Antares Launch Today!

[Jasper Nance]

Watch live at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv at 5PM eastern (that's 2:00 PM for you Arizonans)

For easterners who might be reading, it should be visible from the Capital and sort of New York. Here's a map.

http://www.space.com/20682-private-rocket-launch-virginia-webcast.html 

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[John Kittelsrud]

Awesome! Thanks for the heads up! 

-John

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[Jasper Nance]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/antares/demo/status.html Will have
better status updates but may or may not have an extremely obnoxious
announcer. Seriously guys, its not a soccer game... Let the
propellants do the talking!!

[Will Bradley]

Really cool! Are you the one who fixed the faulty valve? ;)

[Corey Renner]

Jasper,

it looks the the American flag is peeling-off the top of the rocket.  How about climbing up there with some duct tape and fixing it.

http://spaceflightnow.com/antares/demo/prelaunch/

2nd to last photo.

cheers,

c

[John Kittelsrud]

It's going into space! Better use staples or drywall screws. :)

-John

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[John Kittelsrud]

BTW, let me point out that you have an awesome job. Thanks for letting us have a peek.

-John

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[Andrew Harris]

The NASA TV intermission music is very, very 90s. :P

Wish I didn't have to sleep today so I could watch the launch. :/

[Alyson Zepeda]

Yay, Jasper, YAY! Will you be in the control room? Do you think we'll be able to see you?!

[Jasper Nance]

fixed it last night ;)

[Ryan Mcdermott]

Abort :'(

Premature removal of umbilical for the secondary stage, it says?

[John Kittelsrud]

Argh, premature separation of the second stage umbilical! No flight for today. :(

-John

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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Jasper Nance <nebar...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Nate Caine]

ABORT! ABORT! ABORT! 

[Nate Plamondon]

I was so excited, too...
Sorry, Jasper. I'm sure she'll fly soon!

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[Nate Caine]

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013
2050 GMT (4:50 p.m. EDT)

SCRUBBED. The Orbital launch team is securing today's countdown after this unexpected technical problem arose. Officials are assessing the plan ahead to reattach the umbilical and determine when the next launch attempt can be made.

 

 

[Jeremy Leung]

Next test launch I'll go to the lab and get it up on the big screen.  Always interesting listening to the checks prior to launch or during troubleshooting.

Jasper:  I thought I heard you on the live stream say, "FSO is go."  Was that you?  If so, I was curious what that meant.  Googling around shows this communication technology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Space_Optics

Is that what you're working on?

[Mike Bushroe]

I always thought that during a launch the FSO was the Field Safety Officer, giving clearance that the launch are and down range possible debris fields are clear. Is that true in this case?

Mike

[Ryan Mcdermott]

FS = "First Stage"?

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[Jasper Nance]

you did not hear me, my calls were all before nasa tv coverage started.

[Will Bradley]

Mommy, I wanna see Jasper on teevee!

[Jasper Nance]

Trying to fly again today!!

Looks like they don't start full coverage until T-1 hour so that's 1:00 AZ time (T0 is at 2PM AZ time) so you won't get to hear my callout. I heard that Nasa TV has clearer video than spaceflightnow but the spaceflightnow site has live status updates and super awesome timelines and trajectories etc. 

Aaaand, you won't see me in the main view of the RCC either, unfortunately.

Crossing my fingers that today goes smoothly -- especially in the plus count!

[Jerry Davis]

You know, Jasper. I am very proud of you. And I feel some sort of kinship with you. I am intensely interested in space and space related stuff.

You see, my Dad worked for Boeing (a NASA contractor) in Huntsville, AL during the 60's and 70's.

As an Electronics Engineer, he worked on several things: Apollo, the Lunar Lander, etc.

But one of them was the countdown clock. I mean the full thing. Not just the clock part, but all the A/D inputs from various subsystems that could automatically stop the clock. This was before computers. I have a few pictures of stuff he developed too. I know it looks ancient now, but 50 years ago it was pushing the state of the art.

Maybe someday, we can sit down and talk about it. And maybe I can remember to bring in all the stuff my Dad collected at the time. A little history.

May your day go well. I will be watching.

Jerry

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[Ryan Mcdermott]

I didn't see if it was mentioned in this thread, but @orbitalsciences is also tweeting everything...

[Ryan Mcdermott]

Twitter says it was scrubbed for weather.

(If anybody is looking here for info)

[Jasper Nance]

Third try is a charm??? On for today again at a nominal 5 PM eastern!

[Jasper Nance]

T-35 min!! Go Antares!!

[Matt Shepard]

Beautiful launch! I hope they have more video to show, the NASA feed jumped to their simulation for the last two separations.

[John Kittelsrud]

Congrats to you and all your team members on the successful launch!

-John

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[Raymond Gage]

Congratulations Orbital on a beautiful Antares flight!  The footage is awesome.
-Raymond

[Jasper Nance]

Did anyone else feel time stand still as the first stage separated and drifted unrealistically slowly away and towards the limb of the earth?????

On Apr 21, 2013 7:18 PM, "Raymond Gage" <raymon...@cox.net> wrote:

Congratulations Orbital on a beautiful Antares flight!  The footage is awesome.
-Raymond

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[Robert Bell]

Übernominal!

[Jerry Davis]

Reminds me of the mercury/gemini/apollo days. Nice the us is back in space. On to a base on the moon as a stepping stone to mars!

[Mike Bushroe]

Jasper,

  I seem to remember feeling much the same as the Titan 4C launched our probe out to Saturn. Those of us in the European Space Scientist guest review area about 5.5 miles away from the launch pad using out Mark One Eyeballs to watch lost not too long after in went into a cloud bank (lit it from inside, very beautiful) then came out again on the other side and then climbed out of sight didn't really get a chance to see the solids drop off. But time certainly stands still while a rocket is thundering away seemingly within arms reach, and certainly close enough to not just hear but feel it!

Congrats to you and your team for a successful first flight! And doubly so that you are much more intimately involved in making iy successful!

Mike

[Raymond Gage]

Jasper,

 

A little bit, yes.  I was wondering why the long delay between stages.  Usually staging happens much quicker.  Again well done Antares Team.

 

-Raymond

 

On Monday, April 22, 2013 5:53:06 AM UTC-7, Nebarnix wrote:

[Jasper Nance]

What do you mean? do you mean the drift phase of stage 1 to stage 2 ignition?

[Ryan Mcdermott]

I found a video of the launch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3L7crGudVU

(This link is nominal)

[Jasper Nance]

Liftoff is better here

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a16pQrU51Ko

[Ryan Mcdermott]

Sweet!

Maybe you can't say...but how does it deal with not having fins?  Thrust vectoring?

[Jasper Nance]

Yup. Fins were needed back when the inertial navigation and control systems weren't advanced enough to deal with the complexities of maneuvering a rocket. Fins make it harder to make sudden changes that would need fast control loops to respond to.  

[Corey Renner]

Jasper,

it's interesting that there are big coil springs to jettison the first stage.  I've never seen that before in NASA footage, do the NASA rockets use springs too and just hide them from the camera, or is this a new way of doing it?

I would have liked to see you guys giving 110%, but I guess 108% is pretty good too.  Thanks for fixing the flag before launch ;)

cheers,

c

[Jasper Nance]

We have to back off as 112% was proven to result in spontaneous disassembly ;)

Springs are not uncommon in smaller stages. I think normally they are just not visible in the cameras. For really large Saturn V style rockets and the Shuttles they use small rockets to push things around as springs would be too massive.

 

I just love how slowly that first stage drifted away... no roll or tumble or anything.... surreal!!

[Robert Bell]

They little Android phone sats pass at ~14:00 and 15:30 today. 

If MacGyver walked into HSL and wanted to tune in, what could he hack together?

http://phonesat.org/ 

[Robert Bell]

How does The become They when I click send?

[Jasper Nance]

All we need is a laptop running a TNC program on the soundcard, a HAM radio, and a yagi/quagi antenna. I have the first two but my antenna became mangled when I moved. It would not be hard to make a new one, I have all the parameters already in NEC2

[Will Bradley]

What kind of yagi? There's a 2.4ghz one with rp-n connector upstairs.

[Jasper Nance]

rp-n != ham radio

 

Its 70cm, 440Mhz

Thanks though!

[Jasper Nance]

I've built about five of these so far...

 

http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/woverbeck/quagi.htm

 

But I do not love VSWR tuning the quad elements... It kind of takes forever.