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Posted: 6/4/2010 8:28:00 AM EST
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=1
Should be pretty cool, hopefully no kaboom. |
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Posted June 04, 2010 10:30 Pacific Time
It looks as if we may have experienced a shutdown condition just after ignition. In these situations the vehicle puts itself into “safe mode”. There may be the chance to “recycle” the count and try again. http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php |
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Another failure for Obama - he is shutting down the space shuttle program to replace it with something that doesn't work.
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Another failure for Obama - he is shutting down the space shuttle program to replace it with something that doesn't work. This |
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Another failure for Obama - he is shutting down the space shuttle program to replace it with something that doesn't work. This This has nothing to do with the replacement for the shuttle. |
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Another failure for Obama - he is shutting down the space shuttle program to replace it with something that doesn't work. This This has nothing to do with the replacement for the shuttle. This IS Obamas Shuttle replacement. |
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I did hear the reporter say that they will try to get it up in the air today. I'll bump the thread if anything exciting happens
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Another failure for Obama - he is shutting down the space shuttle program to replace it with something that doesn't work. This This has nothing to do with the replacement for the shuttle. This IS Obamas Shuttle replacement. |
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Some of you guys sound like the buttwipes who blame Bush for everything. C'mon, really? Obama's fault?
I don't blame Obama for the failure to launch - I blame Obama for canceling a working program without a working replacement. We will soon lose our space dominance & we become dependent on the Russians/Chinese to put our people in space. |
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Quoted: Some of you guys sound like the buttwipes who blame Bush for everything. C'mon, really? Obama's fault? I don't blame Obama for the failure to launch - I blame Obama for canceling a working program without a working replacement. We will soon lose our space dominance & we become dependent on the Russians/Chinese to put our people in space. Neither Russia nor China can compete with a profitable private-enterprise space program. We needed NASA back in the day. The future is private enterprise. It's in its infancy now, but will soon become the only game in town. Military contracts for near-earth and synchronous orbit satellites, space tourism, and eventually, asteroid mining, will all lead to the future generations of space vehicles. Anything that NASA needs to do can now be done remotely, using robotic spacecraft. |
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Some of you guys sound like the buttwipes who blame Bush for everything. C'mon, really? Obama's fault?
I don't blame Obama for the failure to launch - I blame Obama for canceling a working program without a working replacement. We will soon lose our space dominance & we become dependent on the Russians/Chinese to put our people in space. Neither Russia nor China can compete with a profitable private-enterprise space program. We needed NASA back in the day. The future is private enterprise. It's in its infancy now, but will soon become the only game in town. Military contracts for near-earth and synchronous orbit satellites, space tourism, and eventually, asteroid mining, will all lead to the future generations of space vehicles. Anything that NASA needs to do can now be done remotely, using robotic spacecraft. With the way things are layed out right now NASA will not have any spacecraft let alone robotic ones. How is it a private-enteprise if it is being done under .gov contracts? |
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Some of you guys sound like the buttwipes who blame Bush for everything. C'mon, really? Obama's fault?
I don't blame Obama for the failure to launch - I blame Obama for canceling a working program without a working replacement. We will soon lose our space dominance & we become dependent on the Russians/Chinese to put our people in space. Neither Russia nor China can compete with a profitable private-enterprise space program. We needed NASA back in the day. The future is private enterprise. It's in its infancy now, but will soon become the only game in town. Military contracts for near-earth and synchronous orbit satellites, space tourism, and eventually, asteroid mining, will all lead to the future generations of space vehicles. Anything that NASA needs to do can now be done remotely, using robotic spacecraft. You owe me a new monitor. "Anything that NASA needs to do can now be done remotely, using robotic spacecraft." damn man, Baghdad Bob would be proud! Did you manage to type it with a straight face? |
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is the above link to a live cam of the launch pad the only one out there? or is there a better link?
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Quoted: is the above link to a live cam of the launch pad the only one out there? or is there a better link? Chris_C posted a link from Spacex which is a better feed than Fox. Both are live and streaming.Looks like they cancelled the hold and the clock is on count down right now -15:00 and counting. |
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is the above link to a live cam of the launch pad the only one out there? or is there a better link? Chris_C posted a link from Spacex which is a better feed than Fox. Both are live and streaming.Looks like they cancelled the hold and the clock is on count down right now -15:00 and counting. THX! Didn't see that link. Much better now. |
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4 Minutes to launch... what is on this?
ETA - just a test flight (I assume no cargo) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/04/AR2010060403360.html |
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is the above link to a live cam of the launch pad the only one out there? or is there a better link? Chris_C posted a link from Spacex which is a better feed than Fox. Both are live and streaming.Looks like they cancelled the hold and the clock is on count down right now -15:00 and counting. THX! Didn't see that link. Much better now. That picture is better, but the feed keeps getting interrupted by buffering for me. |
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Second stage deployed
ETA Looks like Fox news is getting the stream from Spacex. The buffering is teh sux. Third and final stage deployed it is in orbit @ + 8:49:39 |
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Quoted: 4 Minutes to launch... what is on this? ETA - just a test flight (I assume no cargo) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/04/AR2010060403360.html Just a dummy payload; not even a cubesat. |
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Dang it! I had to do some work that made me clear my running apps. Missed it by 2 minutes...
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Second stage deployed The bell on the engine went from black to bright red in seconds after that thing kicked on. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Some of you guys sound like the buttwipes who blame Bush for everything. C'mon, really? Obama's fault? I don't blame Obama for the failure to launch - I blame Obama for canceling a working program without a working replacement. We will soon lose our space dominance & we become dependent on the Russians/Chinese to put our people in space. Neither Russia nor China can compete with a profitable private-enterprise space program. We needed NASA back in the day. The future is private enterprise. It's in its infancy now, but will soon become the only game in town. Military contracts for near-earth and synchronous orbit satellites, space tourism, and eventually, asteroid mining, will all lead to the future generations of space vehicles. Anything that NASA needs to do can now be done remotely, using robotic spacecraft. With the way things are layed out right now NASA will not have any spacecraft let alone robotic ones. How is it a private-enteprise if it is being done under .gov contracts? Lockheed Hughes Boeing Blackwater Halliburton Etc. |
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This is pretty damn cool. How soon until we have colonies orbiting Earth?
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Some of you guys sound like the buttwipes who blame Bush for everything. C'mon, really? Obama's fault? I don't blame Obama for the failure to launch - I blame Obama for canceling a working program without a working replacement. We will soon lose our space dominance & we become dependent on the Russians/Chinese to put our people in space. Neither Russia nor China can compete with a profitable private-enterprise space program. We needed NASA back in the day. The future is private enterprise. It's in its infancy now, but will soon become the only game in town. Military contracts for near-earth and synchronous orbit satellites, space tourism, and eventually, asteroid mining, will all lead to the future generations of space vehicles. Anything that NASA needs to do can now be done remotely, using robotic spacecraft. With the way things are layed out right now NASA will not have any spacecraft let alone robotic ones. How is it a private-enteprise if it is being done under .gov contracts? Because not all orbital launches are gov contracts. |
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All you doom and gloomers, it launched and didn't blow up!
Most rocket models fail on their first attempt. Space X is hoping that the first stage at least works properly, so that's ultimately the litmus test. If they get the capsule up into a 250km orbit, it's a total success and quite rare for an initial flight. Chris |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Some of you guys sound like the buttwipes who blame Bush for everything. C'mon, really? Obama's fault? I don't blame Obama for the failure to launch - I blame Obama for canceling a working program without a working replacement. We will soon lose our space dominance & we become dependent on the Russians/Chinese to put our people in space. Neither Russia nor China can compete with a profitable private-enterprise space program. We needed NASA back in the day. The future is private enterprise. It's in its infancy now, but will soon become the only game in town. Military contracts for near-earth and synchronous orbit satellites, space tourism, and eventually, asteroid mining, will all lead to the future generations of space vehicles. Anything that NASA needs to do can now be done remotely, using robotic spacecraft. With the way things are layed out right now NASA will not have any spacecraft let alone robotic ones. How is it a private-enteprise if it is being done under .gov contracts? Lockheed Hughes Boeing Blackwater Halliburton Etc. Don't forget USA. How is it any different than how we're doing it now? |
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Wow, the did what the Russians could do 60 years ago. With private money? I didn't know that. Cool. I thought the russians used that thing called Communisim to pay for it. |
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Wow, the did what the Russians could do 60 years ago. With private money? I didn't know that. Cool. I thought the russians used that thing called Communisim to pay for it. SpaceX is in part funded by your tax dollar as well. |
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Wow, the did what the Russians could do 60 years ago. With private money? I didn't know that. Cool. I thought the russians used that thing called Communisim to pay for it. SpaceX is in part funded by your tax dollar as well. NASA is paying for most of it. By most I mean like 95%. |
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Wow, the did what the Russians could do 60 years ago. With private money? I didn't know that. Cool. I thought the russians used that thing called Communisim to pay for it. SpaceX is in part funded by your tax dollar as well. Wait a minute...I thought I read on yahoo.com that the founder of paypal.com used 100% of his own money for this. I guess I got bad gouge. |
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Wow, the did what the Russians could do 60 years ago. With private money? I didn't know that. Cool. I thought the russians used that thing called Communisim to pay for it. SpaceX is in part funded by your tax dollar as well. NASA is paying for most of it. By most I mean like 95%. I knew we were paying for some of it, but 95%? So much for private space enterprise. |
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Some of you guys sound like the buttwipes who blame Bush for everything. C'mon, really? Obama's fault?
I don't blame Obama for the failure to launch - I blame Obama for canceling a working program without a working replacement. We will soon lose our space dominance & we become dependent on the Russians/Chinese to put our people in space. Neither Russia nor China can compete with a profitable private-enterprise space program. We needed NASA back in the day. The future is private enterprise. It's in its infancy now, but will soon become the only game in town. Military contracts for near-earth and synchronous orbit satellites, space tourism, and eventually, asteroid mining, will all lead to the future generations of space vehicles. Anything that NASA needs to do can now be done remotely, using robotic spacecraft. With the way things are layed out right now NASA will not have any spacecraft let alone robotic ones. How is it a private-enteprise if it is being done under .gov contracts? Lockheed Hughes Boeing Blackwater Halliburton Etc. Don't forget USA. How is it any different than how we're doing it now? Thats what I'm talking about. There is no difference other than Shuttle components are reused multiple times less the external tank. If you think this is not just another .gov contractor in the making you are mistaken. Obama and his puppet boy Bolden are making this sound like they are privatizing space while shutting down a program that was a little behind schedule because there was never any budget for it. Musk told cflnews13 that he would hire KSC workers after congress approves NASA's budget but he can't at this time because of congressional debates and NASA budget bickering, sounds like a contractor to me. As of now Congress is not going to vote on NASA's budget because of the election year which means continueing resolutiuon for NASA in 2011 and 2 flt's left for shuttle and then nothing. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Wow, the did what the Russians could do 60 years ago. With private money? I didn't know that. Cool. I thought the russians used that thing called Communisim to pay for it. Apparently there is a lot you do not know if you did not know it was funded with tax money - not that it matters who funded it - putting a satellite in LEO is not exactly a technical breakthrough. http://www.spacex.com/cotsd.php Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 This will be a very big year for SpaceX and the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. In 2006, SpaceX won the NASA COTS competition to demonstrate transport of cargo and optionally crew to and from the International Space Station. Under that agreement, SpaceX will conduct the second flight of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle and first flight of its Dragon spacecraft in 2009. The final flight, scheduled for 2010, will demonstrate Dragon's ability to berth with the Space Station. Immediately thereafter, SpaceX will begin conducting the first of 12 operational cargo flights to the Space Station, awarded under the Cargo Resupply Services contract a few months ago. The CRS contract has a minimum value of $1.6B and a maximum value of $3.1B and, as stated by NASA, its success is vital to the future of the Space Station. |
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Wow, the did what the Russians could do 60 years ago. With private money? I didn't know that. Cool. I thought the russians used that thing called Communisim to pay for it. SpaceX is in part funded by your tax dollar as well. NASA is paying for most of it. By most I mean like 95%. I knew we were paying for some of it, but 95%? So much for private space enterprise. What was the orginization a few years back, the Xprize? Was that? Where someone paid 10,000,000.00 for the first private individual to get into space? Branson and his guys from Virgin..? |
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Quoted: All you doom and gloomers, it launched and didn't blow up! Most rocket models fail on their first attempt. Space X is hoping that the first stage at least works properly, so that's ultimately the litmus test. If they get the capsule up into a 250km orbit, it's a total success and quite rare for an initial flight. Chris If only Big-0 had realized that before canning the Constelation program after one launch. |
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