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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 12, 2017 1:13:08 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 12, 2017 9:56:33 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 12, 2017 14:43:42 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 12, 2017 14:53:55 GMT 12
If they're pumping liquid oxygen into the rocket, then it must be all go, sometime soon.
I see live coverage begins a 1605hrs NZDT.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 12, 2017 15:39:37 GMT 12
Final countdown underway. Just over 10 minutes to launch.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 12, 2017 15:52:46 GMT 12
Is cock up.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 12, 2017 15:54:09 GMT 12
No different to heaps of NASA's launches over the years where they aborted seconds from blast-off, then after fixing the problem, successfully launched a couple of hours later, or the following day.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 12, 2017 15:55:54 GMT 12
But NASA doesn't usually say "3, 2, 1, ignition, whoops!!" hahaha.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 12, 2017 15:56:59 GMT 12
Scrubbed for the day.
Amazed that the noise never threw the nightingales and magpies off their stride though, still singing away.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 12, 2017 15:57:29 GMT 12
Nah, NASA say 3, 2, 1, ignition, liftoff.....followed a couple of minutes later by a HUGE EXPLOSION up in the sky.
Anyway, talking of space....The Washington Post currently has a news story on their site about President Dumb declaring that America is going to fly to the moon again.
Hundreds of reader comments have been posted in reply to that article riddiculing Trump, with some comments even suggesting that President Dumb himself be blasted to the moon in an unpressurised space capsule. Hilarious!!
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 20, 2018 13:58:53 GMT 12
Currently holding the countdown at “T minus twenty” waiting for suitable weather conditions.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 20, 2018 14:34:16 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 20, 2018 14:55:08 GMT 12
Countdown is underway beyond T-20, currently down to T-16.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 20, 2018 15:06:56 GMT 12
“T minus four”
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 20, 2018 15:18:07 GMT 12
The countdown was stopped at “T minus 54 seconds” when a boat entered the exclusion zone beneath the flight path.
The countdown is being re-set to “T minus 20 minutes” while authorities deal with the boat.
They hope to restart the countdown from “T minus 20 minutes” today after the matter has been dealt with.
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Post by nuuumannn on Jan 20, 2018 15:20:22 GMT 12
That's odd - short memory these journos - Australia was the seventh country to launch its own artificial satellite into space in 1967, the WRESAT (from Weapons Research Establishment based at Woomera, from where the rocket, a modified US Redstone missile named Sparta was launched). Australia became only the third country to launch a satellite into space from its own territory.
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Post by ErrolC on Jan 20, 2018 15:22:06 GMT 12
What's the transit time and time on station for a Texan with cannon pod based at Gisborne? A few 20mm across the bows should keep idiots away.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 20, 2018 15:25:33 GMT 12
Probably on 15 minutes (or less) from Gisborne Airport to the southern tip of Mahia Penninsula.
Mission control has just announced that their launch window will remain open until 1830hrs today and that they currently have an aeroplane on the way to the rogue boat.
However, they have also said that there are black spots within that launch window where the rocket could come into conflict with low orbit satellites already up there, so they have to avoid those launch spots and are currently re-calculating the exact periods of time they can launch until 1830hrs and the periods of time they cannot launch.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 20, 2018 15:40:50 GMT 12
They're counting down again from “T minus 45”.
That new countdown started about five minutes ago.
Fingers crossed for a launch today; however mission control has announced that if they are unable to launch today (they now have further pleasure boats in the exclusion zone to deal with), then will re-schedule for tomorrow afternoon. The weather forecast for tomorrow is looking great, so it looks like they've got a good plan B.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 20, 2018 15:45:06 GMT 12
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