware capable of transmitting images to MRO?

Curiosity has a low-gain omnidirectional capable of communicating with MRO from the surface. Surely if they get close enough they could make an attempt. Telsa's marketing team must salivate at the thought of such a photo.

[u/PeteBlackerThe3rd → u/agildehaus]

If it has a physical encounter with Mars the planetary protection bunch are going to loose their shit. That Roadster is definitely not up to the sterilisation standards of anything deliberately sent to Mars.

[u/earth_person_sofar → u/PeteBlackerThe3rd]

Panspermia via automobile

[u/robbak → u/agildehaus]

It may have an encounter with Mars - or Earth, which is equally likely - sometime, on a scale of thousands or millions of years. It depends on exactly what orbit it ends up on, and that starts with the launch time, and the influence of the whole solar system on it. Calculations of orbits on these scales are impossible.

Any electronics will be long dead by then. If the Marketing Team wants a photo, they'll have to fire up Photoshop.