SCRUB: SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - SES-8 - Nov. 28 - SECOND LAUNCH ATTEMPT UPDATES

[Seer]

I think they will wait until tomorrow. Not enough time for engineering team to analyse data to give a proper decision today.

[Chris Bergin]

Clock recycled. Still waiting to hear if they can reattempt.

[Prober]

Reset to 13:00

[Jim]

It never lifted off, hence it was a T minus time. Plus count only starts once the vehicle is in flight.   

[Ben the Space Brit]

It never lifted off, hence it was a T minus time. Plus count only starts once the vehicle is in flight.

Not for SpaceX - T=0 is MEI and lift-off occurs at T+3s

[tigerade]

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk

Launch aborted by autosequence due to slower than expected thrust ramp. Seems ok on closer inspection. Cycling countdown.

[ugordan]

It never lifted off, hence it was a T minus time. Plus count only starts once the vehicle is in flight.

Not for SpaceX - T=0 is MEI and lift-off occurs at T+3s

No. Jim is right.

[Ben the Space Brit]

It never lifted off, hence it was a T minus time. Plus count only starts once the vehicle is in flight.

Not for SpaceX - T=0 is MEI and lift-off occurs at T+3s

No. Jim is right.

Funny, that's not the way it's been for every single Falcon-9 launch I've seen to date.

Now, I'm willing to accept that the real MET starts at lift-off, but the clock shows T+0:00:03 at launch.

[edit]
But this is a pointless argument for the General Discussion thread. Back to the live coverage.

[Chris Bergin]

Still plenty of time in the window.

LOX back into topping.

[Dave G]

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk

Launch aborted by autosequence due to slower than expected thrust ramp. Seems ok on closer inspection. Cycling countdown.

From twitter:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk

[Oersted]

I uploaded hi-res video of the abort:

[Chris Bergin]

I uploaded hi-res video of the abort:

Good work there.

And I know a lot of people aren't at their home PCs today, but if anyone is able to take screenshots (JPG), please add them during the business end of the count and launch/ascent to compliment my own, otherwise it'll be a bit of a struggle if it's just me

[ugordan]

I uploaded hi-res video of the abort:

For those wondering at what T count ignition occurs on F9, look at the timestamps directly from the camera in the lower left.

[Chris Bergin]

I'm obessed with her venting, but it's nominal.

[Chris Bergin]

Heh....speaking of venting....

[Prober]

[PahTo]

Thanks to Oersted (and NSF) for that--I thought I saw TEB green and turbines spinning.  Sounds as though they're going for it again (good comms this time btw)--all the more amazing considering they doused the entire aft with water.
Is there enough water in the deluge tank for another try/is the tank plumbed?

[catdlr]

Chris, so the count needs to start no later than 25 min after the hour to make the window?

[russianhalo117]

Thanks to Oersted (and NSF) for that--I thought I saw TEB green and turbines spinning.  Sounds as though they're going for it again (good comms this time btw)--all the more amazing considering they doused the entire aft with water.
Is there enough water in the deluge tank for another try/is the tank plumbed?

They just finished topping a short bit ago. That was announced on the net that Rainbird topping complete.

[Chris Bergin]

Wow. Orbital retweet someone saying "we should find out in a few minutes whether such an abort is genius or folly."

Not very clever.