News Felix Baumgartner, 23 miles balloon jump.

[orb]

The YouTube video stream embedded above is live now.

 

[Izack]

They're on weather hold at the moment; a bit over an hour until the earliest launch time.

 

[Gerdih]

for when the jump is scheduled?

 

[palebluevoice]

for when the jump is scheduled?

GMT 14(I believe spain is +2)

Either way, the earliest launch is ten minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vkJ5ItzEq3M

 

[MattBaker]

A tweet of them just talks about waiting out the wind and launch at 11:30.
Since they're Red Bull who can't mark which time zone they're referring to I speculate they're referring to MDT (Mountain Daylight Time), but that would be 17:30 GMT.

The Youtube video just confirmed that one...

 

[orb]

Red Bull Stratos via Twitter:

Felix is now in his trailer getting his pressurized suit put on by Mike Todd. #stratos #livejump pic.twitter.com/hUbs09qf

Broadcast to begin currently at 17:00 UTC.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Twitter says 11:15MDT

 

[MattBaker]

11:15 MDT is 17:15 GMT/UTC.
So they launch at 17:15 GMT/UTC and the broadcast starts fifteen minutes earlier.

 

[Urwumpe]

1h 6 minutes until launch, according to the live part of the website.

 

[kuddel]

For everyone in (central) europe with a digital Sat receiver:
Servus-TV[1] is broadcasting live (it's german language TV, so maybe not so much fun for english native speakers).

ServusTV HD
Satellit: Astra 19,2° Ost
Transponder 7
Frequenz: 11.303 GHz
Polarisierung: horizontal
Symbolrate: 22.000
FEC: 2/3
SID: 4914
PID: 4920

ServusTV SD
Satellit: Astra 19,2° Ost
Frequenz: 12.663 GHz
Polarisierung: horizontal
Symbolrate: 22.000
FEC: 5/6
SID: 1110
PID: 13110

Just to inform you.

/Kuddel

[1] a Red Bull Media House GmbH, what a coincidence

 

[Urwumpe]

Its also on my digital cable TV, but sadly, I lack the decoder for the (IMHO illegal) basic encryption used by the cable TV provider here.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Anyone know how long between launch and jump?

 

[Urwumpe]

Luckily, my mobile phone can do youtube properly...

 

[MattBaker]

Anyone know how long between launch and jump?

2 1/2, maybe 3 hours. The free fall should take 5 minutes and 35 seconds, then 15 minutes on the parachute and after that hours of press conferences, interviews and Austrian beer...

 

[kuddel]

... and after that hours of press conferences, interviews and Austrian beer...

I have the strange feeling that at least one energy-drink will also be served :lol:

 

[orb]

SCRUB due to gusty winds.

 

[MattBaker]

ABORT for today because of winds.

They will try tomorrow again, but there seems to be more winds in the next days...
Might consider calling themself RedBull StratosX (bad SpaceX puns...)

 

[FADEC]

Abort. Too windy

---------- Post added at 05:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:44 PM ----------

But the live HD stream is awesome.

 

[mahdavi3d]

Felix Baumgartner's daring plan to leap from space delayed by strong wind

 

[MattBaker]

Tomorrow's weather is to bad for a launch, NET Thursday.