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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dragon on March 01, 2013, 08:28:40 AM
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in 42 min
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html)
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in 42 min
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html)
It's late. :headscratch:
25 more min.
11 min. :old:
Orbit! :banana:
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Awesome...
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Dragon is da bomb, spread your wings and fly
:noid
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"They've got a couple of small fires outside"...last transmission I heard after 10 minutes of silence and not showing the deployment of the solars - they cut away to replays of the launch just prior to when they were going to show the deployment...I hope everything is ok and that it's just something minor.
edit - they just concluded the video feed and said they would be back around 11 to discuss how the launch is proceeding...like I said, I hope that it was something minor...I really wanted to see those things spring open like the first launch a few months ago. I remember everybody exploding into cheers when it opened the first time.
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who's covering this? I can't find coverage either locally or nationally.
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:x
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Dragon is da bomb, spread your wings and fly
:noid
Now I get it. :old:
SpaceX, a private California company run by the billionaire who helped create PayPal, launched its unmanned Falcon rocket into clouds right on time. It is the third supply run by a DRAGON capsule, an unparalleled accomplishment all under a year.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launched-to-space-station-88294.html#ixzz2MIvBHUgb
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"They've got a couple of small fires outside"...last transmission I heard after 10 minutes of silence and not showing the deployment of the solars - they cut away to replays of the launch just prior to when they were going to show the deployment...I hope everything is ok and that it's just something minor.
edit - they just concluded the video feed and said they would be back around 11 to discuss how the launch is proceeding...like I said, I hope that it was something minor...I really wanted to see those things spring open like the first launch a few months ago. I remember everybody exploding into cheers when it opened the first time.
I think they meant outside on the ground. The launch may have set fire to some vegetation or something.
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Now I get it. :old:
Sorry for the confusion. :huh
(http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo82/bzavasnik/Dragon2_zpsf7515da7.jpg)
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I think they meant outside on the ground. The launch may have set fire to some vegetation or something.
Quite possible. As fire doesn't happen for very long in space due to lack of oxygen, I would think that whatever it was either ended quickly, or it was on the ground. They said that about 7 minutes into the launch, and it was the last voice tX over the radio comms they had with the video uplink, so I'm hoping you're right and it was just fires on the ground. I do know that they were having problems, and that they aborted the mission temporarily and are scrambling around to find the cause for some tech problems
Did anyone else watch it live? You could see the last view they had of the camera pointed back, a small white nozzle venting stuff into space, I thought it was a thruster or something, but the attitude of the vehicle didn't change a bit, so now I'm wondering if it was a leak? They are saying on space.com that they had thruster problems which is why the abort happened for the hook up...interesting stuff, if it all went 100% all the time they wouldn't learn how to manage problems I guess. I hope they can sort this out easily.
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I saw that too and, as you did, assumed it was a thruster. Turns out it was and it was funked up.
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/01/17146712-spacex-fixes-glitch-on-its-dragon-craft-after-launch-to-space-station (http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/01/17146712-spacex-fixes-glitch-on-its-dragon-craft-after-launch-to-space-station)
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Yes I saw it live! 80 miles off my left wing and I was descending out of 25k. Our crack dispatch gave us a heads up to brief the Pax and we got a few pics from the iPhone. 90 seconds after liftoff and no more contrails we could see what is best described as a compression wave and shock wave! Awesome to see above the clouds.
Flifast
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Yes I saw it live! 80 miles off my left wing and I was descending out of 25k. Our crack dispatch gave us a heads up to brief the Pax and we got a few pics from the iPhone. 90 seconds after liftoff and no more contrails we could see what is best described as a compression wave and shock wave! Awesome to see above the clouds.
Flifast
Oh man those would be cool to see.