Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - Let's Get Restarted In Here Party Thread (Read 285563 times)

dlapine · « **Reply #660 on:** 12/03/2013 09:53 pm »

Fantastic! Great job!

Helodriver · « **Reply #661 on:** 12/03/2013 09:54 pm »

They need to get their money back from the tracking camera operator. How is it that tracking could have been so bad? The onboard video, particularly the thin blue line of sunset made up for it though!

ThereIWas3 · « **Reply #662 on:** 12/03/2013 09:54 pm »

Just after 2nd stage sep I went outside and looked to the southeast (from northeast Florida), and sure enough there was a thin contrail wandering off eastwards. A whole lot less smoke than STS. I wasn't sure I would be able to see it from here since a launch to geo-stationary would not go so far north as an STS/ISS launch.

robertross · « **Reply #663 on:** 12/03/2013 09:55 pm »

That was edge of your seat entertainment!!

Great launch SpaceX.
Fingers crossed for successful payload sep!

BrightLight · « **Reply #664 on:** 12/03/2013 09:55 pm »

SpaceX does have unicorns!

Lars_J · « **Reply #665 on:** 12/03/2013 09:55 pm »

Quote from: Marine_Mustang on 12/03/2013 09:35 pm

Was that a shot from an infrared camera? Haven't seen that before, have we?

The first F9 v1.1 launch showed those views too, just not as frequently. There appears to be two different IR cameras looking at the MVac.

QuantumG · « **Reply #666 on:** 12/03/2013 09:55 pm »

At least two times in there where I said "uh oh!" but nothing happened. *whew*

cro-magnon gramps · « **Reply #667 on:** 12/03/2013 09:57 pm »

Quote from: QuantumG on 12/03/2013 09:55 pm

At least two times in there where I said "uh oh!" but nothing happened. *whew*

only two... your doing good ;-)

Lars_J · « **Reply #668 on:** 12/03/2013 09:57 pm »

Quote from: QuantumG on 12/03/2013 09:55 pm

At least two times in there where I said "uh oh!" but nothing happened. *whew*

The heavy compression of the tracking camera with some dropouts and weird color blocks sure did make it look more exciting.

Robotbeat · « **Reply #669 on:** 12/03/2013 09:57 pm »

When is the restart supposed to happen?

AncientU · « **Reply #670 on:** 12/03/2013 09:57 pm »

Congrats to all at SpaceX.

QuantumG · « **Reply #671 on:** 12/03/2013 09:58 pm »

At T+27 minutes, 2nd stage engine will reignite for ~1 minute. At T+33 minutes, spacecraft separation.

Robotbeat · « **Reply #672 on:** 12/03/2013 09:59 pm »

Quote from: QuantumG on 12/03/2013 09:58 pm

At T+27 minutes, 2nd stage engine will reignite for ~1 minute. At T+33 minutes, spacecraft separation.

So about 6:08pm Eastern (local time). Thanks!

Lars_J · « **Reply #673 on:** 12/03/2013 09:59 pm »

Woo!

Nice launch... Some truly beautiful shots this time - only marred by by the condensation/spots on the rocket-cam.

Now I just hope the restart goes off without a problem.

docmordrid · « **Reply #674 on:** 12/03/2013 10:00 pm »

BEAUTIFUL NIGHT LAUNCH!!!

Prober · « **Reply #675 on:** 12/03/2013 10:00 pm »

Quote from: QuantumG on 12/03/2013 09:58 pm

At T+27 minutes, 2nd stage engine will reignite for ~1 minute. At T+33 minutes, spacecraft separation.

great, thx for the correction thought it was 37min. Hard to track

deltaV · « **Reply #676 on:** 12/03/2013 10:01 pm »

Quote from: QuantumG on 12/03/2013 09:58 pm

At T+27 minutes, 2nd stage engine will reignite for ~1 minute. At T+33 minutes, spacecraft separation.

T=+27m = 6:08 local time if the launch was in fact at 5:41.

TrueBlueWitt · « **Reply #677 on:** 12/03/2013 10:01 pm »

To the person who got his post deleted on the update thread who thought he saw "cold gas thrusters firing?".

I believe I read somewhere they were going to re-orient and see how far along S1 could get re-entering tail first(with no retro propulsion) before disintegrating.

So, yes, you very well may have seen the Cold Gas Thrusters firing.

Rocket Science · « **Reply #678 on:** 12/03/2013 10:01 pm »

Quick Start did the trick... One shot up all 9 holes...

Congrats well done SpaceX!

Shanuson · « **Reply #679 on:** 12/03/2013 10:02 pm »

Congratulation to SpaceX, especially launching 2 (or even 3) rockets at the same time, some of them even invisible and only the flame visible *kidding*

Nice boring launch after all those holds in the last attempts