STS-125 Shuttle Mission to Service Hubble Space Telescope Launches on Monday 7pm

Berserker · 11 May 2009 at 19:10

Wait for tank seperation. You'll like that. :cool:

Edit - aww - lost the signal early - probably due to the due east track. They might replay it at a later time.

Artest · 11 May 2009 at 19:11

Looks fake.

VaderDSL · 11 May 2009 at 19:11

No MECO footage.

seaviewuk · 11 May 2009 at 19:11

Atlantis now in Orbit!

millsy888 · 11 May 2009 at 19:12

All went well

gutted they lost the feed from that camera now

dunker · 11 May 2009 at 19:12

that was brilliant

DezUk · 11 May 2009 at 19:12

That was immense, ;ight the blue touch paper and stand well back

I wonder if us normal folks will ever get to experience space flight!

LewisStuart · 11 May 2009 at 19:12

Blast! I just missed it.

Berserker · 11 May 2009 at 19:13

olegs said:
Looks fake.

Just like the Chinese then. I'm sure someone will spot some bubbles soon.

Jonny · 11 May 2009 at 19:13

Probably a stupid question but where the the SRB's and the external fuel tank end up? The sea?

Darg · 11 May 2009 at 19:13

Awesome to watch as always. Also got pee'd off at the aussie comentator so switched back to nasa tv. It might be 20 sec behind but I prefer that to silly aussie talk.

NightSt@lk3r · 11 May 2009 at 19:13

Jonny said:
Probably a stupid question but where the the SRB's and the external fuel tank end up? The sea?

they will drop into the ocean and be recovered and reused.

Marine Iguana · 11 May 2009 at 19:14

That was so cool

Darg · 11 May 2009 at 19:14

Jonny said:
Probably a stupid question but where the the SRB's and the external fuel tank end up? The sea?

SRBs I believe have chutes and are picked up for reuse. Main fuel tank generally burns up in the atmosphere when it's dropped.

millsy888 · 11 May 2009 at 19:14

Jonny said:
Probably a stupid question but where the the SRB's and the external fuel tank end up? The sea?

iirc the yhave ships to pick up the 2 tanks that seperate

RossG · 11 May 2009 at 19:14

Jonny said:
Probably a stupid question but where the the SRB's and the external fuel tank end up? The sea?

SRB's in the sea, external tank burns up IIRC.

seaviewuk · 11 May 2009 at 19:14

Jonny said:
Probably a stupid question but where the the SRB's and the external fuel tank end up? The sea?

SRB's are recovered from the Atlantic to be re-used and the External Tank burns up over the Indian Ocean.

Nymins · 11 May 2009 at 19:14

Was watching on NASA TV online, but went downstairs to Sky News. Quality was better. Looked awesome.

Jonny · 11 May 2009 at 19:14

That was my guess, that must make some splash

Berserker · 11 May 2009 at 19:17

Yahoo! feeds were shot to hell tonight. No chance on the 1.2mbps feed which I normally record. The 300kbps and 500kbps feeds seemed just about OK. Sky News covered most of it though which is better quality than all the feeds.