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No go due to weather. SCRUBBED.
Both RTLS and launch weather are no-gos at the 9 minute polling.
No expection of improvement, will lose the launch window. Thunderstorms to the west of the site. Scrub not yet announced. Question: since they saw those storms come, how much time could they have cut from the 9 minute hold period to launch before the storms got too close ? Scrub now formal. Will try tomorrow. |
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No go due to weather. SCRUBBED.
"John Doe" wrote in message
... Both RTLS and launch weather are no-gos at the 9 minute polling. No expection of improvement, will lose the launch window. Thunderstorms to the west of the site. Scrub not yet announced. Question: since they saw those storms come, how much time could they have cut from the 9 minute hold period to launch before the storms got too close ? Scrub now formal. Will try tomorrow. Damn! I was so looking forward to this liftoff. |
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No go due to weather. SCRUBBED.
The Hanson Brothers wrote:
"John Doe" wrote in message ... Both RTLS and launch weather are no-gos at the 9 minute polling. No expection of improvement, will lose the launch window. Thunderstorms to the west of the site. Scrub not yet announced. Question: since they saw those storms come, how much time could they have cut from the 9 minute hold period to launch before the storms got too close ? Scrub now formal. Will try tomorrow. Damn! I was so looking forward to this liftoff. everybody lift off everybody |
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No go due to weather. SCRUBBED.
Surely this is the point, the windows are ridiculously short these days, its
no wonder the weather screws it up so often, especially this time of year. So, maybe its time to do a bit of looking at the weather factor and seeing if this can be relaxed a bit. As far as I can see, its not a real problem for launch unless they are right close by, except maybe for visibility. I have never been confident that return to launch site is feasible in the early stages of the launch, due to the probably catastrophic failure mode most probable in that time frame. A bit later on gives them mor energy to play with and thus an ability to avoid any dodgy weather on the glide back, though unless the cell is really bad, the most likely problem will be tile denting etc, rather than anything else. They would be glad to get the ship back at all. Just some thoughts. I personally feel that they are still running a bigger risk by not tearing down the systems to fire the srb bolts and starters etc, than they would have had launching yesterday with the weather they had. Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________ "John Doe" wrote in message ... Both RTLS and launch weather are no-gos at the 9 minute polling. No expection of improvement, will lose the launch window. Thunderstorms to the west of the site. Scrub not yet announced. Question: since they saw those storms come, how much time could they have cut from the 9 minute hold period to launch before the storms got too close ? Scrub now formal. Will try tomorrow. |
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No go due to weather. SCRUBBED.
"John Doe" wrote in message
... Both RTLS and launch weather are no-gos at the 9 minute polling. No expection of improvement, will lose the launch window. Thunderstorms to the west of the site. Scrub not yet announced. Question: since they saw those storms come, how much time could they have cut from the 9 minute hold period to launch before the storms got too close ? Scrub now formal. Will try tomorrow. Ayup, we were on the causeway when they made the announcement. It was pretty clear the storm wasn't going to break up. As for how much they could cut, my understanding was that the launch window was approximately 10 minutes wide, with the launch set for the middle of that. Which basically means they could have got up to 5 minutes from the hold. Based on my untrained eye, that would not have been nearly enough to make the launch happen. At the 9 minute poll they were clearly in violation of the RTLS weather criteria and were dang close to violation of the launch weather criteria. Even if they had been able to launch at say 7:08 instead of 7:13, I'm fairly confident they'd have been in violation of the launch criteria in any case. -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. |
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No go due to weather. SCRUBBED.
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No go due to weather. SCRUBBED.
Na rijp beraad schreef Brian Gaff :
Have they called off today as well, looks like treading water programming on nasa tv. Brian According to NASA TV the countdown is not stopped yet, su I gess the launch has not been scrubbed for today. -- "Jumpin' without a parachute? Kinda dangerous, ain't it?" - Bugs Bunny |
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No go due to weather. SCRUBBED.
On Jul 13, 10:06*am, André, PE1PQX wrote:
Na rijp beraad schreef Brian Gaff : Have they called off today as well, looks like treading water programming on nasa tv. Brian According to NASA TV the countdown is not stopped yet, su I gess the launch has not been scrubbed for today. Astronauts suiting up as 11:35 PDT, weather still a concern. /dps |
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No go due to weather. SCRUBBED.
Het is zò dat Snidely formuleerde :
On Jul 13, 10:06*am, André, PE1PQX wrote: Na rijp beraad schreef Brian Gaff : Have they called off today as well, looks like treading water programming on nasa tv. Brian According to NASA TV the countdown is not stopped yet, su I gess the launch has not been scrubbed for today. Astronauts suiting up as 11:35 PDT, weather still a concern. /dps I think the launch will be scrubbed again, again due to bad weather. Still in the T-9 minute hold... -- "Jumpin' without a parachute? Kinda dangerous, ain't it?" - Bugs Bunny |
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No go due to weather. SCRUBBED.
André, PE1PQX had uiteengezet :
Het is zò dat Snidely formuleerde : On Jul 13, 10:06*am, André, PE1PQX wrote: Na rijp beraad schreef Brian Gaff : Have they called off today as well, looks like treading water programming on nasa tv. Brian According to NASA TV the countdown is not stopped yet, su I gess the launch has not been scrubbed for today. Astronauts suiting up as 11:35 PDT, weather still a concern. /dps I think the launch will be scrubbed again, again due to bad weather. Still in the T-9 minute hold... Just heard the 'no go' message.. scrubbed for retry tomorrow or the day after tomorrow -- "Jumpin' without a parachute? Kinda dangerous, ain't it?" - Bugs Bunny |
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