With two boosters meant to land on adjacent pads at the cape, there might be quite a show. The barge meant for the center booster landing is unusually far down-range, but if the video links hold up we might see something of that.
Finally, Mr. Steven is out in the fairing impact area, even though, lacking the recently damaged arms and net, that vessel could not possibly catch a fairing. Two other recovery vessels may actually fish the fairing halves out of the drink. I don't expect any real-time video of fairing recovery operations this time, however.
A while back they reset the countdown clock to point to the very end of the allowable window, which is about 6:32 p.m. EDT, or just an hour from the moment I am typing.
A betting man might suppose this one has a substantial chance of not launching today.
The video is quite good for the two side cores. As often happens, the center core barge landing video cut out when that booster core was in the "near above". You could see the barge deck color had shifted red under illumination of the burning engines just before the image dropped.
maybe Wednesday. No reason
)
maybe Wednesday. No reason given that I could find for these delays.
Bad weather was in forecast.
)
Bad weather was in forecast.
tomorrow (Wednesday) is
)
thanks for the info.
tomorrow (Wednesday) is looking good with an 80% chance of a go. we have been cautioned about sonic booms during 1st stage reentries to the cape.
Assuming no weather or
)
Assuming no weather or technical delays, the Arabsat launch on Falcon Heavy should be viewable here in roughly eight hours:
SpaceX Arabsat webcast
With two boosters meant to land on adjacent pads at the cape, there might be quite a show. The barge meant for the center booster landing is unusually far down-range, but if the video links hold up we might see something of that.
Finally, Mr. Steven is out in the fairing impact area, even though, lacking the recently damaged arms and net, that vessel could not possibly catch a fairing. Two other recovery vessels may actually fish the fairing halves out of the drink. I don't expect any real-time video of fairing recovery operations this time, however.
Most impressive. Live
)
Most impressive. Live now!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojvu2u28CIY
upper level winds now being
)
upper level winds now being reported as problematic. might force delay.
A while back they reset the
)
A while back they reset the countdown clock to point to the very end of the allowable window, which is about 6:32 p.m. EDT, or just an hour from the moment I am typing.
A betting man might suppose this one has a substantial chance of not launching today.
launch postponed ~
)
launch postponed ~ 19:42
tomorrow at 18:35
All three cores landed
)
All three cores landed successfully.
The video is quite good for the two side cores. As often happens, the center core barge landing video cut out when that booster core was in the "near above". You could see the barge deck color had shifted red under illumination of the burning engines just before the image dropped.
Beautiful launch!!!!
)
Beautiful launch!!!!