SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) PRE LAUNCH UPDATES (PART 2)

[rcoppola]

45th Space Wing Weather Squadron has released their L-3 forecast, so now our neurotic behavior is officially blessed.

Currently forecasting a 30% chance of weather violation at launch time; primary concern is violating the cumulus cloud rule:
http://www.patrick.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070716-028.pdf

So that's a 70% chance of a GO. I'll take it!

[bad_astra]

I'm starting to think about going to see this launch with that weather report. Can anyone suggest a good location for launch viewing?

[psloss]

I'm starting to think about going to see this launch with that weather report. Can anyone suggest a good location for launch viewing?

There's a viewing thread:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28388.0

I don't see this noted in there:
http://www.launchphotography.com/Delta_4_Atlas_5_Falcon_9_Launch_Viewing.html

[mr. mark]

Question, lifting off at 4:55am as the rocket moves eastward when will it pass into daylight. The reason I'm asking is I plan on watching the NASA feed on my TV as well as the SpaceX feed on my computer at the same time. I know that the NASA feed will most likely only show the flight up until 2nd stage separation. I'm assuming that we should be in daylight at the point of 2nd stage sep.

[SpacexULA]

Question, lifting off at 4:55am as the rocket moves eastward when will it pass into daylight. The reason I'm asking is I plan on watching the NASA feed on my TV as well as the SpaceX feed on my computer at the same time. I know that the NASA feed will most likely only show the flight up until 2nd stage separation. I'm assuming that we should be in daylight at the point of 2nd stage sep.

Yes 2nd stage will be separating high enough to be in sunlight.

[Comga]

Question, lifting off at 4:55am as the rocket moves eastward when will it pass into daylight. The reason I'm asking is I plan on watching the NASA feed on my TV as well as the SpaceX feed on my computer at the same time. I know that the NASA feed will most likely only show the flight up until 2nd stage separation. I'm assuming that we should be in daylight at the point of 2nd stage sep.

Yes 2nd stage will be separating high enough to be in sunlight.

This is getting OT for an updates page, but can you explain, perhaps over in the viewing thread, how you determined that?  My quick and dirty approximation came up with the other answer.

edit: This post also disagrees with your assertion.

[bad_astra]

I'm starting to think about going to see this launch with that weather report. Can anyone suggest a good location for launch viewing?

There's a viewing thread:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28388.0

I don't see this noted in there:
http://www.launchphotography.com/Delta_4_Atlas_5_Falcon_9_Launch_Viewing.html

Thanks!

[ugordan]

edit: This post also disagrees with your assertion.

Uh, that's not a good reference as it might have been your BOTE calculation I remembered in the first place.

Anyway, I agree it's off topic here.

[AnalogMan]

Not seen these posted before - FAA licenses for pre-flight ground ops/launch/flight of Falcon 9 and re-entry of Dragon were issued on April 18 and 30 respectively:

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/launch_license/active_licenses/media/F9-003_Signed_License_and_Orders.pdf
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/launch_license/active_licenses/media/Dragon_RLS_11-002.pdf

[Moe Grills]

   Is the rollout of the Falcon 9 going to be shown "live" tomorrow?
Or is the rollout too slow to make good streaming video?

[Norm38]

Everytime the SpaceX feed has cut in the vehicle is already vertical at the pad.  Maybe NASA TV will show something, but I doubt it.

[manboy]

   Is the rollout of the Falcon 9 going to be shown "live" tomorrow?
Or is the rollout too slow to make good streaming video?

NASA tv coverage doesn't seem to mention the rollout.

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/cots_tv_schedule.html

[Chris Bergin]

Thanks to everyone keeping this thread free of most of the "noise" (excitement etc). 92 posts and 20,000 views is a clean thread. Appreciate that.

So we're all aware, we'll have a launch day thread - as you'd expect - starting several hours prior to launch.

We'll have a really nice "everything you need in one post" Launch Day Live thread, including - thanks to the good folks at SpaceX (thanks Ben) - an embedded webcast player. Tested it last night, very cool.

We'll obviously update the thread and add screenshots during the event and allow for updates to follow through flight days. Depending on the size of the thread, and the amount of NTV coverage, we'll consider specific flight day threads (like Shuttle), but if not, we'll certainly have a new live thread for the big day arriving into the ISS' back yard.

In the event of a scrub, the live launch day thread will continue through with updates until we start the attempt 2 live thread.

Got to be the most exciting thing since STS-135!

[edfishel]

Great news, Chris!  Is this a first for NSF...an embedded webcast player?

[Chandonn]

...
We'll have a really nice "everything you need in one post" Launch Day Live thread, including - thanks to the good folks at SpaceX (thanks Ben) - an embedded webcast player...

WOOT!!!

[SpaceXSLS]

Apologies if this question is answered elsewhere, but when is the expected launch attempt time? The closest answer i've found is that its sometime early morning EST (I'm PST)

I am a night owl and its on a saturday, so I just want to see if I can stay awake long enough to view it live.

[Thunderbird5]

Apologies if this question is answered elsewhere, but when is the expected launch attempt time? The closest answer i've found is that its sometime early morning EST (I'm PST)

I am a night owl and its on a saturday, so I just want to see if I can stay awake long enough to view it live.

It's stated further up in this thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28808.msg896550#msg896550)

[rdale]

Apologies if this question is answered elsewhere, but when is the expected launch attempt time? The closest answer i've found is that its sometime early morning EST (I'm PST)

Per NASA.gov http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/cots_tv_schedule.html

4:50am EDT. Which is 12:50am PST, but are you sure you are on PST? Most of the US changed to Daylight Saving Time back in March. That would be 1:50am PDT.

[rtphokie]

The Launch Commit Criteria are given here:

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/649911main_050912_falcon9_weather_criteria.pdf

Document is gone. Did it get moved somewhere?

[dsmillman]

The Launch Commit Criteria are given here:

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/649911main_050912_falcon9_weather_criteria.pdf

Document is gone. Did it get moved somewhere?

Updated to:

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/649911main_051612_falcon9_weather_criteria.pdf