SpaceX Falcon 9 FT launch - SES 9 - SLC-40

[Grendal]

Webcast for todays launch:

SpaceX also has a technical webcast as well:

The latest update from SpaceX is there is still a 60% chance due to weather of a launch today.

 

[hockeythug]

Scrub. Try again tomorrow at 6:46pm ET.

 

[VolkerP]

Scrub. Try again tomorrow at 6:46pm ET.

I got up for this. It is 12:40AM here

 

[hockeythug]

They claim the rocket and payload are healthy so I am gonna say it was either weather related(either at the launch site or at the drone ship) or another issue with the supercooled LOX.

 

[GoTslaGo]

Scrub. Try again tomorrow at 6:46pm ET.

I wonder if we will ever get to a point where weather will not be a limiting factor for launches...

 

[Grendal]

They claim the rocket and payload are healthy so I am gonna say it was either weather related(either at the launch site or at the drone ship) or another issue with the supercooled LOX.

I don't think an issue with the drone ship would cause a delay. SpaceX would have just launched and let the booster go. It is only an outside possibility for recovery anyway. I'd bet it was just a straight weather issue.

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I wonder if we will ever get to a point where weather will not be a limiting factor for launches...

Doubtful. Rockets are sensitive things.

 

[Grendal]

It looks like it wasn't a weather issue. SpaceX wanted to get the LOX even colder. Only a 5% chance of a weather delay today. The links above are still good for today.

 

[sandpiper]

I wonder if we will ever get to a point where weather will not be a limiting factor for launches...

It's still a limiting factor for aviation.

 

[Father Bill]

I was there last night just 3.4 miles from the launch site.... Now I am sitting at the airport to return home... oh well, at least I will get to see the webcast. Maybe someday I will get to see one in person :smile:.

Peace,
Father Bill

Here is a picture from the LC-39 Launch Observation Gantry

 

[ecarfan]

So I'm at SES-9 MISSION | SpaceX and the countdown is at 44 mins but I don't see any video.

 

[Auzie]

There is a statement on website that webcast is scheduled to go live 20min prior to launch, so in 20min approx. it might start, if it is still a go.

I'm not as lucky as some here, watching on my phone but very happy to watch anyway

 

[hockeythug]

So I'm at SES-9 MISSION | SpaceX and the countdown is at 44 mins but I don't see any video.

Stream should start in about 15 minutes.

 

[doug]

Video: SES-9 Technical Webcast

SES-9 Technical Webcast - YouTube

 

[doug]

Video: SES-9 Full Webcast

SES-9 Full Webcast - YouTube

 

[ecarfan]

Yep, now it's starting. Looking good so far.

 

[Grendal]

They've passed go, no go. Everything is a go.

They are going through a list of the upgrades that have been done. There are quite a few. A lot of it to do with speed of the super-cooled fuel getting into and out of the rocket.

Boo. Holding a 1:41.

And scrubbed for the day....

 

[hockeythug]

Abort

 

[ecarfan]

Darn. Launch scrubbed at T-1:41. No reason given yet. No date yet for trying again, but won't be happening today.

 

[Skotty]

Is it bad that an abort is the expectation? I'm always shocked when they actually launch.

I hope that changes some day.

I kind of wish someone would host of site of rocket launches, and just post information and recording after a launch actually happens. Then you could just visit the site occasionally and watch actual launches, as opposed to how it is now, where you watch abort after abort after abort after abort and maybe every 10th time something actually launches.

 

[hockeythug]

Problems with loading the superchilled LOX.

Is it bad that an abort is the expectation? I'm always shocked when they actually launch.

I hope that changes some day.

I kind of wish someone would host of site of rocket launches, and just post information and recording after a launch actually happens. Then you could just visit the site occasionally and watch actual launches, as opposed to how it is now, where you watch abort after abort after abort after abort and maybe every 10th time something actually launches.

Nobody is forcing you to watch the live streams. Subscribe to their YouTube channel as they are posted there after the mission ends. And "maybe every 10th time" is quite the exaggeration.