Out to Launch: New Horizons Updates, January 19, 2006

[mabfan]

Here we go...

NASA TV is broadcasting live from the Cape. According to the Virtual Launch Center, the Atlas V rocket is fueled and ready to go at 1:08 PM EST. Let's talk!

Links:

• New Horizons Main Page
  
• Virtual Launch Control Center
  
• NASA TV
  

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

We're at T-15 minutes and counting...

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

And they say there will be a built-in ten minute hold, but we're still scheduled for a 1:08 PM launch.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Love watching the birds and imagining how surprised they're going to be when the rocket goes up. There was an heron flying by at one point on Tuesday.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I remember the birds. It's funny to see them fly past the rocket.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

NASA TV is showing a beautiful satellite image of Florida.

[camwyn]

*crosses all her available fingers*

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

They seem to have just reported green for all weather constraints...

[arib.livejournal.com]

The weather check-in remarked that "proton flux is within normal levels."

That sounds way too Star Trekky. :-)

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Trend towards the better! Clouds are thinning out!

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

All systems go pending weather.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

No go on the range coordinator. Dang.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

New T-0: 1:25 PM

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Which is 18:25 Z.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I think they said they want a new T-0 of 1825 Zulu.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

When I first opened the NASA TV window on my computer, I thought it looked too cloudy, but was hoping it was just the angle of the camera.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Now they're saying they can't support 1825Z.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

1830Z is new T-0

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

New T-0:18:30 Z.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

The suspense is killing me...

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

They're pushing it back again.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

New T-0: 1840Z

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Weather is clearing, cloudwise; looking good for a 1840 launch, they just said.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

No Go Again. Clouds at 6k feet.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

And now no-go from the range control. *sigh*

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

A watched rocket never launches?

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

argh, closed captioning still borked.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of dead air.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Did anyone ask NASA PR the question from the other day about the maximum G forces?

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I forgot. Think they would have responded to me?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

New T-0 hasn't been set yet. Earliest possible would be 1855Z.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

The other day at work, someone commented "this UI isn't rocket science" and I had to chuckle. I love the fact that you can hear them reading off filenames and hex checksums (using alpha-bravo letters) as they upload data files onto the rocket.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

From the Virtual Launch Control webpage:

Did You Know?
In the summer of 2015 when New Horizons is on course for a five-month-long flyby reconnaissance of Pluto-Charon, the "double planet" will be about 3.1 billion miles from Earth.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

New T-0: 1900Z

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

New T-0 of 1900 Zulu.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

All go, again.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

WE'RE GO FOR LAUNCH!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Launch director is go for launch!

Count Picked Up

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Count Picked Up

Re: Count Picked Up

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Getting close...no weather constraints...