Space Shuttle Discovery STS-128 Launch

[dfergie]

Launch currently is targeted for 1:56 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Aug. 25...
Space shuttle Discovery will carry the Leonardo supply module to the International Space Station during STS-128, along with a new crew member for the station, Nicole Stott.
More info: NASA - Space Shuttle

 

[long_time_DNC]

They've changed the day/time... It's now 1:36am EDT, Tuesday Aug. 25th. No reason that I could find for the change.

Have to dvr this launch...

 

[dfergie]

As long as Dish or Directv's schedule catches the change, I'm good...

 

[kstuart]

They've changed the day/time... It's now 1:36am EDT, Tuesday Aug. 25th. No reason that I could find for the change.

Have to dvr this launch...

Weird, because that was the day and time a couple of days ago, and I changed it in my schedule to what was posted here after I saw the HD-Net timer appear.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Weird, because that was the day and time a couple of days ago, and I changed it in my schedule to what was posted here after I saw the HD-Net timer appear.

I hope all goes well with the tank seals this time and there aren't any big delays...and hopefully no weather delays.

Night launches are nice, but I prefer the daytime launches...then their spacewalk schedule isn't during our sleep time...

 

[Ilya]

Should be a spectacular night-time launch tonight on HDNet!

So far no issues, except for a boat or something spotted within few miles.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Timers set...I'll be sleeping when they liftoff... Hope it's a good one!

 

[dfergie]

Same here...

 

[Ilya]

The weather doesn't look too good though...

 

[Ilya]

Officially scrubbed for today... They will try again tomorrow.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Timers reset for tonight's attempt...

 

[kstuart]

Timers reset for tonight's attempt...

As usual, it was too late for the Guide Listings to be updated, so most of us will need to manually create a timer...

 

[rad]

Launch scrubed for today due to a hardware problem.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Bummer... When's the rescheduled day/time?

I'll delete my manual timers for tonight...

 

[rad]

They haven't decided yet on a new date/time.

 

[bebop]

What channel to check, Nasa?

Or HD-Net?

 

[dfergie]

Launch scrubed for today due to a hardware problem.

Thanks... I guess I can delete the(non) launch from this morning from my space EHDD I moved it to before work

 

[long_time_DNC]

The NASA website now has the next launch attempt at Friday, 12:22am EDT. Makes it Thursday 9:22pm here. I may stay up and watch!

 

[Andrewwski]

Yep - testing was completed this evening, valve was successfully cycled open/closed 5 times and indications point to it being a telemetry problem. Mission Management Team meets at 1 PM EDT tomorrow to go over the test results - assuming they find it acceptable, we'll have a launch early Friday morning (or late Thursday night, depending on where you are).

 

[Ilya]

It's now scheduled for 11:59 PM EDT on Friday. Still Friday though.