Jun 042010
Trying to get off the ground today, looks like at about 10 AM mountain time.
Webcast:
http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php
UPDATE: They made it to orbit! For the first launch of an entirely new vehicle, built on what by Gubmint standards would be considered a shoestring, this is not too shabby. Not too shabby at all.
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Falcon-9 Stage-II and Dragon are ON-ORBIT! Be-uty of a launch and flight looked great till they lost camera signal. One bobble with an engine detector reading out of parameters ended up causing an abort. But they came back and launched anyway.
Grats Space-X!!
Randy
YAY!!!!
Even though EM is rumored to be a Class A d-bag, you gotta respect an outfit that even makes it’s own engines.
Big props for SpaceX. Not only a success on the first launch, but an abort and retry within 3 hours on that first try? Great effort, ladies & gents, great bloody effort.
Paul
George, it was;
Abort,
Safe,
Read the Telemetry,
Find the Issue,
Re-Cycle to T -15:00,
Fix the Software Issue,
Re-Start the Countdown,
and Launch. All within an hour or so.
They spent almost all of the first 3 hours of the Launch Window twirling their thumbs waiting on the Eastern Launch Range to sort itself out.
As for the DoD/USAF folks looking at and working on Operationally Responsive Space, they all probably had to go home and change their underwear and panties…. 😉