Orion Soars on First Flight Test

t-minus one minute engine start box go rock report range status range green 50 seconds 45 cents Co manpower off-boarding a pre-staged LH to secure a flight level 35 30 status check go Delta go Ryan rain board 25 white lock-in you - 20 seconds 15 Rafi ignition nighters have been lying eight seven six five four three two one and liftoff at dawn the dawn of Orion and a new era of American space exploration good engine control of her stage family 25 seconds that came the pressure and all three boosters of the full power mode 40 seconds them and if I to go through the particle thrust vote in the floor command in the for for chamber pressure forgetting the drop as expected and her coming up on the one minute more mark one minute into the flight the pressure in the courses here in the partial thrust mode the chamber pressure importance Robert one minute 15 seconds of the flight we have the hydrazine supply valve open in the second stage one minute 22 seconds in max-q maximum dynamic pressure on the vehicle passing 124 Mach 1 Orion and Delta for now transcending the speed of sound one minute 31 seconds then buddy can control on the first stage coming up one minute 40 seconds velocity now 1341 feet per second one minute 50 seconds in still looking good coming up on two it's two minutes into the fall on the first stage 14 starboard boosters still at good chamber pressures in the full power mode and the good core chamber pressure in the partial thrust mode at 2 minutes 22 seconds in two minutes 35 seconds in still looking good coming up on the 2 minute 43 second mark mark 2 minutes 43 seconds the Delta 4 of heavy vodka now John sways one half as much as it did it launched burning propellant at the rate of four thousand seven hundred forty four pounds per second three minutes one second into the flight still looking good as I'm up five three minutes 16 seconds in good engine control less than 1/2 minute remains on free booster flight 3 minutes 30 seconds em we're standing by for the command to go to the partial thrust mode in the port and starboard booster that command should occur about 10 seconds from now and we've had partial thrust command port and starboard should be toggling down to the partial thrust mode and I for main engine cutoff we have cut off in the porn starboard and separation a good separation of a port and starboard boosters for booster now powering up to the full power mode four minutes ten seconds into the flight good chamber pressure in the port of correction the chamber pressure in the core booster at four minutes 18 seconds in four minutes 25 seconds in still looking good good engine control in the core about 1 minute remaining on first stage flight minutes 46 seconds in still looking good chamber pressure holding it very well in a court booster as we were approaching the five-minute mark five minutes into the flight standing by to go to the partial thrust command that partial thrust command about 15 seconds from now good engine control five minutes 20 seconds in and we have partial thrust command in the core core chamber pressure beginning to go down as expected standing by from Miko we have Miko the main engine has cut off a life or state separation these have saved separation as is deploying the nozzle has been expending standing by for igniter spark and we have igniter support and we have ignition ignition on the second stage second stage chamber pressures beginning to rise this is Mission Control Houston we're taking over commentary at this point as we come up on the first two critical Orion program milestones the service module fairing panel jettison and the launch abort system jettison standing by for those first two critical events the service panel jettison has occurred the three 13 by 14 foot panels have separated and we have launch abort system jettison the 361 pounds solid propellant motor has pulled the launch abort system free from the upper stage and up from Orion everything going extremely well the first two critical milestones have been accomplished and we are now processing telemetry from the Orion spacecraft through the tracking and data relay satellite system coming up on the seven-minute mark into the mission Orion and the Delta for upper stage now 127 miles and altitude some 700 miles downrange from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station reports here in Mission Control indicate that Oh Ryan sir guidance systems are up and running in good shape this view once again of the service module fairing panel jettison that occurred just about a minute and a half ago we are now coming up on the 8 minute mark into the flight Orion of the Delta 4 upper stage 142 statute miles and altitude almost 900 miles downrange from the Kennedy Space Center GPS systems on Orion have come into full agreement with navigation systems on the spacecraft Orion is functioning perfectly at this point Orion heading almost due east from the Kennedy Space Center in an orbit inclined just about twenty-eight point four degrees to either side of the equator eight and a half minutes into the flight the upper stage is currently traveling and carrying Orion to its preliminary orbit now traveling at a velocity of almost 14,000 miles an hour its altitude flattening out the upper stage ignition will continue for about 11 minutes and 30 seconds from the time it began with a Seco 1 or a second stage cutoff number one just about eight and a half minutes from now and this is our first view from cameras on the Orion spacecraft streaming video that are that is coming down being processed through the tracking and data relay satellite system showing a view of the earth as Orion is being carried to its preliminary orbit all of its systems operating in excellent condition on this first test flight of America's newest spacecraft

Channel: NASA

Views: 3,330,653

Rating: 4.7858949 out of 5

Keywords: NASA, Orion, Delta IV Heavy, Launch, Successful, Space Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1)

Id: UEuOpxOrA_0

Length: 10min 39sec (639 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 05 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/jwcolour]

It's incredible that this thing escaped the atmosphere of planet earth in like 2 minutes and it took me over an hour to escape my bed this morning and into the shower.

[u/mydearwatson616]

It's absolutely amazing that just over a hundred years ago, people laughed at the idea of a heavier-than-air flying machine while they galloped around on horseback. Now we have precisely calculated rocket propelled computers that take high resolution pictures of things people didn't even know existed back then.

It's a great time to be alive, though I can't help but be jealous of what the people who are born 100 years from now will get to see.

[u/casualmat]

My favorite part is how the sound of the engines just slowly fades to nothing...

[u/rumpumpumpum]

I'm in my mid-fifties and as a kid I watched the moon landings on live TV, and was thrilled by it. I'm very excited for the generation that will get to watch people set foot on Mars. I wonder if those astronauts will have a chance to meet up with any of the Mars rovers.

[u/ChEgmeout]

So earlier people were talking about NASA using the metric system. Why do they give the velocity in feet per sec?

[u/Stittastutta]

2 minutes in and it already weighs half as much as it did at lift off. Just shows how the incredible amount of fuel it needs to get going.

[u/Vladzy]

Someone should put Intersellar music in the background

[u/nem0fazer]

Fantastic. Love this but why does the guy counting down always have something really cheesy scripted to say right after lift-off? Kind of like have a nasty audio pop-up.

[u/Vladzy]

with interstellar vibe