Antares Launch (Success!)

[stibbons]

It had 4 microsats loaded to deploy on reaching orbit. Those things are typically science projects for colleges and universities,

The three 1U CubeSats were NASA's phonesats, that are using Nexus 1 phones for the avionics. Pretty neat stuff.

tough luck if they blow up but not much money lost. And indeed, no doubt a ton of telemetry stuff as well.

I saw a talk from one of the ArduSat guys where he was talking about a cost to build and deploy a 1U CubeSat as still being in the tens of thousands of dollars range. Very tough luck if that goes boom. But still probably cheaper than than the full payload Antares is designed for hauling up.

[Boex]

Yo dawg, I heard you liked everything nice and nominal, so I nominally fixed nominallity it so that everything's nominally nominal.

[Francesco]

Antares Launch from 1.8 miles away

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200539420862342.1073741825.1062953631&type=1

did a fire catch up at the pad after the launch?

[astropapi1]

Antares' launch was the most nominal launch ever.

[jwenting]

The three 1U CubeSats were NASA's phonesats, that are using Nexus 1 phones for the avionics. Pretty neat stuff.

I saw a talk from one of the ArduSat guys where he was talking about a cost to build and deploy a 1U CubeSat as still being in the tens of thousands of dollars range. Very tough luck if that goes boom. But still probably cheaper than than the full payload Antares is designed for hauling up.

A school's science project is no economic loss. It's sad, but nothing the kids can't get out of a science book (those experiments are typically not original, but fun).

If they're indeed microsats with an economic function, there's indeed a loss, albeit a small one.

[brooksy125]

I swear that guy said nominal over 100 times xD

[engraverwilliam]

this thread is Nominal

[SalmonellaDingDong]

Nominally nominal.

Edited April 23, 2013 by SalmonellaDingDong

[CardBoardBoxProcessor]

Yep it burned quite alot of grass lol.

[Kosmo-not]

Does anyone have a count of how many times "nominal" was said?

[NightlinerSGS]

Does anyone have a count of how many times "nominal" was said?

93 Times according to youtube^^