Shit hurry up it's getting dark.
Atlas V GOES-R launch
The launch window is an hour long. Launching at night is a more appealing frame anyways. Especially since the rocket will cross into the terminator between day and night.
It's truly a wonderful sight to see.
timestamp or gtfo
Interestingly, The Weather Channel is actually covering the launch live.
Apparently as far as meteorologists are concerned this new satellite is the bees' knees.
bees don't have knees, you dumbass
The Sensors, processing, data resolution scan time is like sex in the form of a satellite. The downlink, (My side of the house, though I'm not needed on site tonight since my shift ended at 12pm today) is rather decent, but nothing that the AEHF-1 satellite hasn't already been doing. Telemetry is showing the anomaly, and the engineers are just going through the checklist to eliminate possible causes.
Are you sure?
NET launch time is currently 17:52