ULA Launch Thread - Parker Solar Probe

[Anonymous No.9929103]

STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0
When: Aug. 11 @ 3:33 a.m. EDT (0733 UTC); ~45 minute launch window
Where: SLC-37, CCAFS, Florida
Launch Vehicle: Delta IV Heavy
Weather: 70% GO

Payload: The Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
PSP has a risk classification of "B" according to NPR 8705.4. The overall cost of the program is $1.5b.
Orbit: Elliptical orbit around the Sun at 3.4 degree inclination from the ecliptic plane
Orbital Period: 88 days for final orbits with closest approach
Mission Duration: Baseline seven-year science mission
Mass: 635kg
Builder & Operator: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Press Kit: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/parkersolarprobe_presskit_august2018_final.pdf

Learn More:
http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/index.php
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe

Everyone should tune in for this launch; class-B missions are extremely important, and Delta IV Heavy is always fun to watch!

[Anonymous No.9929105]

What will PSP measure?:
>Fields Experiment (FIELDS): This investigation will make direct measurements of electric and magnetic fields and waves, Poynting flux, absolute plasma density and electron temperature, spacecraft floating potential and density fluctuations, and radio emissions.
>Integrated Science Investigation of the sun (ISIS): This investigation makes observations of energetic electrons, protons and heavy ions that are accelerated to high energies (10s of keV to 100 MeV) in the sun's atmosphere and inner heliosphere, and correlates them with solar wind and coronal structures.
>Wide-field Imager for Solar PRobe (WISPR): These telescopes will take images of the solar corona and inner heliosphere. The experiment will also provide images of the solar wind, shocks and other structures as they approach and pass the spacecraft. This investigation complements the other instruments on the spacecraft providing direct measurements by imaging the plasma the other instruments sample.
>Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investigation: This investigation will count the most abundant particles in the solar wind -- electrons, protons and helium ions -- and measure their properties such as velocity, density, and temperature.

[Anonymous No.9929108]

>all these late night launches this month

[Anonymous No.9929109]

>why Delta IV Heavy when it's such a smol probe?
It's all about the delta-V; PSP has to go incredibly fast

[Anonymous No.9929110]

[Anonymous No.9929111]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gyBbGYEqpk

[Anonymous No.9929113]

[Anonymous No.9929125]

psp is only going to 6M kilometers but you can still ballpark that on the map but putting it a bit further along the delta-v line from mercury

[Anonymous No.9929134]

>>9929125
2/3 of the velocity comes from the STAR 48BV. It's going to zip right along. Even so, it's using Venus for a boost

[Anonymous No.9929146]

>>9929125
from the ULA booklet:
>C3: 153.79 (km^2/s^2)

https://www.ulalaunch.com/docs/default-source/launch-booklets/divh_parkersolarprobe_mob.pdf

[Anonymous No.9929154]

>>9929103
>3am

Great time for best publicity of the launch, not.

[Anonymous No.9929159]

>>9929154
the overall launch window is August 11-23, but some issues pushed it back. I think that the original launch date was a more 'reasonable' hour.

Also,
>12 bongs to go!

[Anonymous No.9929165]

>>9929159
*august 4-19

[Anonymous No.9929170]

>>9929159
With a window so large, they really should do it at a more publicized hour. It is rare SpaceX launches at shitty hours simply so they can get more publicity. Shit like that matters in the long run.

[Anonymous No.9929171]

>>9929170
why would NASA care about publicity?

[Anonymous No.9929177]

>>9929170
normies don't watch rocket launches live that often. They usually see it on the news the next day.

[Anonymous No.9929183]

>>9929171
>t. someone who didn't grow up in the 60s-80s

NASA will never have another golden age.

>>9929177
Not if they are in the dead of night they sure don't.

[Anonymous No.9929185]

>The seven-year mission must launch by Aug. 19 to line up flybys of Venus that are critical to setting the trajectory away from Earth and toward the sun.

>“There’s always a chance we can push for a couple of extra days, but that is our window,” said Karen Fox, a NASA spokeswoman, during a news briefing last week at Kennedy Space Center. “The whole point is we have to get to Venus at the right time, so we’d have to adjust for a different launch time for that planetary necessity.”

next window would open up in May.

[Anonymous No.9929208]

10th Delta IV Heavy launch

[Anonymous No.9929338]

>>9929177
You'd be surprised, NASA launches are literally the only ones that 'normies' watch, minus special events like the Falcon Heavy Demo of course. However despite what >>9929183 says, I think we are entering a new golden age, for space exploration in general; and with the Trump administration heavily promoting space exploration, commercial space as well as the conception of a 'Space Force' and the announcement of the 9 commercial crew astronauts, public engagement with space could reach an all time high very soon

[Anonymous No.9929339]

God speed, little guy

[Anonymous No.9929340]

>>9929103
That looks WAY too much like the Meme Drive.

[Anonymous No.9929369]

>>9929339
imagine being Eugene Parker. you get laughed at for your crazy Sun theories 50 years ago, and now you get to watch a 1.5 billion dollar probe named after your launch to study those same theories

[Anonymous No.9929428]

~9 bongs to go

[Anonymous No.9929435]

>>9929170
are you fucking retarded?

[Anonymous No.9929450]

>>9929435
Seems you are at least. LOL

[Anonymous No.9929467]

>>9929177
That window doesn't mean they can launch at any time during the day in that period.
They're trying to maximize deltav for this, which means launching at a particular time during the day.

[Anonymous No.9929482]

>>9929103

Have you praised it today?

[Anonymous No.9929616]

>>9929482
nah dude I'm praising the cosmos; gonna watch the Perseids on a lake Sunday night

[Anonymous No.9929682]

[Anonymous No.9930020]

four hours left!

[Anonymous No.9930022]

>>9929450
LMAO got him! xD

[Anonymous No.9930242]

coverage starts in 25min

[Anonymous No.9930245]

>>9930242
hype

[Anonymous No.9930248]

fueling is complete. launch now scheduled for 03:53 EDT

[Anonymous No.9930273]

Delta IV Heavy.

Hnnnnnnggg.

[Anonymous No.9930274]

and we're live

[Anonymous No.9930278]

>old white british bitch is giving us football analogies

[Anonymous No.9930284]

how many anons do we have watching right now?

[Anonymous No.9930286]

>>9930284
I'm watching.

[Anonymous No.9930287]

>>9930284
>how many anons do we have watching right now?
At least two.

[Anonymous No.9930288]

>>9930284
me three

[Anonymous No.9930295]

Just getting this over with:

https://youtu.be/3JdWlSF195Y

[Anonymous No.9930300]

T-29:00

[Anonymous No.9930313]

>>9930284
rolling

[Anonymous No.9930320]

carbon carbon. The elite of composites.

[Anonymous No.9930328]

[Anonymous No.9930338]

[Anonymous No.9930339]

LC Switch not ready. NO GO.

[Anonymous No.9930341]

>>9930338
NO
NO GO YET

[Anonymous No.9930343]

>>9930339
what is the lc switch?

[Anonymous No.9930344]

>>9929103
>A Star 48BV third stage, built by Northrop Grumman, provides a significant kick of additional velocity for the Parker Solar Probe on its journey into the inner solar system.

>Northrop Grumman

lol as soon as the acquisition was approved they scrubbed OrbitalATK's name everywhere

[Anonymous No.9930345]

>>9930284
hi

[Anonymous No.9930347]

>>9930284
ready for disappointment

[Anonymous No.9930348]

>>9930343
Something to do with Launch Control (LC). Not sure what.

[Anonymous No.9930354]

T-4:00 and holding.

[Anonymous No.9930359]

>Can you tell us a little bit about that
goddamn this is getting annoying

[Anonymous No.9930360]

35 minutes left in the window

[Anonymous No.9930363]

>>9929113
>"Gotta save every gram of weight possible"
>"I know, lets slap a sticker/paint on it!"
The absolute state of NASA.

[Anonymous No.9930367]

>>9930348
Somebody's m68k Mac LC needed to reboot.

[Anonymous No.9930369]

>>9930363
t. Buttblasted SpaceX drone.

[Anonymous No.9930373]

>>9930363
it accounts to a rounding error, if even

[Anonymous No.9930376]

>>9930367
did they need to turn the rocket off and on again?

[Anonymous No.9930379]

>>9930376
No. They didn't get that close.

[Anonymous No.9930381]

on a scale of BLUE BALLS to KEK'd, how bad does ULA feel right now?

[Anonymous No.9930383]

>>9930381
Well, they started planning the mission 60 years ago...

[Anonymous No.9930384]

GOOD POSITION

[Anonymous No.9930385]

OH SHIT WERE BACK NIGGERS

[Anonymous No.9930386]

Sounds like they are coming out of the hold.

[Anonymous No.9930391]

t-16:00

[Anonymous No.9930399]

godammit COM

[Anonymous No.9930400]

GO GO GO!

[Anonymous No.9930401]

PERMISSION TO LAUNCH

[Anonymous No.9930403]

Shit boys we in buisness

[Anonymous No.9930404]

>COM... COM
>Go
Goddamnit Com.

[Anonymous No.9930406]

>>9930399
COM stop with the hentai for a sec God dammit !

[Anonymous No.9930407]

>remember, the red flames at liftoff are normal
just so people don't have a heart attack

[Anonymous No.9930408]

Why didn't they call it "Icarus"?

inb4fireball

[Anonymous No.9930409]

T-4:00 !!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.9930410]

>>9930408
they should have just called it "Eugene", nothing else

[Anonymous No.9930411]

Picking up the count

t-3:20 and counting

[Anonymous No.9930412]

>>9930410
They basically did. They called it "Parker"

[Anonymous No.9930413]

Going full screen. See y'all after launch.

[Anonymous No.9930416]

NNNNOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.9930418]

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

[Anonymous No.9930419]

>>9930413
>he doesn't have two monitors

[Anonymous No.9930420]

NIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.9930421]

HOLD HOLD HOLD

[Anonymous No.9930422]

fucking helium regulator

[Anonymous No.9930424]

>Hold hold hold
YOU GODDAMNED BLUE BALLING BASTARDS

[Anonymous No.9930425]

Damn that's prob a scrub

[Anonymous No.9930427]

>>9930419
FUCK I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.

IT BLEW UP

[Anonymous No.9930428]

9:15 left in the window....

[Anonymous No.9930429]

9 min or scrub.....

[Anonymous No.9930430]

>>9930419
I don't. It sucks.

T-4:00 and holding.

[Anonymous No.9930431]

The absolute state of ULA

[Anonymous No.9930433]

>power-down checklist
oof

[Anonymous No.9930434]

>>9930381
SCRUBBED

[Anonymous No.9930435]

SCRUB

24 hour recycle. See y

[Anonymous No.9930436]

GOD DAMMIT

[Anonymous No.9930438]

top kek

[Anonymous No.9930439]

[Anonymous No.9930440]

RIP Delta4.

[Anonymous No.9930441]

FUCK I'm going to be watching the Perseids in a no-service zone tomorrow. gonna miss it.

[Anonymous No.9930442]

ULA BTFO

[Anonymous No.9930443]

See you tomorrow

[Anonymous No.9930444]

>>9930443
Roger.

[Anonymous No.9930446]

Was listening to a nearby airport live audio stream, pilot used a code word for unidentified flying object and reported it to tower. We may be in for a small treat tonight boys!

[Anonymous No.9930447]

>>9930441
same fucking hell

[Anonymous No.9930448]

See ya in 24 hours boys.

[Anonymous No.9930449]

>>9930446
inb4 it's another hijacked plane doing barrel rolls

[Anonymous No.9930450]

goodnight anons, thanks for tuning in. Glad we had an audience even at this weird hour.

Hopefully it all goes well for the next attempt, but the Perseids are more important to me desu

>>9930447
where at? I'm heading out to west of Denver

[Anonymous No.9930452]

Window opens at 0331 Sunday.

[Anonymous No.9930454]

>>9930452
0331 EDT, 0731 UTC

[Anonymous No.9930455]

>>9930446
>pilot used a code word for unidentified flying object and reported it to tower
Bet the pilot is a SpaceX fanboy.

[Anonymous No.9930456]

>>9930450
I was going to the foothills in west Cali. There's been smoke in the air for a week now.

[Anonymous No.9930457]

>>9930449
That guy flew over my house at about 300 feet elevation today, RIP Rich, you were the man!

[Anonymous No.9930458]

>>9929170

The planetary window spans multiple days, but the actual launch window within that span is smaller and is dictated by the Van Allen belts, which is why it just happens to be in the middle of the night

[Anonymous No.9930460]

>>9930455
I don't quite follow your logic there, they wouldn't shut down the mission for such a thing. They never have before.

[Anonymous No.9930466]

>Modern ICBM
>Fueled and launched in less than 20 minutes

>Modern Commercial rocket
>Fueled and held multiple times driving up the launch costs

Really gets my noggin joggin.

[Anonymous No.9930469]

SCRAPPED LAUNCH BECAUSE OF >>9930446

[Anonymous No.9930473]

>>9930458
hah and I thought it was because of the inclination

[Anonymous No.9930475]

>>9930466
ULA loses money on each scrub. They don't get a bonus or something silly.

>>9930456
Shame about the smoke. I found a public reservoir with road access and 0.40 radiance. Should be nice and chill

[Anonymous No.9930477]

>>9930466
Modern ICBMs are solid, not liquid you tard. Plus scrubs only hurt ULA since they have to pay both for all that expensive liquid hydrogen/oxygen they just dumped into the atmosphere and for the launch pad with all of its support staff.

[Anonymous No.9930478]

>>9930469

It was a pressure alarm. Computer's told them to fuck off and fix it during terminal countdown.

[Anonymous No.9930575]

>ULA is a reliable and trusted launch provider

https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1028216853607407618

ONONONONONONONONO

[Anonymous No.9930606]

Is there any risk of biological contamination of the Sun's surface or will it pass through the solar atmosphere fast enough to burn up at the end of the mission?

[Anonymous No.9930646]

>>9930458
>>9930473
You're both wrong, the probe has to launch at night (specifically early morning) so that it can accelerate pretty much right up to its escape velocity and be moving in the right direction. Here's a shitty diagram to explain.

[Anonymous No.9930657]

>>9930466
>Modern ICBM
>made of steel and uses solid motors, doesn't need to be fueled or have to worry about saving weight because delta V requirements are so low, reliability and accuracy are only design requirements

>Modern launch vehicle
>Usually uses liquid fuels which need to be loaded before flight is built from ultralight materials as close to the limits of minimum strength to get the job done because delta V requirements are huge, delaying a launch is preferable to losing a $1 billion cargo vehicle, also orbital launch vehicles are physically much bigger than even the biggest ICBMs

[Anonymous No.9930661]

>>9930606
retard

[Anonymous No.9930666]

>>9930575
>tfw can't remember if there were any SpaceX scrubs this year or not
if ULA isn't sweating they should be,

[Anonymous No.9930686]

>>9930666
There's been one for SpaceX this year; but that was on the first launch of Block 5, so an anomaly occurring with a new rocket is understandable.

[Anonymous No.9930703]

>>9929105
>Integrated Science Investigation of the sun (ISIS)

W-we've been funding ISIS?

[Anonymous No.9930707]

>Integrated Science Investigation of the sun (ISIS)

W-we've been funding ISIS?

[Anonymous No.9930708]

I wonder how long those Delta 4 cores have been sitting around waiting for this shit.

[Anonymous No.9930752]

>>9930708
They've apparently been on the pad since April...

https://twitter.com/Dr_ThomasZ/status/986221567049981954

[Anonymous No.9930974]

>>9930752
christ no wonder they have sticky valves and shit

[Anonymous No.9931218]

>>9930752
>>9930974
>ULA left a fucking rocket on the pad since April
>in Florida
>at KSC no less

Are they fucking retarded?

[Anonymous No.9931247]

>>9931218
you're overthinking it.

[Anonymous No.9932143]

ALRIGHT LADS LET'S GET REVVED UP FOR ROUND 2

[Anonymous No.9932187]

>>9932143
been edging since the last scrub desu

[Anonymous No.9932191]

>>9932187
I'm gonna make some quinoa tabbouleh for a launch snack.

[Anonymous No.9932196]

Watch them scrub again.

[Anonymous No.9932243]

>>9932196
two scrubs in a row is pretty unlikely

[Anonymous No.9932252]

>>9932243
>laughinggirls.png

[Anonymous No.9932298]

Can't wait for this to explode on the pad because of ULA incompetance.

[Anonymous No.9932313]

>>9932243
Scrubbing an important launch you have had months to prepare the rocket for is pretty unlikely too.

[Anonymous No.9932349]

half an hour until coverage starts

[Anonymous No.9932365]

>>9932243
>>9932313
Not for the Delta 4, it's a notoriously high-maintenance machine that usually scrubs once or twice before a launch; this is due to it constantly leaking explosive hydrogen gas, which needs to be routinely burnt off in order to avoid a buildup, and in turn an unscheduled rapid disassembly; and, even this doesn't prevent the thing from partially cremating itself every time it launches... Hydrogen first-stages were a mistake, and trying to build one on a budget was an even bigger mistake.

[Anonymous No.9932374]

heeeeere we go!

[Anonymous No.9932375]

coverage is starting now

[Anonymous No.9932379]

>exceed limit
>scrub
>increase limit
did I hear that wrong, or is that what they did?

[Anonymous No.9932383]

>>9932379
>justULAthings.jpg

[Anonymous No.9932387]

floridanons, you might be able to see the launch (pic)

[Anonymous No.9932393]

Why the hell are people still using Star solid boosters for missions like this? Isn't there plenty of good liquid upper stages out there?

[Anonymous No.9932396]

>>9932393
They're cheaper and reliable.

[Anonymous No.9932398]

>>9932393
plenty of dV, been used on numerous missions, compact. It provides ~3km/s

[Anonymous No.9932399]

>>9932393
Pro: Solid fuel, you don't have to worry about fueling or defueling in case of scrubs. Safer to handle than hydrazine too.
Con: Northrop Grumman

[Anonymous No.9932401]

>>9932393
Because the PSP is very small and needs to be going very fast; believe it or not, the solid booster third-stage provides 2/3rds of the probe's total Delta V for this mission.

[Anonymous No.9932411]

ULA PRE BTFO

[Anonymous No.9932413]

>>9932387
Floridafag here. Can confirm.

[Anonymous No.9932415]

has there been a more expensive probe per kg? This one is pretty light for 1.5b

>>9932411
speaking of which, this lad tested engines to max thrust yesterday

[Anonymous No.9932419]

Did COM fuck up again?

[Anonymous No.9932420]

lol COM paused again in the GO callout

[Anonymous No.9932421]

Proceeding with countdown.

[Anonymous No.9932425]

Who let the woman try to explain shit. that was terrible

[Anonymous No.9932427]

>>9932415
I keep forgetting what that company's called. Pretty excited to see that thing actually fly.

[Anonymous No.9932431]

[Anonymous No.9932438]

>>9932431

[Anonymous No.9932440]

>>9932396
>>9932398
>>9932399
I'll grant Star has a good track record, but I still would have expected the control and extra dv would have been worth the increased cost.

[Anonymous No.9932441]

HERE

WE

GO

[Anonymous No.9932442]

>>9932440
mercury is also helping out a bunch. Orbital mechanics be crazy

[Anonymous No.9932443]

T-60

[Anonymous No.9932446]

Here comes the fireball....

[Anonymous No.9932450]

ITS HAPPENING

[Anonymous No.9932452]

[Anonymous No.9932454]

Such a pretty fireball.

[Anonymous No.9932455]

whoop! here comes the staging

[Anonymous No.9932456]

I find the lack of "nominal" disturbing.

[Anonymous No.9932458]

>no on-board camera footage

[Anonymous No.9932459]

aww, no fancy onboard cameras?

[Anonymous No.9932460]

[Anonymous No.9932461]

>>9932458
>>9932459
Good enough for government work.

[Anonymous No.9932462]

>No onboard cameras
ONE JOB ULA, ONE JOB

[Anonymous No.9932463]

I swear I can hear KSP music in the background...

[Anonymous No.9932464]

>the absolute STATE of ULA's adherence to America units

reeeeeeee

[Anonymous No.9932466]

>very close to nominal performance
NOMINAL

[Anonymous No.9932468]

>tfw when ULA are even able to make the launch of a $1.5 billion probe to the Sun boring...

[Anonymous No.9932471]

[Anonymous No.9932472]

>>9932468
>no smiling hosts
>no sounds of a cafeteria in the background
>ancient-sounding comms
>no soothing space-music during coast phases
>no onboard footage

ULA gotta step it up, SpaceX is 100x better at this whole PR thing

[Anonymous No.9932473]

PS2 graphics

[Anonymous No.9932475]

AW HELL YISS WE SUN NOW

[Anonymous No.9932476]

This is clearly CGI, who do they think they are fooling

[Anonymous No.9932477]

>>9932464
What do you prefer? I work exclusively in natural units which are superior, so it didn't matter to me which inferior system it gets converted to.

[Anonymous No.9932478]

>>9932471
press F to pay respects for kspg

[Anonymous No.9932480]

>>9932471
made me crack up

[Anonymous No.9932481]

>>9932472
SpaceX >> Rocket Lab > Blue Origin > Arianespace > ULA > Everybody else

[Anonymous No.9932484]

>>9932477
>I work exclusively in natural units which are superior
Oh, so what do you use then?

[Anonymous No.9932485]

>>9932477
>natural units
metric is just arbitrary multiplication of natural units. Imperial is multiplication of metric. Metric is therefore superior

[Anonymous No.9932486]

qt spotted

[Anonymous No.9932488]

>>9932472
Different companies are run in different ways. ULA put on a much more professional air than SpaceX.

[Anonymous No.9932489]

>>9932481
JAXA launches are comfy. Stick them above Arianespace

[Anonymous No.9932490]

>Cursor on screen.

[Anonymous No.9932492]

Why is it pointing down?

[Anonymous No.9932493]

>>9932481
>Ranking aerospace companies.
Autism.

[Anonymous No.9932494]

>>9932489
Ah, I knew I forgot one.

[Anonymous No.9932495]

>>9932481
What, you don't like hearing the indian space agency countdown/up?
>PLUS RUN, PLUS DOO, PLUS TREE, PLUS FOR, PLUS FEIV, PLUS SIX, PLUS SEVN, PLUS AYT, PLUS NEIN, PLUS TEN

[Anonymous No.9932496]

>Literally Eugene Parker
oh fug

[Anonymous No.9932499]

>I'm just waiting for the data...
poor dude might not be alive for the principle science reports to come out

[Anonymous No.9932501]

>>9932489
>japanese woman starts counting down at T+5 minutes

[Anonymous No.9932502]

>>9932496
He looks nervous on camera

[Anonymous No.9932503]

>>9932472
>ULA gotta step it up, SpaceX is 100x better at this whole PR thing

why? lockmart and boeing are going to shut it down as soon as all existing contracts are complete

[Anonymous No.9932504]

>>9932488
Which is why everyone wants to fly with SpaceX, and ULA have won no commercial contracts this year...

Also...
>>9932490

[Anonymous No.9932505]

>>9932501
>down
>+

[Anonymous No.9932507]

>>9932505
well he's sort of correct, the Japanese like to count 'up' as well for their launches past T-0.

[Anonymous No.9932508]

>>9932495
kek

[Anonymous No.9932509]

>>9932503
>Shut it down.
Go back to your subreddits SpaceX fanboy scum.

>>9932504
>lol if I make things up it makes it true
t. Abraham Lincoln.

[Anonymous No.9932514]

>>9932502
Most actual scientists and engineers are not very good at public speaking and so forth. That's why people like black science man have a job.

[Anonymous No.9932515]

>>9932509
he's sort of right. BO and SpaceX are both going to eat up the biddable government launch market. Not much of the pie will be left for ULA. I don't see it sticking around for much longer, after the current manifest is worked through

[Anonymous No.9932518]

>>9932509
lol but both the things we've said are true; ULA have won exactly no commercial contracts this year, and the Airforce are already phasing them out for SpaceX and Blue Origin in the near future.

[Anonymous No.9932522]

>>9932515
lmao, no. SpaceX still can't do all of the government's missions and Blue Origin still don't have anything. The whole "SpaceX and BO are making everyone irrelevant xDDDDD" meme is getting really tiresome.

[Anonymous No.9932524]

>that fucking thing will chill at 85 degrees F
bullllllshit

[Anonymous No.9932525]

>>9932518
>Airforce are already phasing them out for SpaceX and Blue Origin in the near future.
t. My ass

[Anonymous No.9932526]

>>9932522
>SpaceX and BO are making everyone irrelevant xDDDDD
but that's true, you can't just respond to criticism by hiding behind a
>muh r/spacex boogyman
excuse

[Anonymous No.9932529]

Here we go again!

[Anonymous No.9932531]

>>9929103
wtf is this cgi bullshit

[Anonymous No.9932532]

>>9932526
http://www.arianespace.com/press-release/after-meeting-its-commitments-in-2017-arianespace-prepares-for-an-intense-2018-and-looks-to-the-future-with-ariane-6-and-vega-c/

x
fucking
D
Reddit scum. How many contracts did SpaceX sign last year? Arianespace signed for 29 satellites on their decades old Ariane 5.

[Anonymous No.9932533]

>>9932522
>SpaceX still can't do all of the government's missions
Yeah they can, ever since Falcon Heavy got certified

Blue Origin literally don't have anything though and I don't understand why people put them on the same level of industry-disrupting company as SpaceX.

[Anonymous No.9932534]

you could have phrased this better Tory...
https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1028548268895158272

[Anonymous No.9932535]

>Cursor on stream again.

[Anonymous No.9932538]

>>9932534
kek

[Anonymous No.9932541]

>>9932532
>oh-it's-you-again.jpg

I was wondering when the Ariane-contract shitposter would show up. Hello! It's been a while. you really ought to expand your shitposting breadth; you're getting boring with the same incorrect points being regurgitated over and over

[Anonymous No.9932544]

>>9932541
>Incorrect
Yet you've never proved it wrong, bootlicker. Does Musk's dick still taste good after all these years?

[Anonymous No.9932545]

>>9932524
thus why it's taken 60 years to get to this point. The cooling tech is really fancy

[Anonymous No.9932546]

>Eugene Parker walking about the probe named after him.
That's so nice.

[Anonymous No.9932547]

>>9932546
first probe where the person it's named after is still alive

[Anonymous No.9932549]

>>9932493
>autism
autism

[Anonymous No.9932550]

>>9932547
Hopefully that remains the case when it starts collecting data

[Anonymous No.9932554]

>>9932547
But not the first NASA system named after a living person

[Anonymous No.9932555]

man they really are scrubbing ATK from the history books

[Anonymous No.9932557]

>>9932550
you think he'll be around to write a paper about some of that data?

[Anonymous No.9932558]

>>9932554
fuck forgot image

[Anonymous No.9932561]

>>9932555
>man they really are scrubbing ATK from the history books
lol yeah NG rebranding went to town, i noticed it especially on wikipedia

[Anonymous No.9932563]

>>9932557
he's been publishing stuff within the last few years so maybe

[Anonymous No.9932565]

>>9932532
The funny thing about ArianeSpace is that the only reason their manifest is so full is because SpaceX have a sizeable backlog; and the reason why SpaceX has a backlog is because they managed to pick up a large amount of GEO contracts that were originally planned to fly on the Ariane 5 but were delayed, so the customers jumped ship to SpaceX. It's an interesting relationship...

[Anonymous No.9932566]

>>9932561
it'll be weird at my college's career fair. ATK usually had a big booth close to NG. Now it'll just be one gigantic booth?

[Anonymous No.9932568]

>>9932565
GEO market has dropped off a cliff, thus why F9's manifest is evening out in the upcoming yearss

>The number of annual GEO comsat orders have dropped dramatically over the last few years. After averaging 20 or more satellite orders a year, the industry saw just 19 GEO comsat orders in 2015, 15 orders in 2016 and eight orders in 2017
and only five this year!

[Anonymous No.9932570]

>>9932566
>Now it'll just be one gigantic booth?
...Are you asking me? I don't fucking know, man.

[Anonymous No.9932571]

The front fell off!

[Anonymous No.9932573]

acquisition of 3rd stage telemetry

[Anonymous No.9932574]

>tfw playing KSP, and the MECO callout for the launch stream comes out at the exact same time your launch undergoes its own MECO.

[Anonymous No.9932575]

NO TLM DATA

[Anonymous No.9932576]

that's a big guy

[Anonymous No.9932577]

I swear, if Northrop fucks up again...

[Anonymous No.9932578]

>>9932568
It's almost like supply has now exceeded demand.

[Anonymous No.9932580]

>>9932456
ARE YOU HAPPY?

[Anonymous No.9932581]

inb4 the third stage SRB exploded and took out the probe

[Anonymous No.9932582]

>>9932581
Don't you dare.

[Anonymous No.9932585]

spacecraft sep in 30 sec

[Anonymous No.9932586]

Does it look like the people in the control room are getting increasingly worried?

[Anonymous No.9932588]

>>9932586
well once sep is achieved and the orbit is good their job is done. Then it's all on Johns Hopkins for the rest of the mission to go smoothly

[Anonymous No.9932590]

Oh thank goodness. It sounds like an issue on the ground.

[Anonymous No.9932592]

AMERICLAPS

[Anonymous No.9932593]

Well something good happened.

[Anonymous No.9932594]

>"Alright, not our problems anymore. Give yourselves a round of applause."

[Anonymous No.9932595]

Mission successful. Time for bed.

[Anonymous No.9932597]

>>9932594
If the spacecraft says it's okay then it doesn't matter what was wrong with the third stage.

[Anonymous No.9932599]

thanks for tuning in everyone. Next launch, excluding boring Vega, is a brand-new B5 F9 on the 24th. Payload is the Telstar 18V (APStar 5C); launch site is SLC-40

[Anonymous No.9932601]

BIG

[Anonymous No.9932603]

These two making sure the data has diversity.

[Anonymous No.9932604]

>>9932599
>I'm a shameless SpaceX fanboy and I like it that way.
Never change, Reddit.

[Anonymous No.9932607]

>>9932604
I dunno if you've noticed but I generally only make these launch threads for important or interesting launches. Vega sending up a earth sensing sat isn't important or interesting.

if you want to make a launch thread for the Vega launch go ahead...

[Anonymous No.9932608]

>>9932604
take your autism somewhere else faggot

[Anonymous No.9932610]

>>9932599
>>9932607

[Anonymous No.9932611]

>>9932610
honest question, why is there a picture of Nikes in that collage?

[Anonymous No.9932612]

>>9932607
Actually I might have to disagree with you on this one, science missions > com sats

[Anonymous No.9932613]

>>9932610
Never change, Reddit.

[Anonymous No.9932615]

>>9932611
terrible bait

[Anonymous No.9932618]

>>9932612
I suppose you're right; it's not a GLONASS launch or something generic.
Well heck, I guess I'll put up a thread for it.

>>9932615
I literally don't know why it would be in that collage.

[Anonymous No.9932620]

>>9932612
This is generally true, but imo pretty much every SpaceX comsat launch this year (even the expendable ones) has been more stimulating than this morning's launch with a probe worth 1.5 billion dollars, why? Because presentation is everything.

[Anonymous No.9932621]

>all those puns

[Anonymous No.9932622]

>>9932620
If some flashy stream effects is all that it takes for a launch to be entertaining for you, then you aren't a space fan, you're a SpaceX fanboy. An actual space fan would get excited for space launches that push our knowledge forward and not be so easily entertained by jangling keys.

[Anonymous No.9932627]

[Anonymous No.9932628]

>>9932622
landing a rocket ass-first is now 'jangling keys'? and who put you in charge of gatekeeping this sort of thing? It's immature and makes you look like a jerk.

[Anonymous No.9932632]

I suppose that one shitposter is better than two. and hey, an entire launch thread—including extra day for a scrub!—and not a single flat earther or LIE.webm poster or any of that stuff. Where'd they all go?

[Anonymous No.9932633]

>>9932628
It's kind of annoying to see people who only care about SpaceX launches because of the landing. Launches are cool and impotent because of the payload, not being of the figurative delivery truck. Sorry if I came off as mean-spirited, I've just gotten tired of people who only care about what SpaceX do.

[Anonymous No.9932636]

>>9932622
I watched a launch for only about 40 seconds this morning, the rest were spent looking at a dim light shining through clouds and computer graphics of a rocket... I don't even know if the PSP made it to space because I never got to actually see it separate (remember when Ariane's computer graphics showed that VA242 was s perfectly nominal flight?), unlike TESS which I know is up there because I saw it drift off into space through an onboard camera. If I wanted to watch computer-generated rockets I'd play KSP...

[Anonymous No.9932639]

>>9932633
>mean-spirited
no, fuck off. you don't get off the hook for being and ass, posting shitty śoyboy infographics and throwing Reddit accusations (as if that means anything) around just by 'apologizing'.

SpaceX is important because of those landings. Incredibly important. It brings the cost of access to space down dramatically. This IN TURN will allow for exponentially more stuff to be put in space. Sure, if you look at the small picture, as you do, the landings seem inconsequential. But the big picture belongs to SpaceX. And you for whatever reason can't see that.

Please leave and never return.

[Anonymous No.9932641]

>>9932632
I guess the time. Its 11:40 here in eastern europe. That is why you get Ariane "waste of carbon fanboy" shitposts...

[Anonymous No.9932642]

>>9932641
I do miss the
>'No!'
copypasta a bit. it was different every time...

[Anonymous No.9932810]

>>9932581
>Star is a good boy he dindu nuffin

[Anonymous No.9932814]

>>9932622
>An actual space fan would get excited for space launches that push our knowledge forward
Yeah, like the ones that directly contribute to our ability to build and operate reusable launch vehicles, specifically one that will carry humans to space from American soil for the first time since 2011?
The correct answer is that both the upcoming Vega launch and any upcoming Falcon 9/SpaceX launches are important.

[Anonymous No.9932819]

>>9932636
speaking of which, at the very least can ULA get a prettier launch simulation program at some point or are they going to remain in the 90's forever?

[Anonymous No.9932846]

>>9932819
>>remain in the 90's forever?
did you see the cameras they were using in the control rooms
1991 called and it wants its cameras back

[Anonymous No.9933050]

>>9932601
is he going to make it to the first venus flyby?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe

[Anonymous No.9933420]

>>9932534
Top fucking kek

[Anonymous No.9933989]

>>9933420
Tory is a cool dude, he posts on spacexmasterrace from time to time

[Anonymous No.9935569]

>>9929340
Because it is just that. It's a cover-up for scaled-up testing.