Dragons for everyone! It's another SpaceX Party Thread (CRS-1)

[Jason1701]

21:30 ET is 2.5 hours away?

21 minutes.

[Robert Thompson]

<Fingers crossed for future talk of commercial + EML2>

[R.Simko]

By the way, looks like everyone who voted for two Falcon 9 launches this year was right.

[krytek]

21:30 ET is 2.5 hours away?

21 minutes.

Thank you

[daver]

WTG SpaceX!  Sweet launch!

[simonbp]

4 successful launches! Does anyone know what the most successful rocket is currently?

Atlas V, which has had one partial failure (wrong orbit) out of 33 launches. It also happens to be F9's main domestic competition.

[QuantumG]

By the way, looks like everyone who voted for two Falcon 9 launches this year was right.

I voted one. I'm happy to be wrong.

[Thunderbird5]

By the way, looks like everyone who voted for two Falcon 9 launches this year was right.

   <smug grin!>

[kirghizstan]

i know this is a party thread, but what was the rather significant flash around the time when it went supersonic?

[AS-503]

Watching tonight makes me realise how much they accomplished last flight.

Incredible!

They made it look easy again!

The live staging video (from 1st stage forward and from 2nd stage rearward) was a nice plus!

[butters]

It sure seemed like they had a software anomaly right around Dragon separation.

[simonbp]

i know this is a party thread, but what was the rather significant flash around the time when it went supersonic?

Probably vapor cone reflecting exhaust plume.

[SpaceXSLS]

I just read in the main thread there might be a problem with Orbcomm delivery...fingers crossed!

[kirghizstan]

i know this is a party thread, but what was the rather significant flash around the time when it went supersonic?

Probably vapor cone reflecting exhaust plume.

i was thinking this i am just use to seeing them much higher on a rocket.

[Robotbeat]

I just read in the main thread there might be a problem with Orbcomm delivery...fingers crossed!

They've got about 17 minutes until orbcomm deploy, so no one knows yet!

[Rocket Science]

The Dragon has wings… Congrats and well done! 

[kirghizstan]

i know this is a party thread, but what was the rather significant flash around the time when it went supersonic?

Probably vapor cone reflecting exhaust plume.

i was thinking this i am just use to seeing them much higher on a rocket.

there is talk in another thread that one of the engine covers might have come off at around 1:20 which would be the time i noticed the flash

[simonbp]

It was a really humid night (the pad looked like someone had turned on a fog machine), so it might have been a rather large vapor cone.

[ArbitraryConstant]

By the way, looks like everyone who voted for two Falcon 9 launches this year was right.

\o/ \o/ \o/

[DanielW]

It was a really humid night (the pad looked like someone had turned on a fog machine), so it might have been a rather large vapor cone.

Probably has something to do with the relative light level as well. The cone during any flight probably extends further than we can see in sunlight.