SpaceX Falcon1 DemoFlight2 Attempt

14 responses to “SpaceX Falcon1 DemoFlight2 Attempt”

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   AMagill

   Mar 19, 2007 at 10:47 pm

   Ooh, cool. Just fifteen minutes from now. I’ll have to watch that.

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   AMagill

   Mar 19, 2007 at 10:49 pm

   Looks awfully windy in the video, though..

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   jurvetson

   Mar 19, 2007 at 10:56 pm

   Yeah… Last time seemed even more windy…. almost a gale to my eyes.

   They had a successful static fire motor test yesterday (video)

   I am not hearing any audio…. do you?

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   AMagill

   Mar 19, 2007 at 11:04 pm

   Nope. The rocket seems to be venting more and more gas on the right side now, though. Hopefully it’s going to go soon.. I’m going to be late for class. 😛

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   xouroborus

   Mar 19, 2007 at 11:05 pm

   cool!!

   no audio here

   just got a kit in the mail..when it’s built, I’m flying back to Mars ‘_’

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   xouroborus

   Mar 19, 2007 at 11:15 pm

   audio now!

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   jurvetson

   Mar 19, 2007 at 11:46 pm

   terminal count abort. bummer.
   kwajrockets.blogspot.com/

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   AMagill

   Mar 19, 2007 at 11:50 pm

   Does ‘terminal’ mean ‘we’ll try again in 20 minutes’ or ‘some other day’?
   I can’t hear the audio since I’m in class at the moment. 😛

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9. 

   redundant frame

   Mar 20, 2007 at 12:15 am

   They cancelled for the day, correct? (that’s what I determined from the audio)

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    jurvetson

    Mar 20, 2007 at 12:28 am

    I was off line there for a bit too. Looks like they are venting down the LOX.

    update; I just heard that they have scrubbed for the day and will retry tomorrow.

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    biotron

    Mar 20, 2007 at 3:02 am

    great – that is crazy about their satellite landing back in the machine shop virtually unscathed! glad i missed the excitement earlier today and can come and keep a fresh live eye on things tomorrow 🙂

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12. 

    Todd Huffman

    Mar 20, 2007 at 3:27 am

    No fins? Steve. Why don’t you build a no-fins rocket?

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    jurvetson

    Mar 20, 2007 at 3:52 am

    Well, that takes serious skills, and active guidance… which would be very much illegal for a bloke like me.

    Update: the 24 hour flight delay was due to a problem switching from landline communication to radio.

    It reminds me of how many things can go wrong…. Even with our simple rockets, Erik and I have had many machinations at the pad just to get a wireless video feed working.

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    jurvetson

    Mar 20, 2007 at 11:59 pm

    T-3 minutes ! Bummer… Terminal Count Abort in the final second… Lots of water on the pad, and cursing that I don’t think they intended to be on the audio link… =)

    Update: They may recycle to a T-11 minutes to launch. You can watch it live here.

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