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#100
by
Jim
on 21 Apr, 2013 03:33
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Gosh you got there pretty early for hardly anyone to be in your video.
on a tangent. How do Antares stages get there? Trucked in or flown in? I notice it is larger than the spaceX rocket in diameter.
Trucked in:
But first shipped in from the Ukraine.
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#101
by
CardBoardBoxProcessor
on 21 Apr, 2013 03:58
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From Ukraine? gosh that is pretty disappointing.
anyway. Lets hope the ground is drier tomorrow at Arbuckle. Our Chairs sunk in a good inch or so today. And we might be needing bug spray tomorrow as well. Mosquitoes will surely follow the gnat swarms of today.
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#102
by
bkellysky
on 21 Apr, 2013 14:32
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John Grunsfeld, Dir. NASA Space Programs, and STS-103, 109, 125 Hubble Repairman, was all set to show us the Antares launch yesterday during his talk at the Northeast Astronomy Forum, north of New York City, yesterday.
I wonder Mike Brown, famed for 'killing' Pluto, will show it to us, since his talk is ending about the time of the opening of the launch window?
It will be very low on the horizon here, so video might be a better option.
National Weather Service Hourly Forecast for Wallops Is. VA. 04/21
Hour (EDT) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Temperature (°F) 50 51 51 52 52 52 51 50 49 47 46 45 43
Dewpoint (°F) 29 28 27 26 27 28 29 29 30 30 31 31 32
Heat Index (°F)
Wind (mph) 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 15 14 13 11 11
Wind Dir N NE NE NE NE NE NE NE NE NE E E E
Gust
Sky Cover (%) 11 12 13 13 15 16 18 18 18 18 21 24 27
Pcpn. Potential (%) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 3
Rel. Humidity (%) 44 41 39 36 38 39 42 44 48 51 55 58 65
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#103
by
yg1968
on 21 Apr, 2013 14:48
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#104
by
smith5se
on 21 Apr, 2013 15:13
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Alrighty, lets try this again. See you all out there!
As a reminder to those going to Arbuckle Neck Rd. Of youd like to keep it open please remember the following:
- pick up your trash when you go, farmers dont want the trash on their fields.
- DONT drive or park or wander on the farmer's fields
- ONLY park on the NORTH side of the road
These were the rules given to us by the officers at the first attempt.
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#105
by
BillyJoeBob
on 21 Apr, 2013 16:53
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Alrighty, lets try this again. See you all out there!
As a reminder to those going to Arbuckle Neck Rd. Of youd like to keep it open please remember the following:
- pick up your trash when you go, farmers dont want the trash on their fields.
- DONT drive or park or wander on the farmer's fields
- ONLY park on the NORTH side of the road
These were the rules given to us by the officers at the first attempt.
I second that about the trash. I was PO'd when I saw some of the trash from yesterday. But a lot of it seemed very old. Lots of old empty beer bottles.
Was not aware of the north side parking though but it makes sense, since that portion of the field was mowed.
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#106
by
jsmjr
on 21 Apr, 2013 16:55
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Any thoughts on Arbuckle possibly closing to late arrivals? Wondering how close I could cut it.
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#107
by
BillyJoeBob
on 21 Apr, 2013 16:56
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#108
by
smith5se
on 21 Apr, 2013 17:08
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Any thoughts on Arbuckle possibly closing to late arrivals? Wondering how close I could cut it.
I dont think they will close it but it gets really tight on the road the closer to launch you get and then youd have a bit of a walk to the end. Not too bad if you dont mind walking.
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#109
by
TJL
on 21 Apr, 2013 20:45
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Clear skys here on Long Island, NY...binoculars ready!
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#110
by
jsmjr
on 21 Apr, 2013 21:23
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Any thoughts on Arbuckle possibly closing to late arrivals? Wondering how close I could cut it.
I dont think they will close it but it gets really tight on the road the closer to launch you get and then youd have a bit of a walk to the end. Not too bad if you dont mind walking.
Logistical difficulties prevented me from getting out to the Eastern Shore. Here's my view of the launch from DC. :-( Next time!
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#111
by
spacedog71
on 21 Apr, 2013 21:47
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that there was a shot of pure methadone to this shuttle launch addict. the thunder!
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#112
by
bkellysky
on 21 Apr, 2013 22:57
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They put the launch up on the big screen in the auditorium here at the NorthEast Astronomy Forum about T+60, at the end of Mike Brown's talk. Several people in the audience must have been following along in their mobile devices - yelling 'liftoff'. A couple of people went outside, but I don't know if they saw it. It would have been pretty low from here.
Lots of enthusiasm for the really cool video from various locations on the craft. I especially liked the faring separation seen from the inside!
Good work and congrats to the Antares flight team!
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#113
by
majormajor42
on 21 Apr, 2013 23:11
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Saw it from NYC. Astoria Queens to be precise. Someone else in Brooklyn put a great shot on the Antares Launch Pix gallery on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/antares_pix/pool/with/8670028294/#photo_8670028294My shot is just the contrail. The contrail lasted from about 2:29 to 2:52 I noticed. I was listening to the launch while viewing the horizon. Got pretty excited. Replays of the launch do indeed show that that would have been the time it would have been visible.
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#114
by
BillyJoeBob
on 22 Apr, 2013 02:28
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Here's my video of the launch from the end of Arbuckle Neck.
I also have video of the subsequent brush fire after the launch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7xsYQXjt0I&feature=youtu.beYes, there were lots of cars - into the hundreds...I parked 1/2 mile away about 15 mins before launch. While driving in there...I noticed there seemed to be 3 major groupings of where people parked. Of course, I thought, I need to get as close as possible...why are all these people parking 3-4 miles away when they can get 2 miles away!
I think it would have been better to have been further back as you could still see the launch pad/water tower and the rocket would not be going directly up where you basically pivoted your head 90 degrees.
What a blast today was! ...and not just figuratively speaking!
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#115
by
yg1968
on 22 Apr, 2013 02:41
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#116
by
BillyJoeBob
on 22 Apr, 2013 02:48
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Man that was a nasty fire. Hopefully, they managed to contain it.
About 5:30pm (1/2 hr after launch) it appeared to be well contained but you can tell from where it first started to how quickly it moved across the facility...it was a moving fire!
Interesting was that most of the smoke from the rocket was directed out towards the ocean and dissipated rather quickly whereas the brush fire smoke seemed to drift directly south and created more smoke than the launch!
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#117
by
CardBoardBoxProcessor
on 22 Apr, 2013 03:02
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Here is my FB Album. I got a few pictures. Those cold winds and me checking the internet so much had my hands so numb that I could not properly use the camera. Only about half my pictures turned out.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200539420862342.1073741825.1062953631&type=1here are a few good ones.
Just after launch, Ice falling away.
Just after Gravity Turn.
Contrail before MECO (I have a MECO on FB I think)
And the burning marshland.
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#118
by
BillyJoeBob
on 22 Apr, 2013 03:04
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CardBoardBoxProc,
Very, Very beautiful pics...
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#119
by
CardBoardBoxProcessor
on 22 Apr, 2013 03:16
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Thanks, I am surprised they came out so well. My hands were so numb I could not tell I was holding the camera and I was shivering like a low blood sugar chiwawa and i was only looking at the rocket with my own two eyes. (never seen one before) Just sort of guesstimating the camera view.
It was all worth it though!
