June 2016 Delta IV Heavy Launch

[DMagic]

A Delta IV Heavy is scheduled for liftoff today carrying a classified NRO payload: NROL-37.

 

Launch is scheduled for 1:59 PM EDT (17:59 UTC). The ULA broadcast is set to begin at 1:39PM: http://www.ulalaunch.com/webcast.aspx

Launch set for this Saturday now, at 1:51 PM EDT (17:51 UTC).

 

Any ideas on what the payload is? Wikipedia lists the mission as Orion-9, so I'm guessing a signals intelligence satellite. The last NRO launch carried what was supposedly the last KH-11 spy camera, so I'm not sure what else would require such a big rocket.

 

Edited June 9, 2016 by DMagic

[Jodo42]

Not sure what the payload is, but the weather is looking very poor at the minute. Launch window supposedly goes until like 6:00 ET though.

[benjee10]

Supposedly it's a gigantic listening satellite with a dish that folds out to be 100m across.

[Jodo42]

New launch time just set to 2:55.

Edited June 9, 2016 by Jodo42

[Kerbal01]

it was 18:55 local, so wouldn't that be 6:30?

[Jodo42]

I believe the 18:55 was UTC. Regardless you can see here:

that it is in fact 2:55.

 

EDIT: Now bumped back to 19:05. 3:05 EDT.

EDIT II: 3:05 T0 cancelled, Awaiting new time.

Edited June 9, 2016 by Jodo42

[JackDugan]

I wish they had a timeline like SpaceX's webcast.

[DMagic]

Launch set for 5:58 EDT (21:58 UTC) now.

 

 

 

[SuperFastJellyfish]

I could watch it breathe on the pad all day. 

[relin]

Anyone else getting an "Error loading player: No playable sources found"?

Edit: seems to run just fine on my phone, but won't run in any browser on my Linux box. Oh well.

Edited June 9, 2016 by relin

[Chewy62]

working here, 3min to launch.

[SuperFastJellyfish]

Hold due to weather.

[Chewy62]

awww... weather hold.

[Ultimate Steve]

Aaaaaand, scrub.

[DMagic]

Launch set for Sat at 1:58 EDT.

 

I guess we'll have to satisfy ourselves with this morning's Proton launch.

[PB666]

whoopsie.

 

[Mitchz95]

2 minutes to launch!

Shame we can't watch on YouTube...

EDIT: And liftoff!

Edited June 11, 2016 by Mitchz95

[Combatsmithen]

AND MISSION SUCESS! 

[Kryten]

3 minutes ago, Combatsmithen said:

AND MISSION SUCESS! 

It's a GSO direct insertion mission, there's over five hour to the actual end.

[Scotius]

Dang! I missed it! At least cake on my nephew's birthday party was good

[blorgon]

Fantastic launch. Was stuck in traffic, but able to stream on my phone, surprisingly, with no lag or loss of quality. Very happy to have seen it.

[A Fuzzy Velociraptor]

I actually completely forgot about it but saw it climbing as I was driving down US1.

[Robotengineer]

Hopefully it won't end up like the other black knight. 

Spoiler

 

[Wjolcz]

What's with the badge? Are they launching The Black Knight?

Illuminati confirmed?

[Kryten]

3 minutes ago, Veeltch said:

What's with the badge? Are they launching The Black Knight?

Illuminati confirmed?

I'm pretty sure they're just trying to keep it simple and non-controversial after the NROL-39 patch kerfuffle. If you've not seen it; 

Spoiler

 

Edited June 11, 2016 by Kryten