Author Topic: LIVE: Space Falcon 9 Flight 2 Static Fire - December 4, 2010 (Read 160958 times)

joshcryer · « **Reply #220 on:** 12/04/2010 12:25 pm »

"Webcast will begin about 5:30 AM Pacific/8:30 AM Easter/13:30 UTC. Watch at http://www.SpaceX.com/webcast.php"

http://twitter.com/#!/SpaceXmissions

Nice!

joshcryer · « **Reply #221 on:** 12/04/2010 12:29 pm »

"Attempting static fire again today. Window is 9 - 3 EST, 6 to 12 PST. Could start as early as 9:30 EST."

http://twitter.com/#!/SpaceXer/status/11047521799380992

Feed starting an hour and a half early apparently? OK by me, lots of time to stare lovingly at F9.

butters · « **Reply #222 on:** 12/04/2010 12:31 pm »

Webcast has started. T-58m30s and counting.

joshcryer · « **Reply #223 on:** 12/04/2010 12:32 pm »

Quote from: butters on 12/04/2010 12:31 pm

Webcast has started. T-58m30s and counting.

Link (if not seen in above post): http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

Jittery, it just went off for me. Hope they work out the kinks.

edit: low stream seems to work best, no buffering issues. The venting appears better than yesterday.

butters · « **Reply #224 on:** 12/04/2010 12:36 pm »

Audio not bad! LOX load at 51% for stage 1, 85% for stage 2

Fast helium load on both stages

joshcryer · « **Reply #225 on:** 12/04/2010 12:39 pm »

Yes, audio fantastic. And I've been watching the venting for the past few minutes, they did good.

Crossing fingers that it stays this way.

butters · « **Reply #226 on:** 12/04/2010 12:43 pm »

Stage 2 LOX loading complete. Stage 1 at 60%

butters · « **Reply #227 on:** 12/04/2010 12:48 pm »

Discussing stage 2 pneumatic/hydraulic spike anomaly on anomaly net.

EDIT: Guessing "spike" refers to pressure. Voice sounded like the avionics guy.

Pedantic Twit · « **Reply #228 on:** 12/04/2010 12:51 pm »

http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

If you're not terribly keen on flash, the video feed can be viewed in a fairly recent version of VLC (1.1.4 or newer confirmed to work)

Here: http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/spacex/highquality/native
Or here: http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/spacex/testing/native

butters · « **Reply #229 on:** 12/04/2010 12:56 pm »

Stage 1 LOX at 88%

First stage helium load complete. Second stage still chilling in.

clongton · « **Reply #230 on:** 12/04/2010 12:57 pm »

Got a link to the webcast PLEASE?

corrodedNut · « **Reply #231 on:** 12/04/2010 12:57 pm »

SpaceXer: "We made a number of upgrades overnight that should improve the quality of the webcast."

corrodedNut · « **Reply #232 on:** 12/04/2010 12:58 pm »

Quote from: clongton on 12/04/2010 12:57 pm

Got a link to the webcast PLEASE?

http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #233 on:** 12/04/2010 12:58 pm »

Thanks for the screenshots guys. Much better webcast today it would appear.

Coming up on T-30 minutes.

clongton · « **Reply #234 on:** 12/04/2010 01:00 pm »

Quote from: corrodedNut on 12/04/2010 12:58 pm

Quote from: clongton on 12/04/2010 12:57 pm
Got a link to the webcast PLEASE?

http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

I'm getting "Stream not found" error.
Is there another link?

corrodedNut · « **Reply #235 on:** 12/04/2010 01:00 pm »

SpaceXMissions: "First stage helium load complete"

joshcryer · « **Reply #236 on:** 12/04/2010 01:01 pm »

clongton, Pedantic Twit posted VLC/mplayer links:

Here: http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/spacex/highquality/native
Or here: http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/spacex/testing/native

Pedantic Twit · « **Reply #237 on:** 12/04/2010 01:01 pm »

Did the stream just cut out for a moment?

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #238 on:** 12/04/2010 01:02 pm »

Quote from: Pedantic Twit on 12/04/2010 01:01 pm

Did the stream just cut out for a moment?

Yes. Seems ok again now.

T-28 mins.

corrodedNut · « **Reply #239 on:** 12/04/2010 01:05 pm »

"1/2% away from LOX load topping."