Japanese H2-B rocket carrying supplies to ISS launching at 7:26AM EST.
Coverage starts at 7AM EST.
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Hudson Thomas
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Nathan Adams
Correction, 8:26AM EST and 8AM EST
Easton Edwards
Reminder that Asians only went to space after reverse engineering what white people did.
Adam Turner
>Japanese H2-B rocket carrying supplies to ISS launching
They should be sending rockets carrying something else to ISIS, not ISS.
James Young
Looks like something you would make in early/mid KSP career mode, with those cute little SRBs and all those connector struts
John Watson
Reminder that Japanese sent no manned rocket to space.
Benjamin Brooks
Live coverage has started. Lift off in 26 minutes.
Evan Roberts
What's been stopping them from doing it?
Dylan Campbell
The nasa.gov stream seems to be higher quality, but a few seconds behind the other stream.
Elijah Jackson
Maybe gov want to try something undiscovered
Jaxson Torres
The Russian government has been subsidizing Roscosmos who for a long time have offered a reliable and cheap launch system compared to the rest of the world. Even US gave up on their space vehicles and have been paying Russians.
Then SpaceX came in and undermined the whole industry by showing how rapidly they could develop their platform while still being a profitable company. Also making their launches public with livestreams spurred investor confidence. Lots of competition growing in the "space" (no pun intended) which is what Elon wanted all along just like with Tesla.
This, just like China's live stream for Tiangong-2 mission show how countries are looking to compete to stay relevant. Russia has made large investment in their future space program. Now Japan, kings of computer and mechanical engineering have to prove they are still relevant too.
Future is looking good for space :-)
Lincoln Fisher
Lift off in 10 minutes.
William Hernandez
T minus 10 mins
Good luck space dinners
Nathaniel Baker
Please Kek make it crash
Lucas Thomas
im ready
this is /comfy/
Christian Smith
nice try, abdul ali muhammad
Cooper Morgan
Why the fuck did they start countdown at like 500 seconds...
Easton Wilson
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Christopher Ortiz
Godspeed.
Jordan Nelson
3 minutes to raunch
Carter Stewart
Chinese invented rockets dumbass.
Isaiah Butler
>even their computer voices for space center PAs are cute
dammit japan
Grayson Sullivan
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Oliver Garcia
The best part of their computer voices is Japanese is so phonetically simple that it sounds clear.
Matthew Myers
RIFT OFF
Aiden Jenkins
We have liftoff.
Lincoln Barnes
I hope the SRB's crash into Pakistan
Brayden Rivera
How do you say nominal in Japanese?
William Martinez
development of rockits is one of the keystones of ICBMs
something something ai sensei birri revenge for nagasaki
if you wanna see California engulfed in nuclear hellfire (you may want to) you should cheer for the nip space program ;)
Owen Smith
ebin
Cameron Green
nominaru
Anthony Wright
Kek
Jason Sanchez
Reminder that this is the only ISS resupply vehicle which hasn't failed in recent times.
>Dragon failed - blew up on the launchpad
>Cygnus failed - blew up seconds after liftoff
>Progress failed - third stage didn't ignite and reentered
If this one doesn't make it either the ISS will have to be abandoned due to lack of a supply line.
Michael Gray
SECO
Cameron Sanders
and spacecraft separation
Juan Kelly
>If this one doesn't make it either the ISS will have to be abandoned due to lack of a supply line.
No it won't. Just because some of those rockets failed doesn't mean the rest will. Besides some already made it there.
Benjamin Evans
what if it crashes into the ISS because the flight engineer gets distracted by his ai gf on his 3DS
Zachary Morgan
We get a nice fireworks show
Dominic Fisher
What's the chick saying?
Austin Howard
did it launch? did I miss it?
Jaxson Green
Yes, successful launch. It will spend 4 days in orbit before docking with the ISS.
Ryan Reed
Yeah, it's over.
Camden Bennett
It takes that long? Wow
Adam Scott
It's unmanned. No rush.
Jaxon Kelly
It can be done faster, but that requires more fuel.
Easton Collins
Thanks
Checking out that vid now, very interesting.
John Thomas
Well, it IS technically a modified Delta 2. They licensed it from USA and upgraded a little bit
Parker Adams
NO KURISUMASU FO YOU!