"Red team" doesn't actually have Red shirts. I consider this a good idea when dealing with a 2500+ ton rocket full of Rocket fuel


Live coverage of the Scrubbed Launch systems has started.

blah blah blah blah

do they get paid by the word?

3 Red team members go in, torqueing. 3 red team members leave, Twerking|

yea Red Team!

Red Team gave cameras a thumbs up, proving they didn't lose them and can still do Red team stuff


Range officer is advising a current NO GO due to Radar being down

fuckening #2

LH2 Refilling.

So far nothing is delaying launch assuming range issue is resolved

LH2 Core stage topping

Range had a bad Ethernet switch on radar. 70 minutes to complete work. Scotty needs to work those miracles to get done by launch window

Currently NO GO. countdown continues

assume there is going to be a hold at T-30 minutes or later

DELAY certain


T-0:42:00

Fastfill complete and back in core stage topping.

upper stage is on Fast fill LH2 60%


Confirmed, Red Team has successfully stopped leak! AWesome work torquing those nuts

Range reporting radar ethernet switch might take longer

DELAY ALMOST CERTAIN

Okay. here is where it gets interesting

T-15 minutes there will be a poll for GO/NO GO

Terminal count starts at T-10 minutes
They can get as low as T-90 seconds with a reset, anything pass that and it will be a scrub.

planned 30 minute hold of course. at T-10 minutes. The upper stage isn't even filled yet

Range safety officer is Testing if they can possibly blow up the big rocket remotely.

I got a good feeling they might actually launch this monstrosity now

going to be exciting!

Still planned hold. No estimate on terminal count
upper stage at 95% LH2
Rest of the tanks are at topping mode

No additional risk of caulk falling off and causing damage.

Red box shows darker area when RPV "Caulk" was peeled off during hurricane

still got more than an hour of wiggle room. Got a 2 hour Launch window and GODAMMIT we are going to use all of it!


Polling done
No constraints
GO FOR TERMINAL COUNT LAUNCH!
T MINUS 10 MINUTS AND COUNTING


T+00:00:00:00 Launch from Mobile Launch Platform 1 at pad LC39B at Kennedy Space Center along with ignition of the SRB


T+00:00:02:12 SRB shutdown and jettison at an altitude of 48 km

NOMINAL LAUNCH!


T+00:00:03:11 spacecraft adapter fairing panels 1 to 3 jettisoned at an altitude of 88 km
T+00:00:03:16 FAKE Abort tower jettison at an altitude of 90 km and velocity 2.03 km/s


T+00:00:05:24 SRB splash down in Atlantic RIP noisy rockets. that worked


T+00:00:08:03 MECO (main engine cutoff), altitude 157 km, orbit 30 x 1808 km
T+00:00:08:15 separate from /#OSA/#Orion in 30 x 1808 km orbit.


Happy flight director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson is happy

and gets her tie cut as tradition of getting for first launch


signing off now
Apogee is 1810km, will reach that point in about 30 minutes, and performed a 22 second Perigee (low point) burn to get it to 383km Then about 30 minutes after that perform an 18 minute Trans Lunar Injection burn Near Perigee, and have another 4 days to reach THE MOON

um... yes. Wave to the giant ugly Orange monster as is falls back to the earth to its firey death

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