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Anybody know what (if anything) will be attempted with 1st stage flyback testing for CRS-4?

I know the Orb3 can't do 1st stage flyback as it is a geosynchronous insertion.
 
It appears that it will, but whether or not it's another water landing or a barge landing is unclear.
 
September 04, 2014

NASA's ISS-RapidScat wind-watching scatterometer, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than Sept. 19, will be the first science payload to be robotically assembled in space since the space station itself. This image shows the instrument assembly on the left, shrouded in white. On the right is Rapid-Scat's nadir adapter, a very sophisticated bracket that points the scatterometer toward Earth so that it can record the direction and speed of ocean winds. The two pieces are stowed in the unpressurized trunk of a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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I can't find anything on my end about the antenna speed of rotation, but that looks about what one would imagine.
 
Orbiter payload addon for BrianJ's F9R.
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So..no legs / barge landing for this one. I guess they will try re-ignition of 1st stage in some fashion, as they did for the last launch.
 
I certainly hope so. For every time they try it they will get some good data out of it.
 
So I haven't been to an F9 launch since they started the water landing attempts. Has anyone here been to one and were you able to see the re-ignition of the first stage? I want to try to photograph this one if it's possible, especially given that it will be a night launch.
 
90% no go for a launch. Nominally it would lift off in less than 40 minutes but I guess that won't happen today.

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And it's scrubbed. They'll try tomorrow again at roughly the same time (1:52 AM EDT if I picked it up correctly). With a 40% chance for acceptable weather, still not great.
 
MattBaker said:
90% no go for a launch. Nominally it would lift off in less than 40 minutes but I guess that won't happen today.

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And it's scrubbed. They'll try tomorrow again at roughly the same time (1:52 AM EDT if I picked it up correctly). With a 40% chance for acceptable weather, still not great.
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Should be 40% NO-GO actually. I was surprised that it took them that long to declare defeat once it was clear that the rain shall persist... ;)
 
Galactic Penguin SST said:
Should be 40% NO-GO actually. I was surprised that it took them that long to declare defeat once it was clear that the rain shall persist... ;)
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Spaceflightnow's live updates say: " Sunday's launch opportunity is set for precisely 1:52:04 a.m. EDT (0552:04 GMT), and officials predict a 40 percent chance of favorable weather." and I think the launch commentator said the same.

And well, the rocket was already fueled so it's not like they further worked towards it. I guess the workers wanted another extra hour in their paycheck.:lol:
 
Weather at the Cape is trending better, but still enough to be concerned with...

Weather forecast for Titusville, Florida on September 21, 2014 (1 a.m.)

Partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms during the evening. Low 21C. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50%.

Time|Temps|Dew Point|Relative Humidity|Precip|Snow|Cloud cover|Pressure|Wind|Weather
1 AM|22°C|21°C|92%|5%|0%|48%|1013 hPa|8 km/h W|
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Partly Cloudy
 
Well, it's just started pouring rain again here across the state in Tampa, but so far it looks like an isolated pop-up shower.

It's funny, before this deluge decided to pop up we hadn't seen rain since the last SpaceX launch.
 
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