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muriel_volestrangler

(101,265 posts) Fri Dec 5, 2014, 07:54 AM Dec 2014

Last edited Fri Dec 5, 2014, 09:54 AM - Edit history (1)

A live feed in the UK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11272370/Watch-live-Nasa-Orion-Mars-ship-launch.html

This works too: http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-tv-on-ustream/

In about 8 minutes from now, they re-start the 2nd stage engine to move from the roughly circular orbit to the elliptical one that means it approaches re-entry faster than the low earth orbit vehicles do (though not as fast as Apollo did).

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Orion launch live: Launch was successful; less than 8 minutes to reignition for higher orbit (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Dec 2014 OP

2nd burn went fine; now on its way to apogee muriel_volestrangler Dec 2014 #1

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1. 2nd burn went fine; now on its way to apogee

Fri Dec 5, 2014, 10:26 AM

Dec 2014

Spectacular sunrise from the recovery UAV over the Pacific, just now, on the NASA feed.