Echostar 23 – Falcon 9 – Кеннеди LC-39A – 16.03.2017 06:00 UTC

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03/16/2017 09:16
T+plus 16minutes. The rocket continues coasting toward an equatorial crossing where the Merlin vacuum engine will reignite for its second burn.

03/16/2017 09:15  Views of launch

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1-я ст - R.I.P.

Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 2 мин. назад
 
Farewell Falcon 9 First Stage 30....your leggy sisters will do you proud.
 

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03/16/2017 09:19
T+plus 20 minutes. The Falcon 9 rocket and EchoStar 23 are currently flying over the Atlantic Ocean, passing over the Canary Islands.

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Spaceflight101 LIVE‏ @S101_Live 43 сек. назад
 
Coming up on MVac re-start in five minutes to finish lifting EchoStar-23 to Geostationary Transfer Orbit. http://bit.ly/2mSGrgg

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03/16/2017 09:23  Press site view
This image of this morning's Falcon 9 launch from the KSC press site comes from Walter Scriptunas II of Scriptunas Images.

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03/16/2017 09:24
The Falcon 9 rocket is flying over Africa, and communications from the second stage have been acquired via a ground station in Gabon.

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Spaceflight101 LIVE‏ @S101_Live 43 сек. назад
 
The Gabon Tracking Station has acquisition of signal. Teams now reviewing Stage 2 telemetry for a health check.

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Второе включение 2-й ступени.

[tnt22]

03/16/2017 09:26
The Falcon 9's Merlin vacuum engine has ignited for a 60-second burn to inject the EchoStar 23 satellite into its intended egg-shaped orbit, accelerating the spacecraft on a trajectory tens of thousands of miles above Earth.

SpaceX and EchoStar have not disclosed the target orbit for the 12,345-pound (5,600-kilogram) spacecraft.

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SECO-2

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SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 12 сек. назад
 
Back live for final burn and satellite deployment → http://spacex.com/webcast
 

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Spaceflight101 LIVE‏ @S101_Live 42 сек. назад
 
MVac is now gradually throttling back to maintain an acceleration of 5Gs on the vehicle as it approaches shutdown. http://bit.ly/2mSGrgg

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SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 39 сек. назад

Final second stage engine cutoff nominal, preparing to deploy satellite.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 1 мин. назад
 
Second upper stage burn...and SECO-2! End of propulsive flight. S/C Sep is next.
 

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William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews 2 мин. назад
 
F9/EchoStar: 2nd stage engine shutdown confirmed; satellite separation expected in just under 7 minutes

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Spaceflight101 LIVE‏ @S101_Live 2 мин. назад
 
The second stage is now re-orienting and reducing body rates for separation of EchoStar-23 at T+34 minutes. http://bit.ly/2mSGrgg

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03/16/2017 09:27
SpaceX confirms a nominal insertion of the EchoStar 23 satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Separation of the spacecraft from the upper stage is planned at T+plus 34 minutes.

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