SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches NASA's PACE-Payload

[Music] We rise together back to the moon and Beyond if was meing it' be exiting in the flare [Music] correct de we don't need any [Music] more welcome to another NSF live stream tonight we are looking at a falcon 9 on slick 40 at Cape canabal space force station this is booster 10814 and today we're doing some science today we are launching the pace mission for NASA and I say we of course I mean SpaceX but we are as usual live streaming this for y'all I'm Jack Byer your host for tonight's stream I see people in the chat saying 5 by five so I know you can hear me thank you for that as usual we have our competent Collective of co-hosts starting off tonight with Mr Adrien Adrian how you doing uh I'm doing absolutely great I'm looking forward to do some Al to launch some science here today so we are we are just under 1 hour away here from Falcon 9 launching and we know it's 1 hour away because it's an instantaneous or almost instantaneous launch window so uh it's either that time or not today yeah we should we should talk about that launch window here in a minute it's like functionally instantaneous if not it's not literally instantaneous but it might as well be um also joining us from the field tonight we have Mr Max Evans Max do we have you I sure hope you I sure hope so Jack how do you have me it sounds like you're out in the field at Kennedy Space Center Andor Cape Canal space Force Base but we have you I mean that's pretty much where I am and it is lovely to hear you guys' voices again it's it's been too long uh good evening everybody from a rather chilly and Breezy evening here at Cape can space force station excellent well thank you Max for rolling out and as always we've got a producer in the background today we have Mr Kevin Michael Reed so thank you to him for running in the giant humanized hamster wheel that makes things go uh so tonight as Max alluded to it's been a little while it feels like since the the last launch this will be spacex's 11th launch of the year and first this month even though it's already February 7th so dang old weather I think is the is the headline there right Max I believe so yeah it hasn't really been behaving uh over the past few days this elino that's been washing over the the entirety of other country tonight has been not pleasant I guess one could say um winds here were gusting between 25 and I think 50 knots here at certain locations across the cape um certainly way too strong to launch in and tonight it is still a bit Breezy I think it's only peing around 189 though which is within the launch criteria for Falcon 9 for both off and landing at lz1 so so far I think everything is looking uh in the green excellent well hopefully SpaceX can thread the needle here Adrien my good buddy tell us a little bit about tonight's payload what is pace and what's it going to do once it gets on orbit yeah the good thing about PA is that it kind of describes to you what it does with its name because Pace stands for Plankton aerosol Cloud ocean ecosystem and it's a NASA Earth observation satellite which will observe exactly this it will observe the carbon cycle Aerosoles it will observe uh pyop Plankton and basically help us in improve our understanding of especially air quality these uh will be the things that this satellite will be mainly used for it will uh that we can see by the way it in interfering here uh it's about 1 1,700 kg its destination will be a sun synchronous orbit and yeah it's a it's one of these environmental monitoring satellites which uh provide data for us to understand on our planet and also the uh the changes that are going on with it especially with the air quality and everything better so very exciting project here that we can see Pace um quite a unique way and shape here and uh yeah looking forward to see the launch tonight here um and of course as Max said earlier we are looking at B10 81.4 so the fourth flight for this booster and the other exciting part of this mission is we will see a landing Zone return to Landing Zone one so we also see an rtls as there's no drone ship recovery needed for this launch always love to see an rtls always a treat you get the the like Falcon nebula going on as the plumes of the second stage and first stage interact and then of course you get the Sonic booms it's just can't go wrong with an R TLS these are these pre- encapsulation videos and the the post like showing it inside the fairing I I always love these because the fairing without the rocket just looks so ungainly in the same way that the satellite on earth looks so weird and wrong because you know it's designed to be in space yeah absolutely I think in general I love to talk more about like payloads and show these payloads because after all yes launes is a vehicle right but um these launchers have a purpose and today's purpose again is a very special one with pace and it's it's always cool to discover why are we doing like why is SpaceX doing this why is NASA launching this like why why are they doing all of this and I think uh especially environmental monitoring is one of these uh things that are very well done from space so uh a great great purpose for sure yeah it's one of those things where uh these sort of scientific Earth observation missions are among my favorite just because it's it's like all of the people that I mean we all know we've all heard it I'm sure as fans of space flight like why are we wasting time going to space this is such a waste it's just blah that that sort of attitude can hopefully be immediately if not dispelled uh significantly quelled by being like yeah well weather monitoring climate monitoring kind of important and space-based assets are sort of prime for that so love to see some more scientific capability getting launched into orbit uh and speaking of the the payload speaking of pace um we do have a neat interview to show you all a little bit later in the in the broadcast so stay tuned for that if you are hankering to learn more about what pace we'll be doing be the trajectory of this one Jack yeah please let's talk about the trajectory which way is it going north east south combination of two of those the southern polar launch Corridor oh this you set this up didn't you that's why you were so excited to talk about it that's why look at that look how beautifully polar it goes it's it's the worst thing I I would rather be looking at a train wreck you love this one right uh as the West Coast person no I don't like the southern polar Corridor except I I do I'm glad it lets more missions be launched from Florida it's just fun to be angry about things for fun sometimes uh I can just picture Max hasn't made a sound but I'm I'm imagine Max is goaling with theight right now it's just it's just funny it whenever you get angry about the about this Wonder Corridor that that that we have in Florida it's just it's such a pleasure to hear you get a little upset every single time it's so funny well it's hours you took you're taking our missions those are our missions Max why are you taking our missions they're hours uh we get the southern launches you get the other ones we had a deal did we though there's another thing that might make Max happy here or not because we cannot fully rule out yet if this might have a stabby Noz or not oh that's a really point is also true yeah can we get a don't know can we get a can we get a poll in chat what people uh think the nozzle on tonight's mission is going to be let's let's see if we can do that as usual on our streams there we have some rails and uh part of those rails are if you have any questions that you want to ask about tonight's Mission just at Nasa spaceflight throw your question into chat and we will see it pop up in some uh handy dandy software we have running in the background and we're just about 51 minutes and 30 seconds to go so we will stand by here and then I think uh we should probably talk about the window next Adrien but but first I am 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talking about like a 90c window um so it's it's basically instantaneous and also Falcon 9 of course has the situation that as soon as countdown has started and as soon as they commence fueling there's no longer a wiggle room for the loading and they are basically locked into a single uh second so not really a matter in the overall picture today in terms of launch uh launch countdown but um just something that is maybe like a a technicality here it's technically correct which is the best kind of correct yeah if somebody if somebody on the street approach stent is like oh did you hear about that pace launch that at instantaneous you can be it can be like oh but but hold it is actually not instantaneous it's a 90c window where they targeting just of so it's it's a very special case that discussion comes up very rarely right uh oh we have a poll in chat what nozzle will you or will do you think will be on the second stage uh option A is regular boring nozzle option b is awesome best stubby nozzle who wrote this poll yeah it's like who did this I bet it was Kevin I blame Kevin somebody was like I think I should be bor this pole Kevin said it wasn't him I don't believe uh let's do some questions here's one from Justin s I'm just going to throw this one here with not giving anybody time to prep what was the mission that first featured the stubby nozzle if we don't know it Alex will and he's in our back channel so he'll tell us in a second I can see he's typing already wasn't it a starlink out out of Vandenberg I think uh oh was it I think it out of venberg I swear all right well we'll just have to take your word for it Max because Alex is being Alex uh we'll see if he lets us know inat will not spill the beans on this one so I guess we're g we're gonna have to go hunting I think Alex is trying to Mutiny right now uh here's one that's kind of interesting we transporter seven aha so it wasn't a starlink but it was a Vandy Mission oh transporter 7 wow that feels like a long time ago have we really been blighted by that horrible nozzle for that long yes GH that's that's the sad reality yes I will say I do have a secret fondness for the stubby nozzle because it led to me being able to ask Tom Muer if uh the stubby nozzle was good or bad on our recent interview of him on NSF live so if you haven't watched that do check it out and and also just to point that out we are just having fun with this tribalism we don't actually hated yeah sometimes it's fun it's fun to just do a tribalism yeah like not seriously uh more missions is more better I think we can we can all agree let's see here Jared is asking will this launch be visible from North Carolina can we get the trajectory back up no the answer is no it's going straight South sorry buddy uh if you are anywhere south of Kennedy in Florida you're good to go if you're uh you know in the Bahamas or the Caribbean or any any of that sort of area you're good to go uh but no um Eastern and Northern Seaboard on this mission is unfortunately out of luck here's kind of a cool question we can go uh around the horn on a little bit which is something I've been thinking about a little bit recently too Canan Copeland I'm probably butchering your name I'm sorry they're saying why are the Vandy missions getting delayed all the time and is there a way to engineer around this issue so lot to there's a lot to unpack here uh let's start off with Vandy Mission delays uh tonight there was supposed to be a a a mission tonight from Vandy I believe a starlink but that is delayed due to a 24-hour standown uh that NASA requested is that correct Max apologies Jack I was dealing with some um microphone issues would you mind uh saying the question again the the mission that was supposed to We were supposed to get a double head header tonight um starlink out of Vandy but that was delayed due to the 24-hour standown rule uh that the that NASA requested SpaceX invoke here right is that how that worked um I'm I am only familiar with the the 24hour standown role here at the cape um I don't know exactly why that would affect operations over in venburg um I guess I think the first thing that comes to mind is I think NASA wants top priority um on all of the SpaceX Personnel on launch control and the LCC to have their their full attention on of course what what would be the a priority Mission uh to launch from so um that would be the first thing that comes to mind maybe maybe uh Adrian can help out with that one a little bit yeah that's it's it's um uh basically the the reason is it's not directly related to conflicting launch pads it's basically uh uh it's about reviewing the data it's about reviewing the last launch and implementing what you learn to the next that's the reason for this 24-hour thing uh so it's not directly related to if the launch pads are next to each other it's more it's almost sometimes sounding like more for an historic reason than a pract practical from from like today's time but um yeah so that's the reason why this also affects the The vandenbberg Styling even though they are on different coasts there's also the issue of the crazy atmospheric uh River that is currently slamming California which has scrubbed previous attempts of this Mission and I can confirm it's wet and raining like crazy in Los Angeles um and but the reason I wanted to bring this up is because it's not just vanny missions that have been delayed due to weather this very Mission has been delayed due to weather um and the question is asking is there a way to engineer around this issue so I don't know Max Adrian do you think at some point we'll see SpaceX increasing the the envelope of what Falcon 9 can handle I mean is that something that we think might happen or they'll just sort of deal with the constraints that they already have because if they're trying to hit 100 plus launches this year any amount of we I mean they're going to start running into the just physical limitations of what weather they can launch through Max I'll let you ramble first okay yeah I mean there's there's there's kind of a lot to unpack there especially with the block five version of Falcon 9 in that SpaceX has pretty much wrapped up development on both the first stage and the second stage um right you know Falcon 9 is one of the is one of the more vulnerable Rockets when it comes to wind shears and cloud cover unfortunately just due to the way it's engineered so basically Falcon 9 is as tall as it can be right now for how skinny it is and the diameter of its tanks is essentially determined uh because it it was designed and built to be transported on public roads um and because it's so it's so skinny it that that makes it more vulnerable to um I guess high level winds and it wouldn't make with Starship eventually coming out of line hopefully in the next few years and it and its capabilities I don't think it it would make a whole a whole lot of sense to pour a whole lot of resources into further falcon9 development when it it already performs well enough as is for both uh Dron ship Landings and when they when they're able to perform a a return to launch site um so yeah there from in my opinion there there isn't really a way to I I guess quote unquote engineer around that if that makes sense yeah no it makes sense and like you said to a certain extent Falcon 9 dev has sort of wrapped up and SpaceX is turning its attention to Starship but then again you see things like stubby nozzle for example where they still are doing tweaks here and there um as as they deem necessary Adrian any thoughts before we move on as we are about T-minus 40 minutes to go here yeah I mean you get also the situation of Falcon 9 being very light when it comes uh when it uh comes down from space to land so you have like a second restrain there right because you have the launch and Landing situation and and then you have like a very light rocket that is probably easy affected by wind uh coming down and trying to land precisely it was H gets even worse when you try to land out of out in the sea um so yeah it's uh Falcon 9 probably has a lot of things right now that make it a bit iffy with weather but to be fair uh they have said that they want to design that out with Starship and get it a bit more uh AIT bit better envelope with weather so we'll see how that goes deal good question that was a really good one I'm by the way uh I am loving these views that we are getting tonight these are absolutely fantastic you can see the low-lying fog or condensation or or is that a vent I'm not sure either way this this is just some truly epic rocket views um and the new tower it's like 40 is looking great and they replace every single light that is white with blue I I can abide by that I'm generally a sodium vapor guy I like the orange of course it's orange uh but these look these look pretty sick yeah look look at this shot with the blue and the green like that's that's cool yeah I'm I am absolutely loving these views uh let's see here bford thank you so much for the $50 Super Chat that's insane always coming out with the huge amounts of support thank you so much bford they say I see the best space coverage Channel anywhere and here's to everyone at NSF off topic anyone know time of Axe 3 Splashdown do we know when ax3 is going to splash down I'm right now looking up if there's already a Time communicated of exact Splash Town um I think it was between 8:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning Eastern if that if that sounds right yeah Alex also saying Friday at 8:30 a.m. eastern was not sure if it like fully has this it probably has some a bit of wiggle room still what we'll see makes sense yeah they they were also delayed what was it due to weather oh no longer in space how bad this is the worst thing that's ever happened oh jeez I I I wonder if there's like a daily briefing where where they're like oh you have to come down and they're like but no we don't feel safe with the weather I do wonder how that works because uh you know normally time and space is so valuable that when you have a mission you know you it's everything is very detailed in terms of schedule all the way down to uh oh yeah you can see right there 8:30 a.m. uh per spacex's website for splash down yeah everything is so so orchestrated and scheduled that even like free time is a scheduled thing and you don't get unlimited amounts of it but if you suddenly get extra days on orbit due to uh recovery delay because of weather or something like do you then like do you already have a contingency for that and you already have a a notional schedule that you then follow or is it suddenly just like bam you get a day of free time in space cuz that's if if the ladder that's kind of amazing it's like a space snow day I guess also probably at that point your department procedure is basically like your departing procedur is basically all day so you kind of recycle the departing procedure every day right I think we are getting uh the countdown operators this is the launch director with abort instructions for nonurgent no-go conditions brief the CE or LD and they will approve aborting the countdown for Urgent issues affecting the safety of the operation operators shall call hold hold hold on the countdown net launch control will abort the launch Auto sequence immediately and proceed into the launch abort Auto sequence at tus 10 seconds launch control will be hands off and relying on automated abort criteria for the remainder of the account all right we'll keep listening in for more call outs on the net and we'll try not we'll try not to talk over him anyways go ahead Adrian yeah there so there's a lot of always worry because he says very evil words we don't want to hear like hold in there uh this is a normal briefing don't don't worry about it uh this is basically the briefing before propellent loading cool um Blackhawk New Zealand thank you for the gifting the five red team memberships Kirk Adrien say this person's this generous person's name please thank you uh velker thank you for that thank you for the $10 Super Chat Kirk mans on Mars thank you they say if you had an all time NASA Fantasy Baseball draft I don't know sport I don't know what that means I mean I know kind of what that means basically pick your pick your three like pick your perfect capsu who be the first three batters um I mean of course Neil Armstrong of course John Young and oh man Victor yeah okay yeah wow that I think we can all agree so that's my line like I I agree I think that's my my pick started there you go launch Auto sequence has started let's see Angry American thank you for the Super Chat they say don't forget to smash the like button and kick the algorithm monster grass vent there's the timeline by the way yep timeline coming up on the left hand side you can see that we have verified go for propellant load and in no and rp1 loading should have just started yep and we will see early signs of venting and everything at the base usually between between 33 and 31 minutes before t0 so um it's sometimes it it depends a lot of factors like humidity wind there's a lot of unknowns here but usually about 2 to 4 minutes until we see like really signs of propellant loading I see a little bit of venting from the base of the vehicle there the rocket is coming to life so next up in about 13 minutes will be locks chill down that's what we always call the T-minus 20 minute vent right uh yes that's um s can sorry I looked at something can again the T-minus 20-minute vent we have listed on on our timeline in about 13 minutes as the locks chill down uh yes that is uh basically uh basically it's when the uh when rp1 loading on the first uh Second Stage is completed and they are preparing to Locks loaded yes so that's basically to switch from one propell to the other yep for the second stage I feel like maybe we should stop calling at the two-minus 20 minute vent and start calling at the locks chill down vent I don't know yeah T minus 20 minut event is kind kind of has like it says what it is in the box like on the box um I don't know it's like the T T minus 3 second ignition right it's it's kind of yeah good point hm uh $20 Super Chat here from grass vent they say my dear Adrien there is a wall between us now I will still send loves from the other side send Russell gifts thanks I just read that on air uh Doug Ramsey thank you for the support they say has SpaceX optimized Falcon 9 flight plans to allow for so many more return to launch Landings seems more frequent lately probably required to allow higher Cadence without additional Landing barges you're I think dead on uh they only have the the two barges on the east coast and in order to fully realize a maximum Cadence possible they they need to do more rtls missions however there there's missions like this today where it just happens to work right there's other missions where they need the performance and it's like they they they always would like to try an rtlf as if it works um that do that is basically defined by performance uh what they will do in the future is uh reserve the options to load less Stallings on a stalling mission to allow them to rtls so they basically take a penalty in terms of stylings they can transport but for that they get an rtls and with that they can uh quickly uh turn around to booster again so there's a there's a balance they're trying to find here um of course missions like this today they don't really have an influence on that because Falcon 9 again as we said before it's kind of developed so it's not like like they will get huge performance gains and suddenly can out LS um and also the weight of the payload is kind of not determined by them good deal I man I love these these videos of the fairing just like loping along it's amazing um but the fairing is just the little special container that holds the important part of course which is the satellite which is pace so we have an interview here we can play back for y'all from Jeremy Wardell Pace project scientist to uh learn a little bit more about this Mission let's uh let's give that a watch okay I am Jeremy Wardell at Nasa Gard space flight center and I am the pace project scientist can you share how the project team feels days before launch with a mission that is years in the mup some combination of nause exhilaration relief and anticipation it's it's a lot and it's wonderful to watch so grateful for the team like the scientists are nerding out like myself the engineers are working so hard sleeplessly exhausted I I'm just beside myself absolutely I can only imagine how much information you expect to collect and manage this is going to be one of the very interesting parts of the discovery aspect of this Mission um just from the ocean color instruments alone we're moving from this box of 8 Grand to 200 and that's just a ton of new Rainbow spectral information and then you have our two multi-angle polarimeters that not only measure colors of light but they measure different polarization States so imagine having polarized glasses on and then they measure at multiple view angles raging from 5 to 6 so there are thousands and thousands of unique pieces of information for every pixel on Earth we're going to collect it's going to be a lot and the innovation has really begun in terms of well how do you start using machine learning and other computer data science tools in those tool boxes to manage all of this information so when I say we're going to have so much to grow into which I say all of the time there's so much I'm not even sure uh I'm too old for this to be I'm not sure I'm going to deal with it so absolutely I remember that being one of those things that we talked about at astrotech and how are we going to really like we don't even know how we can use all of this data in the end indeed and in fact since we have a mandate to make sure the information gets out on the street anybody who wants to use it well within 24 hours of collection we've really had to get clever on how to take things that we already know how to do and speed them up because otherwise you know you lose the whole community that wants real time access to this so it's been really interesting to watch I think that's really interesting that we've grown into real time access capabilities too oh yeah yeah it's really great for anybody who wants it did any prior missions Inspire this team to develop ways to dig deeper into these ecosystems oh we're standing on the shoulders of giants you know uh from the NASA point of view it has been cccs in the late '70s to seawifs to multiple modus and multiple ve instruments and they don't have all the colors that we have but their Discovery was the stimulus to all of a sudden think well they're fantastic but what do we do next and you know it takes time to build a mission so that's what really catalyzed you know this two decade long journey but they're fabulous uh there have been other multi-angle missions Miser and poer and others and I know this is acronym soup but I do want to acknowledge that this is truly you know a community effort learning from the past moving forward getting International involvement so the applications aspect of this um as more time passes and we get it out to more and more people the discovery is boundless that was super cool thank you so much to Julia for getting that interview done and for Jeremy for being in it it's it's always awesome to hear about the mission from the people who are working on it it I I can't even begin to wrap my head around the the level of excitement and stress I mean I just I just photograph rockets and I get stressed enough about taking a good photo um I can't imagine having like a significant portion of your career riding a top one of these things all right uh let's do some more recognition of people just a quick shout out here because we are also the photos apparently we're looking at right now are taken by our own Max oh these are great I thought these were like PR photos from uh yeah these These are great Max um also yeah if how was that Max being in the clean room uh well hopefully yall can hear me can hear me a little bit better now sorry about that earlier um but back on January 3rd uh myself and and a few other individuals were allowed to venture inside of a the clean room environment where Pace was being held prior to uh encapsulation inside falcon9 fairings um it was by far and away the most extreme bunny suit situation I've ever been been a part of uh we had a similar situation for psyche but this was even more strict in that they taped up our gloves we wore double masks we wore a hood we had full-on boots over our shoes that were all taped and tied um it was a really unique experience and there was a lot of passionate people in there I tell even even though you're only able to see the scientists and Engineers eyes you know through through their bunny suit uh you could tell that everyone was was getting really excited and that pace of time to shine was was coming soon that's amazing I have to ask Max did they make you put a hairnet on your head oh my gosh so over the past few months I've been growing a b of course I had a beard net and two masks on because I think that was the the requirement um but I had just shaved my head uh the morning of and yes they still made me wear a hairnet uh below the the hoodie unfortunately I love it I I had to ask I've never gotten to go into a clean room like this I haven't had that experience yet so I'm I'm super jelly but thank you for for being out there and getting us these awesome photos all right let's do some thanking people Astro canucklehead another one of those names we see all the time they say Jack Byer Bacon Barn question are all Falcon 9 fairings the same size can then be enlarged or decreased depending on payload they're all the same size for now dot dot dot there is an extended fairing coming soon TM right Adrien uh yes it's uh it's coming for um for some some space Force missions uh but it's Gateway right I think also Gateway yeah also Gateway but it's kind of like this this probably with Gateway slipping it will probably not debut before Gateway um we'll see it's it's it's kind of this this unknown phantom but yeah Falcon 9 has is sometimes volume limited and not uh weight limited so uh that having a bigger fairing is probably something that comes in handy for them um we'll see how many missions that will use after all but yeah uh it's I mean you can see the the faing there and again that's that's all the space the satellite has there's uh no no more space here so quite capable rocket with sometimes maybe uh a fairing that would be nicer if it be a bit wider or a bit taller but yeah we going we will see the uh enlarged and bigger fing hopefully soon it's also it's also worth noting even even the way Falcon 9 stands now that uh even though the fairings look kind of not no not small in pictures or our feeds but uh the the fairings that that Falcon has both heavy and Falcon 9 they are actually humongous they are they are gargantuan pieces of hardware and and the amount of volume the amount of volume you have in there is incredible yeah yeah it's it's one of those rocket things where it's hard to get a sense of scale because so often uh the the photos and the cameras are are just so far away so even though when you you know it's a it's a large you know several hundred foot tall structure uh it still can kind of be hard to wrap your head around the scale that's part of the reason I think why I like those videos of the encapsulated payload and fairing moving around like being transported uh around because that is a way that you can sort of you know understand how just how massive a fairing is um and you can see like you know Vehicles next to it or people uh walking next to it that sort of thing um 100% uh last last summer uh I actually had the privilege of watching uid come come rolling by the VAB at the Press site at like probably 2 or 3 o' in the morning um and I I I had a 16 to 35 mil lens on on a fullframe camera body I think it was my 5D Mark III and I thought I had a I had aimed up high enough I think it was at either 16 or 18 mil and I wasn't even close the way it goes sometimes I was I was on at 16 when they lifted Endeavor the other day uh and we were they let us get so close that even 16 was not enough I was like I should have brought an 11 or an eight oh man but good question from Astro canucklehead seems like um a lot of companies are trying to sort of Market their upcoming launch capabilities uh with the distinct mention of a large fairing stage one Pogo there we go uh and for a long you know it was almost like a knock on SpaceX as big as the fa the fairing on Falcon 9 is it's like oh well we have a much bigger fairing you can launch something that's much more voluminous uh but then then you know of course SpaceX is like oh we'll build a bigger fairing so here we go speaking of here we go we're coming up on the T-minus 20 minute vent notated in our timeline as locks chill down Adrien tell us a little bit about what is going on with that vent it's like clockwork and it it I love it because it it's like a friendly little everything's going okay but for a little a little bit more of a techn technical explanation lay it onest buddy there complete I mean thank you for explanation there that's basically the signal we're getting here stage two rp1 loading is complete so there's one more propellant they have to load uh into the second stage which is the stage two liquid oxygen which will begin in 4 minutes before they do that however they will uh start to purge and shill down these lines for the loading of liquid ox oen and that's exactly what we see here because in contrast to the first stage where they load both at the same time the second stage will first load rp1 and then load liquid oxygen so that's the reason for this uh T minus 20 minute and 20 seconds went uh and that's what we see here it's sort of analist to the uh the tower vent and the olm vent at Star base where they are chilling down those prop lines in preparation of FL Crow genics through them uh so you don't get any kind of like thermal shock or anything like that uh pretty nifty so here we are just about 19 minutes to go I do want to thank Sheriff Tracy always hanging around working and hanging out in chat thank you Sheriff Tracy for the gifting a red team membership Joe Howard gifting five thank you so much Paul mcfaden also gifting five and grass vent gifting one membership if you got a gifted membership I'm going to say I'm always going to say this make sure you thank the person who gifted them to cuz that's awful generous of them uh also Daniel hogman gifting five red team memberships thank you for that Max it's it's not very windy out there is it the cloud of vapor is kind of just hanging around well you know it's been it's been Breezy here all day um not obviously not as much as as it has been over the past couple of days um there is a bit of a breeze coming off the water here tonight and it might just look that way from this perspective because the wind's coming at us um but you know actually I think the the winds right now are are a lot calmer than they were probably about three or four hours ago thankfully um that cloud is that is a massive Cloud coming coming this way it's pretty much obstructing the the entire view of the rocket from from our from our perspective about two miles away maybe we'll get some cool views like the the whole shock wave going through the vapor Cloud kind of thing that's one the best there is just to add here because we are talking about weather right now the lest better briefing saw a chance of more than 95% go that was my next question you read my mind Adrian I'm I'm we are just aligned here mans on Mars thank you for the Super Chat they say 2 minutes left in the space Bowl Down by six ball on your own 20 yard line which NSF person what did I just read I don't know Sports which NSF personality drives you down the field for the win I'm going to I have no no idea I'm going to say crispy no wait dos I picked dos I have no idea uh Michael Tomkins Jr thank you for the Super Chat they say what is each of your favorite rockets that fly today ooh oh boy why today yeah I'm G to have to go with Delta 4 heavy just CU that won't be applicable as an answer coming March so I'm going to go with Delta 4 heavy Max that's tough um oh boy pick a favorite child you know that's almost impossible Jack um you know I probably I also will also say Delta 4 heavy because no other rocket sets itself literally on fire at engineignition and Lumber off the pad the way it does and that will only happen once more in history um right so I think our I think all of our copout answers tonight will be dealt before heavy it's not lock has started go lock load is started for the second stage I like right now I don't think it's a it's a comp out answer I really don't um it's a beautiful rocket it runs hydrolocks and the shock diamonds are insanely beautiful and it sets itself on fire and there's only one more I mean come on if there's ever a time to answer this question with Delta 4 heavy it's now what's your favorite rocket that has not flown yet oh that has not blown yet oh boy that's tough I would say somewhere it's like a tie between for me between neutron and uh and tan R oh that's really tough that's really tough Max I would also probably have to say Teran R to be honest with you it's a good answer oh new Glenn is yes yeah new's gonna be sick I I should have I should have thought about that I keep forgetting we're like actually about to have some new Glen action here soon I mean it's Beauty for blue it's it's a beauty honestly I'm looking forward to that good stuff good question from Michael Tomkins Jr Christopher thank oh Kristoff thank you for getting something from the store what did they pick up from the store they say dear NSF team thank you for all your great work can't wait to watch Starship if have3 on your channel greetings from Germany oh they got the Starship assembly shirt that is an oldie but a goodie that's like one of my favorite designs that we ever did like we did that in collaboration with uh with Raphael yes it's like an Ikea instruction manual on how to build a Starship which hilariously we did that so long ago they probably don't build them like that anymore but so it goes it's like vintage it's vintage I also want to shout out Sean here with the answer SLS block 1B with the exploration upper stage and I think that's a very valid answer because uh e SLS looks gorgeous yeah that's a really good answer props to Shan for that one like Shan Shan like our Shan yes our Shan what's up Sean uh revhead thanks for gifting five red team memberships and Brian Green thank you for the Super Chat and telling people to hit the like button and also for gifting a red team membership yall are the best thank you for all of the support tonight so coming up we have Falcon 9 engine chill at 7 minutes to go we have strong back retrack at 4 minutes 30 seconds and uh Falcon 9 going into a startup at 1 minute as usual so we're we're getting into the the meat of it Max whenever you got to go and do camera stuff say the word but I know we still got you for a little bit longer but feel free to interrupt me no you're good I still have a few more minutes um I would say probably give it give it another seven or eight minutes but I can I can hang around for now do we talk shop like what are you what camera are you running tonight uh I have the broadcast uh camera running up today and then uh for additional video I have my Canon 5D markv with a sigma 60 to 600 lens and because we're so close I'm not even all the way at 600 mil uh I think I'm just shy of 250 at the moment and then I have an I have my 5D Mark III uh I have it uh positioned uh aiming up in the sky at a very certain spot and I'm I'm kind of shooting blind here uh but hopefully it will gather a long exposure of the mo and boost back and then also in the same frame re-entry so I've only got this shot I've I so I got this shot once before for one of the one web missions I think early last year uh from a perspective north of the cape and it just so happens that from where we are watching tonight from the from the cape conal space force station that if you are shooting at a certain focal length you can get both in one frame EXC I have it measured as precisely as I guess an iPhone can with with its compass and also an angle measurer I'm not sure what the actual tool name is ang ometer angl ometer yeah we'll go with that um I have it aimed at about 70 mil looking right up into the sky and I guess people will see how I did all right well that is fascinating I'm glad I asked good luck on that shot that is a shot that I have tried to shoot I've seen other people absolutely nail I think Krauss has nailed that a couple times at least it's a it's such a cool shot so I I hope you get it um I I hope I can get it someday too cuz it's it's so cool and thankfully it looks like the clouds are just starting to thin out they they are coming from the East right now and it looks like we're coming into a clear patch so uh all good news here on this ront so far hoay I like good news um hay Blaze is asking is this flight using a reused Falcon 9 yes this is this is B 10814 right Adrian yes uh it's using a you reused first stage uh Falcon 9 booster uh that will fly for the fourth time today it's basically it's it's just a baby right just just four flights it's just a little guy yeah barely barely barely out of uh out of kindergarten or something like that Rocket Garden rocket G that's I mean that's inoka uh there's more than one who let's see Mimi is asking what is going on with the Starship we're about 10 minutes to go so we can't really wax on for a long period of time about Starship but Adrian you did get a note from the FAA today did you not ah yeah we got a we got a there we go spacecraft on interal power um we got a note that um uh basically the fa is still waiting on some paperwork from SpaceX uh to modify the launch license for the third flight uh and of course we are awaiting the return of ship 28 and booster 10 to the launch pad for f stack and then hopefully a launch maybe around March so that's The quick summary here while we are looking at Falcon 9 that is a fantastic quick summary um congratulations and we are now under 10 minutes to go excellently done sir here's kind of a fun one uh Canan is asking of any Celestial body what would you most want to go to regardless of gear planets like Mars or Venus or moons like Europa Kalisto Titan Triton or any other places I'm going to say Saturn cuz I want to see rings and also what's up with that hexagon on its North Pole um but maybe like a some of the moons would probably be cooler Adrian where would you go of any Celestial body we are kind of ignoring like hey you would die there right it says regardless of gear it says regardless of gear so I'm taking that I'm taking that to me we're ignoring that part okay um Venus I think Venus or Mars I'm maybe that's a bit classic to say but also honestly like if I had the choice the moon like see the Earth that close from a external perspective sounds maybe maybe that's a boring answer but I don't know the like seeing the whole earth externally I think it's a magical thing that is not a boring answer that's a fantastic answer Max any thoughts I'm surprised neither of you have mentioned uh Kalisto or or Europa yet yeah yeah I was thinking it would be cool to do uh one of the like water moons or potential water moons uh but I I don't know um I I went Saturn and I'm I'm not I'm not taking it back super good question thank you for that one Canan Canan um let's see here eight minutes to go Chris Bishop is asking oh this is interesting with the new crew access arm are the astronauts using a smartphone since the famous rotary phone from shuttle era lore uh that they use at pad 39a won't existed slick 40 because it never did um any thoughts on on what phone they might what they might end up using if that tradition is continued Max what if they just installed a a landline just because that would be cool I mean Bell still makes AT&T still makes telephones it's still a thing I mean astronaut are they they are allowed to bring their cell phones up into space at least the board Dragon so it could be their cell phone um I mean I think I think us you are still a fun a fan of the lower of the old landline over at p a maybe just for for fun they installed one over at 40 but uh chances are it will be probably one of those one of their smartphones that's uh that's this is a really good question I'm interested to see what ends up happening there chill engine chill is started fantastic do we know uh what the first crew mission will be from slick 40 I do not think that has been fully decided yet there were some talks about uh it maybe being an aium like I know there were like but I do not think that it's like fully set in stone yet um all right so we'll we'll wait to to see how that shakes out Max we got to let you go do camera stuff don't we it is unfortunately that time gentlemen uh but hope stage one rp1 load is complete and I will see you boys on the other side yep happy shooting get the good stuff and we'll see on the other side and you heard the call it on the net there that stage was that stage one RP RP one load was that stage two um that's with let me open to countdown here um I I sorry but it should be stage one if I recall correctly here excellent stage one stage one Pacific Northwest UT PN PN what I never know how to say this person's name thank you for gifting five red team memberships uh there you can see on the timeline yeah that was stage one uh is the strong back retract in just one minute right it'll lean back a little bit before launch and then at launch itself it leans back much more in a sort of a faster way uh Michael mc mc oh how do I say This MC mcrory there we go Michael mcrory they say thanks you got my name right don't call me mcgregory GW law school did not in front of my entire family paid them over 100 Grand but thanks again okay sounds like that wasn't cool U but thanks for the support angry am tanks are pressurizing for strong back retract there we go excellent Angry American thanks for the Super Chat they say 4.5k plus watching only 1.1k likes smash the like I'm see I'm not saying it I'm just reading their Super Chat so yeah you didn't you didn't say it it was just our last our last NSF live where EJ went full YouTuber uh that started that was amazing we will now see the you can already see it you can already see the strong back clams opening there um and the strong back will move a bit away from the rocket to make sure it's not that close to the rocket anymore good deal four minutes to go again it's a functionally instantaneous window so if anything happens from this point out it will be a nogo for tonight but so far everything is going great weather is fine and the vehicle is getting topped up LD this is nlm on countdown net L pace is go for Lodge copy yes all right let's do this we like launches I like having the countdown net we don't get that on every Mission and I'm just so thankful that we're getting these excellent views and we are getting these you know getting the Nets because it's always a treat to hear what's going on just to add here nlm stands for NASA launch manager which is of course with uh the mission being heavy NASA involved they also have part of the polling here where they where they're basically sign off for this Mission good deal three minutes to go Michael Tomkins Jr thank you for the support they say how many Falcon 9 rocks Rockets does SpaceX currently have total stage one locks load is complete locks load is complete uh according to Alex they have about 15 boosters total right now just to point out here about is always the there's always this some of these boosters are like are they retired are they still coming back and there's always the question of like is this still active like there there are some that have like a small question mark sometimes next to them and apocalypse cow thank you for gifting five red team memberships seriously we cannot do what we do without the members so thank you to everyone that is a member thank you to everyone that gifts a membership if you got a membership be sure to check out the Community page on YouTube and see all the cool parks that you now have access to if you're Capcom level and above you get Discord access so be sure to pop into the Discord and say hey stage two lock load is complete all right under two minutes to go now at T minus one minute the vehicle will take control with its own computers right Adrian uh yes so we are crunch time here looking good so far and again just to recap this booster will uh fly to the mission two space and then try to attempt to land on Landing Zone one so no drone chip Landing today it will be trying to land uh close speed close by right so once it's launched the game isn't over we are getting it coming back hopefully we get some awesome Sonic booms and some awesome rtls views falcon9 in start up y Falcon 9 is in start up we're under a minute to go I don't even want to talk I just want to listen to the net SpaceX launcher go for launch yes go for launch let's launch some science more science more better I think I think we can all agree yes 30 seconds go ha I said it first W 15 seconds t i 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 one ignition engine full power and lift off at Falcon 9 carrying NASA Pace go falcon go NASA LSP stage one propulsion is nominal power and Telemetry nominal vehle suic [Music] back here we go I never know when to start talking again especially when we get audio that's that delightful started look at that shot of the exhaust plume you what is this like a 4,000 mm lens some kind of telescope that's gorgeous that's Sawyer by the way here I think oh this shot here is Sawyer yeah that should be saw nice it's always interesting to see the different angles on an rtls so that's interes that we'll have and look at you can see the theic gambling you can see basically the dark leg here right yeah that's wild that was cool yeah that that was distinctly visible in the exhaust plume so Sawyer is Down Range which means the rocket should basically go right past Andor over him um so that that'll be interesting to see stage separation confirmed and I believe if have if I see this correctly I have good news stage one boo start we have good news here no stubby nozzle no stubby nozzle also look at that first day just getting roasted and there you can see the exhaust plume interaction oh gorgeous views tonight I feel like the the engine's turning was the equivalent of like having like loud tires during like a heavy corner with a car it's like Falcon 9 drift yeah oh look at Sawyer cam look at Sawyer cam that's the Falcon nebula we were talking about earlier that is the exhaust plume from the first stage boost back and the second stage powering into orbit both plumes from both segments of the vehicle interacting and you can see the first stage on Sawyer screen or Sawyer's camera and there you can see shutdown excellent all right you know what I I think I'm rapidly becoming a fan of the Southern polar Corridor I can't believe I'm saying this out loud that everybody yeah everyone's going to clip that that and play me back the audio for eternity but look at Sawyer's cam you can see second the second stage continuing on and just really cooking at this point yeah it's in fullon like dark lagging and making sure to reach this Southern Corridor here yeah that's wild are they actually overflying the tip of Florida did I see that trajectory map right that's crazy yes paing separation confirmed and dar's pace awesome it looked like the fairing immediately was illuminated by the glow from the second stage nozzle like as soon as it was separated that was cool yep it's uh it's very bright you got to radiate that heat away and with this we are now 4 minutes and 20 seconds into the mission uh the next thing we will see is the uh entry burn of the first stage at about 5 minutes and 51 seconds toer still has the second stage that's outstanding absolutely stunning views tonight yeah and audio for that matter yeah I know it's called Pace but it's certainly building up a lot of speed right now you can say it's not really pacing itself no I'm I'm even I'm angry about that one nominal yeah nominal trajectory was just called we like normal trajectory yes uh hey Adrian I dare you to lick the stubby nozzle uh no [Laughter] a how about the frosty booster there we go there's the booster there's Florida is this like is this is this IR or is just really high ISO either way it's cool I think that's really high ISO we will see when the when the light the light I say the engine turns on yeah when when they turn the light on yeah like somebody turns the light on we can see better start up that's a two reason for the entry burn they're not actually doing to slow themselves down they just want to have some light yeah they need to see where they're going here we go we have entry burn wow coming through the clouds look at that oh my God look at that stage two literally fighting fire with fire as it hits the denser part of the atmosphere lot of call outs we have FTS safed on the first and second stage and that looked like a textbook entry burn and we have the landing bur start at 6 minutes and 58 seconds Adrian I propose at the beginning of Landing burn we cease talking and listen for the Sonic booms cuz I always miss when they're when they happen let's do that here we go stage one transonic stage one Landing burn Landing like deploy stage one Landing confirmed and Landing confirmed Sonic booms question mark there we go it's always way longer after you think they're going to be yep but another touchdown and it levels up to level five good deal actually not that long until spacecraft separation here uh the spacecraft Pace will separate at 12 minutes and 22 seconds so just 4 minutes from now uh the first St uh the second stage will burn for about two more minutes and then they have like 2 minutes to verify and making sure everything is good and then they separate all right so a little bit longer to go to get Pace on its way Adrien do you know um what it like what the orbital situation for Pace is once it is separated from the second stage I imagine it's got to take some time does it have to circularize like do we know how long it'll be until it gets uh into an operational position yeah the target orbit is a low earth orbit at 676 kilm circular and a 98° inclination um I have to look up how long until operational I have to totally be honest here um but usually it takes some time um I will I will look up though and make sure we we can get that information if it's already published how long they will need to get operational good deal oh man what a outstanding launch tonight second stage still doing its job job musling this thing into space this is a really long Burn yeah this is a long burn so he said uh there's going to be about two minutes of Coast before the satellite separates right yep so right now huh it's uh so right now they have a post launch assessment review which which basically will determine if the spacecraft is ready to operate with full routine operations in April on their timeline got it it's so wild seeing the Loom from these engines go from so confined to just basically escaping all directions as soon as it hits the end of the nozzle there you go seeo there we go all right now we Coast for a little bit and make sure we can release this satellite we are waiting for normal orbit confirmation can see the uh Second Stage doing some venting there always love to see the nozzle starting to cool down as well y it's a lot of heat that they have now to dispose oh it's a daylight look at that it's coming into daylight oh no switch back switch back that's beautiful what a timing with the daylight here just after SEO this is definitely one to remember what a beautiful launch and about one more minute until spacecraft separation there all right object you can see there by the way is mostly ice just to point that out yeah thanks for that people are always like is that aliens it's like no it's it's just ice it's ice wait so is is it in Sun not daytime it's not daytime they have a light on the second stage Yeah Tim Tim is even in chat hey Tim saying not daylight I don't think wow that's the light they have on the second stage sorry like that's totally caught me caught me off God I thought that was Daylight yeah there was like that lens flare on the other camera for a second there I was like is that what's going on there is that orbital Sunrise thanks for for fact checking us there Tim Tim in chat says brighty mlight light I would go with Lighty MC bright bright but you know to each their own that's it's good separation confirmed there we go pace is on its way Max how are you feeling I know you need to get on the road but if you want to give us a 30 second sound bite before you do we're all as we watch Pace float away that was that was the most intense launch I've heard in quite some time I mean we heard it before even the exhaust was fully clear of the top of the towers um that Ratt that rattled pretty much all of us to our core all the way up um and then the the sonic booms from where we are just absolutely smacked Us in the face I was not prepared for how hard they hit um but that was an absolutely tremendous launch and thankfully the clouds held off and we had a great view of the Boost back nebula as well so spectacular all around excellent well thank you once again Max for being out there in the field and capturing those awesome views for us we'll look forward to checking your Twitter feed for any cool imagery that you captured and posted and of course we'll post all that stuff for members as well so thanks Max thank chaps look at this view this is gorgeous Pace just drifting away God speed little Doodle there's a Simpsons reference for you that like nobody will get and it's now you can p see it's not in daylight yeah whoops philli Darby thank you for the Super Chat they say it's setting the pace that diabetic kid thank you for the support they say uh they said they could see it this clear through separation from Charleston South Carolina really really South Carolina but it went straight South I guess there's like a phase where it's still going mostly up where you can maybe see it a bit down range now I want to like go into Flight Club and look at the visibility Maps yeah uh Roseanne dasto thank you for the support they say sonic boom still reverberating in Port St John sounds like by all accounts this was a really cool launch both from an audio and visual perspective our is tracking the uh the ice mouses on the second stage I was I wasn't going to say it but you did so we'll keep our eye on the ice Mouse um which is a thing apparently ET thank you for the support they say from Orlando the plume interaction was awesome I'm happy for you and Joel M thank you for the Super Chat once again thank you everybody for all of the support that's a cool ball design there that is cool it's like a smaller more uh bespoke mission control room all right I think we have some replays coming here cuz that was just so beautiful so we will stand by for that Adrian if people join the stream after we talked about it maybe give us a little bit of a rundown on what exactly pace is going to be doing once it's ready to go yeah for sure uh the pace stands for Plankton aerosol Cloud ocean ecosystem um and is a NASA Earth observation satellite so it's uh mainly conducting um looking at uh uh P pyop Plankton and understand our uh understanding of ocean and air quality based on this so it's basically an environmental satellite to help us find out more about our planet and especially the changes that under on our planet is undergoing uh and for that it will monitor all of these different climate and uh EOS ecosystems and um yeah help us again science a bit more about our atmosphere and our oceans you say science a bit more science a bit bit more yes I mean we should all science a bit more I think is is a fair statement solar array deploy is underway excellent Christopher helis says Jack you can't complain when SpaceX switches camera views your cam your camera guy switching camera 753 times during a landing uh that might not have been us we we get some feeds we uh we use some feeds and uh you know what I'm not I complain if you if I know you're not new to this stream I see your name pop up all the time I I half the time I'm just complaining for something to do all right again we have some replays coming so stand by for that elul elh hulo I don't know how to say your name but they say old guy yells at cam reviews I'm not come on I'm I'm I'm not that old I'm not that old I'm so glad Max isn't here because he'd be like you're old Jack that's my Max impression um let's see here we answered Justin's question about which mission was the first stubby nozzle that was transporter 7 but we didn't get a stubby nozzle tonight we had the correct nozzle yes and let's see oh we have replays standby for replays Monty in chat says not so old guy yells at camera views winking Emoji thanks thanks Monty let's see can I see replay number one I just I just did that I don't think I don't think Kevin's ready I just wanted to see if he was ready uh let's see while we wait for him to cue those up yeah ninja guy Dan that was Frost peeling off the nozzle that is a common thing whoa everyday astronaut who's that what's up Tim thanks for the Super Chat they say so wait can we talk about the overflying Florida thing more that's a first right is Falcon 9 just that reliable thanks guys this is a great question we we sort of just like glossed right over it um before launch but yeah yeah if you look at the trajectory it's kind of insane they clipped the tip of Florida there and uh yeah I think I mean I think that's the first time they've done that um that this was actually the 12th time they' have done this according to Alex well they've used the southern polar Corridor that many times but oh see I guess on our trajectory it's not quite clipping it's yeah it's I I feel like I feel like it's a combination of the of the believing in Falcon 9 itself and also the FTS and everything um and also Falcon 9 at that point has a significant height right so um that's that's also probably helping plus you you're kind of you kind of also have to think about the point like where is would the would would the um the parts of the rock to actually come down right because since it's doing the dark leg it's kind of like moving the point where the trajectory right now is pointing to around Florida right yeah I saw a graphic earlier today that looked like it was clipping over like part of land but I guess with this trajectory that we have here it's it's not it's just skirting around Florida as you can see but as you were saying Adrian it's the southern polar Corridor is basically enabled by Falcon 's reliability uh and the fact that the first stage is not doing the majority of that trajectory there that's all the second stage it's a much smaller thing those sort of things are dictated uh you know the keep out zones the hazard zones where they can overfly all by it's like a probability that a chunk of debris large enough to cause injury or significant um property damage will hit something and I think uh falcon9 is just incredibly reliable at this point enabling it to do things that you might not see otherwise I mean here and in uh California they regularly overfly I think it's halama or jalama Beach I'm not quite sure how to pronounce that um like where people are camping and that's why there's a lot of Vandy night missions because uh there's less people at the beach at that time and so the risk is at an access acceptable level it's a whole thing it's a whole thing but suffice to say uh Falcon 9 has proven itself for reliability and it enables to do some interesting things thank you Tim for that Super Chat the diabetic kid thanks for the support they say I have some shots on my page of launches from Charleston got a lot of good shots awesome Angry American thank you for the support they say no complaint here I have been watching NSF for years best space coverage and the 247 lives cams Texas tank Watchers NSF is the best thank you angry America for the kind words uh let's see here Ki they say I thought Earth observation STS usually go to a high or polar orbit my question is why no Vandy and that is precisely what we are talking about with the southern polar Corridor they can launch to the south from from Florida now which is why I hate the southern polar Corridor love it they're stealing the missions you can't prove that I I have a clip I don't think that's real I don't think I will twe it is this cuz I asked everyone send you spiders that one time I that one time you mean three times already my DMs are cursed oh that's what you get so Alex is saying if as to the question of not doing this launch from vandenbberg and doing it from the cape instead according to SpaceX on the pre-launch pref Press briefing the reason is literally just because the science team is closer to the cape as part of their bid to launch Pace they have had the possibility to launch from either Vandy or Florida and they asked the teams what they preferred and they were like Florida it's closer so that's it that's all nothing special thank you for that Alex that's a good bit of beta there all right I think we have replays do we have replays that's somebody's face that's terrifying faced is that is that a sawyer do we have a sawyer cam I'm not sure what's happening here there we go uh I don't I'm I'm not loving the the mission control like the mission control everyone looks very serious right now I'm sure I'm just being paranoid and we have an update from Max in our back Channel no dice on the long Expo it's a really hard shot to get like I said I've tried I have not gotten it and here is the replay I I love this angle with the NASA building that's the Press building actually if you didn't know that at the Press site oh so they are currently waiting on getting the signal that pace is POS power positive to so they waiting to reach sunlight hence serious faces it's it's Focus time with NASA mission control with it Insider that not a lot of people would get it's like a joke for five people but look Adrian [Music] replays I love that Sonic squeal yes I love how it just illuminates kind of the whole Horizon yeah and it's not even uh solid solid uh Motors or anything it's just Falcon 9 lighting up the night sky you good old kerosene all right let's let's listen again and listen specifically for that crazy shrieking sound from the [Music] VAB there it is you love to hear it amazing the sound of air being torn asunder at a molecular level oh my God look at this gorgeous the cloud layer really making things look that much cooler sometimes clouds are good sometimes sometimes big big Asters oh you can see the light on the water once it gets high enough that's beautiful yes and then watch it'll it'll go through the clouds and then disappear who okay that's that's a cool [Music] effect we'll never get tired of hearing Sonic squeal from the V from the Vehicle Assembly I almost called it the Vandenburg Assembly Building what's wrong with my brain all right here's another replay that's a new that's totally new wow can you can hear someone's shudder going like [Music] crazy [Music] [Music] w oh no that was amazing audio I love these deep audios like these when when you heals almost like rattling through the air yeah it's it's really a sound that is not like any other thing on the planet I love it so yeah I think that was the camera Max was operating and he was not kidding that that audio was serious that was really cool speaking of serious mission control waiting for confirmation that the spacecraft is power positive and we are into that window to get confirmation of that Milestone so we're standing by for confirmation as a truck drives by question mark yeah sounds like that all right it's gone so we are waiting here for happy happy faces and happy noises as they see that confirmation man's on Mars thank you for the generous Super Chat there they say when will Artemis 2 launch specific dates on record what's your guess Adrian go first can I can I get like a second to talk to to think about this nope go first go now go um I'm going to say February 2026 uh I'd believe it though but o I mean it's right now it's September 2025 it's not that much of a slip I'm predicting here still o i I mean even when aremis one launched I remember immediately thinking like oh why do we have to wait so long for the next one that was awesome um but yeah so it goes Tres 9909 thanks for becoming a red team member Matthew fi thank you so much for the Super Chat they say amazing view from pelis Tampa Bay could see first second amazing plume and entry burn just beautiful that's awesome that's good to know I grew up in penel County believe it or not I remember watching shuttle launches from my backyard Joel M thank you for the support they say can you tell me how the Q got into the max dynamic pressure against the rocket uh I believe Q is shorthand notation in like the formula so it just gets shortened to Max Q because it's faster to say that than Max Dynamic pressure yeah it's a m moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket and we are still waiting for that confirmation of power positivity we are waiting on confirmation completely normal this is not unexpected we are just waiting for the com confirmation and as a bonus as we wait we will get some photos coming in from the field and soyer was shooting some photos and Max as well so hopefully we get some cool media from them as we are at t+ 32 minutes and Counting let's see man I'm sad Mex had to go I I want I want to hear more about how that launch was cuz holy cow those replays got me fired up I'm just okay uh we are I'm right now in just just anxiety mode where I'm like I just want this confirmation you know and I cannot even like I cannot even imagine how they feel right they that worked on the spacecraft that that operated that's that's a whole different dimension right so yeah just waiting here for for that confirmation they probably want to like double check any everything they get because you don't want to yeah I mean wouldn't you oh I see clapping that's good it's a good sign that looks very good that looks like a very good sign there miss director Center the spacecraft team happy to report that they have power positive on the pace spacecraft again the final Milestone power positive on the solar arrays on the pace spacecraft that's great news congratulations to the PACE team AB excellent that was saying always a good sign when the Nerds are clapping yes always a good sign oh excellent so now we get to have some more science as a result of all of the effort on behalf of SpaceX and NASA fantastic oh do we have a look at the okay we can we uh we have a photo from soyer can we get that can we get that on stream this is cool this is Nifty standby for that I love I love the chat is uh is doing the Applause as well it's like we're all in the room we're all hanging out in the room together look at that so you can see first stage going up and coming down and the second stage and the whole entire crazy dog leg as well cool shot from Sawyer look at that entry burn nice work Buddy oh I can't wait till it's not like insanely stormy here and we can get a night launch that is actually shootable although I am happy for the rain oh all right well I think with that we will wrap things up Alex says in our back Channel That's $800 million going into orbit I mean not wrong cool well thank you everybody for watching that was a heck of a stream we hope you all enjoyed it uh thank you so much to Max for being out in the field and shooting uh the launch Force we can get his info up on screen there you go you can see his Twitter handle is _ mg Dore so make sure you're following him we also had Sawyer out there you just saw his amazing photo Sawyer was down range for tonight's launch and we'll get his info up on screen as well uhoh I'm getting the Oscar Oscar outro music there you can see Sawyer's Twitter handle is the NASA man make sure you're following Sawyer for all of the good stuff he posts really you're going to turn it up on me we also had Adrien on commentary Adrian thank you for joining us tonight uh thanks for having me uh what a beautiful launch indeed and also in our uh in the background we had Kevin Michael Reed operating tonight's stream so thank you Kevin for doing that and I am Jack berer you are for this evening thank you all for putting up with me and we will see you for the next one [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and here we go we have LIF off propulsion continues to be caral r68 chamber pressure looks good probably not water tower [Music] fly go down nominal [Music] off it's orang oh my God oh my [Music] God put that in the big bag 343 unfolds to go indeed we rise together back to the moon and Beyond if it was Ming it' be exiting in the flare [Music] correct we don't need any [Music] more

Channel: NASASpaceflight

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Keywords: rocket launch, Liftoff, Livestream, cape canaveral space force station, cape canaveral, spacex launch, starlink, elon musk, Starship, KSC, SLC-40, falcon 9, falcon rocket, falcon 9 rocket, spacex, stalink, Starlink 6-24

Id: aiNl4D8ljWE

Length: 104min 4sec (6244 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 08 2024