pic: Orion is Go for Launch

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Cory

http://spaceflightnow.com/

This. It's my personal go-to site for any space news.

[Sparkyshires]

grr weather and valves! hope ya'll will be able to launch in the next hour!

[Rosiebotboss]

Launch scrubbed. 24 hr recycle. Try again tomorrow 0705 EST.

Right off the NASA Orion blog:

The launch team has tentatively set a liftoff time of 7:05 a.m. EST, the opening of a 2-hour, 39 minute window just as today. We will begin our launch coverage at 6 a.m. tomorrow on NASA TV and on the Orion blog. Tune into the blog and NASA.gov for continuing updates throughout the day.

[Sparkyshires]

Thanks! So from a very elementary stand point, could you explain why there is a time window so small? It's not rendezvous-ing with any thing or interacting with any spatial bodies, so I would think it could just launch whenever. Why is this not the case?

[Rosiebotboss]

Launch and recovery during daylight, for one. Tracking space junk that might be in the way, for another. And I'm sure someone else way smarter than me can chime in here with some orbital mechanics reasons.

[Pjohn1959]

My guess is the onboard batteries. Even though they run on external power during the holds, there is still a drain on them. And I think we all know what happens with low powered batteries.

[Rosiebotboss]

Great job to the folks who built EFT-1 and the entire Launch crew for the perfect launch this morning.


Thanks, Dave.

[JesseK]

the NASA feed cut out right before main chutes
Good thing we have Twitter.

[Sparkyshires]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/orion/ has been giving really good updates for me, especially cause I'm at school and can check up quick about whats happened if I missed it.

[75vs1885]

That's awesome!
Do you know any places where I can read about missions similar to this? I've been becoming more and more interested recently.

[dellagd]

I got my Spanish teacher to let us watch the splashdown live! WIN.

Anyway, congratulations on the big success! I heard the announcer repeatedly talking about how all the systems were functioning well and how re-entry was a bulls-eye! Awesome.

And also yes, of course the feed would hiccup literally RIGHT AS the main chutes were about to come out with an absolutely fabulous camera angle.

[Sparkyshires]

does anyone know where I can get video of the feed? I was in classes all day that would'nt let me watch :/