tater Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 17 hours ago, Nightside said: Will the delta 2 really be green? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racescort666 Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 23 hours ago, tater said: I would call it more of a teal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Made it to Lompoc, CA, to watch the launch in person tomorrow morning. Should be awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 15, 2018 Author Share Posted September 15, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaturnianBlue Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Why are Delta II first stages painted teal? I've always noticed how this color is pretty much unique for a rocket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 15, 2018 Author Share Posted September 15, 2018 (NASA stream is also live) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jim Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 It didn't launch yet??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 15, 2018 Author Share Posted September 15, 2018 Just now, Just Jim said: It didn't launch yet??? 6:02 local time now. (16 min from now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jim Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 10 minutes ago, tater said: 6:02 local time now. (16 min from now). On on it now... WOOHOO!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 T-1 minute. Farewell, Delta II! Good luck on 100 consecutive successes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 15, 2018 Author Share Posted September 15, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaturnianBlue Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 SECO 1, Icesat-2 is now in orbit! (Still one burn to go until it is released). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 15, 2018 Author Share Posted September 15, 2018 Primary payload delivered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ultimate Steve Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Rocket Garden getting a new exhibit, the last unfinished Delta II! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XB-70A Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 12 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said: Rocket Garden getting a new exhibit, the last unfinished Delta II! Wooohooo!!! Can't wait for it! Bruno's answered it will be a 7420, but it's already awesome to have one real legendary Delta II conserved somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedKraken Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 (edited) Final Delta-II launch highlights. Edited September 16, 2018 by RedKraken tidy up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reactordrone Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 12 hours ago, SaturnianBlue said: Why are Delta II first stages painted teal? I've always noticed how this color is pretty much unique for a rocket. It was the primer colour that they used to paint over with white. To save weight they stopped painting them white and the blue primer colour became a distinguishing feature that they kept. http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-091518a-delta-blue-last-launch.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 (edited) Okay, field report time. Did manage to make it to the public viewing area, along with a record smashing crowd. The bleachers were designed for ~250 people, and they were overflowing. (Personally, I'd estimate that up to 10% of the spectators were, in fact, watching their cubesats launch. Lots of UCLA and ELFIN shirts and sweaters.) PAO reps from the 30th Space Wing said they'd never seen a turnout like this for any Delta II flight out of Vandenberg, ever. View from the bleachers was spectacular, though the ascent was not visible for long due to the low cloud deck. We got maybe five seconds before it vanished into the clouds, though I did briefly spot the bright exhaust plumes through the clouds about 20ish seconds into flight. I will freely admit that there were tears in my eyes as she lifted off, though the ones in my right eye may well have been because I had been looking through a monocular as the SRB exhaust plumes cleared the hills between me and pad. They're quite bright when you have gotten your eyes night adjusted. All in all, well worth the trip. Absolutely will do it again, and hopefully with clearer skies next time. Also, bumped into another Kerbalnaut there taking pics. Hopefully they share. (Hint hint, nudge nudge.) Edited September 16, 2018 by MaverickSawyer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insert_name Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 (edited) Here's some of my pics, I was a fair bit farther away than some of you, but I got some good pics of the plume in vacuum. http://imgur.com/gallery/X5m8Rgy Edited September 16, 2018 by insert_name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 8 minutes ago, insert_name said: Here's some of my pics, I was a fair bit farther away than some of you, but I got some good pics of the plume in vacuum. http://imgur.com/gallery/X5m8Rgy Nice. You had to be somewhere down near Goleta or Santa Barbara, right? Damn cloud deck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 he had not seen Be-fore. Be-4. (he says in the comments that the engine is hidden in the text) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 24, 2018 Author Share Posted September 24, 2018 The gist is that Aerojet has spent $0 of its own money on AR-1 during much of 2018, which makes sense if it has no customer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 2 hours ago, tater said: The gist is that Aerojet has spent $0 of its own money on AR-1 during much of 2018, which makes sense if it has no customer. It also makes sense given that getting Aerojet is about a textbook case of "No bucks, no Buck Rodgers" as I've ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 It's official: Blue Origin has won the contract for the first stage engines of ULA's Vulcan launcher: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/09/27/blue-origin-lands-major-rocket-engine-deal-with-ula-source.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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