Space Launch Megathread

[Agamemnon]

the next launches are chinese long march with two beidou navigation satellites on 28th and then atlas v with a comm sat for the us military (on 3rd of may)...

[Agamemnon]

and the soyuz tma-22 with burbank, shkaplerov and ivanishin just landed successfully...

[Kryten]

SpaceX static firing test;

http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

about ten minutes now.

[RC1062]

Timewarp, timewarp!

[Epsilon]

Static Test Firing of the rocket went well it appears.

[Agamemnon]

and it seems the spacex launch will be moved to the right

http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/003/120501delay/

[Alfastar]

and it seems the spacex launch will be moved to the right

http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/003/120501delay/

When comes the next launch date? 10 April 2050? Come on SpaceX, delay a launch again and again make that people don\'t give hope for you.

[RC1062]

When comes the next launch date? 10 April 2050? Come on SpaceX, delay a launch again and again make that people don\'t give hope for you.

2050?

2012 still I think.

[Kreuzung]

They\'ll just launch away from dec 21 to get far more publicity ;P ???

[Agamemnon]

When comes the next launch date? 10 April 2050? Come on SpaceX, delay a launch again and again make that people don\'t give hope for you.

new launch date not announced yet... acc. to nsf, the reservation for the launch range for the 7th of may was canceled

[Agamemnon]

1846gmt today is the next launch - atlas v 531 will launch a comm sat for usaf

[Alfastar]

Got some livestreams?

[Tiberion]

http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/Multimedia_Webcast.shtml

not for a little over 3 hours still, though.

(alternative: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av031/status.html)

[Kryten]

Stream is up now, about 20 minutes.

[RC1062]

Why isn\'t this in GD? It is very interesting and not really off-topic... ;D

[Alfastar]

Why isn\'t this in GD? It is very interesting and not really off-topic... ;D

Agreed, we must have a child board for this topics

[Kryten]

Launch is currently on indefinite hold. Somebody forgot to close a valve on the launch platform...

[Alfastar]

Launch is currently on indefinite hold. Somebody forgot to close a valve on the launch platform...

This is the evidence that even people who work for NASA are humans too ;P

[Kryten]

Aaand Scrubbed.

EDIT: Next attempt should be at about the same time tomorrow.

[randyrules711]

The is interesting. I\'ve only ever seen launches. Never the preparations.

[Kreuzung]

Someone got an easy-to-use time converter?

[Agamemnon]

Someone got an easy-to-use time converter?

i use this one usually:

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

[Agamemnon]

repeating today... in 30 minutes or so... 1842gmt, iirc

[Kreuzung]

Whouldn\'t that be 30 mins ago?

(I\', in GMT+1 and its 20:13 here)

[Agamemnon]

Whouldn\'t that be 30 mins ago?

(I\', in GMT+1 and its 20:13 here)

as it is summer time... it actually means that you and i both have CEST - meaning central european summer time... and that time is gmt+2