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Offline Chris Bergin

Confirmed in L2. Hot Fire completed!

Now into review.

Article later.
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Article for the hot fire. We are looking into a GSE issue per the venting in L2, along with the humidity, etc as contributors, but they are looking good for Nov 25 still....so nothing major.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/11/spacex-falcon-9-v1-1-hot-fire-slc-40/

PS I know the lead image is from the Cassiope mission. No usable lead images from the Cape yet (resolution and dimension).
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SpaceX have now responded to us confirming it was a successful test and the venting wasn't a leak or hardware issue, so that's all good.

(And nice how responsive SpaceX are these days! :))
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #143 on: 11/22/2013 12:47 pm »
Great coverage with the firing. When will the launch thread begin?

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #144 on: 11/22/2013 02:54 pm »
Current launch weather forecast has been published by the 45th Space Wing: http://www.patrick.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070716-028.pdf

80% GO for Monday, 30% GO Tuesday

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #145 on: 11/22/2013 03:20 pm »
Image of the F9 and a crane. Source.


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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #146 on: 11/22/2013 03:40 pm »
So what are they doing with that crane? And when was the picture taken? Picture posted late last night at latest.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #147 on: 11/22/2013 03:54 pm »
So what are they doing with that crane? And when was the picture taken? Picture posted late last night at latest.

Looks like a man basket.
So presumably someone is up for a ride!

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #148 on: 11/22/2013 03:59 pm »
And when was the picture taken?

Based on the webcast feeds, I would guess Wednesday.

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livestream announced:)

http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/2565780

Super! And that answers the question on the launch day thread. Aim will be to go with it (transfer from this thread to the new one) either on Sunday evening or very early Monday.

Will link everything up.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #151 on: 11/22/2013 07:12 pm »
A clearer version of the mission patch:
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #152 on: 11/23/2013 12:33 am »
Quote from: Musk
Headed to Cape Canaveral tomorrow for first @SpaceX geostationary satellite launch.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/404059376652005377

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #153 on: 11/23/2013 04:00 am »
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Will be toughest mission to date. Requires coast + upper stage restart + going to 80,000 km altitude (~1/4 way to moon).

Looks like the apogee is going to be 80,000 km. I'd known that SES-8 was being sent to a super-GTO orbit, but was the apogee known before this?

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #154 on: 11/23/2013 09:52 am »
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Will be toughest mission to date. Requires coast + upper stage restart + going to 80,000 km altitude (~1/4 way to moon).

Looks like the apogee is going to be 80,000 km. I'd known that SES-8 was being sent to a super-GTO orbit, but was the apogee known before this?

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32990.msg1105331#msg1105331

"For the SES-8 mission, most of the Falcon 9's performance will go into putting the spacecraft in an orbit over 80,000 km altitude at apogee. Some of the rocket's performance will also lower the orbit inclination from about 28 degrees (the lattitude of Cape Canaveral) to a little under 21 degrees, also reducing the amount of fuel that the satellite will require to get to its final orbital slot."

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #155 on: 11/23/2013 05:41 pm »
SES posted a few pictures of the satellite arriving at the Cape: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.677725285592988.1073741840.257596920939162&type=1

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #156 on: 11/23/2013 06:20 pm »
SES posted a few pictures of the satellite arriving at the Cape: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.677725285592988.1073741840.257596920939162&type=1

Anyone recognize the facility in those photos?

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #157 on: 11/23/2013 06:24 pm »
I assume the new high bay of the SLC-40 hangar.

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #158 on: 11/23/2013 07:02 pm »
SES posted a few pictures of the satellite arriving at the Cape: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.677725285592988.1073741840.257596920939162&type=1

Anyone recognize the facility in those photos?

Are the grey squares on the wall airflow outputs?  They look kind of skimpy even for a class 8 (100,000) cleanroom.  (Note that I don't usually work with spacecraft buses, although I do get to a week from Monday!)

edit:small correction
« Last Edit: 11/23/2013 10:08 pm by Comga »
What kind of wastrels would dump a perfectly good booster in the ocean after just one use?

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - November 25 - UPDATE THREAD
« Reply #159 on: 11/23/2013 07:43 pm »
the buildings colour scheme and design of the building in some of the pictures look more like the newest building at Astrotech than the outside of the SpaceX facility. I think i remember SpaceX posting something about the transfer of the encapsulated payload to the New SpaceX SC Payload Processing Facility from another facility the day before the WDR occurred in preparation for mating in the near future with the launcher.

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