Wallops launch in T-1hr!

There's an Antares launch carrying a Cygnus and 5k lbs of cargo to the ISS tonight at 6:45:5 PM tonight. Those on the east coast might get a view. We're
hoping to get a glimpse here in northern NJ.
live stream here:https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.VE67PmBX-uY

Somewhere's in the +150 sec mark should be visible....


JD

Damn Boat, just paused it!

So I saw- apparently its a sail boat, if its the same one as before
for christ's sake!

hit the button lets go

dang it scrubbed!!!!! New launch time: 6:19pm eastern time tomorrow

Abort!
Goshdarnit!

Stupid boat!!!
edit: Hopefully tomorrows launch will go ahead with no silly boats in the way!
Nate

Darn... I even dragged out my big dobsonian telescope to see if I could see it... stupid boat

They will try again tomorrow at 6:22pm. Hopefully the clouds will stay away. Conditons were ideal this evening.

So what happens to the skipper of the boat? Is he charged with anything, or what?

If he's more than 12 miles off shore he's in international waters.....

Bob

If he's in a sailboat, he's probably sailing in and out of the exclusion area as he tacks. Not much he can do about the wind direction. If he's at the edge of the "zone" he probably thought he was clear (or didn't know about it at all).

If it were the shuttle they would of had a visit from the men in a black boat with machine guns.

I get to watch it from a plane. Just learned that I get to fly in a plane watching it... Thank you Civil Air Patrol...

Here is a link.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2014/10/...s-rocket-set-for-launch-monday-from-virginia/

blackbrandt said:

I get to watch it from a plane. Just learned that I get to fly in a plane watching it... Thank you Civil Air Patrol...

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Lucky!

Lots of cloud cover here... probably no good view to be had... fingers crossed...

Nate

uh oh...

Explosion on pad
waiting for more info

holy carp.

nute, I take it you were watching live just as I was?

wow. thats not good

Not good.

Yup, watching live
Dang...

Blew up just after liftoff.
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#.VFAXRfnF_wl
It's cloudy here as well.


JD

will be interesting to hear what their flight operations comms chatter sounds like after that....

Looks like fires burning all over the facility

Well that's going to make for a long night...

doesn't sound like anybody was hurt though - so that's a good thing.

No joke some muppet just hit the FTTC cab knocking me offline. Jumped on to 4G and caught the fire on the floor. Ops that's gonna hurt the bank.

The feed is still live from NASA-TV. So you can listen if you want. They're talking about locking down data right now.

This is a stark contrast with SeaLaunch failures where the web stream ended immediately after the vehicle exploded....

They're "locking down" all data including "personal notes" "computers" "checklists" etc

Nate

Not meant to be...could've seen it here in Charlotte, I was in position last night on top of a parking deck. Tonight I had to be at work during launch on the opposite side of the city, so I wasn't seeing it tonight regardless. That was crazy to watch...never seen a failure live. Sure it was a streaming video, but dang!!! That's a real bummer for that entire operation....Wallops, Orbital, and ISS.