[amsat-bb] Re: Today's SpaceX Launch Scrubbed

[B J]

On 11/29/13, Bryce Salmi <bstguitarist at gmail.com> wrote:
> An announcement regarding the Second abort was made and the abort was
> manual due to engineers running out of time to review todays first abort
> data. You do not launch with a rocket that is even slightly unhealthy or
> has questioned health. Live to fly another day. Falcon 9 is held on the pad
> for several seconds after ignition while the on-board computer checks the
> rockets' health. If it doesn't like something it will not let the hold
> downs actuate on the launch pad allowing the rocket to move. Thus, the
> first abort. A similar abort after ignition was seen on the first launch
> attempt of C2+.

At the time of the second abort, all I heard from the comm loop was
one of the flight directors calling for a halt.  Neither of SpaceX's
commentators didn't go into great detail as to what the cause was.
Even if the ground crew could have debugged the problem, there
wouldn't have been any time to fly as the available launch window was
nearly closed.

One of the space news sites I monitor indicated that Friday of next
week would be the earliest available day.  The details concerning that
were rather vague, so it might have just been a rumour.

73s

Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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