Rocket Launch notification thread

[Beati Dogu]

Yeah, cheerful looking lot aren't they?



They look like they're awaiting sentencing for some particularly heinous crime.

Anyway, it all worked perfectly, so congrats. Even some smiles at the end once they got confirmation from the satellite.

Edited by Beati Dogu on Wednesday 22 May 01:20

[MartG]

Today's Soyuz 2.1b GLONASS launch was struck by lightning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_LxTXbtso0&fb...

[Beati Dogu]

Impressive. That's what launching through cloud will do. They don't seem to mind, they've launched in snow storms before.

They're basically ICBMs and the apocalypse won't wait for mere weather.

[MartG]

Northrop-Grumman had an 'anomaly' during a test of its new Omega solid rocket stage - nozzle failure approx 2mins into the test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6JKg1IQ5D0

[MartG]

Proton launch this evening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQT8NUFz9F8

[MartG]

Brief clip of this morning's Long March-11 launch - first time China has launched from a ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewTsift1GR8

[Eric Mc]

MartG said:

Brief clip of this morning's Long March-11 launch - first time China has launched from a ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewTsift1GR8

That had a very "Polaris" feel to it.

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

MartG said:

Brief clip of this morning's Long March-11 launch - first time China has launched from a ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewTsift1GR8

That had a very "Polaris" feel to it.

Yes - tube launched like a lot of Russian and Chinese converted ICBMs

[Beati Dogu]

There's an Ariane 5 launch tonight from 10.43 pm from Kourou, French Guiana

It's carrying the AT&T T-16 & Eutelsat 7C satellites.

The launch coverage starts at 10.28 pm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHeEBDHMD3E

or

http://www.arianespace.com/

[MartG]

Very clear skies !

SRB sep


Fairing sep - 130km up, 330km downrange

[Beati Dogu]

Another good mission by the Ariane 5. It's not cheap, but it's pretty reliable.

[MartG]

Falcon Heavy STP-2 live from 04:30BST tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxH4CAlhtiQ

[Eric Mc]

Looks like an ESA Vega launch failed this morning -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJd7-0GDaBU

[MartG]

Crap commentator - takes him several minutes to realise something has gone wrong, despite the onscreen graphic and a lot of glum faces in mission control

[Eric Mc]

Seems to be par for the course. The same happened when the Soyuz aborted last year - the commentator kept bleating on about what WASN'T happening even though the communications in the background were revealing that it had all gone pearshaped.

[Toaster]

You guys are assuming that what you see is what the commentator was seeing !

[Beati Dogu]

Sounded to me like he was commentating on the same feed they were broadcasting. Mentioning the people moving in the background of mission control etc. Meanwhile I'm watching the rocket starting to dip below the expected path and the French announcer mention degraded trajectory.

They also did something similar a year or two ago, when an Ariane 5 failed to get into a high enough orbit and they carried on like nothing was amiss. Luckily for them, they were still able to deploy the two satellites, but they had to use much more of their own fuel to get into their correct orbits that it knocked years off their useful lives.

I like the French word for fairing though - coiffe.

[Beati Dogu]

Indian Moonshot coming up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f_HxuVHfrw


A "GSLV MkIII - M1" rocket will launch the Chandrayaan2 mission to explore the Moon's south polar region. Complete with orbiter, lander and rover.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGeoHCvuuF0


Edit: Technical delay. Possibly for the day.

Edit 2 "A technical snag was observed in launch vehicle system at T-56 minute. As a measure of abundant precaution, launch has been called off for today. Revised launch date will be announced later."

Edited by Beati Dogu on Sunday 14th July 22:14

[MartG]

Soyuz launch to ISS in 20 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

[Beati Dogu]

Looks like the Chandrayaan2 mission will take off on Monday 22nd now (10.13 am UK time).


There's also a Falcon 9 ISS resupply mission due soon from Florida. It completed a static fire yesterday (Friday).

It's been delayed slightly, but is currently expected to launch from 23.24 UK time on Wednesday July 24th.

This will be the first time a Dragon capsule has flown 3 times.