[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/sci/ - Science & Math

View post   
File: 80 KB, 640x455, 013-F9_night_IMG_8591_640.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1087071 No.1087071 [Reply] [Original]

Falcon 9 inaugural flight this friday. Launch window opens at 8:00AM Pacific. There will be a live webcast.

http://www.spacex.com/updates.php

>> No.1087075

Bitchin'. I feel a strange sense of... enthusiasm? I know that's an alien emotion to most of you.

>> No.1087147
File: 32 KB, 255x254, Zakharow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1087147

The Earth is the cradle of man, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.

>> No.1087154

awww, for a minute there I thought it was today

>> No.1087166

What's the mission?

>> No.1087191

>>1087166
>What's the mission?
To not blow up on the way to orbit.

>> No.1087213

The primary schedule driver for the first Falcon 9 test launch has been certification of the flight termination system (FTS). The FTS ensures that Air Force Range safety officials can command the destruction of the vehicle should it stray from its designated flight path.

The successful liftoff of the recent GPS satellite launch last Thursday freed up the necessary range resources to process our final documentation, and we are now looking good for final approval of the FTS by this Friday, June 4th, just in time for our first launch attempt.

Today we completed end to end testing of the Falcon 9 as required by the Air Force Range and everything was nominal. Later this evening, we will finish final system connections for the FTS. Tomorrow we plan to rollout in the morning, and erect the vehicle in the afternoon. On Friday, the targeted schedule is as follows: