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SpaceX scrubbed yesterday's scheduled launch attempt for CRS-19 (Commercial Resupply Mission) to the ISS (International Space Station) because of concerns about upper altitude winds.
The backup launch window is scheduled for four hours from the time of this story today, at 12:29pm ET (17:29 UTC). Conditions look favorable with a forecast of 80% favorable winds.
Ars Technica notes:
[...] Typically, the newest variant of the Falcon 9 rocket has enough lift capacity to loft the Dragon spacecraft into orbit before using its remaining fuel to steer it back to a landing site on the Florida coast.
In this case, however, the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage is slated to land on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship more than 100 miles offshore. Asked about this, SpaceX's director of Dragon mission management, Jessica Jensen, said Tuesday that the rocket's upper stage is slated to fly a "thermal demonstration" for another, unnamed customer. To put this second stage into the proper orbit for this demonstration, the first stage will need to burn longer and will not have the fuel needed to return to the coast.
There are two SpaceX YouTube streams for this mission: CRS-19 Mission Control Audio and the audio+video CRS-19 Mission. SpaceX streams typically start approximately 15 minutes before the scheduled launch time.
Also available on YouTube is the NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV.
For last-minute developments, keep an eye on the SpaceX Twitter feed.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 05 2019, @05:00PM
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1202595442262806531 [twitter.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 05 2019, @05:16PM (1 child)
Anybody skimming this, it's live right now here [youtube.com] (Not a rickroll, honest)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 05 2019, @05:30PM
G'damn the falcon is one pretty bird.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday December 05 2019, @05:17PM
video is live [youtube.com]
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday December 05 2019, @05:45PM (4 children)
After watching so many Falcon 9 launches, and a few FH, it now starts to look so routine.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 05 2019, @06:20PM
Remarkable isn't it?
It's interesting to imagine that the children being born today will live in a world where rockets going up, landing, and then being reflown - probably with a matter of hours after landing if necessary - will be as benign and boring to them as a plane lifting on a transatlantic path is for us today.
And, with any luck, people being on Mars will be just as boring.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday December 05 2019, @08:15PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 05 2019, @09:10PM
Starship will be the new hotness, especially in person.
Theoretically there could be so many Starship launches, that there could be a nice 24/7 stream covering multiple launches daily from 3+ launch sites. But it will probably take a few years for the demand to match the supply.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Thursday December 05 2019, @11:24PM
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-9-booster-recovery-milestone-dragon/ [teslarati.com]
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