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Offline FinalFrontier

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #40 on: 03/09/2010 05:31 pm »
Almost 3500 viewers on the NSF forum at the moment... probably bogging things down a bit as well.

That's the SFN stream.
What time is the hotfire expected to take place? Have been busy the past few days.
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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #41 on: 03/09/2010 05:31 pm »
no ignition at the scheduled time

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #42 on: 03/09/2010 05:32 pm »
no ignition at the scheduled time


Why what happened??  :-[

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #43 on: 03/09/2010 05:33 pm »
Have yet to see venting stop

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #44 on: 03/09/2010 05:33 pm »
no ignition at the scheduled time


Why what happened??  :-[

That's why you test- to shake out the systems.

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #45 on: 03/09/2010 05:33 pm »
The KSC stream is starting to have stall and rebuffer problems for me now.  Too many people coming in, I guess.  Can't get the SpaceflightNow stream from my office. :(

No one will soon. SFN's parent company here in the UK is going bust.

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #46 on: 03/09/2010 05:33 pm »
It's rocket science.  ;)
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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #47 on: 03/09/2010 05:34 pm »
The venting never stopped indicating final seq...apparently a hold of somekind.

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #48 on: 03/09/2010 05:34 pm »
Water pumped into flame trench???
« Last Edit: 03/09/2010 05:35 pm by Lars_J »

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #49 on: 03/09/2010 05:36 pm »
no ignition at the scheduled time

Appears to be in a hold. Watch to see if vapor dissappears as this would be a sign of a scrub (detanking).
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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #50 on: 03/09/2010 05:36 pm »
Looks like water and/or white smoke in the flame trench... Purging gases?
« Last Edit: 03/09/2010 05:36 pm by Lars_J »

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #51 on: 03/09/2010 05:37 pm »
Water pumped into flame trench???

Looks like pad deluge was also active, but the venting never stopped.

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #52 on: 03/09/2010 05:38 pm »
no ignition at the scheduled time

Appears to be in a hold. Watch to see if vapor dissappears as this would be a sign of a scrub (detanking).

No. Vapor stopping means it's about 1 minute until ignition.
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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #53 on: 03/09/2010 05:40 pm »
Looks like water and/or white smoke in the flame trench... Purging gases?

for reference the white smoke being referenced is circled in red...
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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #54 on: 03/09/2010 05:40 pm »
Water pumped into flame trench???

Looks like pad deluge was also active, but the venting never stopped.

Looked more like some sort of cryo dump.
« Last Edit: 03/09/2010 05:41 pm by zerm »

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #55 on: 03/09/2010 05:41 pm »
Venting stopped, close now!

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #56 on: 03/09/2010 05:41 pm »
Ignition!

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #57 on: 03/09/2010 05:42 pm »
Ignition!!!

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #58 on: 03/09/2010 05:42 pm »
Hmmm very short.... Venting has resumed.

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Re: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Hotfire Updates
« Reply #59 on: 03/09/2010 05:42 pm »
There was just a short puff of flames from the base of the rocket.

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