STS-130

[Moonwalker]

yea i stood up all night...whats the big deal with an overcast at 5000ft dont you have instruments in case of a RTLS Abort idk just frustrated thats all im done ranting now   

Well, they want to make sure that everything is as safe as possible. Better as safe as possible than to disregard something. But, on the other hand, I think that all those tiny margins and constraints are bean counting also. "Experts look at the weather and calculate it". The forecast was 80% chance. Actually, it was just 30% and then dropped to 0% at the end. And again: most predictions are almost useless. Especially weather is not really predictable in detail (and so climate isn't, but that's another story...).

With Falcon 9 on the pad in future, or a different capsule-system, we won't see such annoying constraints. It will be less, let alone due to the redundant RTLS for capsules

Anyway, let's hope for a tomorrow launch!

[Admin]

yea i stood up all night...whats the big deal with an overcast at 5000ft dont you have instruments in case of a RTLS Abort idk just frustrated thats all im done ranting now   

These are serious issues. After all, these launches are not really TV "shows" intended to entertain us - we all must be thankful for NASA providing us with these online, real-time peeks into the Shuttle missions. The more we watch and listen, th educated we are and the more we'll be able to appreciate the terrible momentary risks and unmeasurable long-term payoffs involved in Space Exploration.

Patience and safety are virtues in this case. Let's all hope that the Tuesday launch will be a safe and successful one, and that the STS-130 return will be also a by-the-book event.

/Admin

[Moonwalker]

Endeavour Launch Rescheduled

Managers officially have scheduled space shuttle Endeavour's next launch attempt for Monday, Feb. 8 at 4:14 a.m. EST.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

So we'll have to get up a little earlier

[Dappa]

Endeavour Launch Rescheduled

Managers officially have scheduled space shuttle Endeavour's next launch attempt for Monday, Feb. 8 at 4:14 a.m. EST.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

So we'll have to get up a little earlier

Unless you sleep east of the Atlantic Ocean. Most of us will be at work or studying around 10:14 monday moring, and won't have time to watch.

[spaceboy7441]

Us in Florida will be sleeping!
But I have to stay up for it!

[Moonwalker]

Most of us will be at work or studying

Which is the case for me. But luckily tomorrow morning we have human resource management, which I can omit But we'll have business economics beginning at 12:15 p.m. CET (06:15 a.m. EST). So I'll be able to follow the prelaunch and ascent until the post insertion timeline begins (at around 05:00 a.m. EST)

For those who are not able to watch and follow NASA TV, but still have the chance to visit the forums during break or whatsoever, I'll report the prelaunch and ascent here. I'm faster than any news department, and even slightly faster than the NASA Human Space Flight Home

T-12 hours, 58 minutes and counting. Gn8

[spaceboy7441]

Weather looking good
Crew heading to pad

[Moonwalker]

Good morning

Well, yes the weather is relatively good "for now" at 60% for go. Remember yesterday it was even at 80% chance so this time we are actually worse than yesterday. But lets hope the best...

Anyway, crew ingress underway.

[Moonwalker]

By the way: has the quality of the high bit rate stream increased? The quality is amazing.

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163

[Moonwalker]

But it's not really usable anymore. I get laggs all the time in both, Windows 7 and XP

[Moonwalker]

Weather is currently "red". So here we go again for a game of luck like yesterday, although they are optimistic (again).

KSC Satellite data (or rather eastern conus sector):

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ECIR4.html

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?zoneid=FLZ147

[Moonwalker]

Hatch closure underway.

[Moonwalker]

No technical issues. Weather is go at the moment. Let's hope the weather will cooperate for the launch. Exactly 20 minutes to go from now.

[Moonwalker]

Everything is go for launch.

So, like the launch director said: "it's time to go fly"

[Moonwalker]

And countdown now resumes at T-09:00 minutes.