T minus 5 minutes until launch.
And the strongback is now retracting from the rocket itself.
The original launch date on Nov. 25 was aborted 4 minutes before liftoff. Good to know we're past that stage now!
To recap, the main purpose of this mission is to deliver a telecom satellite for the company SES into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (~80,000 km away from Earth)
Falcon 9 and SES have been called Go for launch.
The flight computer has taken control of the vehicle now.
Michael, it won't be visible on the west coast.
@Michael, this mission is to take the SES-8 telecom satellite up into a geostationary transfer orbit.
Mission has been confirmed.
Falcon 9 is now supersonic.
I'm no space expert, but that was pretty awesome.
@Amber, into the Atlantic Ocean.
@Pen G, took off from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Current altitude is at 177 km (about ~110 miles)
@Amber, not sure if the first stage gets recovered. For the space shuttle, the solid rocket boosters did get recovered.
SpaceX confirms that it lost video.
Out of range of ground station. No more video.
Falcon 9 is now in orbit.
