CST-100 Starliner (Orbital Flight Test) - Atlas V N22 (AV-080) - CCAFS SLC-41 - 20.12.2019, 11:36 UTC.

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Дикторы сели напротив вентилятора?

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Куда чёвачок с цифрой 1 на спине делася. Не затихарился ли случаем на корабле?

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Опять сигнал пропал прямо на спиче Джими.
"Вы собираетесь лететь на луну, но не можете ораганизовать связь на космодроме"  

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Dec 20 13:34

Starliner operations have been completed, clearing the way for the Blue Team to begin configuring the White Room for launch. This will include retracting the access board and deflating the environmental seal around the capsule.

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Dec 20 13:44

White Room operations are reported complete by the Blue Team. Starliner's crew hatch is closed and the cabin pressured for its launch into space.

We'll see the Blue Team departing the launch pad shortly.

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Dec 20 13:51

Four video cameras aboard the Atlas V rocket will be used to capture key portions of today's mission.

An aft-facing camera on the first stage will provide views of the vehicle climbing away from the Earth, solid rocket motor jettison and all the way nearly to staging. Just prior to booster engine cutoff, the view will switch to the aft-facing camera on the Centaur stage to show the first stage separating and ignition of the two RL10A-4-2 engines. That same view will be available for the end of the burn for engine cutoff.

In addition, two forward-facing cameras on Centaur will see jettison of the aeroskirt structure and the Starliner spacecraft separation. Both events will be recorded for playback through the ground station in Europe.

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 Boeing Space‏ @BoeingSpace 4 мин. назад

The zero-gravity indicator on Rosie's flight is a flying ace. #AstronautSnoopy is on board! Snoopy's space experience dates back to #Apollo50 and is rocketing into the future on the @NASA_SLS Artemis mission.

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Dec 20 13:57

Safety officials confirm that the hazard area surrounding Space Launch Complex-41 has been cleared of ground personnel.

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Культуристки, однако...

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Dec 20 14:07

Launch Weather Officer Jessica Williams from the 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral confirms that all conditions remain observed and forecast GO for liftoff at 6:36:43 a.m. EST (1136:43 UTC) today.

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Dec 20 14:08

This is Atlas Launch Control at T-minus 4 minutes and holding, with 24 minutes remaining in this built-in hold.

All of the communications loops are quiet at the present time. The countdown continues to target a liftoff at 6:36:43 a.m. EST (1136:43 UTC), today's instantaneous launch opportunity.

United Launch Alliance is using the unique Starliner version of the Atlas V rocket, with two solid boosters, a Dual Engine Centaur and Launch Vehicle Adapter, to launch the Orbital Flight Test for Boeing and NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Leaving the pad on 1.6 million pounds of thrust from the combined power of the kerosene-fueled first stage main engine and twin solid rocket boosters, the Atlas V will perform pitch, yaw and roll maneuvers to align with a northeasterly heading along a flight azimuth of 50 degrees.

The vehicle will pass through Max Q, the region of maximum dynamic pressure, at 42 seconds and hit Mach 1, the speed of sound, in 66 seconds.

After the solid boosters burn out and separate, the rocket will have traversed through the thick part of the atmosphere and can begin closed-loop guidance to begin steering to optimally achieve a precise injection into the desired orbit.

Cutoff of the main engine and staging occurs four-and-a-half minutes after launch, allowing the cryogenic Dual Engine Centaur upper stage to ignite for a 7-minute burn to propel Starliner to 17,475 mph for release on its voyage to the International Space Station.

Spacecraft separation is expected at T+plus 14 minutes, 54 seconds.