SpaceShipOne CHAT again available for the X-Prize Flights

As many already know, Scaled Composite's "SpaceShipOne" is set to fly on Sept 29th, 2004 in the early-morning hours (Pacific-time). Chat will again be available for the flights.

We had a VERY sucessful chat session during the previous flight on June 21st and expect to have a good round this time for the X-Prize flights. The channel is open to all (we prefer you register/identify your nicks but is not a requirement for this channel). IF any 'over-flow' occurs, a back-up channel will automatically re-direct those as needed. A !news bot (Space.com) and !countdown bot is available.

We also set another 'special' channel ( #SS1-FltData ) to record/display near 'real-time' Flight-Data from SS1 but the final decision is still not complete and not expected for the first flight-attempt. In any case, we expect to still have some limited data/info available. This channel is to monitor only, no chatting there, unless you are 'voiced'. The #SpaceShipOne channel is for that. You MUST be a registered nick and identified in order to join this channel. There is no cost to register and NO spam, etc.

The chat-server is located on the Freenode.net series. Point your chat-client to:

-- Server: irc.freenode.net

-- Channels: #SpaceShipOne and #SS1-FltData

Hope to see you back there for the flights.

John B. ("Pandelirium")
SpaceShipOne Admin/Ops/Moderator

For other 'space-related' chat on Freenode, goto:

- #space (general-combined channel)
- #maestro (Mars Rover/SAP/Maestro Planning Software)
- #cassini (Cassini/Huygens to Saturn)
- #messenger (Probe to Mercury)
- #celestia (3D Space/Solar-System Simulation)
- #roverware (NexGen Rover/Planning Software development)

[edit on 24/9/04 by Pandelirium]