T minus 3 minutes.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Live stream here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/12/space_x_launch_scheduled_for_1.html
Falcon 9 about to launch
by BurnTheShips 5 Replies latest jw friends
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BurnTheShips
T minus 30 seconds...
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BurnTheShips
Feed is cutting out, last report was 3.5 km/s and over 200 km altitude. This one is supposed to orbit twice, then reenter over the Pacific. Falcon 9 already achieved LEO earlier this year. If the payload is successful in coming home from orbit, it will be the first private spacecraft to do so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt-R5hj_lWM
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bohm
Wow, cant believe i missed this. SpaceX is my favorite private space program, it seem like just yesterday they was competing for the X-prize.
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BurnTheShips
Wow, cant believe i missed this. SpaceX is my favorite private space program, it seem like just yesterday they was competing for the X-prize.
Bohm, if this gets off the ground, it will also revolutionize space access:
It is a gas gun. You could shoot payloads into orbit for a few hundred dollars per kilo. His business plan includes establishing a fuel depot in orbit.
We could use SpaceX for man rated launch, but Quicklaunch for cargoes. (You cannot use gas gun for humans, the G force is far too great)
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