Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 - CRS-8 Dragon - April 8, 2016 - UPDATES  (Read 285592 times)

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T-40 minutes.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Next is the readliness poll for prop loading. All go right now. Readiness will initiate.
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SpaceX is apparently not broadcasting until just a couple of minutes before launch.

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Go to initiate propellant load.
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Readiness is go.
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T-35 minutes. Falcon 9 Tanks vented for propellant load.

Terminal count has started.
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T-35 mins. Fuel flowing.
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SpaceX is apparently not broadcasting until just a couple of minutes before launch.

SpaceX on Twitter:

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Propellant load underway for Falcon 9. Launch webcast will go live in about 10 minutes spacex.com/webcast

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Stage 1 and 2 flow rates nominal.
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T-30 minutes.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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T-30 minutes.
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The real T-30 minutes! Without a clock, I make approximations.
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Dragon graphic.
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Elon screenshot from the ASDS.
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SpaceX funky music has started.
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T-25 minutes.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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I'll stay with NASA TV.

ISS has just passed overhead.
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SpaceX General Counsel: tracking well toward launch.


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ISS just flew overhead Cape.

One second window. Launch at 4:43:32 pm EDT.
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Stage 2 fuel closing out.
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