BLOGGER UPDATE, 1:32 P.M.: SpaceX apparently has a four-hour window for the hot-fire. It opened at 1 p.m.
BLOGGER UPDATE, 1:07 P.M.: NASA officials report the hot-fire is scheduled at 1:30 p.m.
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BLOGGER UPDATE, 12:48 P.M.: The Falcon 9 is fueled on launch pad 40. You can see the rocket venting liquid oxygen.
BLOGGER UPDATE: SpaceX is targeting its hot-fire for 1 p.m. EST, according to a NASA space station program official.
SpaceX is aiming to test-fire the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket today in what is expected to be a major milestone to a launch now scheduled for no earlier than March 22.
The 3.5-second hot-fire will take place at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a renovated complex that used to be used for Air Force/Lockheed Martin Titan rocket launches.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 sports nine Merlin 1C engines, and the test-firing should create both a cloud and a rumble that could be felt in parts of North Brevard County.
Check out the story from Monday morning's print edition of Florida Today by clicking HERE.
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Click HERE to see the Falcon 9 User's Guide.
SpaceX carried out a propellant-loading test late last month, and engineers noted cork insulation coming off the rocket during the propellant-loading operation. Click HERE to see a YouTube of the cork loss. Engineers suspect the wrong type of adhesive might have been used to glue the cork to the rocket.
8 comments:
Thank you Florida Today for being the recorder of events for the Space Center for posterity without end...future generations should know who the heros are/were and who the bad guys are/were. History will shine the efforts of Florida Today in professional reporting.
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Yes, god bless flourida ToDay for having the courage to have a building wehere people go to rite stories about stuff an re-port about questions they have about stuff they could rite about if they only had a clue an they can sit in the building an look for clues an if the clues are at the scene of the thing they thank about they can just pretend they are at the building an they can think about what the clues could be an the clues could be what they want and then they cuold be reporters an rite about what they think they think they should think about stories about what they think are facts an if they don't have facts they can report them anyway cause they have a building.
Just wait until Zefram Cochrane shows up.
Best of luck to Elon Musk and the rest of the SpaceX team for today's test firing. Go Falcon9!
Postponed to 1:30 p.m.....the monkey ran off with the lighter and they are scramling looking for a replacement.
Well, the monkey came back, and while Florida Today was looking for clues, the damn thing worked. Let's hear it for the private space program. That way no Crawford Village Idiot will be able to cancel another vital program.
MO IT DID NOT WORK, THE TEST WAS ABORTED I SEC INTO THE TEST FIRING. THEY WILL RESCHEDULE ANOTHER ATTEMPT ONCE THEY FIND OUT WHAT THE ISSUES WERE. NOT A SUCCESS.
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