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Some funky music to start four launches in 24 hours!
Make that 3.......Blue Origin scrub for today with ground infrastructure issue.

GPS III SV-01
CSO 1
NROL 71
GSAT 7A
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Live coverage has started.
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Our host. Talking about GPS and expendable launch.
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Some funky music to start four launches in 24 hours!
Make that 3.......Blue Origin scrub for today with ground infrastructure issue.

GPS III SV-01
CSO 1
NROL 71
GSAT 7A

CSO-1 is delayed 24 hours.

https://twitter.com/Arianespace/status/1075020170127728640

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T-12 minutes. Talking about Falcon 9. No fins and legs today.
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Guys.  This is the update thread for GPS III-SV01 ONLY!  Stop with the updates on other flights.
« Last Edit: 12/18/2018 01:23 pm by ChrisGebhardt »

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T-11 minutes. Talking about fairing.
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T-10mins.  Final fueling ops continue without issue.

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T-10 minutes.
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T-9 minutes. Second stage is fully fuelled.
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Range is GREEN.  ULW trending positive.

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T-8 minutes. Upper level winds trending in a positive direction.
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HOLD!

First stage LOX approach thermal limits.


ABORT and SCRUB.
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Hold!
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T-11 minutes. Talking about fairing.
The host noted that this fairing has extra thermal protection on the tip, due to the increased heating on this launch trajectory.

Also, HOLD HOLD HOLD!
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Had an abort condition. Will update as soon as they get the information.
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24hr recycle.

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Clock back to T-15 minutes.

Scrub for today! 24 hour recycle.
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For those who missed it upstream, the abort was called when LOX loading was reaching thermal limits on Stage 1.

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