SpaceX landing attempt 2/GoreSat to spread it's wings after 15 years in storage 18:10 local time (23 - Polidicks

[IMG_THUMB]http://i.imgur.com/6Qp2OwF.jpg[/Img_thumb] [QUOTE]Nearly fifteen years after its originally planned launch date, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Sunday. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral is slated for 18:10 local time (23:10 UTC), including another attempt to return the core stage for an ASDS landing.[/quote] [url]http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/02/spacex-falcon-9-dscovr-mission/[/url] Let's be honest though we only care about the landing [editline]8th February 2015[/editline] Stream: [url]http://www.spacex.com/webcast/[/url]

Holy shit, a stream that occurs during a reasonable time that I can watch? So excited

Some back story: [QUOTE]It was originally developed as a NASA satellite proposed in 1998 by then-Vice President Al Gore for the purpose of Earth observation. It is intended to be positioned at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrangian point, 1,500,000 kilometres (930,000 mi) from Earth, to monitor variable solar wind condition, provide early warning of approaching coronal mass ejections and observe phenomena on Earth including changes in ozone, aerosols, dust and volcanic ash, cloud height, vegetation cover and climate. At this location it will have a continuous view of the Sun and the sunlit side of the Earth. It will take full-Earth pictures about every two hours and be able to process them faster than other Earth observation satellites.[3] In 1999, NASA's Inspector General reported that "the basic concept of the Triana mission was not peer reviewed", and "Triana's added science may not represent the best expenditure of NASA's limited science funding."[5] The Bush Administration put the project on hold shortly after George W. Bush's inauguration.[6] Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences whether the project was worthwhile.[when?] The resulting report stated that the mission was "strong and scientifically vital."[7] Triana was removed from its original launch opportunity on STS-107 (the ill-fated Columbia mission in 2003). The $100 million satellite remained in storage for the duration of the Bush administration. In November 2008 the satellite was removed from storage and began recertification for a possible launch on board a Delta II or a Falcon 9.[/Quote][url]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoreSat[/url]

[quote][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6Qp2OwF.jpg[/IMG][/quote] Call it Freudian and laugh at me but I can't help it, this spacecraft has a massive, firm, metal dick.

So Triana was meant to help us observe our planet's development, and is finally being allowed to launch. Let's hope we get some good data back from the old girl.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;47100218]Call it Freudian and laugh at me but I can't help it, this spacecraft has a massive, firm, metal dick.[/QUOTE] I guess my thoughts are a little more innocent.. this is what I saw. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/WhE25ct.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;47100218]Call it Freudian and laugh at me but I can't help it, this spacecraft has a massive, firm, metal dick.[/QUOTE] Your name also looks like a massive, firm dick. The k looks like the tip of it, too, opening its mouth to spew some alphabet soup out of it

i remember reading the comments from the CNN article it made me visibly sick how people will twist the political connotation and still crucify this sat. its not goresat anymore, its replacing a very very important piece of our network that warns the international community and the space station of impending solar flares its weird though to both want the rocket launch to succeed and the landing also to succeed

This flight will be leaving Earths orbit, parking the satellite in the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point 1 (L1). [img]http://i.imgur.com/Zo1zSQw.gif[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/XVjMS4E.png[/img] If they can nail this landing, they'll be able to nail LEO landings. [editline]8th February 2015[/editline] 1 hour 13 minutes to go.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;47100218]Call it Freudian and laugh at me but I can't help it, this spacecraft has a massive, firm, metal dick.[/QUOTE] Well it is for [i]deep[/i] space observation

I wish it wasn't at night you can't see anything.

[QUOTE=Jitterz;47101363]I wish it wasn't at night you can't see anything.[/QUOTE] technically it's at sunset plus the sun will be just low enough that it won't shine on canaveral but will 10k feet up so the rocket will be nice and bright for a bit [editline]asdasd[/editline] stream is up and it has KSP music in it oh god

wtf thats the music from KSP :v: Eh now it switched up

They're live, and they're playing kerbal space program music. [editline]8th February 2015[/editline] Aww it changed.

I thought i recognized it, just could not place it

Oh fuck a one second launch window?

Lol, those not responding whether they are ready to go

51,413 people watching. Seems like a lot but really it should be more.

Hope they can resolve that issue given they only have a one second launch window.

:(

Aw, are they no go?

Hold called.

See you tomorrow.

NOO PLEASE DON'T ABORT

:(

I guess once again I won't be able to watch it live... Every time.

Air Force had an issue too.

~scrubbed~

Scrubbed :( Seems like it was a lot of issues, including range safety issues which are pretty major.

goddamnit. I want my space fix now.