Posted on 08/02/2008 2:07:27 PM PDT by spacejunkie01
Launch going off at Kwajalein today 7pm EST. Live feed starts 1/2 hour before. The rocket has a new Spacedev satellite on it, built for the Air Force.
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KWAJ PING!!!
Same here.
liftoff now at 8 eastern
Crappy onboard VGA!
2220 GMT (7:20 p.m. EDT) It is late morning on the Omelek launch island. The local time is 11:20 a.m. Sunday. Skies are mostly clear, winds are easterly at 13 mph and a temperature of 86 degrees F.
2212 GMT (7:12 p.m. EDT) The countdown apparently went into another hold, this one at T-minus 55 minutes. However, there's been no official word from the SpaceX about another launch time adjustment.
0203 GMT (10:03 p.m. EDT)
The countdown clocks have been reset from T-minus 16 minutes all the way back to T-minus 55 minutes and holding.
0206 GMT (10:06 p.m. EDT)
The Falcon launch team has initiated the countdown from the T-minus 55 minute mark, heading for another shot at liftoff tonight.
Looks like it blew up. Bummer.
Seems something went wrong. Webcast stopped 2:20 into the flight with announcement of an “anomoly”. No word about the status of the craft thereafter.
It failed to stage.. They really have to get this thing working. Private industry doesn’t have the luxury of so many failures I bet.
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