Author Topic: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B OTV-4) - May 20, 2015 to May 7, 2017 - UPDATES  (Read 191864 times)

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #160 on: 05/20/2015 03:17 pm »
Pitching.
What's that protrusion from the fairing?

Vent for hydrogen gas boiloff.

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #161 on: 05/20/2015 03:17 pm »
Boeing promo of X-37 “first unmanned vehicle to return to Earth and land by itself”... That would be Buran... :o
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #162 on: 05/20/2015 03:19 pm »
Fantastic, smooth launch! 

I haven't watched many ULA launches - do they always announce the engine model number like that when they fire? ;)

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #163 on: 05/20/2015 03:22 pm »
Boeing promo of X-37 “first unmanned vehicle to return to Earth and land by itself”... That would be Buran... :o

Was thinking the same thing. Maybe they decided Buran didn't qualify because it was designed to carry crew, whereas X-37 never was?

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #164 on: 05/20/2015 03:23 pm »
Pitching.
What's that protrusion from the fairing?

Vent for hydrogen gas boiloff.
Now everyone has to drink.

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #165 on: 05/20/2015 03:23 pm »
Steve talking about his Shuttle tie. He worked STS-95.
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #166 on: 05/20/2015 03:27 pm »
Ok, so that's the end of coverage. Ended with fashion tips. Bizarre! ;D
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #167 on: 05/20/2015 03:28 pm »
Webcast ends.

Congrats to ULA, the USAF and the many people who will get their cubesats into orbit!

Quite a refreshing change to see a launch success of late. :)
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #168 on: 05/20/2015 03:29 pm »
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #169 on: 05/20/2015 03:30 pm »
Congrats to ULA, USAF et al.   8)
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #171 on: 05/20/2015 03:30 pm »

The nozzle "extension" on the RL-10C looked longer/larger than the A4--or perhaps better stated, the C1 nozzle looks different than the A4, and very impressive.  Materials sciences is a good thing--can't wait to see clusters of said engine working in concert...
Congrats to the teams, now on to mission(s) success(es)!

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #172 on: 05/20/2015 03:32 pm »
Congratulations to all involved in getting the only currently flying spaceplane successfully into orbit again.

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #173 on: 05/20/2015 03:35 pm »
Ok, so that's the end of coverage. Ended with fashion tips. Bizarre! ;D
Post launch celebrations must have started early... ;D
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #174 on: 05/20/2015 03:36 pm »
Congrats to ULA for a good, solid, on-time launch.  It's what we're beginning to expect, every time.

That rocket cam was sorta weird, though.  Every time they'd cut to it, it looked like the Atlas was still climbing vertically up from the launch complex.  Even well after the vehicle was pitching down into its near-horizontal trajectory.  Made me wonder there, for a minute, if the thing wasn't gonna keep goin' straight up...  ???
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #175 on: 05/20/2015 03:37 pm »
Other duties kept me from watching all but the end of the ULA webcast...

Great launch replay at the end-of-webcast.

I enjoyed the Steve & Bill show!  They looked like they were having fun!
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #176 on: 05/20/2015 03:41 pm »
Boeing promo of X-37 “first unmanned vehicle to return to Earth and land by itself”... That would be Buran... :o

Was thinking the same thing. Maybe they decided Buran didn't qualify because it was designed to carry crew, whereas X-37 never was?

Well, and Dragon "returns to earth and lands" as well, as have a number of BEO probes (Stardust, etc).  I think they were missing the words "American" and "winged": "first American unmanned winged vehicle to return to Earth and land". The "by itself" is redundant, considering it is unmanned -- unless they are thinking of some sort of remotely-piloted drone?  But I don't think that's been ever been done, so the qualification seems unnecessary.

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #177 on: 05/20/2015 03:46 pm »
Congrats to ULA for a good, solid, on-time launch.  It's what we're beginning to expect, every time.

That rocket cam was sorta weird, though.  Every time they'd cut to it, it looked like the Atlas was still climbing vertically up from the launch complex.  Even well after the vehicle was pitching down into its near-horizontal trajectory.  Made me wonder there, for a minute, if the thing wasn't gonna keep goin' straight up...  ???

Yeah, I've seen that on other launches, like Antares for instance. But if you look, you can see the land start to foreshorten as she pitches over.
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #178 on: 05/20/2015 03:46 pm »
Bah, work duties forced me to miss the launch  >:(.

Congratulations to ULA and USAF as well as the associated partners on another picture perfect launch!


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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 501- AFSPC-05 (X-37B) - May 20, 2015
« Reply #179 on: 05/20/2015 03:52 pm »
Congratulations to ULA on a beautiful launch!   :)

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