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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #100 on: 12/16/2006 11:37 am »
I am confused, the timeline said:
T+11:00.2 TacSat 2 Separation
T+20:58.2 GeneSat 1 Separation

And nobody seems to care much

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RE: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #101 on: 12/16/2006 11:38 am »
Posted by RCC on 2006-12-16 at 07:15:51 EST
The Minotaur rocket was successfully launched at 7 a.m. today. The TacSat-2 spacecraft has been deployed.

(From the wff webpage)

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RE: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #102 on: 12/16/2006 11:38 am »
They're asking for all console operators for a conference, and to bring all the data they had.
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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #103 on: 12/16/2006 11:39 am »
If this is true, TacSat is not lucky

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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #104 on: 12/16/2006 11:40 am »
Whoooaa.. that's what conflicting reports is all about :)
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RE: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #105 on: 12/16/2006 11:41 am »
It did seem they were a bit confused about some things.  One call was "The transponder should be on stage 4" or something...so who knows?

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RE: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #106 on: 12/16/2006 11:41 am »
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Posted by RCC on 2006-12-16 at 07:15:51 EST
The Minotaur rocket was successfully launched at 7 a.m. today. The TacSat-2 spacecraft has been deployed.

(From the wff webpage)

Well that's good. They sure haven't said anything over the webcast.
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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #107 on: 12/16/2006 11:43 am »
So what about Genesat-1 ?

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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #108 on: 12/16/2006 11:45 am »
What surprises me is that they acted as if everything was over before the actual separation time of the payload. Maybe everything is automated and the launcher manages alone ?

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RE: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #109 on: 12/16/2006 11:45 am »
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Well that's good. They sure haven't said anything over the webcast.

The could do with a little more info. They didn't even call the stage seperations.

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RE: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #110 on: 12/16/2006 11:45 am »
Web feed just ended.  They still seemed to be shaking hands.  Quite confusing for anyone watching trying to follow things. :)

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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #111 on: 12/16/2006 11:46 am »
webcast over

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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #112 on: 12/16/2006 11:47 am »
Was this the worst launch commentary ever or what? :)
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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #113 on: 12/16/2006 11:49 am »
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Was this the worst launch commentary ever or what? :)
Which launch commentary? ;)

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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #114 on: 12/16/2006 11:50 am »
I didn't hear any launch commentary on that webcast ;)

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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #115 on: 12/16/2006 11:50 am »
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Was this the worst launch commentary ever or what? :)

Yeah, that was so weird.

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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #116 on: 12/16/2006 11:52 am »
This was just a basic feed with no commentary.  It seemed to be devoted to the launch team only, with nothing from the payload side.  I'm not going to complain about the lack of a slick commentator.  It let us hear the launch loop without interruption!

Congrats to Orbital Sciences, Wallops, and MARS on the first successful ground-based orbital space launch from Wallops Island in two decades!

 - Ed Kyle

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RE: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #117 on: 12/16/2006 11:54 am »
Yeah, we only got to listen in on their control centre (as strange as that turned out).

Launch video: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=5741
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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #118 on: 12/16/2006 11:55 am »
So we can assume that TacSat-2, and Genesat-1 are safely in orbit ?

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Re: LIVE: Wallops Island Minotaur - TacSat 2 - Dec 16
« Reply #119 on: 12/16/2006 11:55 am »
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So we can assume that TacSat-2, and Genesat-1 are safely in orbit ?

Until told otherwise, yes.
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