[Jack Hydrazine]

SpaceX ready for commercial launch for Orbcomm http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/010/140619preview/#.U6bXK7GSCog

Falcon 9 countdown timeline http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/010/countdowntimeline.html

Falcon 9 launch timeline http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/010/launchtimeline.html

Mission Press Kit http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/010/presskit.pdf

OG2 info sheet http://www.orbcomm.com/uploads/files/OG2-2.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbcomm_satellites#Orbcomm-G2

List of Falcon 9 launches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_launches

Photos: Falcon 9 on the launch pad http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/010/prelaunch/#.U6bYFrGSCog

Delay-stricken SpaceX launch scrubbed by technical issue http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/010/140620scrub/#.U6bYTbGSCog 20JUN2014

[Jack Hydrazine]

Just wanted to ping everyone to this launch.

[NonValueAdded]

Brevard County, Florida ping.

Let me know if you want on or off this ping list.
(not associated with the county government)

[Dagnabitt]

Are they going to try to soft-land / soft-splash the booster?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Latest updates:

1715 GMT (1:15 p.m. EDT)
The precise time of the opening of today’s launch window is 5:30:54 p.m. EDT (2130:54 GMT).

1655 GMT (12:55 p.m. EDT)
SpaceX says they will webcast this evening’s Falcon 9 launch attempt beginning at 5:16 p.m. EDT (2116 GMT). The launch window opens at 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130 GMT).

1505 GMT (11:05 a.m. EDT)
The launch window opens at 5:30 p.m. EDT and extends to 8:08 p.m. EDT (2130-0008 GMT), according to an official U.S. Air Force weather forecast.

The forecast predicts an 80 percent chance conditions will violate one of the weather rules for liftoff today, with widespread showers and thunderstorms expected over the Space Coast.

The outlook calls for broken clouds at 2,500 feet, 10,000 feet and 30,000 feet, southeast winds at 12 to 16 mph, and a temperature of 84 degrees Fahrenheit at launch time.

“Showers and thunderstorms will form on the sea breeze in the early afternoon and, with southwesterly flow [and] stay near the Cape through the afternoon,” the Air Force weather team wrote in a forecast synopsis. “Conditions will gradually improve near sunset and through the evening hours. The primary concerns are cumulus clouds, lightning, anvil clouds and high electric fields within the window. With conditions not appearing to change through mid-week, similar weather concerns will persist for a few days.”

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Thanks I just linked to your photo:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/010/prelaunch/#.U6bYFrGSCog

I was surprized the rocket doesn’t really seem to have tails. It that all done now, basically also with rockets?

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you very much Jack Hydrazine.