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posted by martyb on Thursday March 26 2020, @08:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-hear-me-now? dept.

[20200326_203138 UTC: Update: There was a delay due to hydraulic issues, but the launch was able to get reset and launched. The Centaur upper-stage rocket is proceeding on its way to GTO (Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit) --martyb]

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

United Launch Alliance says its Atlas V rocket is ready to launch on Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is set for 2:57pm (18:57 UTC) for the national security mission, which has a two-hour launch window. This is the first launch under the command of the newly constituted US Space Force.

For this mission, the Atlas V rocket will boost the sixth and final satellite in a constellation of military communications satellites in geostationary orbit. The "Advanced Extremely High Frequency" (AEHF) satellites are replacing the older Milstar communications system. The individual satellites cost $850 million each, and this AEHF-6 satellite to be launched Thursday was built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems. The previous five AEHF satellites launched on Atlas V rockets from 2010 to 2019.

[...] But at the US military's main spaceports in Florida, where the Atlas V rocket is due to launch, and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, essential launch opportunities appear to be continuing, at least for now.

United Launch Alliance will provide a live webcast of the launch, beginning about 20 minutes before the opening of the launch window.

There is a hold on the launch at the moment: tweet

William Harwood @cbs_spacenews ยท 19m A5/AEHF-6: ULA's Tory Bruno says problem was a bad amplifier card in a ground system hydrauylic pump controller; "working on a solution;" 1h 9m left in launch window

[The engineering crew established a process to test the hydraulics issue and are now preparing for a new launch time.(from memory)

Video stream is showing T-4:00, but I just heard the LD (Launch Director) announce reset launch time to to 20:18.

All areas reported all systems go. Proceeding with the count. --martyb]


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday March 26 2020, @08:39PM (5 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday March 26 2020, @08:39PM (#976078) Journal

    He IS going to clear the swamp by putting ALL politicians into the Space Force and launching them into far orbit....like to Infinity, and...Pluto!

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    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @09:10PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @09:10PM (#976083)

      Why is SN deleting posts? There's far worse comments being made than the one that was deleted 5 stories down. This is the same as the /. bullshitery.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @11:28PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @11:28PM (#976131)

        You're not the first to claim that their posts have been removed. Seems more likely there is a bug in the system, but perhaps you are targeted for low level harassment by an admin trying to get you to leave.

        • (Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday March 28 2020, @05:37PM

          by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 28 2020, @05:37PM (#976682) Journal

          You're not the first to claim that their posts have been removed. Seems more likely there is a bug in the system, but perhaps you are targeted for low level harassment by an admin trying to get you to leave.

          Please see my reply [soylentnews.org] to the parent comment.

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      • (Score: 4, Informative) by martyb on Saturday March 28 2020, @05:35PM

        by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 28 2020, @05:35PM (#976681) Journal

        Why is SN deleting posts? There's far worse comments being made than the one that was deleted 5 stories down. This is the same as the /. bullshitery.

        That is a serious accusation which I do not take lightly.

        I just looked directly into the database. Going from your comment here back until the first comment to the story that is 10 stories down: Chrome Phasing Out Support for User Agent [soylentnews.org]:

        Every single comment is still present and accounted for; there were NO gaps.

        Do be aware that comment moderation may require you to perform an additional step if it is below your comment threshold (which defaults to 0).

        1.) One approach is to create an account and then, when logged in, set your threshold to -1 in your preferences. That way, every time you view a story, it will default to fully displaying all the comments.

        2.) If you wish to only access the site as an Anonymous Coward, there is another method you can use but must be repeated for each story. Between the end of the story text and before the start of the comments is a region where you can set a filter. See where it has "Threshold/Breakthrough"? The next two drop-down boxes to the right allow you to change their values. Set the Threshold to "-1" and that should display all the comments, I think. If that does not work, then also set the value for Breakthrough to "-1" and I am certain that will display all comments. (Note: Each time you load a new story, the value(s) are reset to the default of "0" will have to be manually changed again.)

        3.) In the left-hand side of each comment's title, if it has any child comments, icons are provided to facilitate the collapsing/expansion of the comment by itself, or of it and all its children. They look something like dice with one, two, or three "+" or "-" signs pips.

        In all of these cases, be aware that the comment is always there; this only changes what selection of comments you have selected to be shown and how.

        I hope this clears up any confusion. If this does not work, please reply with more details (such as the actual story where you witnessed this; copy it from the address bar of our browser. For this story it would be: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/03/26/2013205 [soylentnews.org]

        I hope this helps!

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      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday March 28 2020, @05:53PM

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 28 2020, @05:53PM (#976688) Journal

        All comments correct and accounted for - what witty or insightful comment did you submit that we missed?

  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday March 26 2020, @09:42PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday March 26 2020, @09:42PM (#976093) Homepage

    " Tory Bruno says problem was a bad amplifier card in a ground system hydraulic pump controller; "

    Cheap Chinese shit fails America again.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @11:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @11:34PM (#976133)

      Racist jackass shitposts again. Must've been a cheap Chinese condom your mommy is always cursing.

  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Friday March 27 2020, @06:59AM

    by looorg (578) on Friday March 27 2020, @06:59AM (#976224)

    So when is the fleeting launching towards Klendathu?

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