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No, there's just nothing happening at the moment, and the countdown has been reset to T-10:42 while they try to clear the range. You should see the condensation cloud moving.
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You mean warms up, not cools.
palmer_md
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That was the most bizarre thing I've seen on a launch. Pretty cool to see that the computer is capable of abort that quickly, and at that late of a point in the sequence.
Blah, same thing happened with the first F9 flight (-attempt). (And then they corrected the problem and launched in same window!)
(And scared some Aussies with a UFO spiral, not related to abort...)
Elon Musk:
"Launch aborted on low thrust alarm. Rising oxygen temps due to hold for boat and helium bubble triggered alarm."
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So, in the long term, the supercooled LOX did cause this abort but only because of the range issue creating a delay. The supercooled LOX has a short duration before it will heat up and expand. 30 to 35 minutes is apparently too much.
Hopefully tomorrow.
Edit: That was a very cool abort. The engines fired for a quarter to half a second before abort. The rocket hold down was successful just as it is for a static fire.
Hopefully tomorrow.
Edit: That was a very cool abort. The engines fired for a quarter to half a second before abort. The rocket hold down was successful just as it is for a static fire.
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I'm no rocket scientist, but I don't see why this can't be treated like a short test fire. If it truly is only the LOX, that is. Curious to know how quickly they can parse the data. Would love to see this go Monday.
SES said Monday was a backup date. SpaceX said in the video that they had no backup dates they could announce. Hopefully. We'll see.
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If it was stupidity, probably not. If it was someone just wanting to see the launch a little better... Nail 'em.
ESA Operations on Twitter:
So I came across this. Not sure if it's a guess or a leak of privileged info.
*****disregard. I see tweet was many hours before today's launch. Was simply 29th in EU.
So I came across this. Not sure if it's a guess or a leak of privileged info.
*****disregard. I see tweet was many hours before today's launch. Was simply 29th in EU.
SpaceX attempt No. 4 set for Monday, Space Florida says - Orlando Sentinel
One can hope, but with no official word yet from the Cape or SpaceX, I'm in doubt.
One can hope, but with no official word yet from the Cape or SpaceX, I'm in doubt.
hockeythug
Active Member
I've seen a comment of NET Tuesday from the range but I still see no temporary flight restriction in place or pending.
