[amsat-bb] Re: Atlantis Now In Orbit

[Gregg Wonderly]

The web accessible (or iPhone etc) Nasa TV feed showed it.  What were you watching?

Gregg Wonderly

On 7/8/2011 11:45 AM, B J wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 7/8/11, saguaroastro at cox.net<saguaroastro at cox.net>  wrote:
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>> The glitch was a non confirmation of the gaseous vent arm
>> retract. They turned a camera to it and validated that it
>> had in fact retracted and resumed the count from there.
>> about a 2 minute hold.
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> I heard that being mentioned.
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> I was surprised, however, that the count resumed at T-31 seconds where it was halted.  I thought that it would be restarted at a point earlier in the sequence, such as T-9 minutes.  I don't ever recall a launch, even as far back as Mercury, in which a countdown was stopped so close to ignition and then continued from where it left off.
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>> A nominal launch, good enough to eliminate the OMS-1 Burn.
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> I noticed that.
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> It's too bad that there was no live TV transmission of the ET separation seen from the tank itself.  I always liked the view of the orbiter heading off.
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>>> There was a glitch just as control was about to be
>> handed over to the on-board computers but, others than that,
>> it was a good launch.
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> 73s
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> Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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