Author Topic: LIVE: Falcon 9 Flight 1 Maiden Flight - June 4, 2010 (Read 499376 times)

ugordan · « **Reply #20 on:** 06/04/2010 02:12 pm »

It *looks* like there's 2nd stage venting barely visible in the SFN camera so I guess fueling is ongoing.

SpaceX_MS · « **Reply #21 on:** 06/04/2010 02:13 pm »

Yes, I can confirm fueling. Still tracking 11:20.

arkaska · « **Reply #22 on:** 06/04/2010 02:13 pm »

Weather is green

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #23 on:** 06/04/2010 02:15 pm »

As noted, but here's the official loop call update wording...

OPS Commit Criteria All Green now.

ugordan · « **Reply #24 on:** 06/04/2010 02:16 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 06/04/2010 02:15 pm

OPS Commit Criteria All Green now.

Does that mean the wx is green *now* or predicted to be green at T-0?

SpaceX_MS · « **Reply #25 on:** 06/04/2010 02:19 pm »

Quote from: ugordan on 06/04/2010 02:16 pm

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 06/04/2010 02:15 pm
OPS Commit Criteria All Green now.

Does that mean the wx is green *now* or predicted to be green at T-0?

Current.

klausd · « **Reply #26 on:** 06/04/2010 02:19 pm »

spaceX stream is reconnecting all the time! Do you have the same problem?

MarsMethanogen · « **Reply #27 on:** 06/04/2010 02:20 pm »

Quote from: SpaceX_MS on 06/04/2010 02:01 pm

Press Kit for those interested:

Link doesn't seem to be working for me. Get error message after downloading and trying to open the file. Get the same error message even when I try to open it directly off the post.

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #28 on:** 06/04/2010 02:20 pm »

L minus 60 minutes

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #29 on:** 06/04/2010 02:24 pm »

Quote from: MarsMethanogen on 06/04/2010 02:20 pm

Quote from: SpaceX_MS on 06/04/2010 02:01 pm
Press Kit for those interested:

Link doesn't seem to be working for me. Get error message after downloading and trying to open the file. Get the same error message even when I try to open it directly off the post.

Download is fine, it'll be your pdf reader (we've heard that issue a couple of times before....when it's just a few people, as opposed to everyone).

Update: Large mass of showers 50 miles west heading to the Cape.

SpaceX_MS · « **Reply #30 on:** 06/04/2010 02:34 pm »

Nominal fueling. Procedures all nominal.

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #31 on:** 06/04/2010 02:38 pm »

line of storms about 40 miles out per weather aircraft

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #32 on:** 06/04/2010 02:40 pm »

Total cloud cover being observed at LC-40, meaning F9 would vanish into the clouds very shortly after launch under these conditions.

psloss · « **Reply #33 on:** 06/04/2010 02:47 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 06/04/2010 02:40 pm

Total cloud cover being observed at LC-40, meaning F9 would vanish into the clouds very shortly after launch under these conditions.

Any clues about criteria for tracking the launch with the range cameras? At the Visitor's Complex this morning and it's definitely overcast. Feels like August already. (Although it's been like that all around the Gulf for several days.)

bodge · « **Reply #34 on:** 06/04/2010 02:47 pm »

Anyone positioned out on the A1A causeway? Curious if the clouds are blocking the view of the pad across the water at all. When F9 was pre-stacked last year I was able to make out the white stick pretty easily from there (suprisingly).

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #35 on:** 06/04/2010 02:49 pm »

Anvil buildup around the 38 mile mark

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #36 on:** 06/04/2010 02:50 pm »

T minus 30 minutes and counting

rkoenn · « **Reply #37 on:** 06/04/2010 02:52 pm »

I haven't walked to the other side of the building in a while but the cloud cover looking to the north and east is much better than earlier today. It is significantly broken now with a fair amount of blue sky showing. However there is fairly substantial clouds to the west and they are supposedly moving in this direction. If he was green for weather 30 minutes ago this is better than it was then.

MP99 · « **Reply #38 on:** 06/04/2010 02:52 pm »

Quote from: arkaska on 06/04/2010 02:09 pm

From Press Kit:

Times above are based on a sample Falcon 9 mission flight time line, and actual timing will vary with specific mission requirements.

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Kim Keller · « **Reply #39 on:** 06/04/2010 02:53 pm »

Quote from: Ronsmytheiii on 06/04/2010 02:49 pm

anvil buildup around the 38 mile mark

There's an east-northeast flow this morning. The storm mass nearing Orlando that I'm watching on wundermap looks like it will miss the cape area.

Of course, other stuff could pop up as it moves east....