Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launch at 9AM EST

It's just 8:30am here on the east coast and at 9am (or thereabouts) NASA will be launching the Marse Reconnaissance Orbiter. So tune into NASA tv ont eh web http://www.nasa.gov/ or if you get it on TV and watch!

This rocket is having the same problems with the liquid hydrogen sensors that the shuttle did, so they are filling it manually at the moment, then at half full or so they will reset the software and try again. But no delay yet beyond 9AM officially yet.


Should be a nice launch, these are great rockets /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

of course, not it seems unlikely that they will actually launch today. not officially announced yet but the "anomaly team" is suggesting that they scrub for today.