Launch News SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 with AsiaSat 8, August 5, 2014

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[Kyle]

We should have had 2nd stage re-ignition and shutdown by now.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Second burn is nominal.

Second Stage Relight
Second stage relight successful.

S/C separation should come by now.

 

[Kyle]

Confirmed successful re-ignition and S/C separation.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Second burn is nominal.



S/C separation should come by now.

Launch Update
Payload separation confirmed!

:thumbup:

 

[BrianJ]

Well done, SpaceX :thumbup:

Is that the inside of the 2nd stage propellant tank at 9:55 on the vid?
I've never seen inside a rocket during launch before. Cool!

 

[ISProgram]

.I was surprised they relit the first stage engine, given that this is a GEO sat, I thought the first stage would be empty.

Didn't they do the same with SES-8?

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Didn't they do the same with SES-8?

I think so - IIRC it was even done during the launch of Thaicom-6 as well.

 

[RisingFury]

Falcon 9 is a young vehicle, but the confidence level for it is building. 1.0 and 1.1 together now have 11 launches and the worst thing so far that has happened is one engine out which resulted in a lost secondary payload due to NASA restrictions.

 

[Donamy]

Never gets old. As far as the re-light of the 1st stage, practice makes perfect.

 

[Urwumpe]

Still no reason to be too confident there. The Ariane 4 had its first failure in the 8th launch and its second on the 35th launch (Still, every variant of the Ariane 4 has only maximal failed once). Something will go wrong one day, because if it doesn't by technical reasons, it will do by humans just becoming too much used to the reliable technology.

Also, we only have a small glimpse at the real number of anomalies there since SpaceX can keep them mostly secret (unlike the Space Shuttle, for which we now know every failed switch pin out of three alternatives)

 

[ISProgram]

Well done, SpaceX :thumbup:

Is that the inside of the 2nd stage propellant tank at 9:55 on the vid?
I've never seen inside a rocket during launch before. Cool!

Gee, that did look familiar... :hmm:

 

[RGClark]

Congrats to SpaceX.

Bob Clark

 

[ADSWNJ]

Congrats to SpaceX.

Bob Clark

Yeah ditto .... congrats guys!

 

[Jarod]

Well done, SpaceX :thumbup:

Is that the inside of the 2nd stage propellant tank at 9:55 on the vid?
I've never seen inside a rocket during launch before. Cool!

Gee, I thought at first this was the first stage camera looking down with some weird ice on the lens.
Nice view.
Still, could this be inside the first stage propellant tank ? The quality of the video feed seems too low to be coming from the second stage.
Maybe they wanted to check if the fuel wasn't spinning like the first time they tried to soft splashdown.

edit: well, now that I think a little, the first stage must have reached the ocean well before that time.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

 

[Mader Levap]

Still no reason to be too confident there. The Ariane 4 had its first failure in the 8th launch and its second on the 35th launch (Still, every variant of the Ariane 4 has only maximal failed once). Something will go wrong one day, because if it doesn't by technical reasons, it will do by humans just becoming too much used to the reliable technology.

Yes, failure will happen sooner or latter. And you will decry it as end of the world and doom for SpaceX.

Also, we only have a small glimpse at the real number of anomalies

Quality, not quantity.