Nightfury Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 *yawn* Ok, I’m up. What was he saying back there about NOAA making them cut the feed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightfury Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 They stop the stream after SECO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 1 minute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 T-1 minute. Falcon 9 is in startup. Pressed for flight. Ignition! Liftoff! Already pitching downrange! Falcon 9 is supersonic. Really clear shots around the engine area. The white legs and dark first stage is nice contrast. Surprising to see how much apparent flame there is around the outside of the octaweb. Good MECO. Sep! MVac ignition! Beautiful, beautiful shots of the receding booster lit by the morning sun and the impingement plume from the MVac. We are doing a one-engine boostback burn today...has that ever happened before? Fairing separation. "We will be attempting a recovery of one of the fairings today on our fairing recovery ship, Mr. Steven...as part of our experimental programs for reuse." This is the fifth launch for Iridium and they have used only 3 rockets to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatGuyWithALongUsername Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Why would NOAA put restrictions on the livestream? What does this have to do with the weather? Could someone explain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Stage 1 LOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 9 minutes ago, Nightfury said: They stop the stream after SECO y tho? They haven’t had to do it like that before... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Just now, ThatGuyWithALongUsername said: Why would NOAA put restrictions on the livestream? What does this have to do with the weather? Could someone explain? No idea. Good question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 This is the one-year anniversary of the first Falcon 9 first stage reflight. Wow. Seems like just yesterday. Callout for stage 1 splashdown, stage 2 SECO, nominal parking orbit insertion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brotoro Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Very nice launch video today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpens Solidus Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightfury Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 4 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: y tho? They haven’t had to do it like that before... sadly i don't know But : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncongruousGoat Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Wait, so the NOAA doesn't actually know why the NOAA is restricting coverage of this launch? Talk about the right hand not talking to the left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HebaruSan Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 3 minutes ago, ThatGuyWithALongUsername said: Why would NOAA put restrictions on the livestream? What does this have to do with the weather? Could someone explain? Googling the name of this payload turns up at least one article containing the words "government shutdown." Maybe one of NOAA's regulatory sign-offs just didn't go through in time. (For any Europeans, Africans, or Asians reading those words in confusion, this is a tradition in the USA where the dysfunction of the federal state becomes so severe that non-essential programs are shut down temporarily. That's not an informal concept; there's a classification system for what is and is not essential so federal employees know whether to go in to work on any given day.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 3 minutes ago, HebaruSan said: Googling the name of this payload turns up at least one article containing the words "government shutdown." Maybe one of NOAA's regulatory sign-offs just didn't go through in time. (For any Europeans, Africans, or Asians reading those words in confusion, this is a tradition in the USA where the dysfunction of the federal state becomes so severe that non-essential programs are shut down temporarily. That's not an informal concept; there's a classification system for what is and is not essential so federal employees know whether to go in to work on any given day.) That was from January, they passed a real budget, and it was signed. So it has nothing to do with shutdown at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klesh Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Pretty cool. Polar orbit means theyre probably flying right-ish over Boston at present. Cloudy daytime is no fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/979728290071097346 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 It's because they haven't finished rendering the rest of the video to hide the fact that the Earth is flat. So they just cut off the stream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 (edited) 5 minutes ago, klesh said: Pretty cool. Polar orbit means theyre probably flying right-ish over Boston at present. Cloudy daytime is no fun. Nah, they fly south, and they flew out of Vandy anyway. So...probably over Chile? My South American geography is crap. EDIT: Of course not. Chile shares longitude with Maine. What was I thinking? They will be over open ocean until they hit Antarctica. Edited March 30, 2018 by sevenperforce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatGuyWithALongUsername Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 (edited) One possibility on Twitter: Edit: there we go Edited March 30, 2018 by ThatGuyWithALongUsername Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Gettin' real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klesh Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 2 minutes ago, sevenperforce said: Nah, they fly south, and they flew out of Vandy anyway. So...probably over Chile? My South American geography is crap. Ahhh, right on. I only casually watch these, so I didnt know. Quote Sorry, you cannot add any more reactions today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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