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Two space launches are scheduled for Thursday, both from the East Coast.
First, Northrup Grumman will launch an Antares/Cygnus rocket and capsule on a space station resupply mission from Wallops Island, Virginia. Liftoff is set for 4:49 am Eastern. Web coverage will be on the NASA TV channel.
Then, SpaceX is set to launch a commsat for Qatar aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. Launch window is 3:46 to 5:29 pm Eastern. Coverage is on the SpaceX website and Youtube.
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Naturally, right after I posted that, they postponed the Antares/Cygnus launch to Friday. New liftoff time is 4:23 am Eastern.
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Rocky, thank you for continuing to keep us updated on these launches.
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Naturally, right after I posted that, they postponed the Antares/Cygnus launch to Friday. New liftoff time is 4:23 am Eastern.  I read your first post and thought, "we are forecast for 100% heavy rain Thursday"... I will keep an eye out and might ditch work Friday and drive over there for that one.
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Webcast for the SpaceX launch is live. Click HERE
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Great launch, and they pegged the landing once again. That's their 31st successful landing, which is only 31 more than anyone else in the world.
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How does tomorrow look for Wallops? Our weather is bad now and might improve by 0430..
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Still crappola. They've bumped it to Saturday at 4:01 am Eastern.
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good,! If I decide to go over, I won't have to take leave to do it. Thanks.
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I am going to watch from the back deck. NASA TV starts in 4 minutes, expected launch at 0401 EST
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This is getting boringly routine which is amazing if you know anything of the technology. At one point not so long ago chances of a kaboom was 50/50.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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went off without a hitch, it was cool to watch from the deck. I first caught sight of it at 16 seconds, it was in view until 2.5 minutes, then back in view at 3.5 minutes for another 2 minutes.
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I'm about 12 miles from the pad, I heard the rumble, it woke me up. Rule of thumb is; if it wakes you up, you ain't getting outside fast enough to see it... Rolled over, cut a few more zzzzzs, now I'm up, yay....
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I was at the viewing area for a similar one last year, it takes about 20 or so seconds after they light it off before the sound gets to you. Then it is a half-step back kinda thing. My 5 year old days came back to me in that moment!
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Yup, nothing like a launch. That sound is indescribable. I used to love watching hardbitten reporters at their first Shuttle launch. They'd be droning on in their best Walter Cronkite voice - and then that sound would hit them. Many would simply go silent and slack-jawed. At the press stand 3.5 miles from the pad, the ground moved when the Shuttle went. Literally. It was measurable on seismographs. You could feel your liver moving inside you. It was that intense.
BTW, next launch Monday. I'll fill you in tomorrow.
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Like they used to say back in the day: Either that big sumbitch is going up or the state of Florida is going down...
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