Friday, June 20, 2014

SpaceX Is About To Fire Another Massive Rocket Into Space — Watch Live!

It’s Friday, with about 2 hours left in the West Coast work day. Are you working? Like actually working? Probably not.

So lets watch freaking rockets get shot into space, instead!

After a bunch of delays, SpaceX is scheduled to launch 6 satellites up into the skies for ORBCOMM, a company that helps companies use satellites for everything from asset monitoring to wireless communication.

And, since we live in such wonderful times, you get to watch things get shot into space from your couch. Live! You don’t even have to wear pants! Incredible.

Here’s the stream, which, annoyingly, I can’t embed. Launch has been pushed back about an hour, with takeoff currently set for just after 4:00 PM Pacific.

(Interesting side note: This isn’t the first time ORBCOMM has launched with SpaceX â€" at the end of 2012, the launch of one of their prototype satellites ended up in a bad orbit when one of the nine engines on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket failed. The end result? After about 50 hours of floating around in (the wrong part of) space, it all spiraled back down to earth.. All in all, the lost cost ORBCOMM [or at least their insurance plan] around $10 million bucks.)

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