Atlas V GOES-R launch

>NASA: MAKE AMERICAN WEATHER GREAT AGAIN!

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Why do I love ULA so much? It's pretty simple when I think about it. ULA isn't just the best launch provider in the country; they might just be the greatest launch provider of all time. Just imaging the Altas V riding through the skies of Earth, the wind on its fairing, the mighty RD-180 below it. As she rides through the red sky, NASA swoons at her very scent. They know how she smells; the essence of burning RP-1 smell is sold in Orlando under the name of "Space Orgasm." The very nature of ULA is mystery. Could they be playing a deeper game than even Tory Bruno realizes? The answer is yes, ULA has transcended such boundaries as the physical world, and has free will to do whatever they sees fit. However, ULA is filled with such guile, such arcane craft that they does not even use these powers. Why, you might ask? You will never know, for the mind of the ULA is not one that is easily penetrated. ULA rockets are such a force of nature in this realm that nothing can truly touch them, the only thing keeping them bound to this world at all is their will to exist within the preordained boundaries understood physics. ULA is not only beyond the comprehension of us, it exists within a plane of true focus and beauty. Observe the plume of exhaust gasses from this Delta IV, the gorgeous and rippling flames, the gallant fairing, and most importantly, its engines. Her engines, like cauldrons straight from hell, provide the only glimpse into the true machinations of ULA. Do not stare into them. Many good men have gone mad in the attempt. ULA is not just a launch provider, a formless collection of engineers and rockets; they are themselves the binding that holds the word together. Without ULA, Musk the Menace takes over and the entire space industry as we know it crumbles. The Mississippi would stop flowing without ULA, Kessler syndrome would take over in orbit, and the space station would fall without their fiery gaze. These are just of a few of the reasons why I like ULA so much.

>>8484203
is this a pasta?

>>8484196
/sci/ doesn't care about ULA launches. They only want to see Meme-X rockets explode.

I think the fact that ULA launches are always so mundane says a lot about how great the Atlas-V. No one hypes for Atlas-V launches because they all know that the launch will go perfectly. There's no hype or tension, everyone knows the payload will be delivered.

Atlas V 541 is the most aesthetic rocket

>>8484210
If it isn't. It should be.

>>8484203
Tory?

>>8484220
I like all rocket launches. Every rocket that gets to orbit is a marvel of engineering.

Flight here after a massive absence.
We will not be making the opening of the launch window. Expect a wait in time before going to internal power.
Further information to come.

Shit hurry up it's getting dark.

>>8484257
The launch window is an hour long. Launching at night is a more appealing frame anyways. Especially since the rocket will cross into the terminator between day and night.
It's truly a wonderful sight to see.

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>>8484254
>>8484260
timestamp or gtfo

Interestingly, The Weather Channel is actually covering the launch live.

>>8484267
Apparently as far as meteorologists are concerned this new satellite is the bees' knees.

>>8484270
bees don't have knees, you dumbass

>>8484270
The Sensors, processing, data resolution scan time is like sex in the form of a satellite. The downlink, (My side of the house, though I'm not needed on site tonight since my shift ended at 12pm today) is rather decent, but nothing that the AEHF-1 satellite hasn't already been doing. Telemetry is showing the anomaly, and the engineers are just going through the checklist to eliminate possible causes.

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>>8484274
Are you sure?

NET launch time is currently 17:52

https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/800106724636106752

what

It's not gonna happen today, is it?

>>8484310
They still have 40 minutes

Delayed until 18:02. Next launch window is 16:42 to 17:42 Sunday November 20th.
Since the channel is on a closed loop right now, and I can't get tapped into the loop from home, I'll just point out that the 20th of November happens to be a bit of a bad day to do certain things according to Buddhist tradition. It deals with certain spirits (Or demons if you will) That have the ability to manifest when high energy moments begin thus bringing poor luck.

My physics instructor helped develop the IR channels. Bretty neato

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>>8484315
What does the X37B do

>>8484315
> It deals with certain spirits (Or demons if you will) That have the ability to manifest when high energy moments begin thus bringing poor luck.
>>>/x/

>>8484315
But this is the Trump timeline where everything is the opposite.

>>8484322
Sorry, not my lane, and not worth getting fired.

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We get it, you vape...

>>8484326
What's your job? How did you get it? What's you educational background?

NET 6:12 PM. One more test being run in the meantime. Short timeline for the resolution.

>>8484332
8 years signals analyst with the U.S. Army. I do satellite downlink network testing. I applied through a contractor and after interviewing and getting rejected for a WPAFB site, I got accepted for a Greenbelt site. I have an electrical engineering degree and Signals Analyst Basic, Intermediate BDNA, IDNA (Intermediate Data Network Analysis), Advanced Satellite communications.
I'm originally from Ohio, so I went Army to get any kind of opportunity. When I got out, I went through a bit of a bad spell, but was lucky enough to land the contracting position.

>>8484322
It's fairly obvious at this point that the X-37B is just a bus for testing new gizmos to put on spy satellites.
>Make new space spying gadget.
>Send it up for a couple years to test it's spy skills
>Bring it back down so you can look at the wear and tear it received while in space.

Another delay.
Looks like they're running an additional test.

>>8484342
Why do problems appear so late? could this testing not me done earlier?

Problem is on Centaur. Not atlas, nor the GOES-R Hence the siblings.

False positive. Proceeding with count.

Fuel mixing valve was giving a false positive and all sites are saying 6:22

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I'm here /sci/
>"launch vehicle issue"

Range issue.
Kathy Winters rides again.

Goddamnit, Eastern Range FIX YO SHIT.

Im watching this from my restaurant job. My coworker just said she's more interested in the notre dame game.

>>8484359
I remember during the eventful Ares 1-X launch, there was a boat that had wandered into the range.

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Picture of the boat

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Eastern Range plz

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>>8484355
Mobile internet sucks out here right now

Just drop the stages on them.

It only takes once for the rest to learn the hard way.

TWC was talking about ranges from the launch that are safe. I remember my first launch in 2010 I got to watch from the roof of the launch control. I used a shitty digital camera at the time but loved every second of my first in person launch.
We network folk are generally just sitting around making sure that the connections are intact and little else.

6:27 is still the target time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjUg6hQpLg

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>>8484364
>mfw United Launch Alliance boats trolling the coastguard during those SpaceX launches

>>8484375
>That one time the Coast Guard sent a chopper to the boat that was in SpaceX range and yelled to them to GTFO on open adio

Go for internal power, which means that we are expecting to launch at 6:32 pm.

>>8484377
YOU ARE IN THE ROCKET LAUNCH HAZARD AREA. Still have the webm somewhere.

JUST LAUNCH THE BASTARD

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inb4 launch abort

>>8484381
post it, m8

>Work through the range issue

Just launch and work the issue by dropping a rocket on them.

Two birds with one stone.

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Targeting at the very end of the launch window. JFC cutting it right to the end of the window.
ULA and the Air force knows what to do.

We are going for 18:42 with a final poll at 18:35 just to be safe.

Range issue cleared, bitches!

>>8484395
Why waste extra tax dollars? Just use what we currently are launching.

>>8484399
Press F to pay respects to sunken boat

>>8484402
It, and Kathy Winters gets none of my respects.
As a native Ohioan I will wang it out for Harambe any day of the week, but that boat and the evil Witch Kathy Winters never gets my respects.

>>8484405
who the fuck is kathy winters?

>>8484390
Not sure where it is and I don't have the time to search through my various webm folders. And knowing me it's probably in the wrong folder.
It's really not all that great a webm. Just a still shot of Port Canaveral with the USCG radio chatter.

>>8484412
Google says she's in charge of range for launches.

I'm guessing she plays it extra safe and holds off launches even if conditions are decent.

>>8484412
Meteorologist at NASA. Whenever a launch happens, she's one of the controllers making a go no go call for launch. Back during the Ares 1-x launch, she kept on calling out hurried no gos and attributing it to Triboelectrification of the atmosphere. During STS-133 she made an idiot call and nearly delayed the last launch.
Pam Sullivan is going down the list now.
No problems it seems

GO

GO

Updated launch time is 18:42. No problems. Polling is complete, and we're going.
6 minutes or so till launch.

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GO!

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ZULU CONFIRMED

>>8484430
>Zulu.
Little did she know, she was being carried to her death. Where she would be slow roasted alive over a fire after being impaled.

And that's the moment when I realized that the Military ruined my humor forever.
3 minutes till launch

Dubs and launch will go wrong

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HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS

1 minute. Still go.

GO AMERICA

God speed GOES-R satellite. May you revolutionize the future of Weather prediction.

>>8484439
>not dubs
Atlas V succeeds again.

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woo!

About to cross the terminator into daylight.

TROLLED BY NASA

WHAT IS THIS SHIT

reeeeeeeeeeeee
what is this shit?

>stream unexpectedly cuts

RIP

WTF I hate Nasa tv now.

YOU FUCKING BLUE BALLERS I HATE YOU SO MUCH I HOPE ELON MUSK RAPES YOUR CHILDREN

>>8484459
>NASA shits the bed yet again

>>8484461

nevermind, we're back

>Can launch rockets
>Can't hold a livestream

I never get tired of the camera from the launch vehicle. Especially the band of light indicating the edge of the atmosphere and the Twilight terminator. Looks like it won't cross into the daylight band at all. Pity.

>That sep

HNNNNGG

Btw i didnt have time to check what this rocket is carrying. Someone tells me please.

>>8484475
You don't see a sep like that. I feel happy that I got the chance to see a good sep light that. Usually they don't due to the whole changes in acceleration, then the camera being obscured by the Engine coming online. But those brief moments are pure beauty.

>>8484322
It delivers tungsten rods to the rods of god satellite currently being constructed.

>>8484482
A nuclear bomb towards Russia.

>>8484482
It's in the OP

>>8484482
Satellite is GOES-R.
Here's the skinny on the matter:
http://www.goes-r.gov/

>>8484482
Syrian refugees straight back to Aleppo.

>Trump elected
>Makes Weather Great Again

>>8484487
Wups. Thanks.

It's so crazy looking at how fast this goes over the Atlantic. A few hundred years ago it'd have taken months to pass this distance.

>>8484489
Thanks, spacebroh.

>>8484490
I wish that was true.

>>8484497
2 more months

They're going to speed up SLS to carry all that load

>>8484495
It's what I do. I didn't have any major plans of coming to the thread, but I had a moment of wondering if there were still launch threads here on my old stomping ground (Though we used to do it on /g/ before /sci/ came about, and even then, we stuck with /g/ for a number of launches after /sci/ came about).

I was very happy to see they still do launch threads here. Couldn't contribute much this time around since ULA tends to have proprietary loops, and we still don't have a hard date for the next manned launch (Which I can monitor and report on more cogently).
Now this is just me, but I seriously hope Trump doesn't do what Obama did when he came into office. That's one beef I have had with most presidents, they come in, cancel the space program of the predecessor, then decide to do something else, thus nothing changes.

>>8484503
Obama cancelled, replaced it with his new program and didn't bother to manage it for 8 years.

Trump will likely replace some stuff, make it more efficient (privatization/competition), and make sure they stay on schedule and on budget.

At least the current NASA admin will finally be gone. Thanks for nothing!

Boring start, nothing exploaded.

Atlas V still with 100% success rate after 67 launches. Very nice. All hail russian engine and murican legendary rl-10.

Good week in space flights with new crew for ISS in the orbit and new Galileo satelites.

>>8484503
Trump thinks climate change isnt true. So if he doesnt give a shit about his planet imaging about another planets and shit. NASA is fucked.

>>8484524
he's pandering to the voter base

Oh, neat. Is this geostationary transfer now? He's burning near the equator.

>>8484529
Trump tweeted about climate change being a hoax by the Chinese in back 2012

>>8484538
he also ran for president in 2012, but lost

Why is the animation in such shit quality?

>>8484543
He stopped running in 2011

Universally, it seems that when Trump comes up, 23 different kinds of hell breaks loose.
Well, I've been up 22 hours. I'm heading to bed.

Don't worry guys, there is one guy with his private company, ESA, Roskosmos, JAXA etc. to do the job.

Also, Centaur is now in geostationary transfer orbit and it keeps firing its RCS thrusters for last 5 minutes. How much of hydrazine this thing have?

>>8484572
Don't forget CNSA working on their space station!

We live in exciting times.

>>8484509
Trump is going to replace the current program with his Trump Branded program (Delaying NASA's return to manned spaceflight even more) and then fuck off to go try and give his business tax breaks or intern brown people.

The biggest issue with Trump and NASA is his stated plan to shift all of their Earth Science programs from NASA to NOAA,. I am extremely hesitant to believe that this is for any reason other than being able to kill the programs completely.

>>8484585
Oh, but i wouldn't cal it a space STATION.
It's more like extended habitat made from few sections. But still yes. Best thing for space exploration would be to give NASA funding to Space X or ESA or maybe JAXA. They have great projects ready to be realised but no money.

>Watching live stream from normiebook
>People calling this fake because they do not realise this is CGI based on telemetry and are asking who is filming this.

There is no hope for future of this world.

>>8484572
>one guy with his private company
Who relies heavily on NASA contracts

>ESA
Who mostly team up with NASA save for the occasional solo venture.

>Roskosmos
Who are broke and rely on NASA to fund their taxi service.

>JAXA
See ESA.

>etc
Of etc the Chicoms and the Pajeets are locked into their own mini space race while they both play catch up to the rest. Only other notable one remaining is the CSA and I don't think NASA is planning on ordering another Robotic Arm from them until at least the 2020s.

>>8484667
>Who relies heavily on NASA contracts
Might as well work for other space agencies, but i doubt it. ESA f.e would rather go back to ATV rather than spending money on launchpad for Falcon 9.

>Who mostly team up with NASA save for the occasional solo venture.
So? Both ESA and JAXA have own launchers, design own satelites and probes. Fully independent space agencies.They team up with NASA only to save on launch costs, so there is no two separate lanches when one probe just can take more instruments

>etc
CNSA is becoming more and more serious thing. I wouldn't be surprised with regime giving them finances to go beyond Earth orbit with human flight.

>>8484667
Also Roskosmos is not broke. It was re-nationalzed year ago and now it is state company and now it looks much better.

>>8484315
It's also Black Awareness Day in Brazil, Africa Industrialization Day, and, Transgender Rememberance Day

INDUSTRIALIZE AFRICA!

1 min from spacecraft sep

Good job America.

Question

The orbit is not circular but is geostationary yes? How does that work? If the apogee is 30k miles but the perigee is 4k miles how is it geostationary? Wouldn't it accelerate as it peaks out at the apogee and then near the earth and gain speed to reach the perigee making it no longer geostationary?

Explain this to a retard pls

>>8485050
It's currently in a geostationary transfer orbit. It's not actually in geostationary orbit yet. Once at apogee it'll circularize the orbit.