ClaimsElon Musk

“Tomorrow will be the 7th flight of this rocket, landing on droneship Of Course I Still Love You”

Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, own X post 22 November 2020 Post by @elonmusk on X, 2020-11-22 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

The rocket was due to fly its 7th flight on 2020-11-23, landing on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

The second judge said resolved true; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

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What would count as true or false

Factual claim judged as of 22 November 2020, about the then-current plan. Three parts: the next launch was scheduled for the next day (23 November 2020, US time); it would be the booster's 7th flight; and the planned landing was on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You. True: launch schedules or records show all three parts. A later scrub or delay of the launch does not make the claim false, since it states the schedule as of that date. Mostly true: the flight count and droneship are correct, and the scheduled date differed only slightly, e.g. because of time zones. Mixed: one of the three parts is wrong, such as the droneship or the scheduled date, but the 7th-flight milestone is correct. Mostly false: the booster's flight count was wrong, e.g. its 6th or 8th flight, while the other details hold. False: no such launch was scheduled for around that date, or most of the details are wrong.

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Evidence (4)

  1. E1 SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9's seventh-flight debut for more "mission assurance" Teslarati · 22 November 2020

    “Update: SpaceX has scrubbed Falcon 9’s seventh-flight debut and the 14th Starlink launch this year to allow more time for “data reviews” and “additional mission assurance” and is now scheduled to launch Starlink-15 no earlier than (NET) 9:34 pm EST (02:34 UTC) Monday, November 23rd.”
  2. E2 SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9's seventh-flight debut for more "mission assurance" Teslarati · 22 November 2020

    “B1049 is now scheduled to lift off no earlier than 9:56 pm EST (02:56 UTC), November 22nd with some 16 metric tons (~35,000 lb) of Starlink communications satellites in tow.”
  3. E3 SpaceX scrubs Starlink satellite launch on record 7th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket Space.com · 23 November 2020

    “A Falcon 9 rocket was poised to make its seventh launch (a record for the reusable booster) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida when SpaceX scrubbed the mission. The liftoff was scheduled for 9:56 p.m. EST (0256 GMT) to deliver 60 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.”
  4. E4 SpaceX scrubs Starlink satellite launch on record 7th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket Space.com · 23 November 2020

    “After today's planned launch, the booster was expected to return to Earth again to land itself on SpaceX's drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You" in the Atlantic Ocean.”

Reasoning

The 7th-flight milestone holds: E1, E2 and E3 describe the Starlink launch as booster B1049's record seventh flight. The droneship also holds: E4 says the planned landing was on Of Course I Still Love You. The date matches only loosely. Before the scrub, liftoff was set for 9:56 pm EST on November 22, which is 02:56 UTC on November 23 (E2, E3). After the scrub it moved to no earlier than November 23 EST (E1). So the scheduled date differs from 23 November US time only because of time zones, which the criteria rate as mostly true.

Cite this claim

Elon Musk, “The rocket was due to fly its 7th flight on 2020-11-23, landing on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You.” (said 22 November 2020). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_0dd3feab9a2d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0dd3feab9a2d

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