NASA to launch 5 rockets quickly to track winds

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-20 at 22:56:07 EDT Vertical payload checks are in progress.

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-20 at 22:48:32 EDT Poll to conducted vertical checks is complete.

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-20 at 22:47:33 EDT All five rocket payloads have been checked with the rockets in the horizontal position. Next up, the rockets will be raised to the launch position and vertical payload checks will be conducted.

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-20 at 21:11:34 EDT Horizontal checks have started

looking good !!! anyone else going to be watching the live webcast?

Link to webcast
sorry if im not allowed to post a link straight to the webcast

Just Now:

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-20 at 23:40:04 EDT Vertical checks are complete.

I never seen a rocket lift off, so this is going to be a first for me

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-20 at 23:45:43 EDT T-15 minutes and holding.

Sorry for all the posts,

but doesn't anybody want to see what they are doing?

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-21 at 00:23:02 EDT Launch team is currently troubleshooting a positioning descrepancy reading between the on board GPS and launch rail ground equipment for the Terrier-Oriole.

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-21 at 00:48:01 EDT We have canceled the launch attmept for this morning. Weatehr briefing shortly to determine the next launch attmept and window.

So not today

Well better hopes for tomorrow weather

And no that wasnt my typo

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-21 at 01:06:57 EDT Next launch attempt will be midnight to 3 a.m., Thursday, March 22. Countdown will begin at 7 p.m. tonight and the webcast will begin 8 p.m.

lol this is nasa holding a carrot on a stick in front of us.

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-22 at 23:07:19 EDT T-53 minutes and counting
Source

Hopefully the weather can stay to their likings.

UStream Feed

thanks for the live stream link.

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no problem. i hope they put it to the angle where you can see all 5 rockets, when they launch

the view changed now we can see more than 1

T -5 min to and every thing is a go.

my regular mind thinks this is going to look really cool. my writing/crazy idea side is waiting for these to hit la palma and create an east coast tsunami.


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Well I wish they would do something......
2nd

OBVIOUSLY we just observed sumthin that the PTB would prefer we didnt.

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-23 at 01:30:28 EDT It looks likewe will have boat interference for at least the next hour.

Posted by RCC on 2012-03-23 at 01:32:43 EDT We have canceled today's launch attempt. Stand by for next attempt.

Dang, always happens

Unknown boat isn't responding and will not comply with a turn around request. (To keep clear of the areas of ocean). I'd arrest him.


Weather isn't good now, so they scrubbed the launch tonight...

Scrubbed again!

well dang. hope it launches soon. more delays than congress.

Now it's scheduled for Tuesday March 27th. Between midnight and 3 am EDT:

MIDNIGHT ROCKET PLUMES: On Tuesday, March 27th, between midnight and 3 am EDT, NASA plans a rapid-fire launch of five sounding rockets from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rockets will deliver a chemical tracer to the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere, forming milky white plumes that reveal high-speed winds at the edge of space. The display should be visible to the naked eye from coastal areas between South Carolina and New Jersey.
www.spaceweather.com...

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thanks for the update

were we not intended to see this.

maybe some UK friends can keep an eye and ear out for us.

looks like it was a solid launch.