First Falcon 9 Poised for Launch

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On 6/4/2010 11:25 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:

They are having trouble with the self-destruct system telemetry:
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/001/status.html

T minus 13 minutes and counting.

T-minus 2 minutes

Jeff
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On 6/4/2010 11:25 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:

They are having trouble with the self-destruct system telemetry:
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/001/status.html

T minus 13 minutes and counting.

T-minus 2 minutes

Abort at ignition. Vehicle is still sitting on the pad.

Jeff
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Is it me, or do they need to tell the grunt at the mixing board to
increase the volume of the launch control audio? The narrator
(interesting they have a mostly-techie doing it now rather than their
tag-team and "webcast studio) is at a much higher audio level than the
launch control stuff - which is fine when he is talking but not so
fine when we are supposed to just listen to launch control.

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What's with the second stage roll?

rick jones

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In sci.space.policy Jeff Findley wrote:
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What's with the second stage roll?

Good question. It seems like it didn't matter (was with specs) since
the trajectory looked good (according to the commentator).

I'm willing to accept the *possibility* that is nominal, but I don't
have as much faith in the commentator as you - I've seen stories
"evolve" too many times in the past It appeared to me that the roll
rate was increasing.

Still, a very good event IMO, one I suspect will be liked by some
Sentators and Congressmen and not liked by others. Many hangovers in
Hawthorne on the 5th (or should that be after the fifths?) I suspect,
and then reams of data to analyze.

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Is it me, or do they need to tell the grunt at the mixing board to
increase the volume of the launch control audio? The narrator
(interesting they have a mostly-techie doing it now rather than their
tag-team and "webcast studio) is at a much higher audio level than the
launch control stuff - which is fine when he is talking but not so
fine when we are supposed to just listen to launch control.

rick jones

Looks like the launch was successful, but the video feed was lost (as
expected) when the vehicle went "over the horizon" from the launch site.

Congrats Space-X!

Jeff

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Pat Flannery wrote:

On 6/4/2010 1:33 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 6/4/2010 1:10 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 6/4/2010 9:37 AM, Jeff Findley wrote:

T-minus 2 minutes

Abort at ignition. Vehicle is still sitting on the pad.

They may still try another launch attempt today. They have till 3 PM
Eastern time.

They are counting down again; now T minus fourteen minutes.

Pat

LIFTOFF!

And in orbit!

Anthony

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What's with the second stage roll?

Good question. It seems like it didn't matter (was with specs) since
the trajectory looked good (according to the commentator).

Jeff

Rick Jones wrote in
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What's with the second stage roll?

That was interesting, yes? Didn't obviously suggest guidance
problems from the video feed, but not something I would have
expected either.

If they get to the second burn, I'd label this launch a good
success. Wasn't really expecting them to get this far this
cleanly.

We shall see, though it may take a while to get full details.

--Damon

On 6/4/2010 10:55 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:


Something is now going on, as both the SpaceX update page and Falcon 9
live launch video page have just gone blank on their website.

They are now showing live video!
They are holding at T minus fifteen minutes:
http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php
....and have been holding for one hour and thirteen minutes.
Skies are overcast, though no rain appears to be falling.
Falcon 9 appears to be fully tanked up and is venting LOX vapor from
both stages.

Pat