GPS 2F-1 on Delta IV from Cape Canaveral

[SiberianTiger]

EDIT: There's a spacing issue with the title. How do I fix it?

Edit your 1st post, click 'Adavanced', edit the caption, save.

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Countdown clocks are now ticking, tanking will begin in about 10 minutes. If this shot doesn't go tonight, it won't go until later in the week because it takes about a day or two to reconfigure AMR for flight ops. (in this case, Atlantis's landing).

Do they have a priority chain, like, say, a shuttle over a govt's launch, etc., ending with SpaceX' stuff?

 

[Star Voyager]

Manned spaceflight takes absolute precedence over anything at the Cape. I do know that much, although my bets are that ULA launches are over SpaceX. Thanks for the thread title tip, by the way.

 

[bwog]

Any live web cams up?

 

[DaveS]

Any live web cams up?

Spaceflightnow.com has a live feed from a camera mounted the SLC-37B MST: http://www.livestream.com/spaceflightnow

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Hold called inside T-10 seconds due an unspecified problem. It is unclear right now whether another shot within tonight's launch window is possible, but based on my knowledge, I'd say, it's scrub for a minimum of 48 hrs to service the ROFIs.

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Detanking is in work by the launch team, so it is a scrub for tonight. More info will be posted once it is available.

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The next launch attempt will not be until after Atlantis lands and concludes its mission, so my guess that the next launch attempt won't be until the weekend/next week at the earliest.

 

[tblaxland]

From Spaceflightnow:

Computers detected a possible problem with the steering system on one of the twin solid rocket boosters.
...
A joint statement to the press from the Air Force and United Launch Alliance said "an anomalous data signature" from the steering system triggered the countdown's abort.
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The earliest that launch could be rescheduled is Thursday night. That day's window would extend from 11:00 to 11:19 p.m. EDT.

 

[Star Voyager]

Just a bit of history, this Delta launch will occur in the same month the first Thor-Delta launched 50 years ago (specifically, May 13):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_1

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

NASASpaceFlight: "Scrubbed again: Delta IV with GPS IIF SV-1 suffers pad abort".

Video of pad abort:
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L9PwGXYHxg"]YouTube- Delta IV GPS IIF SV1 on pad abort[/nomedia]

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Fuelling has begun for tonight’s 11:00 PM EDT/tomorrow's 3:00 AM GMT launch attempt.

Spaceflight Now's Mission Status Center.

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Live views of Delta IV from KSC webcams (will refresh every 45 seconds):

 

[Star Voyager]

Live views of Delta IV from KSC webcams (will refresh every 45 seconds)

How do you do that?

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

How do you do that?

Easy, just embed the link to the webcam as an image!

 

[Star Voyager]

Live views of Delta IV from CCAFS webcams (will refresh every 45 seconds)

Fixed that for you. By the way, where did you get the link (from Spaceflightnow or ULA)?

 

[orb]

Fixed that for you. By the way, where did you get the link (from Spaceflightnow or ULA)?

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/video/
Channel 11 and 12 there.

 

[Star Voyager]

Not sure if I'm doing it right:

mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 2.jpg

EDIT: Well, I can't get it, but here's a useful link:

http://countdown.ksc.nasa.gov/elv/index-ae.html

 

[orb]

Not sure if I'm doing it right:

mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 2.jpg

EDIT: Well, I can't get it, but here's a useful link:

http://countdown.ksc.nasa.gov/elv/index-ae.html

Just remove ".jpg" at the end of url, and place it between [url][/url] tags, like:
mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 1
mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 2
mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 3

 

[Star Voyager]

Just remove ".jpg" at the end of url, and place it between [url][/url] tags, like:
mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 1
mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 2
mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 3

[url]mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/aevideochannel1[/url]

EDIT: No, still not working. What the heck am I doing wrong!!!!?????

 

[orb]

[url]mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/aevideochannel1[/url]

EDIT: No, still not working. What the heck am I doing wrong!!!!?????

This time you placed [noparse][/noparse] tags in the post, so the link wouldn't be parsed even with [url][/url] tags (url tags are enclosed in noparse here, so they are displayed as they are written - you need to remove noparse tags to allow parsing either BB-code tags or smilies), and removed spaces from the URL. The best would be if you can see the source of the post, i.e. not like in WYSIWYG editor, but with all BB code tags displayed. You can try by switching editor mode in the editor (top right corner), so editor remains the same, or change the default editor in User Control Panel - Options.

 

[Star Voyager]

[URL="mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 3"]mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 3

EDIT: That's it :compbash:! Pete can handle that because this is too complicated for me. On the bright side, everything is going smoothly in the count and weather is still 80% "go". Here are some mission stats:

The 349th Delta rocket launch since 1960
The 13th Delta 4 rocket mission since 2002
The 11th Delta 4 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral
The 6th Medium+ 4,2 configuration to fly
The 6th Delta 4 under the ULA banner
The 2nd Delta 4 launch this year
The 61st GPS satellite to launch
The 50th GPS launch on a Delta rocket
The 1st GPS Block 2F satellite
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EDIT: Okay, NOW I give up :beathead:!

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Weather officer reports that the weather is now 90% "go".

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T-5 minutes and holding.

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All flight controllers poll "ready"!

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Spacecraft now on internal power. T-5 minutes and counting. I'll be back from down the street to watch.

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Perfect liftoff as seen here in Tampa! At T+ 7 minutes, everything is looking good!

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SECO 1 has occured!

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RL-10 engine now burning for the second time out of 3.

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SECO 2 has now occured. I will now go to bed. Good night, and good luck.

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GPS 2F-1 reached its proper orbit and seperated from the Delta IV upper stage at 2:33 a.m. EDT. Great job ULA/USAF team!

 

[SiberianTiger]

Congrats!
Since today, I've joined the army of GPS users, by the way. :lol:

 

[bwog]

I saw it launch on SpaceFlightNow. The chat was... interesting. I was looking at the chat half the time and people were like "What planet is it going to" and someone said "A piece of debris hit my dad". People are so strange.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

[URL="mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 3"]mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae video channel 3

EDIT: That's it :compbash:! Pete can handle that because this is too complicated for me.

SLC-37B, now minus Delta IV!

I bet you're wondering how I did that, aren't you?

Well, it's magic! :rofl:

No, it's not really, the answer is simple - we're using different links, both showing the same thing.

You are trying to embed a live video stream as an image - which won't work. I am merely embedding a .jpg image of the stream that refreshes every 45 seconds!

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Spaceflight Now: "First-of-its-kind satellite for GPS launched into space".

NASASpaceFlight: "Delta IV finally launches with GPS IIF SV-1 following scrubs".

Launch photos from Spaceflight Now are here and here.

Launch photos from the KSC MOCOP Twitter account:

Hi-res version.

Hi-res version.

Launch video:​

"Long-range" launch video from the KSC MOCOP Twitter account:​