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#200
by
Chris Bergin
on 14 Mar, 2016 08:52
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#201
by
NovaSilisko
on 14 Mar, 2016 08:53
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So I guess it's just to twitter to keep track now?
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#202
by
redliox
on 14 Mar, 2016 08:54
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So far so good. I'm under the impression it's in high orbit and just needs to initiate the escape burn in a few hours. The biggest benefit is the Russians will have European tracking to assist, which seemed to be the Achilles' heel in their prior attempts.
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#203
by
asmi
on 14 Mar, 2016 08:55
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Excited about this first step.
I love those live-right-after-the-launch interviews. People are showing their human side - i.e. emotional one!
Glad the mission is safely in orbit! Now I gotta head to work
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#204
by
Star One
on 14 Mar, 2016 08:58
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Only 12(?) hours to go before we know if this has all gone well...
Where are you getting 12 hours from, 10.5 hours was what I saw quoted for this mission?
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#205
by
Kaputnik
on 14 Mar, 2016 08:58
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Thank goodness for NSF. The ESA webcast was all a bit Eurovision Song Contest, I thought.
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#206
by
_INTER_
on 14 Mar, 2016 08:59
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That face where you really don't want to be on a grin-a-thon of a chat show and would prefer to be following your mission during this critical phase.
He was definitely distracted during his "chat"
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#207
by
asmi
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:00
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Thank goodness for NSF. The ESA webcast was all a bit Eurovision Song Contest, I thought.
Yea, I watched both ESA and Roscosmos webcasts on separate monitors - this gave much better idea of what was going on. Also noted that ESA's video had about 30 seconds delay to Roscosmos YT stream.
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#208
by
NovaSilisko
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:02
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Only 12(?) hours to go before we know if this has all gone well...
Where are you getting 12 hours from, 10.5 hours was what I saw quoted for this mission?
I saw 09:31 GMT for launch and 21:29 GMT for spacecraft AOS from an ESA page. It may have been wrong.
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#209
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:08
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While we're waiting for the official replay, here's one that shows the launch from the Russian feed.
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#210
by
Semmel
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:11
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It bugs me that ESA is not capable of doing good webcasts. Especially since I am from Europe and I want my home to do good. Sooo many points that can be done better. Many are already pointed out on this thread.
Congratulations to the successful launch though! If I remember correctly, roscosmos has not thrown anything at Mars in ages successfully. I which everyone the best of luck for travel and arrival.
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#211
by
Svetoslav
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:12
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Now in Briz-M we trust!
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#212
by
Svetoslav
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:14
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Congratulations to the successful launch though! If I remember correctly, roscosmos has not thrown anything at Mars in ages successfully. I which everyone the best of luck for travel and arrival.
I need to point out that it's still too early to classify the flight as successful. By "Successful" Russians mean that only Proton-M rocket worked well, but the same is early to be said about the Briz-M upper stage.
Thus said, Phobos-Grunt was deemed successful after launch (because Zenit rocket worked well). And the same would apply to Mars 96 - its three staged Proton Rocket also worked well, but the upper Blok-D failed.
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#213
by
vapour_nudge
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:23
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Thanks to Steven Pietrobon, I watched the thread with Steven's updates as I only had HSPA access available and still got enough info. It is 6:20pm here so I might see if I can keep tabs on the next two burns. I hope to wake up to good news in the morning. (UTC + 8:00 here)
Still to go:
+01 Hour 38 minutes Second Briz M Ignition
+03 Hours 52 minutes Third Briz M Ignition
+10 Hours 16 minutes Fourth Briz M Ignition
+10 Hours 41 minutes ExoMars Separation
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#214
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:26
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Copyright ESA–Stephane Corvaja
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#215
by
Mammutti
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:28
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Full Russian webcast.
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#216
by
Star One
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:42
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Thanks to Steven Pietrobon, I watched the thread with Steven's updates as I only had HSPA access available and still got enough info. It is 6:20pm here so I might see if I can keep tabs on the next two burns. I hope to wake up to good news in the morning. (UTC + 8:00 here)
Still to go:
+01 Hour 38 minutes Second Briz M Ignition
+03 Hours 52 minutes Third Briz M Ignition
+10 Hours 16 minutes Fourth Briz M Ignition
+10 Hours 41 minutes ExoMars Separation
I suppose the really big nail biter will be the large gap between third and fourth burns?
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#217
by
vapour_nudge
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:50
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Thanks to Steven Pietrobon, I watched the thread with Steven's updates as I only had HSPA access available and still got enough info. It is 6:20pm here so I might see if I can keep tabs on the next two burns. I hope to wake up to good news in the morning. (UTC + 8:00 here)
Still to go:
+01 Hour 38 minutes Second Briz M Ignition
+03 Hours 52 minutes Third Briz M Ignition
+10 Hours 16 minutes Fourth Briz M Ignition
+10 Hours 41 minutes ExoMars Separation
20 minutes until the commencement of the second Briz M burn
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#218
by
Svetoslav
on 14 Mar, 2016 09:50
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It's rarely mentioned on the web, but on this mission we're flying a Bulgarian instrument as part of the Russian FREND suit. The instrument is called Lulin-Mo and it's similar to the instrument we flew aboard unsuccessful Mars 96 and Phobos-Grunt missions.
There will be a press conference in Sofia, but I won't attend because I'll miss information about Briz-M burns.
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#219
by
vapour_nudge
on 14 Mar, 2016 10:09
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Thanks to Steven Pietrobon, I watched the thread with Steven's updates as I only had HSPA access available and still got enough info. It is 6:20pm here so I might see if I can keep tabs on the next two burns. I hope to wake up to good news in the morning. (UTC + 8:00 here)
Still to go:
+01 Hour 38 minutes Second Briz M Ignition
+03 Hours 52 minutes Third Briz M Ignition
+10 Hours 16 minutes Fourth Briz M Ignition
+10 Hours 41 minutes ExoMars Separation
20 minutes until the commencement of the second Briz M burn
Second Briz M ignition
