SpaceX Falcon 9 : Koreasat 5A : Oct. 30, 2017 : UPDATES

• #120 by Steven Pietrobon on 30 Oct, 2017 18:54
• T+20 minutes. Heading towards Africa.

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• #121 by Steven Pietrobon on 30 Oct, 2017 18:59
• AOS Gabon.
  
  T+24 minutes 45 seconds. 2 minutes. to second ignition.

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• #122 by Steven Pietrobon on 30 Oct, 2017 19:01
• Fire is out.
  
  Second ignition!

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• #123 by Steven Pietrobon on 30 Oct, 2017 19:02
• Cutoff! In good GTO.

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• #124 by Chris Bergin on 30 Oct, 2017 19:03
• Booster looks fine now. Second burn complete.

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• #125 by Steven Pietrobon on 30 Oct, 2017 19:04
• T+30 minutes. Back over Africa.

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• #126 by Steven Pietrobon on 30 Oct, 2017 19:09
• T+34 minutes 38 seconds. One minute to separation.

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• #127 by Steven Pietrobon on 30 Oct, 2017 19:10
• Separation!

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• #128 by WindnWar on 30 Oct, 2017 19:10
• successful separation after the live stream cutoff and finally came back again.
• #129 by Chris Bergin on 30 Oct, 2017 19:11
• S/C Sep!

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• #130 by JoostNL on 30 Oct, 2017 19:11
• And the steamroller keeps on rollin', congrats SpaceX and KY Sat!!!
• #131 by Steven Pietrobon on 30 Oct, 2017 19:12
• Webcast ending.
  
  Congratulations to SpaceX and KT SAT for the successful launch!

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• #132 by Chris Bergin on 30 Oct, 2017 19:12
• William Graham's article updated:
  https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/10/falcon-9-koreasat-5a-nasa-approves-flown-boosters/
  
  Thanks to Steven for the coverage via here and Chris Gebhardt for the coverage at KSC!
  
  One post each of congrats to the people involved with the launch. I'm sure you already have started that
  
  Questions, replies and such to the other threads.
• #133 by Lar on 30 Oct, 2017 19:12
• Congratulations to all involved for a successful launch, landing and deployment.
  
  I had to laugh when the presenter said "ready for another launch" about the first stage...
• #134 by zubenelgenubi on 30 Oct, 2017 19:13
• An abrupt restoration of the live web cast, just in time for spacecraft separation.
  
  Followed by the web cast sign-off!
  
  Congratulations to the entire launch campaign team!
  
  And my thanks to both Steven and Chris G for the NSF launch coverage!
• #135 by Brovane on 30 Oct, 2017 19:13
• Congrats SpaceX, the steamroller continues. 
• #136 by oldAtlas_Eguy on 30 Oct, 2017 19:13
• Congrats SpaceX!!!!
  
  #16 and counting for the year.
• #137 by Norm38 on 30 Oct, 2017 19:14
• Congrats to SpaceX on doubling the previous record for annual launches, from 8 to 16.
• #138 by ugordan on 30 Oct, 2017 19:14
• One does not simply...
  
  end the webcast before payload deployment.
• #139 by abaddon on 30 Oct, 2017 19:14
• Well done SpaceX, and congratulations to another happy customer!
  
  Toasty stage is toasty, but another landing success makes 19, is it?  Very impressive.  More importantly 16 consecutive successful missions for SpaceX customers this year.