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SpaceX Falcon 9 : Formosat-5 : SLC-4E Vandenberg : Aug 24, 2017 : UPDATES
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LOX load has started!
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All progressing well.
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Clouds are somewhat breaking here at the launch site
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30 minutes and counting.
Still aiming for the opening of the window.
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Strongback chill has started.
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Stage 1 LOX throttling back for Stage 2 load.
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SpaceX FM time:
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Another big vent
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Pre-webcast music has started.
Just mere minutes away from going live.
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Stage 2 LOX load has started.
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Here comes the funky music!
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1: Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
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Formosat is on internal power
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T-14 minutes. We're listening to "Approaching Dragon" by Testshot Starfish, Musk's favourite band! Webcast should be starting in the next few minutes.
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And we are live from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. About eleven minutes away from the 40th launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with a 475-kilogram Taiwanese satellite called FORMOSAT 5.
This will also mark the fifth Falcon 9 to launch from the West Coast.
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Webcast has switched to live
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Webcast has started.
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Today's commentator is Lauren Lyons.
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T-10mins! All is on track
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