NASA Orion Blog

All systems look good so far this morning. Launch is still a go. Valve stuck issues yesterday were determined to be caused by sitting for so long in sub 400 degree temperatures. If the wind (and boating tourists) cooperate today, this shouldn't be an issue again.

I found the NASA stream to be very choppy today. PBS has a re-stream that is nice and stable here:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/watch-orion-embark-test-launch/
 
Everything is working perfectly so far. The Delta IV is doing its job beautifully and the Orion module is just about at orbit velocity.
 
Yep, nothing out of the ordinary. All is going perfect so far. The orbit will eventually take the rocket (after a boost) out past the Van Allen belt, then send it slamming back into the Earth's atmosphere to simulate similar speeds that would be obtained on a return trip from the Moon.

So far so good!
 
The live views from the Ikhana UAV is pretty cool. I hope the weather continues to be nice at the splashdown point so we can see the reentry of Orion from the UAV's point of view.
 
This is amazing. We have not had a man-rated vehicle leave low Earth orbit since 1972. That's the last time I saw video like this. This officially puts us past the golden age of moon hoax proponents. Because now, instead of rehashing 40 year old video and pictures, we are generating new data. I'm not sure what they are going to do when Orion goes to the moon on SLS in 2018. After not having anything like Apollo for 40 years, we are finally back on track.
 
foophil said:
Yep, nothing out of the ordinary. All is going perfect so far. The orbit will eventually take the rocket (after a boost) out past the Van Allen belt, then send it slamming back into the Earth's atmosphere to simulate similar speeds that would be obtained on a return trip from the Moon.
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And that's why it is unmanned! No human can survive going through Van Allen belt!
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I do appreciate the way they did their launch coverage. No pomp, no glitz, no PR drones spouting off about how this is an important step, etc. Just pointed the camera at the rocket and left it there, playing mission control audio over the top. It's exactly what people are watching for.
 
Beelzebuddy said:
I do appreciate the way they did their launch coverage. No pomp, no glitz, no PR drones spouting off about how this is an important step, etc. Just pointed the camera at the rocket and left it there, playing mission control audio over the top. It's exactly what people are watching for.
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Yep; its been very well done and interesting to watch.
 
Man, this makes me want to play KSP some more.

Olowkow said:
Space.com has NASA TV live coverage right now of splash down which will be in about an hour. Until then a series of videos about tests of Orion elements.

http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html
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I notice the drone they're using to film the splashdown has some kind of readout in its lower left hand corner, that's being covered by mirroring the video directly below it. Wonder what's there?
 
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