ares 1x launch

[tinvek]

coverage on sky news multiscreen and NASA TV now

[tinvek]

launch on hold for 90 mins, cargo ship in the downrange area !!

[SteveL]

delayed by freighter in the danger zone.

[SteveL]

guys are getting a bit stressed on the comm...

[tinvek]

ship must have found an extra gear. launch now scheduled for 1.49 GMT

[SteveL]

held at T-2:39... reset back to T-4mins and holding

[SteveL]

held due to cloud expected over pad at launch time. reset to T-4mins, awaiting weather update for cloud gap timings

[SteveL]

clear expected in 50 minutes.

[tinvek]

must be blumming anoying for them, they would have launched before the weather arrived over the pad if the ship hadn't strayed into the danger zone (everythime i see or hear that i get kenny logins in my head )

[SteveL]

oh dont, I cant stop thinking about that either now... thanks!

[Catanonia]

Still holding.... Got Nasa TV on now

[tinvek]

here we go again, countdown restarting at 3.15 pm launch at 3.19 pm (i hope)

[SteveL]

hold again - red on wind constraint (21 knots), plus inbound cloud front 1.5 miles from flight path

[beamish]

Bet it gets scrubbed for today

[tinvek]

scrub confirmed

you have to expect to be rather sensative about weather when your trying to launch something thats shaped like a stick of spagetti, to be honest i keep expecting it to fall over without the service structure

[Zaphod_B]

Bet that ship's captain is no longer on NASA's Christmas card list!

Zaph

[tinvek]

Bet that ship's captain is no longer on NASA's Christmas card list!

Zaph

i recon they should have launched and if it hit his ship they should have got their claim in first for damaging their spacship

[tinvek]

ok here we go again, better luck this time ?

[tinvek]

look slike it's going to be aclose run thing to use this window in the weather, i assume that having a brand new shiney 300+ft tall white rocket provokes the same rule on clouds as a new shiney telescope

[beamish]

30secs to go to before resumption of T-4 mins !

[beamish]

we're off again just a few mins now !

[tinvek]

go for launch

t - 4 mins

[beamish]

T-60secs

[SteveL]

never realised the NASA TV via the web was at least 1 minute 20 seconds behind the live feed that Sky news had.

[tinvek]