[HN Gopher] Inspiration4 Launch Livestream [video]
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       Inspiration4 Launch Livestream [video]
        
       Author : _Microft
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2021-09-15 18:49 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
        
       | _Microft wrote:
       | Weather is 90% "go" by the way, that is there is only 10%
       | probability of violating weather constraints. You can find the
       | report summary at the page of the Space Force 45th Weather
       | Squadron doing the launch support for that:
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       | https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/Portals/14/Weather/Falcon...
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       | (If you want to look up the same for other launches, go to
       | https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/Weather/ Look for a
       | box saying "Launch support" in which an upcoming launch will have
       | a link to its weather report)
        
       | Nekhrimah wrote:
       | This is an amazing mission, and I'm really looking forward to
       | following their progress.
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       | I am disappointed however, at casual factual errors being stated
       | by the presenters. They produced a graphic showing that this
       | mission will be targeting an orbit higher than the Hubble. This
       | is correct, for Hubble's current altitude. However, the
       | accompanying commentary then stated Inspiration4 will fly higher
       | than any mission since Apollo. This is not correct. STS-103 [0] a
       | servicing mission by Discovery to the Hubble in 1999, had an
       | apogee of 609km - higher than the planned orbit for this mission.
       | 
       | The same casual error / re-definition of an already accepted term
       | applies to the "all-civilian crew" line. The Ars Technica article
       | [1] covers this point well; plenty of all non-military space
       | flights have occurred.
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       | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-103 [1]
       | https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/four-private-citizen...
        
       | _Microft wrote:
       | Here is a countdown to the targeted launch time at 8:02 p.m. EDT
       | (00:02 UTC) to save you from having to do timezone math and
       | possibly mess-ups (I let the page create the countdown and triple
       | checked it;). Check it out - it has a rocket:
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       | https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/launch?iso=20210915T20...
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       | Ars Technica's excellent space reporter Eric Berger has an
       | article on private orbital spaceflight by the way.
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       | https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/four-private-citizen...
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       | Now let's keep our fingers crossed and wish the crew of
       | Inspiration4 to _" Fly safe"_ as Scott Manley would say.
       | 
       | Edit: if you want to see what's happening on Twitter, here is a
       | search for the hashtag "Inspiration4":
       | https://twitter.com/hashtag/Inspiration4?f=live
        
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       | underscore_ku wrote:
       | can't wait!
        
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