California rocket set for blastoff this morning

2011-03-04 01:04:07

#1

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

Just a note for those of you who will be around in the next hour.

It goes up in about an hour.
04 March 11 05:09:00 EST

Climate Change Deniers Beware Glory

Earth observing satellite Glory (launching Feb 23, 2011) will provide long-term hard data on aerosols, solar radiation and their effect on climate change.

http://www.space.com/10924-climate-chan … glory.html

04 March 11 05:09:00 EST
Watch Live
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
or
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/taurus/glory/status.html

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2011-03-04 01:10:32

#2

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

... also, on this side of the coast, they are preparing the X-37B space plane for a launch today.
They aren't telling the public much about the payload.

read more..

04 March 11 15:39:00 EST
Live status
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av026/status.html

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2011-03-04 01:14:40

#3

KuSTaV: noice; +947|6900|Gold Coast

awesome.

i'll try to remember to watch.

noice

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2011-03-04 01:52:35

#4

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

the Atlas V should be cool to watch. I really like the Delta II's. I was able to see the booster separation on the kepler launch all they from the opposite coast at night.

I even got a picture of it.. which is hard as hell, considering the speed it travels, distance (115 miles away), and at night.

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3391/3335763977_6d701dc1b4_o.jpg

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3391/3333947873_272cde15a7_z.jpg?zz=1

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2011-03-04 02:03:32

#5

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

nasa link is working better right now.. there is 40k people on the spaceflight now link
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
about five minutes

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2011-03-04 02:07:06

#6

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|7016|UK

woo, I'm watching

quality is better on their ustream

2011-03-04 02:08:45

#7

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

Taurus xl is a small candle.. but i still like watching

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2011-03-04 02:11:44

#8

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

lol.. that shit gets up and going so much faster than the shuttle

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2011-03-04 02:13:42

#9

DonFck: Hibernator; +3,227|7020|Finland

Kmar wrote:
lol.. that shit gets up and going so much faster than the shuttle

Guess they'd have to tone the liftoff thrust down a bit if there were plans to transport people in it at some point. Flattening G-forces.

I need around tree fiddy.

2011-03-04 02:14:02

#10

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

stage 2 at one hundred miles

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2011-03-04 02:14:02

#11

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|7016|UK

that was mildly exciting. i wasn't expecting it to go so fast. i guess it's smaller than i imagined, hard to gauge scale from the video

2011-03-04 02:14:39

#12

KuSTaV: noice; +947|6900|Gold Coast

ah dicks I missed it.

noice

2011-03-04 02:14:43

#13

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

it's so fucking quick... zoom.. and it's up there.

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2011-03-04 02:16:10

#14

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|7016|UK

"contingency"?!

2011-03-04 02:16:11

#15

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

DonFck wrote:
Kmar wrote:
lol.. that shit gets up and going so much faster than the shuttle
Guess they'd have to tone the liftoff thrust down a bit if there were plans to transport people in it at some point. Flattening G-forces.

absolutely.. the shuttle weighs a hell of a lot more also.. The amount of thrust is sick

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2011-03-04 02:18:09

#16

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

"LAUNCH FAILURE DECLARED by NASA launch director Omar Baez."

This is the second straight failure for the Taurus XL rocket because of a problem jettisoning the payload shroud from around the payload during ascent.

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2011-03-04 02:20:41

#17

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|7016|UK

Commentators / people talking sound pretty disappointed.

2011-03-04 02:21:14

#18

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

That's because the Taurus rocket's nose cone did not jettison as planned.

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2011-03-04 02:24:34

#19

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

Rocket-maker Orbital Sciences and NASA had spent the past two years troubleshooting and redesigning the nose cone separation system after the Orbiting Carbon Observatory was lost in February 2009. The new system has flown successfully already aboard Minotaur vehicles. But this return-to-flight for Taurus has failed because the fairing remains attached and the vehicle doesn't have enough speed to reach orbit with all that extra weight

Fuck, would have been a very helpful satellite.

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2011-03-04 02:29:08

#20

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

Taurus debuted in 1994 and has six successful flights to its credit, putting 10 satellites into orbit. It has failed three times, including now two in a row.

This is second straight failure for the Taurus booster because of problems separating the nose cone. NASA climate satellites lost in both

Gay ass Taurus rocket.. I blame California.

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2011-03-04 02:35:49

#21

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|7064|Canberra, AUS

A bit fail. A shame.

I don't keep up with launches as much as you do, Kmar, but how is NASA's record in the last few years?

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2011-03-04 02:37:40

#22

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

The only failure I remember in the last couple of years was the same rocket.. February 2009.

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2011-03-04 02:39:21

#23

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6990|132 and Bush

this one http://www.space.com/3355-nasa-climate- … ilure.html

The 972-pound (441-kg) OCO spacecraft was NASA?s first satellite built exclusively to map carbon dioxide levels on Earth and understand how humanity?s contribution of the greenhouse gas is affecting global climate change. The satellite carried a single three-channel spectrometer to make its detailed measurements and was slated to launch into a near-polar, sun-synchronous orbit that would fly about 438 miles (705 km) above Earth.

Maybe climate deniers are sabotaging them?

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2011-03-04 07:16:57

#24

11 Bravo: Banned; +965|5626|Cleveland, Ohio

hope they had insurance

2011-03-04 07:43:10

#25

13rin: Member; +977|6868

Kmar wrote:
Taurus debuted in 1994 and has six successful flights to its credit, putting 10 satellites into orbit. It has failed three times, including now two in a row.
This is second straight failure for the Taurus booster because of problems separating the nose cone. NASA climate satellites lost in both
Gay ass Taurus rocket.. I blame California.

Me too. Bring that shit back to Florida.

I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.

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