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#320 by Jim on 06 Aug, 2011 12:35
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Down near the bottom of his page Cooper shows an image that captured the moment of liftoff. (Juno_12.jpg) It was clearly taken after main engine ignition but apparently before vehicle motion. The T-0 umbilicals are disconnected and appear to be floating in air.... Does that mean the solids had also been lit? Is it truly past the point of no return while still motionless on the pad?
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#321 by Rocket Guy on 06 Aug, 2011 17:23
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Yea, that photo is taken a fraction of a second after SRB ignition. You can see the more forceful SRB blast going out the flame trench.
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#322 by landofgrey on 06 Aug, 2011 19:07
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I thought I'd post up a few of the photos our launch pad remote camera captured of the Atlas 5 Juno launch. These were obtained due to the great work of ARES Institute's (http://www.aresinstitute.org) photographer Mike Killian. Fortunately, the camera had enough space on the SD card to keep shooting even with the launch delay. Mike used an intervelometer, rather than an acoustic or light trigger, so it started snapping photos at the beginning of the window and kept shooting until the card was filled up. I'm posting them without watermarks, but please just give credit to Mike Killian / ARES Institute, Inc.
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#323 by Chris Bergin on 06 Aug, 2011 19:11
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#324 by landofgrey on 06 Aug, 2011 19:29
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Our photographer Mike Killian went to Playalinda Beach a few miles north of Cape Canaveral/KSC to shoot photos of the launch of Juno from the beach. I think they came out very good, with the waves, water and beachgoers stopping to watch the launch. The photos aren't watermarked but please give credit to Mike Killian / ARES Institute, Inc. http://www.aresinstitute.org.
I hope everyone enjoys these photos... it's why we do it!
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#325 by landofgrey on 06 Aug, 2011 19:35
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I was on the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC to shoot video of the launch of the ULA Atlas 5 with NASA's Juno spacecraft. For an appreciation of this, one should keep in mind that we were up there, 525 above the ground, for a couple hours in the summer Florida Sun. The outside temperature was over 90 degress but on the roof, the heat index was well over 100, probably over 110. The roof is painted white to reflect the Sun and help keep the inside of the VAB cool, so we had the Sun beating down on us from above and from below. And I had exactly ONE bottle of water. I'm sure I lost a few pounds of water weight yesterday.
The video starts out with me panning the view over the landscape of KSC/CCAFS, including LC-39B which is now completely without any service structures on it. Then the last minute of the Juno countdown and launch.
Feel free to pass this around. Credit is to Matthew Travis / ARES Institute, Inc. http://www.aresinstitute.org
Enjoy!
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#326 by ugordan on 06 Aug, 2011 19:45
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There was a third one for spacecraft separation but realtime relay from Australia was not available.
Does that mean there was signal received on the ground in Australia, just no live relay?
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#327 by Jason1701 on 06 Aug, 2011 19:47
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Great video. Sounds like an interesting experience.
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#328 by Jim on 06 Aug, 2011 20:54
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There was a third one for spacecraft separation but realtime relay from Australia was not available.
Does that mean there was signal received on the ground in Australia, just no live relay?
BTW, wasn't the spacecraft in the darkness then anyway?
Yes and there was a light with the camera. -
#329 by Blackstar on 06 Aug, 2011 22:13
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I was on the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC to shoot video of the launch of the ULA Atlas 5 with NASA's Juno spacecraft. For an appreciation of this, one should keep in mind that we were up there, 525 above the ground, for a couple hours in the summer Florida Sun. The outside temperature was over 90 degress but on the roof, the heat index was well over 100, probably over 110. The roof is painted white to reflect the Sun and help keep the inside of the VAB cool, so we had the Sun beating down on us from above and from below. And I had exactly ONE bottle of water. I'm sure I lost a few pounds of water weight yesterday.
So... is there a bathroom up there? -
#330 by Chris Bergin on 07 Aug, 2011 02:40
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Ok folks, on to the spacecraft's own update thread on the new unmanned subsection:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=49.0
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#331 by Antares on 07 Aug, 2011 03:31
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I hope everyone enjoys these photos... it's why we do it!
Nice shots, sir. People + Beach + Rocket flying toward success is inspiring to any launch team. -
#332 by Antares on 07 Aug, 2011 03:38
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It was clearly taken after main engine ignition but apparently before vehicle motion. The T-0 umbilicals are disconnected and appear to be floating in air.... Does that mean the solids had also been lit? Is it truly past the point of no return while still motionless on the pad?
Solids were lit and the vehicle had lifted off.
IIRC, for Atlas, TZero is launch commit (all health checks passed), but the solids light after that and vehicle motion (T/W>1) is after that. That's the most logical TZero I can think of out of several US and foreign vehicles. Even if it hasn't moved, if it can't be stopped, then the mission has started. -
#333 by ChrisC on 07 Aug, 2011 16:49
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"Happy" news conference on.
Does this post-launch news conference exist online anywhere? John44 hasn't posted it, and I don't see it in NASA's Youtube or Ustream collections.
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#334 by ugordan on 07 Aug, 2011 17:32
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Does this post-launch news conference exist online anywhere? John44 hasn't posted it, and I don't see it in NASA's Youtube or Ustream collections.
You're not looking hard enough. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXIqVXSZUyI -
#335 by ChrisC on 07 Aug, 2011 19:20
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Ahhh, SpaceVidsNet. Instead of checking the usual places/users, I should have just searched Youtube for "Juno post launch". Thanks ugordan.
EDIT: Ken Kremer asked a question that gave Scott Bolton an opportunity to provide an excellent story on the background of Juno, how the mission itself came into being. Highly recommended viewing! The timecode to fast forward to is 18m20s.
How do you suppress the auto-embedding of Youtube videos, and just provide the URL? I'm linking below to the #t=18m20s point in the video, but the embedder doesn't recognize it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXIqVXSZUyI#t=18m20s
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#336 by Chris Bergin on 08 Aug, 2011 04:25
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Just post the URL, the forum software does the rest.
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#337 by ugordan on 08 Aug, 2011 09:52
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How do you suppress the auto-embedding of Youtube videos, and just provide the URL? I'm linking below to the #t=18m20s point in the video, but the embedder doesn't recognize it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXIqVXSZUyI#t=18m20s
Paste the URL and insert empty formatting tags such as [ b][ /b] somewhere inside the beginning of the address. I put it after the colon character in the above URL. This will break its address recognition.
The habit of this forum automatically embedding youtube videos is quite annoying, frankly. -
#338 by Retired Downrange on 08 Aug, 2011 14:24
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Some fool in a boat. Choppers sent out to have a stern word
Article about these range clearing choppers...
Rescue reservists support successful rocket launch
Posted 8/8/2011
see:
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123267102
by Airman 1st Class Natasha Dowridge
920th Rescue Wing Public Affairs
8/8/2011 - PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) -- Air Force Reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing here supported the successful United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch August 6. The Atlas carried the Juno spacecraft for NASA.
Juno launched from Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., and is tasked with investigating the formation, evolution and structure of the planet Jupiter from an elliptical orbit.
Airmen with the 920th RQW provided search-and-rescue support for NASA's manned spaceflight missions from the Mercury project in 1961 through the space shuttle program, which ended in July. While there are currently no missions requiring astronaut search-and-rescue operations, the 920th RWQ continues to support NASA's rocket launch missions.
Rescue Wing Airmen perform range-clearing operations using their HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters to clear a 2,000-square-mile area of the Eastern Range, a launch area that extends east of the Atlantic Ocean for all Space Coast rocket launches. By providing range clearing, they ensure mariners keep a safe distance from the rocket launch path and out of harm's way should the rocket dismantle. -
#339 by kevin-rf on 08 Aug, 2011 15:05
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... should the rocket dismantle.
I like the author's word choice
