SES-9 Launch process is successful.
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RE: SES 9 Launch
I think ADTV will launch some channels today. I m getting BAT updates
I think ADTV will launch some channels today. I m getting BAT updates
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RE: SES 9 Launch
February 25 , 5:16 AM IST Ses-9 will fly....
1 day 4 hours 50 min. to go....
Good Luck!!!
February 25 , 5:16 AM IST Ses-9 will fly....
1 day 4 hours 50 min. to go....
Good Luck!!!
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RE: SES 9 Launch
Falcon 9 clears static fire test before launch this week
Posted on February 22, 2016 by Stephen Clark
The Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin 1D first stage engines fired Monday while the booster was on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX’s launch team in Cape Canaveral fueled a Falcon 9 rocket with super-chilled liquid propellants and briefly fired the first stage’s nine Merlin engines Monday in a customary preflight test ahead of Wednesday’s scheduled liftoff of a commercial television broadcasting satellite for the Asia-Pacific.
Ground crews rolled the 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket out of its hangar at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad and raised it vertical early Monday, then ran the launcher through a series of tests before pumping super-cold liquid oxygen and RP-1 — a refined grade of kerosene — into the two-stage vehicle.
The rocket entered a computer-controlled terminal countdown sequence, prepared its nine first stage Merlin 1D engines for ignition, switched to internal power, and pressurized its propellant tanks in the final minutes of the countdown test.
The first stage engines lit for several seconds as the countdown clock reached zero, throttling up to full power to collectively generate 1.3 million pounds of thrust. Moments later, computers commanded the engines to shut down and safed the rocket as engineers prepared to drain propellants from the Falcon 9.
SpaceX confirmed the successful completion of the “static fire” test in a tweet Monday afternoon, adding that the rocket is still targeting liftoff Wednesday.
Monday’s static fire test occurred with the SES 9 communications satellite mated to the top of the Falcon 9.
Weighing approximately 11,700 pounds (5,300 kilograms), SES 9 is destined to broadcast television programming over the Asia-Pacific and connect crews and passengers aboard ships traversing the Indian Ocean with coworkers, families and friends.
Built by Boeing and owned by SES of Luxembourg, the spacecraft will be operational in mid-2016.
The launch window Wednesday opens at 6:46:14 p.m. EST (2346:14 GMT) and extends until 8:23 p.m. EST (0123 GMT).
Falcon 9 clears static fire test before launch this week
Posted on February 22, 2016 by Stephen Clark
The Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin 1D first stage engines fired Monday while the booster was on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX’s launch team in Cape Canaveral fueled a Falcon 9 rocket with super-chilled liquid propellants and briefly fired the first stage’s nine Merlin engines Monday in a customary preflight test ahead of Wednesday’s scheduled liftoff of a commercial television broadcasting satellite for the Asia-Pacific.
Ground crews rolled the 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket out of its hangar at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad and raised it vertical early Monday, then ran the launcher through a series of tests before pumping super-cold liquid oxygen and RP-1 — a refined grade of kerosene — into the two-stage vehicle.
The rocket entered a computer-controlled terminal countdown sequence, prepared its nine first stage Merlin 1D engines for ignition, switched to internal power, and pressurized its propellant tanks in the final minutes of the countdown test.
The first stage engines lit for several seconds as the countdown clock reached zero, throttling up to full power to collectively generate 1.3 million pounds of thrust. Moments later, computers commanded the engines to shut down and safed the rocket as engineers prepared to drain propellants from the Falcon 9.
SpaceX confirmed the successful completion of the “static fire” test in a tweet Monday afternoon, adding that the rocket is still targeting liftoff Wednesday.
Monday’s static fire test occurred with the SES 9 communications satellite mated to the top of the Falcon 9.
Weighing approximately 11,700 pounds (5,300 kilograms), SES 9 is destined to broadcast television programming over the Asia-Pacific and connect crews and passengers aboard ships traversing the Indian Ocean with coworkers, families and friends.
Built by Boeing and owned by SES of Luxembourg, the spacecraft will be operational in mid-2016.
The launch window Wednesday opens at 6:46:14 p.m. EST (2346:14 GMT) and extends until 8:23 p.m. EST (0123 GMT).
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RE: SES 9 Launch
SPACEX FALCON 9 LAUNCH SET FOR EARLY EVENING WEDNESDAY
SpaceX is hoping for weather to hold out at Cape Canaveral long enough Wednesday to finally launch a Falcon 9 rocket to carry an SES communications satellite into orbit.
Launch time, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, is set for 6:46 pm, almost a half-hour after sunset. The mission would take the SES-9 satellite, originally slated to go up last August, into an orbit to provide TV and other communications to serve South Asia, including Indonesia and the Philippines.
The launch date was confirmed after a successful static engine firing of the Falcon 9 at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 40 on Monday.
But there’s a 40 percent chance that weather might bump the launch yet another day, to Thursday. The U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing Weather Squadron is forecasting that a low pressure system that formed Wednesday could push a surface cold front across Cape Canaveral right at launch time. Thunderstorms could be a problem. So could strong surface winds.
Should Wednesday’s launch get scrubbed, Thursday is the backup date. The weather should improve and the 45th Weather Squadron is predicting a 20 percent chance of bad launch weather for Thursday.
The SES mission, and several others, were postponed after SpaceX had a Falcon 9 rocket blow up shortly after liftoff on June 28.
For SpaceX, this will be the second Falcon 9 launch since it returned to launching in December with a spectacular performance. That Dec. 21 launch was picture-perfect and the mission flawlessly delivered 11 ORBCOMM satellites into orbit. Then the first stage of the Falcon 9 made history with a perfect landing at a SpaceX landing pad at Cape Canaveral.
SPACEX FALCON 9 LAUNCH SET FOR EARLY EVENING WEDNESDAY
SpaceX is hoping for weather to hold out at Cape Canaveral long enough Wednesday to finally launch a Falcon 9 rocket to carry an SES communications satellite into orbit.
Launch time, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, is set for 6:46 pm, almost a half-hour after sunset. The mission would take the SES-9 satellite, originally slated to go up last August, into an orbit to provide TV and other communications to serve South Asia, including Indonesia and the Philippines.
The launch date was confirmed after a successful static engine firing of the Falcon 9 at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 40 on Monday.
But there’s a 40 percent chance that weather might bump the launch yet another day, to Thursday. The U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing Weather Squadron is forecasting that a low pressure system that formed Wednesday could push a surface cold front across Cape Canaveral right at launch time. Thunderstorms could be a problem. So could strong surface winds.
Should Wednesday’s launch get scrubbed, Thursday is the backup date. The weather should improve and the 45th Weather Squadron is predicting a 20 percent chance of bad launch weather for Thursday.
The SES mission, and several others, were postponed after SpaceX had a Falcon 9 rocket blow up shortly after liftoff on June 28.
For SpaceX, this will be the second Falcon 9 launch since it returned to launching in December with a spectacular performance. That Dec. 21 launch was picture-perfect and the mission flawlessly delivered 11 ORBCOMM satellites into orbit. Then the first stage of the Falcon 9 made history with a perfect landing at a SpaceX landing pad at Cape Canaveral.
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RE: SES 9 Launch
He has told the time in IST,according to Indian Standard Time the rocket would be launched at 5:16am tomorrowHarry.S said:
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RE: SES 9 Launch
yea I've told in IST not in ET.
please try to understand at first
yea I've told in IST not in ET.
please try to understand at first
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