JCC The Official SpaceX Launch/Disaster Thread

"All for one, Crew 1 for all."

 

SN8 is gonna go it looks like! I have Everyday Astronaut's stream on and some venting is happening.

 

Aww they had to abort. Alas. Hopefully tomorrow.

 

Three minutes until liftoff attempt again!

 

Woooow that was awesome! So close, all the way back to the pad!

Edit: You can watch it here

 

Oh cool, they went ahead. Lost it on landing but Musk expected that. A 1 in 3 chance I think he said.

 

There was only a 15% chance of making it through the maneuver and back to the pad at all, so this is great.

 

All they needed was a little more thrust in those last seconds.

 

I think one of the engines died right before landing.

 

There was an SLS engine test today. The nitty gritty is 2:15 to 2:22.

 

Yeah I saw they had to abort after a minute.

 

Virgin Orbit launches rocket off a 747 aircraft - CNN

The rocket flew a group of tiny satellites on behalf of NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites, or ELaNa, program, which allows high school and college students to design and assemble small satellites that NASA then pays to launch into space. The nine small satellites that Virgin Orbit flew on Sunday included temperature-monitoring satellite from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a satellite that will study how tiny particles collide in space from the University of Central Florida, and an experimental radiation-detection satellite from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
About four hours after takeoff on Saturday, Virgin Orbit confirmed in a tweet that all the satellites were "successfully deployed into our target orbit."

 

Well that's cool to read!

 

Space X to repurpose oil rigs as space ports.

 

NASA is dismantling Mobile Launch Platform 2. Utini!

Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished (msn.com)

 

SN9 may fly today. Live stream ongoing:

 

Standing down due to winds. Darn.

 

The next launch attempt is scheduled for today at 10 AM.

 

Is that 10am central time?