SpaceX launches Iridium-1 today ... hopefully

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

http://www.spacex.com/

http://www.iridium.com/

Sort of milestone ... that decades-old constellation really needs new blood.


Hoppie

[Will]

Best of wishes for a good laugh today!

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

So far so good. Perfect launch, 1st stage perfect landing (!), 2nd stage on its way to deployment of the 10 satellites.

[Hardy Heinlin]

Another launch in 10 minutes live on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/y3niFzo5VLI


Edit: Strange. They write "LIVE" in big letters, but they show the same clip over and over again. I don't know how old this clip is. The "live" button is not really a live button either. Boooh! Fake!

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

They are only live between roughly 20 minutes before launch and 9 to 80 minutes thereafter, depending on the mission. I have been watching all five Iridium launches and a few more, and they always are live. After the launch, the video goes into repeat mode. Possibly you miscalculated the timing?

The launch yesterday had a new item: NOAA required SpaceX to shut down all cameras once in orbit. Two seconds before second stage engine cutoff, everything went black. Regulations... cameras in orbit are "remote sensors" and require a license that SpaceX didn't have. Yet.

Next time, make sure you hit the right time, and it will work. This usually is the starting page:

http://www.spacex.com/webcast

I just watched the Youtube link you posted, it most definitely is yesterday's launch, you just seem to have missed the live window.


Hoppie

[Hardy Heinlin]

I didn't make any calculations. I went to this clip because YouTube suggested it -- today at 0750z. YouTube has the "LIVE" label everythere on that page. But obviously the video sender is not. I didn't know that it's "LIVE" in the sense of "sending an old movie live on TV" :-)