Rocket launches LIVE.

Hey Rod,
From my old stomping ground this site is so cool.!!
Craig has hung around for so many years when other sites folded! I was a senior mod on Vetrun for so many years!

http://www.apsattv.com/

Ariane 5 flight VA20 live stream. Not sure when they will start broadcasting.

http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-va240/

Ariane 5 Launch from early this morning.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/0XJDKPcrGqc[/video]

Simmo said:

Hey Rod,
From my old stomping ground this site is so cool.!!
Craig has hung around for so many years when other sites folded! I was a senior mod on Vetrun for so many years!

http://www.apsattv.com/

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Thanks Simmo. Very interesting.

Keep 'em coming lads! catching up with it all..when Ican...fascinated! :Y: :Y:

Rocket Lab have tweeted the following info about Tuesday's aborted launch:
Analysis of yesterday's launch attempt is complete. Launch was aborted due to rising liquid oxygen temperatures - the result of a LOx chilldown bleed schedule not compatible with the warm conditions of the day. The fix is simple. Next attempt tomorrow!

Here's hoping.

Thanks for the update grubstake.

Blue Origin had a test flight yesterday of the New Shepard Rocket, launching the Crew Capsule 2.0 for the first time. Not sure why it wasn't broadcast live.

A little background on Blue Origin. It is owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder and owner of Amazon.com. They have been doing some very cool rocket developments including landing and reusing the rocket. They have been around a fair while but moving at a much slower pace than Spacex. Their motto explains the slower progress. "Gradatim Ferociter", Latin for "Step by Step, Ferociously".

They did claim to have the first rocket into space to re land but in reality they barely went to the edge of space and back. Meanwhile SpaceX is launching commercial payloads into LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and re landing the first stage. Plus... they did it first.

Their rockets, New Glenn and New Shepard are named for famous astronauts.
It is not clear in the video but the crew capsule fires rockets at the last second to soften the landing impact.

For more info search "Blue Origin" on Youtube.

This is the caption to the video.

New Shepard flew again for the seventh time on Dec. 12, 2017, from Blue Origins West Texas Launch Site. Known as Mission 7 (M7), the mission featured the next-generation booster and the first flight of Crew Capsule 2.0. Crew Capsule 2.0 features large windows, measuring 2.4 feet wide, 3.6 feet tall. M7 also included 12 commercial, research and education payloads onboard. Crew Capsule 2.0 reached an apogee of 322,405 feet AGL/326,075 feet MSL (98.27 kilometers AGL/99.39 kilometers MSL). The booster reached an apogee of 322,032 feet AGL/325,702 feet MSL (98.16 kilometers AGL/99.27 kilometers MSL).

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/CSDHM6iuogI[/video]

In other News. SpaceX have again delayed the launch of the Falcon 9 SpX CRS-13 mission again due to "the detection of particles in the 2nd stage fuel system." Muche better to delay a few days and get it right than to have an incident which would delay every launch for many months. Now scheduled to launch on the 16th. This is the 13th supply mission from Spacex to the ISS.

This delay pushes other launches back, such as the super secret ZUMA launch which has been delayed by many months. Payload is an unknown cargo for the American government. Read.... spy satellite? It also delays they much anticipated initial Falcon Heavy launch as the launch pad has to be modified after the Zuma launch to accept the much heavier Falcon Heavy.

The Electron launch, which was aborted yesterday, from Kiwi's Rocketlab is set for tomorrow at 1230 PM NSW time.

Maybe I should start posting times in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), which all the launch companies use. It gets confusing trying to convert the launch site times to our local time. LOL

A interesting comparison between the Boeing/NASA SLS, Space Launch System and the BFR, Big Falcon Rocket.

Bring on the competition. Only makes for a more interesting future. I like the one statement that even if the Spacex schedule is delayed by ten years, they will still get to mars at the same time as NASA.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/wePA66dk5KQ[/video]

SpaceX - CRS13 Pre-Launch Press. A preview of the Falcon 9 launch tomorrow. Both the first stage and the Dragon capsule have flown into space before.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/Z6AKvfYpeKk[/video]

Rocketlab will make another attempt to launch the Electron today about 1220 pm NSW time.

http://www.rocketlabusa.com/live-stream

http://www.rocketlabusa.com/live-stream

[video=480,360]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqpCFDQLWrE[/video]

UODATE. Looking like a 1.30 launch.

Bugger. Canned again due to high winds at high altitude.

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#StillTesting launch attempt waved off for the day due to increasing upper level winds. Next attempt tomorrow, pending optimal weather!

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Ramjet said:

Bugger. Canned again due to high winds at high altitude.

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#StillTesting launch attempt waved off for the day due to increasing upper level winds. Next attempt tomorrow, pending optimal weather!

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You would be better off watching the rockets launching from North Korea. 8)

Cheers

Doug

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Ramjet said:

Bugger. Canned again due to high winds at high altitude.

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#StillTesting launch attempt waved off for the day due to increasing upper level winds. Next attempt tomorrow, pending optimal weather!

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You would be better off watching the rockets launching from North Korea. 8)

Cheers

Doug

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LOL more exciting on the destination end I guess.

The Soyuz MS-05 leaving the ISS.

Interesting that the only rocket capable of sending humans into space is the Russian Soyuz Spacecraft. Another interesting fact is that all the rocket engines used by NASA are Russian built or designed. When the Soviet Union collapsed the authorities ordered all the engines destroyed but that is not what happened. They were hidden away and discovered in the late 1990s. These rockets where 1970s technology and still better than anything the Americans had developed into the 1990s.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/EWngppnU8TI[/video]

Landing of the Soyuz MS-05 mission. Amazing to see how weak the astronauts are in Earth's gravity after over 100 days living in the ISS.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/WYeQ3vmB0LQ[/video]

Interesting about the level of sophistication of the Russian Rockets!...what about the Saturn 5..wasn't it sort of ...'out there '..for the times?...or just an outsized retro-grade arrangement!..

The Saturn 5 is definitely the powerhouse of rockets at the current time. When Falcon Heavy lifts off it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. Only the Saturn V moon rocket, last flown in 1973, delivered more payload to orbit. The Saturn 5 was first flown in 1967 so was probably first conceived in the late 50s to early 60s so based on that era's technology.
The Falcon Heavy will be able to launch 54,400 kg into LEO.
The Saturn V could place 140,000 kg into LEO. So really no comparison. It is amazing that such old tech could out lift a more modern rocket. Brute horsepower.
It won't be beaten until the BFR is launched and then it will only bet the Saturn v by 10 tonnes at 150,000 kg capability.

Of course the BFR is to become reusable, bringing the launch costs down even more, making it the most cost effective launch system on Earth.

Hopefully Electron will get a start today. Once again it all depends on high altitude winds. Around 12.20 again.

Rocket LabVerified account
@RocketLab

Keeping an eye on upper level winds before a target launch time is determined for today. Updates to come. #StillTesting

If weather allows for an attempt today, we will make a livestream available approximately 15 minutes prior to a launch attempt.

Electron launch has been postponed indefinitely (per Twitter):
"Today's launch attempt has been scrubbed following the identification of a power fault during ground checkouts. Team will work the issue tomorrow before a new target launch time is determined in coming days."

Did ya watch it Grubstake? The same as the last launch attempt. The engines fired but immediately shut down with 2 seconds on the countdown clock.