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#60
by
GewoonLukas_
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:34
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MVac shutdown
Nominal orbit confirmed
Upcoming events:
00:49:51 2nd stage engine starts (SES-2)
00:49:56 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-2)
00:54:57 Payload deploy
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#61
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:35
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#62
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:36
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#63
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:37
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#64
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:37
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#65
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:42
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My contact in Santa Barbara, OliverVision, was not able to record a video as there was fog at his location.
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#66
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:45
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Thanks to GewoonLukas_ for covering the launch and doing the screen captures.
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#67
by
GewoonLukas_
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:46
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Thanks to GewoonLukas_ for covering the launch and doing the screen captures.
And thank you Tony for doing the tweets!
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#68
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:47
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#69
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:49
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Summary Video (launch through landing)
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#70
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:51
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Full launch coverage up to the beginning of the coast phase (t+8:30)
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#71
by
GewoonLukas_
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:52
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Mission Control
The second stage is currently not in sight of a groundstation, hence the lack of new telemetry or live views
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#72
by
gsa
on 11 Apr, 2024 14:54
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MECO
Stage-Sep
Stage 2 Ignition
Boostback-Burn start-up
This time there is a stiffening ring on the MVac. It seems to me, on the launches where a ring is not present there is some kind of torus-shaped stiffener inside the engine's bell which stays on the first stage after separation. I don't thing this stiffener was present here.
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#73
by
ZachS09
on 11 Apr, 2024 15:01
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At the time of fairing separation, there was a brief cutout of the Stage 2 camera feed.
I think it was done on purpose because usually, that would be the part where they show the fairing separation through the forward facing camera. And this is a national security mission too.
So don’t assume it was a real LOS.
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#74
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 15:03
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At the time of fairing separation, there was a brief cutout of the Stage 2 camera feed.
I think it was done on purpose because usually, that would be the part where they show the fairing separation through the forward facing camera. And this is a national security mission too.
So don’t assume it was a real LOS.
Thought the same "how convenient". But why stay on live coverage if we are not going to see deployment?
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#75
by
GewoonLukas_
on 11 Apr, 2024 15:05
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At the time of fairing separation, there was a brief cutout of the Stage 2 camera feed.
I think it was done on purpose because usually, that would be the part where they show the fairing separation through the forward facing camera. And this is a national security mission too.
So don’t assume it was a real LOS.
Thought the same "how convenient". But why stay on live coverage if we are not going to see deployment?
Yeah that's the weird thing, and they've even shown images of the payload being encapsulated.
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#76
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 15:08
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At the time of fairing separation, there was a brief cutout of the Stage 2 camera feed.
I think it was done on purpose because usually, that would be the part where they show the fairing separation through the forward facing camera. And this is a national security mission too.
So don’t assume it was a real LOS.
Thought the same "how convenient". But why stay on live coverage if we are not going to see deployment?
Yeah that's the weird thing, and they've even shown images of the payload being encapsulated.
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#77
by
GewoonLukas_
on 11 Apr, 2024 15:15
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Ignition!
Norminal
orbit confirmed
Payload deploy in 5 minutes
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#78
by
catdlr
on 11 Apr, 2024 15:16
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#79
by
GewoonLukas_
on 11 Apr, 2024 15:17
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orbit confirmed