Antares Launch (Success!)

[Giggleplex777]

Is anyone going to watch the maiden flight of Orbital's Antares rocket? Hopefully, it wouldn't be postponed again by the weather. Success!

Edited April 21, 2013 by Giggleplex777

[NuclearWarfare]

Wait?... It was postponed yesterday... again? I was upset because I thought I missed it!

[Boex]

What time is it scheduled, in what time zone? It's 9:30 PM across the pond in Britain.

Edit - Just did some research and it's in half an hour. Is it being streamed? If so, where?

Edit 2 - Just did more research... http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Edited April 21, 2013 by Boex

[hoojiwana]

Launch aiming for in 23 minutes, so roughly 10PM.

[N_las]

Fun Fact: The COTS-program is pronounced like the german word 'kotz', wich means 'barf'

[Nimaci]

Watching now.

A solid second stage still seems crazy to me...

[Boex]

Really? Wow, I should listen a little more, I didn't hear. That's insane!

In KSP, I've rarely used SRBs, only for first stages, and to de-orbit for a landing on Tylo.

[brooksy125]

10 Mins to launch

[NuclearWarfare]

The stream isn't loading for me..

Edit: Found one that works

Edited April 21, 2013 by NuclearWarfare

[Giggleplex777]

4 minutes.

[NuclearWarfare]

1 minute till launch

[Boex]

It seems that many, many things are nominal.

[Canopus]

It looks like its a successful launch!

[Canopus]

Stage 1 seperation!

[Canopus]

Fairing Seperation!

[Boex]

Wow, KSP really needs stock payload fairings, they're awesome.

[Canopus]

Stage 2 ignition!

[RawChicken]

Shoooooot!! I missed it!!

Does anyone know where to watch it again?

[Canopus]

Orbit achieved!

[swiftgates24]

The whole time I was screaming "BLOW UP ALREADY!" I wanted it to fail

[Boex]

Shoooooot!! I missed it!!

Does anyone know where to watch it again?

Scroll back along the blue bar at the bottom.

EDIT - Ah. Unfortunately that scroll bar seems to display all 6333 hours of NASA streams, ever... So it's incredibly sensitive. 1 pixel is half and hour...

Bit of a design flaw. I'm sure it'll be on Youtube before the night is out, anyway.

Edited April 21, 2013 by Boex

[NannerManCan]

So why when in ksp if you launch like this with your engine firing the whole time you get a really big orbit?

[Canopus]

The whole time I was screaming "BLOW UP ALREADY!" I wanted it to fail

Every failed launch is huge setback for Spaceflight in general. It wouldn't be very funny.

[Malaugrym]

That was exceptionally awesome.

[brooksy125]

mission completed...