[New] Space Launch System / Orion Discussion Thread

[sevenperforce]

All four RS-25 engines remain at max thrust.

[Brotoro]

MECO.

Let's see if they can stick the booster stage landing.  

[sevenperforce]

And now throttle-down on the core. Good calls.

[totalitor]

"Everything flies before SLS".

No.

[AlamoVampire]

I cant wait to see how this mission goes. To see shuttle engines fly again was wonderful!

005811162022

new page!

[mikegarrison]

Better late than never.

[razark]

4 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:

Me included.

I'm just glad to know that one of my coworkers doesn't need to update dates on parking passes anymore.

[Beccab]

YEEEEEEES

[sevenperforce]

And it all made it into orbit.

Damn.

Now everything else meaningful is either dependent on RL-10 (which, let's face it, is almost as capable as Merlin 1D) or hypergolics.

Feels like that surge of energy/relief when an old rickety car you haven't started in 18 years manages to roar to life.

[RCgothic]

It was really weird to me that the second stage didn't light immediately after staging! Perigee raise manoeuvre in a bit, followed by TLI.

[cubinator]

That rocket was just as pretty as Shuttle.

Sad to see those SSMEs go.

[intelliCom]

This looks just like KSP lmao

[LHACK4142]

Welp, looks like SLS launched before KSP2... I wonder if @whatsEJstandfor bet any kidneys on that.

[tater]

 

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/

^^^ that looks pretty good

[Space_Coyote]

Th  hard part is done.. Thought I'd nevrrer see this happen again in my life time.. But..

BOOYAH! We're back in Business!

 

Space _Coyote

[tater]

 

[darthgently]

Like+++++++++!

[Minmus Taster]

Holy crap, they actually did it.

[Kartoffelkuchen]

Well well well. Call me surprised, I honestly did not expect they'd actually manage to light it today. Cool Stuff 

[tater]

From here:

https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/basicLooper.pl?category=goeseastabimesoscale1&regex=06p19um&title=GOES-East ABI Mesoscale 1 - 6.19 um - Band 8&time_drop=show

pull down to 06:49 UTC

(link courtesy of my friend at MCC)

[Barzon]

that was the most beautiful thing ive ever seen

 

[tater]

Perigee raise in ~9 min

[Hotaru]

Incredible. I can't believe they actually launched it--and after all those delays, leaks, waivers, etc. it actually worked!

I honestly thought it would never fly--just have one failure after another till it ended up in a museum. Didn't even know it was going up today, just signed on at T-7 minutes by complete accident. Bizarre.

It's kind of a stupid rocket, but if it gets us to the Moon I'll never say another word against it. Hoping ICPS and the service module work as well as the SLS core did!

[darthgently]

Everyday Astronaut got better tracking shots than NASA.  8k, beautiful stuff

[Brotoro]

Perigee-raising burn. It's like they are playing KSP.

...and NOW it's in orbit.

 

Interesting view from the camera on the solar array wobbling during burn.