Well folks, it's been a few months since we've had suborbital human spaceflight. This mission also marks the first crewed flight of New Shepard after the NS-23 anomaly in 2022.

| Scheduled for UTC | 2024-05-19 13:30 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-05-19 08:30 (CDT) | | Launch site | Launch Site One, West Texas, Texas, USA | | Launch provider | Blue Origin | | Launch vehicle | New Shepard | | Passengers | Mason Angel 🇺🇸, Sylvain Chiron 🇫🇷, Kenneth L. Hess 🇺🇸, Carol Schaller 🇺🇸, Gopi Thotakura 🇮🇳, and former Air Force Captain Ed Dwight 🇺🇸 | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and safe landing of booster and crew capsule |

Livestreams

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Blue Origin | https://www.blueorigin.com/news/ns-25-mission-updates | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcD8a9f8Ni0 | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PkumtJ39c |

Stats

• 1st launch for Blue Origin of 2024, 25th launch overall
• 1st crewed New Shepard after the NS-23 anomaly in September 2022
• 1st crewed New Shepard in almost 2 years (NS-22 in August 2022)
• 6th crewed spaceflight of 2024 (Axiom Mission 3, Galactic 06, SpaceX Crew-8, Soyuz MS-25, Shenzhou-18)

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7543

Target orbit: N/A

Previous mission (NS-24) | Next mission (NS-26)

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Starlink Group 6-59 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-05-18 00:32 UTC, or 2024-05-17 20:32 local time (EDT). Booster 1062-21 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

B1062 will be the first booster to fly for the 21st time.

NextSpaceflight page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbAwHi67ZyM
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BigxImsLGVk
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAGhp7jjfdc
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn95LmUNah8
• SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1791626565861900547
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_d3ZOsZZTo

Infographic source: rykllan

https://x.com/_rykllan/status/1790817098328924339

B1061 has joined B1062 in the "20 flights" club. B1063 and B1067 catching up at 18 and 19 flights respectively.

B1062 slated to be the first booster to launch for the 21st time.

Source: Starship Gazer: https://twitter.com/StarshipGazer/status/1790832190898753769

I can do this manually using the following: Right-click on the video player, copy debug info, paste into text editor, and Ctrl+F for "addocid".

What is the best way to do this automatically?

By modifying an ad accelerator I found, I can reliably detect when a pre-roll ad is playing:

function handleVideoAd() {
	const video = document.querySelector('video');
	const adElement = document.querySelector('.video-ads.ytp-ad-module');
	if (video && adElement && adElement.children.length > 0) {
		alert('advertisement found!')
	}
}

function initializeAdHandling() {
	handleVideoAd();
	const observer = new MutationObserver(handleVideoAd);
	observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });
}
initializeAdHandling()

If I had the video ID, I could then open the video in a new tab using something like:

window.open('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adVideoID');

However, I am at a bit of a loss as to how to extract the ad video ID itself.

In the browser inspector, the only places I can find the ad video ID are:

1. Within the URL for ytp-cued-thumbnail-overlay-image
2. As adVideoId within var ytInitialPlayerResponse, which itself is within <script nonce="rwc3vYf3vRLEyNQKsJOgig">, where rwc3vYf3vRLEyNQKsJOgig changes with every video.

What would be the best way to extract the advertisement video ID?

Apologies for if I'm going about this the wrong way. I am (very!) new to JavaScript, but interested in learning. Please let me know if I've broken any community rules, or committed any other sort of faux pas. Thanks! :)

Crossposted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/19166266