Author Topic: Epsilon launch - SPRINT-A, Sept.14, 2013 (0500UTC) (Read 137203 times)

Artyom. · « **Reply #140 on:** 08/27/2013 04:44 am »

T-60 seconds

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #141 on:** 08/27/2013 04:45 am »

Looks like an abort very close to liftoff....

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #142 on:** 08/27/2013 04:46 am »

Hmmm, failed to launch?

Blackstar · « **Reply #143 on:** 08/27/2013 04:46 am »

Sounded like an abort to me.

Counted down to zero and then stopped and nothing happened.

Artyom. · « **Reply #144 on:** 08/27/2013 04:46 am »

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #145 on:** 08/27/2013 04:46 am »

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #146 on:** 08/27/2013 04:47 am »

They've got a 45 minute window if they can recycle.

Artyom. · « **Reply #147 on:** 08/27/2013 04:47 am »

Blackstar · « **Reply #148 on:** 08/27/2013 04:47 am »

But at least we have commercials to entertain us.

input~2 · « **Reply #149 on:** 08/27/2013 04:47 am »

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #150 on:** 08/27/2013 04:55 am »

35 mins left in the window.

Artyom. · « **Reply #151 on:** 08/27/2013 04:56 am »

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #152 on:** 08/27/2013 04:59 am »

There are people on the comment section of the Ustream feed claiming scrub for the day, but a lot of the people on there probably don't know what they are talking about.

Need one of our trusted Japanese people to call it.

Fuji · « **Reply #153 on:** 08/27/2013 05:00 am »

Scrub! from NHK news

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #154 on:** 08/27/2013 05:01 am »

Thanks Fuji!

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #155 on:** 08/27/2013 05:07 am »

So we'll leave William's preview intact, bar the obvious scrub note in the abstract. Updated with Fuji's note on the following launches.
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/08/japans-epsilon-launch-sprint-a/

yoichi · « **Reply #156 on:** 08/27/2013 05:11 am »

Junya Terazono 寺薗淳也 ‏@terakinizers 9秒
Some tweets of my folks says the cause of launch abortion may be anomary of battery voltage needed for launch.

jcm · « **Reply #157 on:** 08/27/2013 05:12 am »

press release in a few hours I am told

Artyom. · « **Reply #158 on:** 08/27/2013 05:17 am »

Epsilon launch fails

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has failed in its attempt to launch the newly developed Epsilon rocket.

The rocket remains on the launch pad at the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, after the scheduled launch time of 1:45 PM on Tuesday.

The Agency says the launch has been aborted for the day. It is trying to determine why the rocket failed to lift off.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130827_34.html

William Graham · « **Reply #159 on:** 08/27/2013 05:24 am »

Quote from: Artyom. on 08/27/2013 05:17 am

Epsilon launch fails

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has failed in its attempt to launch the newly developed Epsilon rocket.

The rocket remains on the launch pad at the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, after the scheduled launch time of 1:45 PM on Tuesday.

The Agency says the launch has been aborted for the day. It is trying to determine why the rocket failed to lift off.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130827_34.html

A little over-dramatic...news organisations need to learn the difference between a scrub and a failure.