Thaicom 6 - 06.01.2014 - Falcon 9 v1.1 - Canaveral SLC-40

[Прол]

Блин, облака все закрыли :cry: .

[Salo]

Отводят кабель мачту с ветровым захватом.

[Salo]

2201 GMT (5:01 p.m. EST)
T-minus 5 minutes and counting. The cradles connecting the strongback to the Falcon 9 rocket have opened.

2200 GMT (5:00 p.m. EST)
T-minus 6 minutes and counting. The Falcon 9 rocket is now operating on internal power.

The strongback umbilical tower will soon be lowered a few degrees to clear the rocket for launch. The procedure begins with opening of cradles gripping the rocket at attach points, then hydraulics lower the tower into launch position.

2159 GMT (4:59 p.m. EST)
T-minus 6 minutes, 30 seconds. The Falcon 9's heaters are being deactivated, and the rocket will be transitioned to internal power in a few seconds.

2159 GMT (4:59 p.m. EST)
T-minus 7 minutes and counting. Within the next minute, the Falcon 9's flight computer will be commanded to its alignment state. The Merlin engine pumps are continuing to chill down.

The launch danger area around Cape Canaveral is clear for launch.

2158 GMT (4:58 p.m. EST)
T-minus 8 minutes and counting. Good chilldown continues on the first stage engines, and closeouts of the upper stage's gaseous nitrogen attitude control system are underway.

[Salo]

Одна минута.

[Space Alien]

Полетела !

[Salo]

2205 GMT (5:05 p.m. EST)
 T-minus 60 seconds. In the final minute of the countdown, the flight computer will command checks of the first stage Merlin engine steering system and the Falcon 9 propellant tanks will be pressurized for flight. Thousands of gallons of water from the ground facility's Niagara system will also be dumped onto the launch pad deck to suppress the sound and acoustics of liftoff.
The command to start the ignition sequence for the first stage will be issued at T-minus 3 seconds, triggering the Merlin engines' ignitor moments before the powerplants actually ramp up to full power.

 
2204 GMT (5:04 p.m. EST)
 T-minus 90 seconds and counting. The SpaceX launch director and the Air Force Eastern Range have given their final approvals for liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket at 5:06 p.m. EST (2206 GMT).
 
2204 GMT (5:04 p.m. EST)
 T-minus 2 minutes and counting. The rocket's Merlin 1D engines have been chilled down for ignition.
 
2203 GMT (5:03 p.m. EST)
 T-minus 2 minutes, 30 seconds. The strongback has been locked in to launch position.
 
2203 GMT (5:03 p.m. EST)
 T-minus 3 minutes and counting. The rocket's destruct system is on internal power and being armed, and liquid oxygen topping is being terminated.
The strongback has retracted into the launch position more than 20 degrees from the rocket.
The second stage thrust vector steering system has checked out and is ready for flight.

[Salo]

Улетела!

[cavia]

с первого раза со стола ушла!, отлично!

[Salo]

Есть отделение первой ступени!

[Salo]

2209 GMT (5:09 p.m. EST)
T+plus 3 minutes, 55 seconds. The SpaceX-built 5.2-meter diameter payload fairing has separated.

2209 GMT (5:09 p.m. EST)
T+plus 3 minutes. The Falcon 9 first stage engines have cut off, the stages have separated, and the rocket's second stage Merlin vacuum engine has ignited for its approximately six-minute firing to reach orbital velocity.

2208 GMT (5:08 p.m. EST)
 T+plus 2 minutes. Now soaring at an altitude of more than 20 miles, the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage will shut down and jettison in about one minute. Two engines will be turned off first, followed a few moments later by the remaining seven engines.
And chilldown of the second stage's vacuum-rated Merlin 1D engine should be starting in preparation for its ignition.
 
2207 GMT (5:07 p.m. EST)
 T+plus 1 minute. The Falcon 9 rocket is approaching the speed of sound and the phase of maximum aerodynamic pressure.
 
2206 GMT (5:06 p.m. EST)
 T+plus 30 seconds. The Falcon 9 rocket's pitch program has initiated to put the 224-foot-tall rocket on an easterly trajectory from Cape Canaveral.
 
2206 GMT (5:06 p.m. EST)
 LIFTOFF of the Falcon 9 rocket with Thaicom 6, boosting a telecommunications satellite to serve Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

[Space Alien]

[Salo]

2214 GMT (5:14 p.m. EST)
T+plus 8 minutes. About 30 seconds until the second stage Merlin engine is supposed to shut down as the vehicle reaches orbit. The rocket is aiming for an initial parking orbit with Thaicom 6, and it will re-ignite later to boost the satellite into a supersynchronous transfer orbit reaching 90,000 kilometers (55,923 miles) above Earth.

2213 GMT (5:13 p.m. EST)
T+plus 7 minutes, 30 seconds. The vehicle remains in a nominal trajectory. Downrange distance is approximately 1,200 kilometers, and the Falcon 9 is flying east of Cape Canaveral.

2212 GMT (5:12 p.m. EST)
 T+plus 6 minutes. The kerosene-fueled Merlin 1D upper stage engine generates about 161,000 pounds of thrust in vacuum.
 
2211 GMT (5:11 p.m. EST)
 T+plus 5 minutes, 25 seconds. Everything reported to be going well with this second stage engine firing. The Merlin vacuum engine uses an ultra-thin niobium nozzle extension for greater efficiency in the upper atmosphere.
Altitude is 160 kilometers, downrange distance is 582 kilometers, and velocity is 3.8 kilometers per second.

[Space Alien]

SECO-1

 

[Lesobaza]

Go, SpaceX, go!!

[Salo]

Опорная орбита:

2215 GMT (5:15 p.m. EST)
 Second stage shutdown! Falcon 9 has achieved a preliminary parking orbit with a high point of 497 kilometers and a low point of 197 kilometers. SpaceX officials say that is close to prelaunch predictions.

[ZOOR]

Артём Жаров пишет:
SECO-1

А на 8:57 это вид на куда?  :oops:

[Salo]

Ждём второго включения.

[instml]

ZOOR пишет:

Артём Жаров пишет:
SECO-1

А на 8:57 это вид на куда?

На сопло двигателя второй ступени. В ИК.

[ZOOR]

instml пишет:
На сопло двигателя второй ступени. В ИК.

Спасибо.
В ИК он как-то похолоднее выглядит

[Прол]

Однако большая дальность передачи с рокеткамов. Прямая видимость или ТДРС?