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August 02, 2008
Saturday
 
 
Launch tonight is official
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy)  Aerospace

Spacex will attempt the third launch of the Falcon 1 tonight at 1600 PDT / 1900 EDT / 2300 UTC. You can go here and test your video set up with the available webtest.php link.

Video will go live around 30 minutes before the scheduled launch time. I will attempt to add comments here as it happens if I have any thoughts that might be useful to our readers.

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Error. You've got a quotation mark (") in the link address.

That is all.


Posted by Ride Fast at August 2, 2008 07:57 PM

Link doesn't seem to work. But then as we know, there's no such thing as a free launch.


Posted by Ian B at August 2, 2008 11:22 PM

I'm having mixed results with the link. Whatever software they used last time I think worked better.

This software seems to clog my system so I started it on a dedicated computer (but the audio unfortunately doesn't seem to be working) and have shut down all other bandwidth stuff and it still seems to run by fits and starts.

Earlier they had live video with leaves in the wind and clouds moving but it's gone now. Right now I am getting a black screen that has countdown numbers up in the top right corner. If anybody starts getting audio, could you comment it here. That will LMK to start seeing if I can make mine work. Listening to the techs is almost the best part.

Oops, just got a picture. Is there any audio?

BTW, big thanks to Dale, for indulging us less astute space junkies.


Posted by Midwesterner at August 2, 2008 11:42 PM

Webcast now scheduled for 5:05 PDT.


Posted by David, Chandler, AZ at August 2, 2008 11:45 PM

Thank goodness for delays. I got my back up system giving a clean pic and audio with no problems.

Cool.


Posted by Midwesterner at August 3, 2008 01:13 AM
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