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[andrea]

failed. there may still be a chance today however.

[olemars]

Aborted at T-1 seconds

[smjjames]

They aborted it a few seconds before launch.....

[olemars]

I guess the match went out.

[andrea]

I hope they manage to launch this rocket today, else I lost a whole afternoon of study.

[alway]

Oh wow, I had stopped watching. And here I thought they had aborted for the day.
Seems I got back just in time! Countdown started! Launch set for 2:45 PM EST.

[Lumbajak]

The longer they delay the maiden voyage of the Falcon Punch, the longer we live in a world of bigotry and poverty

[alway]

Updating the title for liftoff time.

[alway]

Launch and stage separation seems to have been successful!
Edit: Orbit acheived on first try!

[smigenboger]

Yahoo that was great, thanks for showing us!

[andrea]

wondeful! thanks you alway.

anyone has an idea of how I can save the video, if it is possible?

[alway]

My guess is youtube will have it up by the end of the day. Edit: Especially since the abort from earlier today is already on youtube.
Edit2: Seems there are some home videos shot of it up on youtube already.
Edit 3: Seems the first videos from the stream are coming up; unfortunately, the stream itself was rather low quality and so they will all be filled with "buffering" interuptions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqH6bz2UMVQ

[andrea]

shouldn't the video be saved somewhere in temporary files or whatever they are called?

[inteuniso]

So wait... the Falcon 9 is a private rocket? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

[alway]

Yep, SpaceX is a private company. Quite a few of these newer rocketry companies are basicly geeks applying the massive amounts of money they made during the dot com bubble, and as such most have quite a fun and/or exciting atmosphere about them. Something this video from another rocketry company (Armadillo Aerospace) exemplifies: http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2009_09_07/2009_09_07_Labor_Day_wiener_cam.wmv

If you are interested in private spaceflight, this might interest you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies
Also: http://www.rocketracingleague.com/

The funniest part about private spaceflight is that countries like Iran and N Korea still haven't managed to do it. Noobs.