Posted on 12/04/2014 4:09:34 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Live
NASA launches Orion space capsule in landmark test mission
(Excerpt) Read more at video.foxnews.com ...
Launch on hold again, fuel drain problem.
The announcer did not say. I don’t know for sure but it could be something to do with the launch window and the flight program they have set ... other than that, your guess is as good as mine.
Sitting also ... and waiting ... and waiting ....
Could be a case of Test Flight Syndrome or “TFS”.
Or a case of LOM: lack of money, or TMM: too many muslims
“Any idea why the 9:45 limit? They are not docking at ISS or anything. Seems like they could go at any time.”
The launch window is determined by a very wide range of factors. First and foremost, the Orion splashdown in the offshore the U.S. Pacific coast needs to occur in daytime with optimal sea conditions for Orion capsule recovery. Beyond that the range and global tracking systems, booster reentries, ejection components, atmospheric and exo-atmospheric conditions, satellite cloud positions, and innumerable other conditions must be coordinated.
Obama’s just sitting there watching in the Situation Room...making sure everything goes as planned...
“the Orion splashdown in the offshore the U.S. Pacific coast needs to occur in daytime with optimal sea conditions
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So now conditions must all be “optimal” and not merely within the limits of launch criteria?
Sounds like launch will be scrubbed today - Our Most Marvelous Wonder Leader is more likely having Jarret watch while he attends to important things like golf and brackets.
What He does not know is that Jarret assigned a staffer to watch for her while she is in conference with various Iranian ‘diplomats’, however, someone else assigned the very same staffer to go for pizza ...
All conditions must be optimal or kaboom ... What’s the point of sending the thing up if it cannot be recovered?
Count at 12 m 15 sec
SCRUBBED FOR TODAY!
Yes, 24 hour recycle
SCRUBBED try again in 24 hrs
In this case, the launch criteria defines what optimal means.
In other words, you don’t want the NASA and Navy recovery teams to be battling unacceptable sea conditions.
Whoopie. According to their timeline it won’t have a real mission until 2022 when it is scheduled to circle the moon. Not until 2030 will it go to Mars and even then won’t land. It took us 8 years from mandate to success sending men to the moon. Why now does it take over 20 years we are suppose to be smarter. Aren’t the damn Muslim’s pulling their weight?
“Why now does it take over 20 years we are suppose to be smarter. Aren’t the damn Muslim’s pulling their weight?”
Money and the lack of will to create an adequate and self-sustaining commercial market for the proposed launch systems. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_mission_to_Mars
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