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Live Broadcast of Satellite Launch

Posted by michael on from the better-than-bottle-rockets dept.

MonolithicX writes "International Launch Systems is launching AMC11, an Atlas II class rocket, this Wednesday May 19th from Cape Canaveral, FL. You can watch the live broadcast here, coverage begins at 5:25 EDT and launch is scheduled for 5:42pm. Interesting facts about the launch can be found in the news release."

2 of 17 comments (clear)

  1. And if you miss it this time by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There will certainly be several thousand more chances:

    With a 100 percent success rate and 61 consecutive successful launches, the Atlas II family has a reliability record unmatched in the industry.

    If I was going to spend several million to launch a Satellite, this would certainly be the system I'd use- and it's reliability means there will be live reruns of this for every launch until they can't make money launching satellites anymore.

    --
    SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
  2. Launch window opens *52* minutes after the hour .. by Hulkster · · Score: 5, Informative
    The launch window actually open at 1752 EDT and is 174 minutes (a rather long one) until 2046 EDT (2152-0046 GMT).

    And the rocket would properly be called AC-166.

    This can all be seen at the SpaceFlightNow URL allready mentioned which is an EXCELLENT resource and really does have close to real-time updates when the bird is about to leave the pad.