Posted on 07/13/2014 8:30:36 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Orbital Sciences is gearing up for liftoff of a commercial cargo craft packed with more than 3,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station. Launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is set for 12:52 p.m. EDT (1652 GMT) Sunday.
Rocket: Antares
Payload: Cygnus (Orb-2)
Launch date: July 13, 2014
Launch time: 9:52:14 a.m. PDT/12:52:14 p.m. EDT (1652:14 GMT)
Window: 5 minutes
Launch site: Pad 0A, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Va.
ISS capture: July 16 @ 1037 GMT
ISS departure: Aug. 15
Re-entry: TBD
Most excellent graphics, thanks!
You can watch live coverage at the link.
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Orbital’s mission webpage
http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/MissionUpdates/Orb-2/default.aspx
Cygnus launch cargo manifest
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/antares/orb2/launchmanifest.html
It looks like there is another stream to watch the launch but right now they are showing footage of the rocket being moved around.
http://www.ustream.tv/search?q=nasa+public
T-60
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I like watching this from time to time.
We Are The Explorers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DEw70LVWs
Do you receive the text messages from them? That seems kinda interesting. I get free texting so I guess it wouldn’t cost anything.
I don’t get the texts, but if you have unlimited texting you won’t be charged anything.
I just signed up for it. See how it goes. I don’t mind if it is high flow during a launch but if it is too busy when nothing going on I will cancel it.
Let me know how it goes.
T - 22 minutes and counting. Everything is go so far.
Paper model of the Antares.
http://www.axmpaperspacescalemodels.com/AntaresDemo.html#.U8K0_bGaXo4
T - 16 minutes and counting.
More green lights indicating they are good to launch.
T - 12 minutes and the rocket has been switched to internal power.
T-minus 11 minutes and counting. The final prelaunch poll of the Antares team confirms all positions are ready for the final phase of the countdown.
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