Just Scrubbed for the night. No future date as yet.

Done

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX">@SpaceX</a> Launch aborted on low thrust alarm. Rising oxygen temps due to hold for boat and helium bubble triggered alarm.</p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/704102461766676481">February 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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So the boat is at fault, but the supercooled LOX is just more susceptible to issues like this.

The boat owner is apparently getting slammed via twitter.

Probably John Elway out there in a Dingy just trying to cause probs

Chekov, is that you?

Back on for tomorrow night. 5:35 p.m. Central.

More MiFi time. Hockey ice time comes first...

Yeah, you can't plan your life around these things. As we've seen this week, there's a fairly high probability that any given attempt will be scrubbed.

Perhaps they don't need to wait for "T-minus-oh shit" to see if anybody's motoring around in the water...

If nothing else, just go anyway...

Welp, the hold continues...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pushing launch to Friday due to extreme high altitude wind shear. Hits like a sledgehammer when going up supersonic <a href="https://t.co/Gr8T5upaLd">pic.twitter.com/Gr8T5upaLd</a></p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/704770247769722880">March 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Also, I feel I should apologize for this...

Chiefs might win a SB before this thing gets launched

I think this is the Captain of that ship:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/...46_634x354.jpg

Half-hearted bump. Hopefully they'll finally fly the damn thing today.

Sunset launch is going to be BEAUTIFUL.

Upper winds are still too high...

Bumping these too...

Here's the culprit: http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/...455232/zoom:10

Communications here: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/21054/web

Let's hope they stay out!

Go for fuel load. Delay = likely scrub now.

Unfortunately it seems like that's going to be the case with a lot of these from now on.

Logo stream just started... Cross your fingers..

Technical webcast is live at least. They must be getting tired of putting a lot of effort into broadcasting scrubs. :)

Which links shows the live trajectory?

This thing?

http://www.flightclub.io/world.php?watch=1&code=SES9

Fingers crossed...

Whoot!

No scrubs today! Now we just need a successful mission...

That's it Thanks dude.

They are pumped.

Now if they could land this thing, it'd make all the waiting more than worth it...

LOL...I bet it blew up. (First stage for those reading this later - they lost signal.)

They always do though. It looked lose at least. I thought they'd plunk it this time.

Yeah, they hit the barge at least. Didn't look very close to center, though.

http://i.imgur.com/3HCnn7c.png

I suppose it's possible it still made it. It's close enough that I think all legs could have been on solid "ground."

Still, when the feed cuts out like that, it doesn't seem promising.

Maybe...

@spacexstatus
2016-03-04 23:54 UTC
Unverified reports that the #Falcon9 first stage experimental landing was a success.

Not anything close to an official feed though, so I'm skeptical.

This was over the house just now. It must have been a sign that SpaceX was a go.. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...dfe4361cba.jpg

Aww.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash">#Falcon9</a> booster did not survive landing, confirmed by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash">#SpaceX</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SES9?src=hash">#SES9</a></p>&mdash; Matthew Travis (@MatthewBTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewBTravis/status/705908015711518720">March 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Oh well. Mission success (finally)! Next up CRS-8 in a few weeks!

Official confirmation.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rocket landed hard on the droneship. Didn&#39;t expect this one to work (v hot reentry), but next flight has a good chance.</p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/705917924972736512">March 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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The videos of the launch are terrible. They in no way show how cool this launch looked at the Space Coast.

I can imagine. This pic looks like it must've been a gorgeous night to watch it.

http://i.imgur.com/8RO8FvC.jpg

Barring any setbacks in the next few days, we should be on track for the CRS-8 (ISS resupply mission) launch Friday at 4:43pm EST.

Sounds like they're trying for the barge landing again on this one even though they could RTLS just because they're tired of not making it.

T-5 hours. I actually won't be on during the launch itself this time (meeting until 3pm Mountain), but hopefully I can keep up with it covertly.

I'm feeling optimistic about this one.

It sounded like the expected to pull it if this time. Excited to see the outcome.

I sure hope so. This is one they could technically bring back to land instead of using the barge, but I think they're tired of the barge not working, so they're doing it that way just to prove it can be done.

Sure would be nice to get that one under their belts so they can stop worrying so much about landing and start worrying about re-launching!

Also, FWIW, this one is an instantaneous launch window (as all ISS launches are), so it'll go at 4:43 EST or it won't go at all.

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Another FWIW, this is a NASA launch, so you can watch coverage on NASA TV in addition to the typical SpaceX webcast. I think they start coverage way earlier if you want more, though I find their style to be pretty dry. :)

No delays this time, and SECO is done. Now land the damn thing!

Whoa! Live video! And they landed it!!!!

Stuck the landing. Beautiful shot.

Whoot!

Nailed it!

Awesome

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Replay of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash">#Falcon9</a> first stage landing on &quot;Of Course I Still Love You&quot;<br><br>Dragon is in orbit. <a href="https://t.co/Y8kWgeS0fq">pic.twitter.com/Y8kWgeS0fq</a></p>&mdash; Trevor Mahlmann☄ (@TrevorMahlmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann/status/718543149791055873">April 8, 2016</a></blockquote>
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That's ****ing awesome!

Is it my imagination, our does the rocket have a slight lean to it on the barge?

I think the barge itself is rocking all over the place. It's certainly possible that the big ass rocket landing on it caused it to dip on that side, though. :)

In the shots they showed of it from the barge itself a minute or so later, it looks perfectly solid.

It sure looks like it bounced and then leaned. So maybe a damaged foot.

That was so awesome. Emotional too.

34:19 you can see the RCS firing right above the women hosts head. Real cool:

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Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!

Awesome

Random dump of points made by Elon in the post-launch press conference...

Props to Echologic on reddit for the summary.

They're aiming for a re-launch in June. That'd be fun. :)

Whoa.

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Onboard view of landing in high winds <a href="https://t.co/FedRzjYYyQ">pic.twitter.com/FedRzjYYyQ</a></p>&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/718605741288894464">April 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
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HD (4K if you can do it) version of the landing from the chase plane. It definitely hops a bit there right when it lands.

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This is just one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Ever. I don't even know.

Would love to see video of the barge coming into port if anyone finds any! Think it is supposed to come in tomorrow?

Can't wait to see it fly again this summer.

Yep, sometime this morning I believe. I'll keep an eye out for media and post it if it comes in. I'm sure we'll get pictures if nothing else. They did post this one of it on the way back at least.

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In the meantime, not that it's anywhere near as tricky as the launch itself (let alone landing), but Dragon is officially captured by ISS. Complete mission success (pending a successful return in a few weeks).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Capture confirmed! Dragon now attached to the <a href="https://twitter.com/Space_Station">@Space_Station</a> robotic arm <a href="https://t.co/lud5bGxzt9">pic.twitter.com/lud5bGxzt9</a></p>&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/719124940348203008">April 10, 2016</a></blockquote>
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While we wait on some pics of the booster coming back, would you guys mind giving me some feedback on this thread itself? I enjoy having a place to chat about this stuff, but I'm well aware that about 1/3rd of the posts in here are mine. I don't have a problem with that since I'm doing a lot of posting from around the interwebs, but I don't want to go so crazy with it that it's annoying to have the thread bumped all the time with boring info either.

So if you would, let me know what you think. I'll add a poll just to give me some concrete numbers, but just generally let me know if you think the level of content I post in here should be 1) slowed down a bit, 2) kept about the same, or 3) dive even more into the minutiae into things like launch schedules, press conferences, etc.

Oh, and thanks to those who have let me know they enjoy keeping up with this stuff privately. I know there are at least a few - I just want to gauge interest from others. :)

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EDIT TO ADD: I could also be convinced to re-brand this as the "Space Megathread" and talk about other cool space shit, but I don't want to overlap with Fish's science thread too much either.

I think you have a good balance going. Enough to keep those of us interested nicely informed but I doubt it can be all that annoying to others to have a single thread that gets bumped. I also like having this specifically about the first private companies' forays into the rest of the Solar System.

If others have a problem with this or the science thread maybe we will have to start a science forum. :)

This thread is AWESOME! I know this thread has done a lot to help me keep up with SpaceX and their activities. On more than one occasion I've used this thread to gather the neighborhood kids to watch. I can't say any will become rocket kids, but they think it's cool and that's the first step.

So please keep it going..

Keep it up DaFace. You're providing a valuable service you the community. Many are keeping track of the future of space exploration here but not posting. The 18,000 views and only 466 posts back that up I think.

Great point.

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Maybe tomorrow?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We won&#39;t be seeing ASDS and F9 S1 (CRS-8) come back today. Tracking shows slow speed and a long way to go. Safe trip back is more important!</p>&mdash; Chris B - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/719238849071853568">April 10, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Sounds like they're having to go slower than expected. I'm sure there are kinks to work out with regard to hauling a 20 story rocket 100 miles through 10+ foot waves.

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Do whatever you want face. I love this shit but have nothing to add. If you post more I'll read it. If not, cool.

It's a great thread DaFace. Good for The House.

Thanks for the input, all. It's a small sample, which isn't surprising, but sounds like we're in about the right place. I might do a little more in between launches for stuff like Gwen's (SpaceX president) talk at a convention in a couple weeks that might give us some ideas of what's coming down the road, but otherwise I'll just try and do as I have been - bump the thread a few days out from a launch and post cool stuff until the news slows down again.

I'm gonna delete the poll too since we don't need it up there forever.

Nice set of pics from the ISS photographers here. A couple of my favorites:

http://i.imgur.com/RuQ35QL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/U9U0dVL.jpg

By all means keep going DaFace.

Next launch date is solidified at April 28th.

Found on the SpaceX Reddit. Thought it was pretty cool for those curious about the ASDS return trip.

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Any time I feel like I'm a big nerd about this stuff, I peruse the SpaceX subreddit and see things like people about to drive a couple hours at 2am to try and catch the ship coming back into port.