LIVE: Sea Launch: DIRECTV-11 launch - March 19

[moonman]

Mister D - 9/3/2008  11:49 AM

DIRECTV has carried the live telecast of many of its previous launches on a spare channel. Has anyone heard if they will be doing this again for DTV-11?

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DirecTV will open channel 573 which is normally closed to regular viewers, from 6:30PM EDT
to 8:30PM EDT. It's already in the guide...set yuour DVR's

[moonman]

Rocket has been raised to vertical.
 http://www.navigon.net/sl/pictures/

[DaveS]

Launch has been scrubbed due to an undisclosed issue. The scrub was called yesterday afternoon according to sea-launch.com. No new launch date has been announced.

[DaveS]

moonman - 16/3/2008  7:11 PM

Rocket has been raised to vertical.
 http://www.navigon.net/sl/pictures/

And now it is back in the hangar again.

[@RD170@]

Could this be related to make sure that upper stage is ok ¿?. Maybe sealaunch is making efforts to avoid any problem with upper stage burning. We must remember that sealaunch upper stage is almost the same than ILS upper stage on proton ( recently failed).
Sealaunch must assure launch.

[Jim]

@RD170@ - 17/3/2008  11:05 AM

Could this be related to make sure that upper stage is ok ¿?. Maybe sealaunch is making efforts to avoid any problem with upper stage burning. We must remember that sealaunch upper stage is almost the same than ILS upper stage on proton ( recently failed).
Sealaunch must assure launch.

They are not the same.  Sealaunch uses a Block DM and Proton uses the Breeze uppstage.

[@RD170@]

Jim - 17/3/2008  5:14 PM

@RD170@ - 17/3/2008  11:05 AM

Could this be related to make sure that upper stage is ok ¿?. Maybe sealaunch is making efforts to avoid any problem with upper stage burning. We must remember that sealaunch upper stage is almost the same than ILS upper stage on proton ( recently failed).
Sealaunch must assure launch.

They are not the same.  Sealaunch uses a Block DM and Proton uses the Breeze uppstage.

Hello Jim, thats why I said "upper stage is almost the same".

Block DM and Breeze are made by Krunichev and both Upper stage share common parts.

[@RD170@]

Breeze is Hypergolic and Block DM is criogenic, but russian always re-use technology ( computer guidance and so on ... ).

[Olaf]

@RD170@ - 17/3/2008  10:40 AM

Hello Jim, thats why I said "upper stage is almost the same".

Block DM and Breeze are made by Krunichev and both Upper stage share common parts.

Blok DM is made by Energiya.

[@RD170@]

I was living some time in a Baltic former USSR republic. And it was funny, MIG factories sometimes made spoons with the same aluminium alloy than MIG planes.  With this you can assume how russians re-use technology.

[@RD170@]

ooppsss you´re right, Energia make Block DM and Block DM-SL.

[William Graham]

MSDB reports that the launch has been rescheduled for 19 March.
http://msdb.honeywell-tsi.com/launches.asp

[moonman]

Must have taken Viagra :laugh:  It's back up again..new date is Wed. March 19th.

[moonman]

Official: Launch is back on for Wed. March 19.
http://www.sea-launch.com/current_launch.htm

Zenit 3SL in the launch pad

http://www.sea-launch.com/mission_directv-11/mission_album/page8/page8.html

A day before launch, activity prevails on the Odyssey Launch Platform.
PHOTOS

New Launch Window:
6:48-7:46 p.m. EDT

[moonman]

If you have DirecTV, you can set your DVR's to record the launch live on ch. 573 6:30-8:30 PM
EDT. If you can't make that, the program will replay on Thur. 6AM-8PM (every two hours)

[shuttlepilot]

Just passed L-3 hours. It doesn't look like good weather...

[DarthVader]

At what time is the live coverage suppose to start? 3:30PM PDT?