SpaceX FH : Falcon Heavy Demo : Feb. 6, 2018 : Updates

[Rocket Science]

Tighten your seat-belt and enjoy the ride...

[russianhalo117]

RIP Starman stream

they might restart it later.

[russianhalo117]

Stream is back up. Unless it's a replay

stream cut off at exactly 2 hours after it started.

[CorvusCorax]

Live view now seems to be stuck on a completely blank image.

Webcast just ended!

Rewatching the last minutes before where it was stuck, it was only "almost stuck" with very small lighting/reflection changes. Looks like it arrested its rotation, maybe prior to prop settling for the 3rd firing ?


edit: attached two screenshots of the "stuck" image, it rotated ever so slightly and gradualy

[Comga]

Stream is back up. Unless it's a replay

Do you have a link to what you are watching?
(Sorry for the non-update bit it wouldn't be seen in the comments.....)

[Rocket Science]

It (the burn) should be shortly...

[Steven Pietrobon]

T+5 hours and 45 minutes. 970 km, 7.37 km/s. Watch the orbit at N2YO below.

http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=43205

[Flying Beaver]

Perigee (180km) over Columbia in 11 minutes.

[rickl]

Starman has over 3 million views at the moment.  That could explain the dropouts.

[oiorionsbelt]

I response to Tim Fernholz from Quartz, Elon said they might be able to catch Dragon-2 the same way they plan to catch fairings. This was the most surprising answer, IMHO.

Yes, I caught that too.
 "If NASA wants us too"

[Steven Pietrobon]

T+5 hours 50 minutes. 500 km, 7.61 km/s. Looks like the burn will be near Hawaii. (Oops, I was looking in the wrong position in the map).

[envy887]

T+5 hours 50 minutes. 500 km, 7.61 km/s. Looks like the burn will be near Hawaii.

The Tesla isn't in that picture. It's near Mexico now.

N2YO is getting hammered, not loading fast. But here is where the ground track crosses the Equator.

[Flying Beaver]

Coming up on perigee.

[Steven Pietrobon]

T+5 hours 57 minutes. 294 km, 7.73 km/s. Perigee is at 187.7 km, which is when the burn should occur.

[Craftyatom]

It (the burn) should be shortly...

I live outside Phoenix, followed the track on N2YO, and saw it overhead!  It looked like it was venting (made it very apparent), which I thought was odd, until the gas suddenly got much brighter and trailed behind the object, carried on that way for 10-20 seconds, and then disappeared completely (non-uniform, so not likely as it crossed over into nighttime - I could still see the object afterwards)!  I think the burn may have happened at about 02:30-02:32 UTC, based on my watch, and lasted somewhere between 10 and 20 seconds.

Unfortunately I don't have a good camera, and didn't think to grab my tablet because it was relatively dim until the burn started.  I'm still amazed I got a view!

[WindnWar]

I've not got my congrats in here yet, but watching it live from Playalinda beach, what an awesome experience. So proud of all the hard work so many SpaceX members put into this to give us one amazing day.

So happy it was so successful. It is truly a memory I will never forget!

[NWade]

T+5 hours 57 minutes. 294 km, 7.73 km/s. Perigee is at 187.7 km, which is when the burn should occur.

 
I think you have to look for the little icon of the vehicle on the map. Which in this case they've made a car, appropriately. :-D
 

[WmThomas]

The starman youtube page says TMI was successful.

[clairm]

The live view is still up directly on the SpaceX site.

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Reports came in that the Earth escape burn might have been seen over southern California around 02:30 UTC.