Orion Launch Today

[MartG]

If it wasn't for that bloody boat they'd probably have got it launched before the wind picked up

[Hooli]

CrutyRammers said:

So the temperature on the central engine is too high, the resolution is to ignore that and take the measurement from a different sensor which is ok.
Excellent

Proper engineering

[Eric Mc]

MartG said:

If it wasn't for that bloody boat they'd probably have got it launched before the wind picked up

I hope the US Coastguard got its number and they send the captain a bill.

[marksx]

8 minutes to go..

[rhysenna]

Eric Mc said:

rhysenna said:

What's the difference in weight between this and Saturn V?

The thrust of the two gives an indication of the weights they are having to lift.

The Delta IV Heavy produces around 2 million pounds of thrust on lift off.

The Saturn V produced 7.5 million pounds of thrust on lift off.

The Delta IV Heavy is currently the most powerful rocket available to the US. So far, most of its launches have been putting heavy Department of Defense payloads into low earth orbit.

Thanks Eric.

[MrRee145]

OOOH 7 mins to launch lets try again....

[anonymous-user]

Watching this in lovely HD on my telly. The coverage is really great.

Imagine if the moon landings could have been viewed like this instead of rubbish black and white 60s TV.

[Eric Mc]

el stovey said:

Watching this in lovely HD on my telly. The coverage is really great.

Imagine if the moon landings could have been viewed like this instead of rubbish black and white 60s TV.

They were colour from Apollo 12 onwards - alhough most of us still had B & W TV sets.

[rhysenna]

Come on....

[marksx]

el stovey said:

Watching this in lovely HD on my telly. The coverage is really great.

Imagine if the moon landings could have been viewed like this instead of rubbish black and white 60s TV.

Lucky you! I'm struggling with 240p at work!

[anonymous-user]

Eric Mc said:

el stovey said:

Watching this in lovely HD on my telly. The coverage is really great.

Imagine if the moon landings could have been viewed like this instead of rubbish black and white 60s TV.

They were colour from Apollo 12 onwards - alhough most of us still had B & W TV sets.

I expect you've almost seen the entire evolution of televised space launches Eric?

[dtiom]

el stovey said:

Watching this in lovely HD on my telly.

So it's you that's using all the bandwidth?

[RizzoTheRat]

AAAARGH

[anonymous-user]

dtiom said:

el stovey said:

Watching this in lovely HD on my telly.

So it's you that's using all the bandwidth?

It's frozen now!

[jmorgan]

Oh come on.

[MrRee145]

what was the abort this time? all my streams froze...

[RobGT81]

You don't have these issues on KSP.

[anonymous-user]

I'm completely procrastinating by watching this. . .

[CrutyRammers]

Fuel valve problem by the sounds of things

[MrRee145]

How do they ever get anything off the ground? Seems to be 1 alarm after another...