Ariane 5 ATV launch now!

[Canopus]

For everyone who is interested: http://www.arianespace.tv

[Kryten]

Launch in four minutes.

[Canopus]

Its quite a beautiful rocket.

[Kryten]

10 seconds

[Canopus]

And there she goes

[The Jedi Master]

Came just in time!

[Canopus]

SRB seperation.

[Kryten]

Booster sep. Looks good so far.

[Canopus]

looks just like KSP

[The Jedi Master]

What does it do? Weather SAT? Man on Mars? What?

[JT2227]

Wow, I wish I could have been there for the launch!

Congrats ESA!

[Kryten]

What does it do? Weather SAT? Man on Mars? What?

It's a large supply vessel for the ISS. It does most of the orbital reboosting now shuttle's gone.

[Canopus]

What does it do? Weather SAT? Man on Mars? What?

It launches an ATV, a resupply craft to the ISS

[The Jedi Master]

Oh. Good thing they still have budget.

How long will it take to dock?

[Jeff Bird]

Watching it live here too. Great launch.

[Kryten]

Main stage cut-off and upper stage first ignition confirmed. Everything still looks good.

[Jeff Bird]

The commentary is very good. Liked the way they described the difference between SRBs and cryo stages.

[Canopus]

Its coasting now.

[Jeff Bird]

Yeah, watching the computer animation while the KSP music plays in my head.

[The Stinger]

When the computer simulation was displayed I thought "This is taking too long, I need to press the time warp button".

[Jeff Bird]

When the computer simulation was displayed I thought "This is taking too long, I need to press the time warp button".

LOL Stinger, when they showed the animation of the ATV doing a reentry I thought, "There goes one of my early ships."

Edited June 5, 2013 by Jeff Bird

[Kryten]

It's not over yet-second upper-stage ignition confirmed.

[Kryten]

And ATV sep. Now to see if it actually works...

[Jeff Bird]

The trivia question stumped me. How did I not know that?

Edited June 5, 2013 by Jeff Bird
typo

[Jeff Bird]

Solar panels deployed. Looks like they're using two sets of OX-4Bs.