SpaceX will launch the Thaicom-8 satellite on top of a falcon 9 rocket. It's the 5th launch of the year and they will attempt to land the first stage on their drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You"
This is the 2nd attempt, probable launch time: 21h40 UTC (4 hours from now)
Links:
Hosted webcast aka rocket view + commentary from SpaceX staff
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Technical webcast aka rocket view only
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What happened yesterday?
nothing but inane comments under that post
YES, this is what Sup Forums should be all about.
Got my beers ready.
Is there a chatroom for this anywhere? Youtube comments are disabled.
Welp I prepared a nice thread text but you posted before me. Imma posting it here.
SpaceX will launch the Thaicom-8 satellite on top of a falcon 9 rocket.
Probable launch time: 21h40 UTC (convert to your time zone fag)
It's the 5th launch of the year and they will attempt to land the first stage on their drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You"
This will be a three engine burn because of tight fuel margin.
The satellite is launched on a super-synchronous geostationary transfer orbit.
A geostationary orbit is a circular orbit 35,786 kilometers (22,236 mi) above the Earth's equator and following the direction of the Earth's rotation.
A geostationary transfer orbit is an elliptical orbit where the highest point of the orbit is at ~35,786 kilometers (22,236 mi).
The first and second stage will put the satellite on a 200x200 km parking orbit. Once the orbit is confirmed to be correct, the second stage will reignite to boost the apogee to the correct altitude. The second stage will then release the satellite.
Once the satellite is on the transfer orbit, it'll boost itself to its final circular orbit.
The launch was canceled yesterday due to a "tiny glitch in the motion of an upper stage engine actuator".
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Links:
Hosted webcast aka rocket view + commentary from SpaceX staff
youtube.com
Technical webcast aka rocket view only
youtube.com
SpaceX website
spacex.com
Website that list future launches from various space agencies in the world
launchlibrary.net
ULA > SpaceX
0 LAUNCH FAILURES AND COUNTING
This faggot again
>>>/reddit/
ULA also is heavily dependant on large government contracts that pay more than just flight costs, have merely a concept for any sort of recovery with no real steps towards making it happen, is horrendously expensive for small sat launches, and is currently dependant on Russian engines since they didn't design and build their own in house.
ULA was king for a long time, but they can't compete for these kinda of launches.
Elon shills can suck my dick.
you're rocketfu a shit
Anyone wants to bet how long this takes to turn into a Sup Forums tier politics "argument"?
Nice launch.
That's a good summary, sorry about that. I took the text from your thread yesterday and made it a bit shorter
No problem m8
40 minutes until the livestream starts
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>Weather trending at 60% favorable for today's launch window. 2-hour window opens at 5:39pm ET, 9:39pm UTC
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Hosted webcast is live. Get in here >>>youtube.com
STREAM UPPPPP
Hype video started
GET IN THE STREAMS NIGGERS IT HAS STARTED
Yes come on, land that shit on that droneship.
Rooting from Belgium
I am erect
did you use the erector
>john federspiel
>federspiel
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>SpaceX uses HP ZBooks
CuckPads BTFO'ed
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>spaces only employs faggots
dangerously cloudy
It's T-3 minutes faggots
THREAD OFFICIAL LAUNCH THEME:
Strongback is best back
That's one big motherfucking wasp
get the fuck off the camera, wasp
A bug's life
Why is there so much steam coming off the rocket?
Is it overheating?
When are they going to assemble that bigass booster thingy in low earth orbit which is supposed to travel to mars?
>Wasps
LIFTOFF!!!
>mfw I time posting countdown to launch countdown
WE HAVE LIFT OFF
It exploded.
it's going to crash isnt it
goddamn is Michael J Fox holding that camera
WE'RE NOMINAL AND ON THE LINE
WE DID IT REDDIT
UPVOTE ME
>▶
I believe it's a very cold oxygen that was condensating. They said at the beginning of the stream.
looks like liquid nitrogen to keep everything cold
That's actually coolant to keep it nice and cold until the last minute, as it's going to get very hot during ascent.
Max Q is clear faggots!
POWERED BY NVIDIA
the fuel for the rocket is super cooled liquid oxygen, it boils off as they fuel the rocket
First stage separation successful.
>lol let's just dig some black bitch up to fill our diversity quota all at once :^)
they really stepped up the camera quality on the 2nd stage, didn't they
Shows over it didn't blow up.
If you're in this thread you'll probably enjoy Kerbal Space Program if you don't already.
kekaroo
not yet, the landing of the first stage can always turn into a giant fireball
GRID FINS deployed.
Come back home Falcon.
>spacesex
Not so fast, it could still blow up on landing!
>gaymen
please kill yourself, anime is the only acceptable hobby on Sup Forums
Also
>not watching the technical webcast without any faggots screaming
>live landing footage
holy shit my dick
>not woodworking and making lots of little parens with the shavings
>not enjoying the USA USA USA chants
atleast the second stage blew up
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What are the 4 towers around the rocket used for?
>chuckles sensibly
THEY FUCKING DID IT
They got another one.
>not watching both in multi-monitor setup while shitposting from my comfy linux
Also, landing a success.
nice
USA USA USA USA USA USA
FUCKING YES!
THE FALCON HAS LANDED!
THANKS BASED ELON
First stage landing successful, show's over guys!
WE DEM BOYZ
Even the camera is teary
Landed the 1st stage
GOD I FUCKING LOVE BEING AMERICAN
lightning towers to protect the rocket, sometimes rockets sit on the pads for days through storms
Aaand it didn't exploededed
That's a bit rude 2bh phamily
USA USA USA USA
How would I know things are going well without the clapping?
>video cuts off
>first stage shows up landing right as the stream goes back up.
I'm not buying it.
was thinking the same thing
me too pal
Thanks.
"Our stream might cut out due to the rocket shaking our satellite too much causing it to lose connection"
They'll post the full uninterrupted video tomorrow on YouTube ya dip
Yeah that was a little bit too convenient for my liking. Hopefully they have some other feed.
Enjoy it while it lasts because your time is coming to an end.
Also most "american" corporations don't even pay taxes in north american soil. You're an obese cuck.
It's a sat link on the barge and the rocket landing throws things off enough the link breaks up until it fixes its alignment, hence the couple second cutout on landing.
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The suicide burn is pretty extreme, the heat alone is probably enough to fuck up any radio signals in the area while it's landing.
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