Author Topic: SCRUB: Delta IV-H - EFT-1 Orion - Launch and Mission UPDATES  (Read 253682 times)

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This is the UPDATE ONLY section for the Delta IV-H launch of the EFT-1 Orion.

Launch Article - By William Graham:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/12/eft-1-orion-historic-launch-atop-delta-iv-h/

EFT-1 News Articles:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/eft-1/

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Orion Forum Section:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=38.0

EFT-1 Pre-Launch Updates:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=31078.0

EFT-1 Orion General Discussion and Questions Thread:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36227.0

EFT-1 Party Thread:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36216.0

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L2 Orion:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=29.0

L2 EFT-1 Coverage Area (resources - VAST for Orion going back to 2006)
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36225.0
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=tags;tagid=1345

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Here's William Graham's amazing feature article for this launch and mission - 3,400 words of it! Make sure you share that with your friends on social media, etc.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/12/eft-1-orion-historic-launch-atop-delta-iv-h/
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NASA launch countdown timer located here at NASA's "Orion Flight Test: Special Coverage" homepage.

http://www.nasa.gov/
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket is visible inside the Mobile Service Tower where the vehicle is undergoing launch preparations, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37, Florida. Orion is NASA’s new spacecraft built to carry humans, designed to allow us to journey to destinations never before visited by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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Jacques :-)

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L-12 hours.
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ULA Start of Countdown!

T-9 hrs and 30 mins. L-10 hours and counting.
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MST Roll in progress.
"For Sardines, space is no problem!"
-1996 Astronaut class slogan

"We're rolling in the wrong direction but for the right reasons"
-USA engineer about the rollback of Discovery prior to the STS-114 Return To Flight mission

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Online Chris Bergin

Morning folks!

Into tanking ops on the ULA side.

NASA TV coverage in 100 minutes....
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ULA & MCC Flight Ops folk and now on Console.

T-03:05.

L-03:20.
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40 mins to live coverage from NASA TV.

Hopefully it will be more "loop" than "Elmo".
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Re: LIVE: Delta IV-H - EFT-1 Orion - Launch and Mission UPDATES
« Reply #13 on: 12/04/2014 08:09 am »
Here's what they are showing now.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Just to note, anyone who saw us go a big haywire there, that's Mark giving the servers a slap before the busy time ;)

NASA TV coverage next.
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Re: LIVE: Delta IV-H - EFT-1 Orion - Launch and Mission UPDATES
« Reply #15 on: 12/04/2014 08:22 am »
Here's a shot of the hydrogen burnoff going quite large.
« Last Edit: 12/04/2014 08:25 am by Steven Pietrobon »
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Commentary starting in 6 mins  :)
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so

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Re: LIVE: Delta IV-H - EFT-1 Orion - Launch and Mission UPDATES
« Reply #17 on: 12/04/2014 08:24 am »
Broadcast starting in about seven minutes.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Re: LIVE: Delta IV-H - EFT-1 Orion - Launch and Mission UPDATES
« Reply #18 on: 12/04/2014 08:30 am »
Here we go!
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Re: LIVE: Delta IV-H - EFT-1 Orion - Launch and Mission UPDATES
« Reply #19 on: 12/04/2014 08:32 am »
Brandy Deen host for today.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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