New Horizons Launch _Thurs Jan 19th_ ~1pm

[enigma]

Anyone else watching the Launch of the Pluto probe?

www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

They've just filled the Helium and Oxygen tanks to flight levels and are performing tests on them.

About T minus 35-40 minutes.

 

[Bladibla]

9 Years..

Ill be 26 before i get tosee any images of pluto..

 

[enigma]

Yep. Better to do it now than wait... otherwise, your kids would be dead by the time we saw any.

T minus 13 minutes with a 10 minute hold scheduled.

 

[enigma]

Just got pushed back about 20 minutes due to low clouds.

New launch time scheduled for 1:25

 

[Q_Goest]

1:30 now. I'm watchin' from the Cape. We supply the helium for the launch.

Updates here: http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av010/status.html

 

[enigma]

Damn clouds...

 

[matthyaouw]

Wow, I've never watched a life space launch before. The wonders of the internet!
(although at this rate, I won't get to... Damn clouds.)

 

[Q_Goest]

What's with the clouds? I think they're just worried about a photo op. Time to light the fuse!

There's a bunch of people here watching the launch, cameras in hand, standing on the beach and hoping!

 

[enigma]

OK. Go for launch at 2pm EST

 

[Q_Goest]

Physics forum;;;

<physics forums go for launch>

 

[matthyaouw]

Blast off, etc...

 

[Moonbear]

Oh well, I got to this thread just in time to go to the linked sites and find the thing had just lifted off a couple minutes before I got there.

 

[Mindscrape]

Oh well, I got to this thread just in time to go to the linked sites and find the thing had just lifted off a couple minutes before I got there.

It was pretty standard. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Blahness]

Aw, I missed it.

</3

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It already passed the moon - around 11 PM [EST?] last night! Didn't the lunar missions require about three days to get there?

A buddy of mine worked on the nuclear power supply on this one.