Breakfast rocket launch? SpaceX going to the space station
About half ten in the morning
June 29, stream expected to start 20 mins before launch ETA 10:42 BST
This Falcon 9 rocket launch is a Commercial Resupply Service (CRS-15) mission - ie, taking stuff to the International Space Station using a Dragon spaceship payload, docking with the ISS about 250 miles above Earth.
It goes from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The core of the Falcon 9 rocket (B1045) was previously used (and landed) when launching TESS (NASA mission looking for aliens, April this year).
It contains over 3000kg (7000lb) of stuff, including "ECOSTRESS" - a NASA mission to measure the temperature of plants growing in space. Go figure.
99% of gargoyles look like Bob Todd.
I will probably not update this so for latest details, see spaceflightnow.com.
Further info here on reddit.
(, Thu 28 Jun 2018, 23:49, Reply)
lol my stream disintegrated at t-30 seconds
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Turboesprit Volume knob, Fri 29 Jun 2018, 10:45,
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Aww.... hope you managed to refresh in time
...or at least, saw it just after?
It wasn't the most spectacular launch ever, but it was pretty cool all the same. Quite a short stream really.
There should be more to watch around lunch-time on the 2nd July when it is berthed to ISS with Canadarm-2. I expect that will be on Nasa.tv.
(, Fri 29 Jun 2018, 11:31, Reply)
did the rocket turn into a rotating donut? If so, the stream worked fine
I went and mowed the lawn in fury. haha. Monday should be good though. amazing its taking 2 days to get there. I hope they packed their sandwiches
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Turboesprit Volume knob, Fri 29 Jun 2018, 12:14,
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