SpaceX: DSCOVR Updates

Mission scrubbed today due to high level winds beyond max tolerance.

Will attempt again tomorrow: 2/11 approx. same time. If you wish to watch it I suggest you head over to the SpaceX website.

Dave

The view of the sky today at the pad was spectacular! But then, I suppose interesting skies can make for bad launch conditions!

On Tuesday, David Spain yelped out that:
Mission scrubbed today due to high level winds beyond max tolerance.

Will attempt again tomorrow: 2/11 approx. same time. If you wish to watch it
I suggest you head over to the SpaceX website.

Launched, but the barge was skipped due to sea conditions.

URL:http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2025669167_apxscideepspaceobservatory.html

/dps

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In article mn.60967df2ef39ae1c.127094@snitoo,
says...

On Tuesday, David Spain yelped out that:
Mission scrubbed today due to high level winds beyond max tolerance.

Will attempt again tomorrow: 2/11 approx. same time. If you wish to watch it
I suggest you head over to the SpaceX website.

Launched, but the barge was skipped due to sea conditions.

URL:http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2025669167_apxscideepspaceobservatory.html

It was reported the first stage "landed" in the water 10 meters from its
target and did so nicely vertical, in bad weather. This was done
without one of the three "burns", so the stage landed further downrange
and reentered "hotter" than normal (not ideal conditions). This would
seem to indicate that if the weather had been calm that landing on the
barge would likely have been successful.

Next time...

Jeff
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magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer