Falcon 9 at Cape Canaveral

[SiberianTiger]

T-1!!!!

 

[n122vu]

Gahhh!!! The stream keeps dropping for me Nerve-wracking!

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Here we go! Good luck, Elon!

 

[SiberianTiger]

Go Falcon!

 

[Jarvitä]

Abort on engine ignition.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Ooops!.. Scrub!!!

 

[AirSimming]

I knew it. I don't know why but for some reason I knew it.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Okay... The Stick, at least, flew. :dry:

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Aww, so close, but yet so far! Awaiting word whether we'll have another attempt today, or whether we'll have to wait until tomorrow.
I really wouldn’t like to be the first guy to approach that thing – "never return to a lit firework"! :lol:

 

[AirSimming]

Okay... The Stick, at least, flew. :dry:

:rofl:

For that particular reason, those delays and scrubs, I really hate space flight. Proofs we are far away from turning space flight into what commercial aviation is like.

 

[astrosammy]

"Gee, I thought we'd be a lot higher at MECO!"

 

[AirSimming]

Doesn't look promising to me for a todays launch. The window will close in 20 minutes from now

 

[SiberianTiger]

What kind of ignition system this Merlin engine uses?

 

[DaveS]

Doesn't look promising to me for a todays launch. The window will close in 20 minutes from now

Nope. Window runs from 1500UTC to 1900UTC. 1 hour and 19 minutes remaining.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Doesn't look promising to me for a todays launch. The window will close in 20 minutes from now

They aren't targeting a particular orbit, so what is the limiting condition for the window they have?

 

[orb]

Doesn't look promising to me for a todays launch. The window will close in 20 minutes from now

I think there are 1 hour 16 minutes left in the window.

 

[AirSimming]

The launch window was planned to last tunil 02:00 pm EDT. They've extended it to 03:00 pm EDT obviously.

 

[Jarvitä]

The clocks on the webcast are back at T - 15:00. Possible countdown recycle.

 

[SiberianTiger]

I believe they have to:
1) Find out what exactly happened;
2) Recycle the launch systems.

My bet is: no another launch attempt today.

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Spacex has 9 engines, all must be within a number of specifications, pressure temperature etc.

The ghost of N-1 is arising! :blink:

 

[Spike Spiegel]

I prefer the automated abort to the uncontrolled explosion. This is okay with me.