MSL launch day, peanut-chomping time |
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MSL launch day, peanut-chomping time |
 Nov 26 2011, 03:37 PM
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The data quality has just been described as 'marginal', but it seems that every time they do get figures, the figures look OK. Around five minutes to MECO.
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Nov 26 2011, 03:40 PM
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Don't recall ever seeing payload fairing sep from the ground before - pretty cool!
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Nov 26 2011, 03:45 PM
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Thanks folks, pardon my nerves
 *Gorgeous* on-board video now via Diego Garcia approaching cruise stage separation... -------------------- --
Viva software libre! |
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Nov 26 2011, 03:45 PM
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Cool view of the spacecraft.
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Nov 26 2011, 03:47 PM
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Live video of separation - how sweet is that????
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Nov 26 2011, 03:48 PM
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Just beautiful! Thanks to everyone's hard work that made this possible... GO CURIOSITY!
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Nov 26 2011, 03:48 PM
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Beautiful!
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Nov 26 2011, 03:48 PM
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Spacecraft separation went well!!! WOOHOO!
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Nov 26 2011, 03:50 PM
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Amazing view of the Centaur stage and rotation thrusters reflecting in the pristine solar panel of the cruise stage. Sep nominal, all went well and lots of clapping in the control room.
- Now for a quiet, eventless cruise until EDL and more peanuts! |
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Nov 26 2011, 03:51 PM
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Beautiful video during separation. I think crescent Earth was visible as a reflection on the cruise stage solar panel cells around spin-up time.
-------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Nov 26 2011, 03:51 PM
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Have a safe trip home little robot !
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Nov 26 2011, 03:51 PM
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Congratulations to all the teams involved!
So... are we there yet? 
-------------------- "I can easily see still in my mind’s-eye the beautiful clusters of these berries as they appeared to me..., when I came upon an undiscovered bed of them... – the rich clusters drooping in the shade there and bluing all the ground" -- Thoreau
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Nov 26 2011, 03:52 PM
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...a sweet launch. FYI all, new thread now for MSL cruise. This thread will be closing in the near future. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Nov 26 2011, 03:53 PM
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Beautiful indeed!
Safe cruise Curiosity.... |
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Nov 26 2011, 03:59 PM
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To cap this thread: a link to the thread at NASASpaceflight which gives a blow by blow account of the launch:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27385.0 - 22+ pages... |
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