[Chaos-l] Shuttle launch info source

[Tony Garcia]

Cool!

I actually have a viewing ticket for the kennedy space center/launch on
Friday.

I've never seen a shuttle launch live before and got lucky with the ticket
lottery for this launch.

Taking my telescope too in case the beach view is awesome - and based on the
stories it may be that I'm stuck at the KSC for many hours that evening
anyway.  In that case I may just haul the telescope out in the parking lot
while waiting for things to clear!



On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Tony Rice <rtphokie at gmail.com> wrote:

> I put this together for use in a talk I gave on a shuttle launch but
> thought others might enjoy playing with it as well.
>
> http://utprosim.com/kscdashboard/
>
> top T clock is the familiar countdown clock and is synched with KSC's
> countdown clock and includes built in holds
> bottom L clock is a countdown to the planned launch time and could
> vary within about 30 seconds either direction.  Final launch time is
> set during the final built in hold at T-9 minutes.
>
> cams brings up a matrix of webcams throughout the Kennedy Space Center
> (refreshes every 30 seconds)
> notam brings up details of the no fly zone over the Kennedy Space
> Center (will be posted by the FAA closer to launch date)
> SRB ship pos  brings up the position of the 2 ships which recover the
> Solid Rocket Boosters
> WX1 | WX2 | WX3 are links to weather reports, radar, etc.  hopefully
> we wont need to look at these
> landing sites brings up a map of abort landing sites.
> LCC links to the launch commit critera, the ruleset NASA uses to make
> those go/no-go decisions.
> comms launches a window with streaming audio with radio chatter from
> KSC (fire, rescue, security, sometimes even technicians working the
> launch pads).
>
>
> if you have VLC installed follow the link for the alternate dashboard
> which embeds a streaming video window with NASA TV playing.
>
>
> Keep in mind that all of the audio, video and clocks are based on
> various streaming sources with various amounts of delay so dont expect
> them to be synched closely, especially at T-0.
>
> -Tony
> _______________________________________________
> Chaos-l mailing list
> Chaos-l at rtpnet.org
> http://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/chaos-l
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://rtpnet.org/pipermail/chaos-l/attachments/20110427/31d71bf0/attachment-0002.html>