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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #41 on: 10/15/2018 03:29 pm »
It has reached the pad

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #42 on: 10/15/2018 03:39 pm »
My tinted window bus view of the LV on the pad. 😉

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #43 on: 10/15/2018 05:58 pm »
Jacques :-)

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #44 on: 10/15/2018 06:00 pm »
Jacques :-)

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #45 on: 10/15/2018 06:13 pm »
Jacques :-)

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #46 on: 10/15/2018 06:14 pm »
Jacques :-)

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #47 on: 10/15/2018 06:15 pm »
Jacques :-)

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #48 on: 10/16/2018 01:18 am »
Nice to see a fresh coat of paint on the MLP, as it was starting to look a bit dilapidated. Also, is that a license plate I see on the MLP... government bureaucracy to the extreme or some sort of inside joke?
Edit: I now see the wheel hubs... do they only have one set and transfer them between coasts?
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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #49 on: 10/16/2018 08:09 am »
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Jacques :-)

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #50 on: 10/16/2018 08:11 am »
Jacques :-)

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #53 on: 10/17/2018 02:10 am »
« Last Edit: 10/17/2018 02:13 am by hartspace »

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #54 on: 10/17/2018 02:15 am »
Youtube, where the broadcast will be done from is currently having issues (500 error). Hopefully will be resolved before launch.
Titan IVB was a cool rocket

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #57 on: 10/17/2018 02:29 am »
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10:24 p.m. EDT (0224 UTC)

The Centaur liquid oxygen tank is half full.
https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/atlas-v-aehf-4

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #58 on: 10/17/2018 02:34 am »
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10:29 p.m. EDT (0229 UTC)

The Centaur upper stage's liquid oxygen tank has reached the 75 percent level as filling continues.

The chilldown conditioning of liquid hydrogen propellant lines at Space Launch Complex 41 is starting to prepare the plumbing for transferring the Minus-423-degree F fuel into the rocket.
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10:30 p.m. EDT (0230 UTC)

Filling of the Atlas V rocket’s largest tank has begun. About 48,800 gallons of super-cold oxidizer for the main engine is flowing into the liquid oxygen tank on common core booster first stage.
https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/atlas-v-aehf-4

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Re: Atlas V 551 - AEHF-4 - October 17, 2018
« Reply #59 on: 10/17/2018 02:43 am »
Youtube is back Online....

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