Author Topic: FAILURE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2  (Read 345702 times)

Offline jimvela

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #180 on: 08/03/2008 12:40 am »
Countdown clock frozen at 16:00

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #181 on: 08/03/2008 12:41 am »
HOLD

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #182 on: 08/03/2008 12:42 am »
Passing 1:30 of hold, no mention of why yet...

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #183 on: 08/03/2008 12:43 am »
Factory shop with Elon during the hold.
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #184 on: 08/03/2008 12:43 am »
Quite a nice collection of Haas machines...

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #185 on: 08/03/2008 12:45 am »
I see the countdown clock and a bunch of black.

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #186 on: 08/03/2008 12:45 am »
Black screen, no commentary, no canned video.

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #187 on: 08/03/2008 12:46 am »
Back to the canned payload overview.

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #188 on: 08/03/2008 12:47 am »
The window runs till 8:00 PM pacific time.
they have just less than 2hours  till the window closes.


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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #189 on: 08/03/2008 12:47 am »
Disregard my earlier posts...was posting under the thinking the window was 2 hrs. so my bad for any confusion.  Now 7:20 in the hold.
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #190 on: 08/03/2008 12:48 am »
The window runs till 8:00 PM pacific time.
they have just less than 2hours  till the window closes.



I make it three hours.

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #191 on: 08/03/2008 12:48 am »
Fuel Offload!

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #192 on: 08/03/2008 12:48 am »
offload sequence

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #193 on: 08/03/2008 12:48 am »
"Fuel offload"?

Does that mean they've scrubbed?
« Last Edit: 08/03/2008 12:49 am by GW_Simulations »

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #194 on: 08/03/2008 12:49 am »
More than likely a scrub!

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #195 on: 08/03/2008 12:49 am »
Quite a nice collection of Haas machines...

Can the moderators ask people to post images, rather than just writing text, as it's no help to those of us who are unable to get the webcast. Thanks.

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #196 on: 08/03/2008 12:49 am »
The launch team has been instructed to begin the first stage fuel off-load procedures.

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #197 on: 08/03/2008 12:50 am »
Fuel offloading.  Stage 1 and 2 are now offloading.

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #198 on: 08/03/2008 12:50 am »
Max is distracted.


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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon I Launch III - August 2
« Reply #199 on: 08/03/2008 12:50 am »
I guess the PR people are confused. They are not announcing a scrub...

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