In this mission, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the ABS 3A and EUTELSAT 115 West B satellites to a supersynchronous transfer orbit. The ABS/Eutelsat-1 launch window is targeted to open at approximately 10:50pm EST on Sunday, March 1, 2015, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. If all goes as planned, the satellites will be deployed beginning approximately 30 minutes after liftoff.
Pre-Launch Webcast music: "Gravity" by Parker and Hanson
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- darryn stent: cool
- sbstnl: omg you guys have a stargate
- Brian Gleason: +bary1234 Correct. Elon musk tweeted before this launch "Tonight's flight and following one will not have enough propellant." ( because these payloads had to reach a higher orbit ) .
Musk then followed it up with another tweet "Upgrades in the works to allow landing for geo missions: thrust +15%, deep cryo oxygen, upper stage tank vol +10%"
so in the future the rockets should be able to land from these missions as well. They just can't at this very moment.
- Maude Potvin: +A Phillips sorry lost in translation !
I'm just talking about the rate that they send their rockets, i think we never saw a company doing it that fast. One every 2 or 3 week, that's fast !
- pointmanzero: +Brian Willis no the stargate is scheduled for 2018
- Ambient Morality: Due to ITAR regulations, which protect against the uncontrolled export, or intellectual property export pertaining to US Defense articles (such as this rocket), SpaceX cannot reveal the exact flight path of the vehicle, or any parameters which give a sense of the flight path, acceleration over time, etc. Notice how they only say the speed, altitude, downrange distance at intervals that are too long to calculate any meaningful information from.
- Povl Besser: First time I've ever seen the actual effects of aerodynamic heating at max-q during a launch. Fascinating!
On second thought, it might have been reflective glow from the engine flare.
- Andrew Hillis: Excellent the Falcon 9 works! Which is more than can be said for the doomed Antares ORB-3 mission! I must say that 2nd stage engine nozzle get's pretty hot even though it is cryogenically cooled to stop it from consuming itself! Well done Space-X!
- hiics1: start 14:50
- TimmyHall20000: WHERE ARE THE LANDING LEGS!!!!!!IM NOT USED TO THIS
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