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Title: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 03, 2014, 01:36:09 pm

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.VH3NNTHF9zo (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.VH3NNTHF9zo)

Just in case anyone wants it. 

Pre-launch briefing sometime today, probably for your news channels tonight. 

Live coverage starts at 4:30 AM EST, but the launch window starts at 7:05 AM. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 01:16:36 pm

shameless bump in case anyone wants to watch. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 01:18:53 pm

oh, just restarted the clock at 8 minutes.

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 01:23:56 pm

aborted...

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 01:25:38 pm

Valve failed to close on the fuel line. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 01:26:13 pm

1 hour 15 minutes left in window. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 01:36:31 pm

The valve thing is a known issue that they have an easy correct for, working that, restarting clock soon assuming it works. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 01:49:14 pm

Funny which parts of the internal discussion they choose to broadcast and which they don't these days.  I'm used to more of a raw feed. 

Their attempted fix didn't work right, I knew that from the long silence in the broadcast. 

They're now 'troubleshooting'.

Sounds like they'll pick the count up at around the T minus 4 minute mark when/if they get it going.   

Well, that's it for me, other things to do now. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 02:37:08 pm

And..........it's scrubbed. 

Sounds like there might be a window tomorrow. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 02:38:07 pm

Known issue...why wasn't it fixed? 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Geo on December 04, 2014, 02:56:04 pm

Weather changed?

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 03:35:23 pm

They had a period of winds, but the big problem was a known fuel shutoff valve getting stuck open issue that had cropped up on previous Delta IV launches.  They had been able to fix them quickly in the past, but this one basically got frozen open. 

They mentioned something about a 24 hour reset at scrubbing, didn't immediately know if that meant a launch window in 24 hours, or just how long it would take to get the tanks reset to safe for engineers to go look what went wrong. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Geo on December 04, 2014, 09:58:47 pm

Better safe then sorry. Wouldn't do NASA much good if the capsule was lost due to an exploding rocket.
Btw, is it true the Orion+service module is over half less massive then the old Apollo+service module outfit? I spotted that on this comparison pic posted ln the forum (can't fknd it back atm).
IIRC, 60,000+ lbs for the Apollo versus about 30,000 lbs for the Orion.

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 10:16:28 pm

Uh...Don't know, but that sounds fishy, wouldn't need the big heavy rocket if that was the case.   


edit:http://www.space.com/5900-orion-apollo-nasa-21st-century-moonshot.html (http://www.space.com/5900-orion-apollo-nasa-21st-century-moonshot.html)

Sounds like it's almost backwards, gonna be twice the weight of apollo. 

Or someone was comparing todays attempt to an apollo fully loaded for moon.  That would be about right. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: gwillybj on December 05, 2014, 12:39:40 pm

It's up.
Due to return about 11:30am EST.

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Geo on December 05, 2014, 12:40:43 pm

Just came in on the online news here. Lift off succeeded;

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 05, 2014, 12:57:38 pm

Damn, just a tad too early for me. 

I was hoping they'd be live broadcasting from all the cameras the thing is packed with, too, but not so. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Geo on December 05, 2014, 01:06:34 pm

Quote from: Unorthodox on December 04, 2014, 10:16:28 pm

Or someone was comparing todays attempt to an apollo fully loaded for moon.  That would be about right.

Ah, sounds better indeed. ;b;
I was starting to think NASA used incredibly heavy wiring within its modules back in the days. ;)

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: gwillybj on December 05, 2014, 01:38:18 pm

Quote from: Unorthodox on December 05, 2014, 12:57:38 pm

Damn, just a tad too early for me. 

I was hoping they'd be live broadcasting from all the cameras the thing is packed with, too, but not so. 

They did. It was 7:05am EST. Of course, my internet went down at T-5 seconds, so I had to watch a replay. But I did get to see the stage separation.

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 05, 2014, 02:03:13 pm

No, Orion was capable of live broadcasting the entire mission, in fact it IS broadcasting down to mission control.  They aren't airing that, just the launch. 

It makes sense from a business perspective.  Just wishful thinking on my part.  The general public probably wouldn't even be interested. 

IF everything goes well, we'll probably see some pics and/or video of various portions of the flight as part of the media/PR spiel. 

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Unorthodox on December 05, 2014, 02:24:57 pm

Sounds like the second firing was successful and it's out of LEO. 

Can't find a good stream, though.   (one above not working for me today)

here's a video of the launch. 

Liftoff of Orion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hn8qnsucwo#ws)

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: gwillybj on December 05, 2014, 04:33:02 pm

It's back.
On to Mars.

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 05, 2014, 04:34:19 pm

 ;liftoff

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Geo on December 05, 2014, 05:24:01 pm

Quote from: gwillybj on December 05, 2014, 04:33:02 pm

It's back.
On to Mars.

I wanna see a lunar colony first! ;nod

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 05, 2014, 05:31:36 pm

I wanna see anything beyond NEO.

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Geo on December 05, 2014, 05:33:07 pm

Quote from: BUncle on December 05, 2014, 05:31:36 pm

I wanna see anything beyond NEO.

Geosynchronous satellites? :P

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 05, 2014, 05:33:33 pm

Okay, a little further than that.

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Geo on December 05, 2014, 05:35:22 pm

Don't be modest.
An L4 -or L5 based manufacturing station. :D

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 05, 2014, 05:36:31 pm

I'm game.

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Geo on December 05, 2014, 05:37:21 pm

Just read that an hour ago Orion made a save splash.

Title: Re: Orion Launch live feed.
Post by: Geo on December 05, 2014, 05:41:00 pm

testing testing

Edit: much better. :)
(adjusted my timezon settings)
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