1 00:00:37,921 --> 00:01:01,344 ♪♪ MUSIC PLAYING ♪♪ 2 00:01:01,344 --> 00:01:02,112 ♪♪ MUSIC PLAYING ♪♪ 3 00:01:02,112 --> 00:01:04,748 >> YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT A 4 00:01:04,748 --> 00:01:06,649 SPACEX FALCON HEAVY ROCKET 5 00:01:06,649 --> 00:01:09,285 SITTING ON HISTORIC LAUNCH PAD 6 00:01:09,285 --> 00:01:12,489 39A AT NASA'S KENNEDY SPACE 7 00:01:12,489 --> 00:01:14,157 CENTER IN HALF AN HOUR FOUR NASA 8 00:01:14,157 --> 00:01:15,625 MISSIONS WILL SHARE A RIDE TO 9 00:01:15,625 --> 00:01:17,193 ORBIT WITH DOZENS OF OTHER 10 00:01:17,193 --> 00:01:18,528 SATELLITES TO TEST NEW 11 00:01:18,528 --> 00:01:20,697 TECHNOLOGIES AND STUDY SPACE 12 00:01:20,697 --> 00:01:21,097 WEATHER. 13 00:01:21,097 --> 00:01:22,799 HELLO, EVERYONE, AND WELCOME TO 14 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:24,501 KENNEDY FOR OUR LIVE LAUNCH 15 00:01:24,501 --> 00:01:26,736 COVERAGE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 16 00:01:26,736 --> 00:01:28,438 DEFENSE SPACE TEST PROGRAM TWO. 17 00:01:28,438 --> 00:01:30,406 I AM YOUR HOST FAIRLY WITH NAS' 18 00:01:30,406 --> 00:01:31,407 A OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS AND 19 00:01:31,407 --> 00:01:33,209 JUST BEHIND ME, IS THE FALCON 20 00:01:33,209 --> 00:01:34,944 HEAVY ROCKET ON THE PAD. 21 00:01:34,944 --> 00:01:36,946 THERE WAS A 3-HOUR DELAY EARLIER 22 00:01:36,946 --> 00:01:38,748 DUE TO AN ISSUE WITH SOME GROUND 23 00:01:38,748 --> 00:01:39,849 SUPPORT EQUIPMENT, BUT THAT'S 24 00:01:39,849 --> 00:01:41,284 BEEN CHECKED OUT AND RESOLVED 25 00:01:41,284 --> 00:01:43,186 AND NOW SPACEX IS JUST 20 A 26 00:01:43,186 --> 00:01:46,523 MINUTES AND 49 SECONDS AWAY FROM 27 00:01:46,523 --> 00:01:47,824 THE MOST CHALLENGING LAUNCH IN 28 00:01:47,824 --> 00:01:53,696 THE AEROSPACE COMPANY'S HISTORY. 29 00:01:53,696 --> 00:01:55,698 >> SPACE TEST PROGRAM TWO IS THE 30 00:01:55,698 --> 00:01:57,000 FIRST GOVERNMENT CONTRACTED FALL 31 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,001 ONE HEAVY ROCKING HE HAD MANAGED 32 00:01:58,001 --> 00:01:59,602 BY THE U.S. AIR FORCE SPACE AND 33 00:01:59,602 --> 00:03:34,330 MISSILE SYSTEM 34 00:03:34,330 --> 00:03:36,900 VEHICLE CARRYING THE HOPES, THE 35 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:39,535 DREAMS THE CAREER'S WORK IN SOME 36 00:03:39,535 --> 00:03:41,337 CASES OF A BUNCH OF PRINCIPLE 37 00:03:41,337 --> 00:03:42,372 INVESTIGATORS, A BUNCH OF PEOPLE 38 00:03:42,372 --> 00:03:43,773 WORKING ON THE TECHNOLOGY AND 39 00:03:43,773 --> 00:03:44,874 DEVELOPED TO THE POINT WHERE 40 00:03:44,874 --> 00:03:46,376 IT'S READY TO FLY TO SPACE. 41 00:03:46,376 --> 00:03:47,343 >> AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT 42 00:03:47,343 --> 00:03:47,644 THAT. 43 00:03:47,644 --> 00:03:49,412 BECAUSE THE GREEN PROPELLANT IS 44 00:03:49,412 --> 00:03:50,513 ACTUAL KNOW THE GREEN. 45 00:03:50,513 --> 00:03:51,648 THERE IS A PICTURE OF IT. 46 00:03:51,648 --> 00:03:52,982 AND WHAT IS INTERESTING ABOUT IT 47 00:03:52,982 --> 00:03:54,550 IS, TELL ME WHY THAT'S SO 48 00:03:54,550 --> 00:03:56,185 AMAZING THAT HE'S ABLE TO HOLD 49 00:03:56,185 --> 00:03:59,489 THAT LIKE THAT? 50 00:03:59,489 --> 00:04:01,424 >> THAT'S MILT McKAY I WAS HIS 51 00:04:01,424 --> 00:04:03,726 BRANCH CHIEF AT ONE POINT AT AIR 52 00:04:03,726 --> 00:04:05,461 FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY. 53 00:04:05,461 --> 00:04:07,163 MILT, AND MIKE ARE THE PRINCIPLE 54 00:04:07,163 --> 00:04:08,898 DEVELOPERS OF THE PROPELLANT. 55 00:04:08,898 --> 00:04:10,266 HE'S IN -- YOU CAN SEE A LAB 56 00:04:10,266 --> 00:04:11,401 COAT THERE. 57 00:04:11,401 --> 00:04:13,569 HE HAS GLOVES ON, HE'S GOT SOME 58 00:04:13,569 --> 00:04:15,538 GOGGLES, HE'S NOT BEING 59 00:04:15,538 --> 00:04:17,273 CARELESS, THAT'S THE LEVEL OF 60 00:04:17,273 --> 00:04:18,574 PROTECTION THAT YOU NEED TO 61 00:04:18,574 --> 00:04:20,276 HANDLE THIS SO-CALLED GREEN PRO 62 00:04:20,276 --> 00:04:22,745 3E8 63 00:04:22,745 --> 00:04:24,948 PROPELLANT WHICH DOESN'T HAVE 64 00:04:24,948 --> 00:04:28,952 ANY VAPOR TOXICITY, OTHER YOU 65 00:04:28,952 --> 00:04:30,386 HAVE TO WAR A SPACE SUIT. 66 00:04:30,386 --> 00:04:31,554 CLEAR OUT THE WHOLE FACILITY. 67 00:04:31,554 --> 00:04:32,889 THIS CAN BE DONE IN SORT OF A 68 00:04:32,889 --> 00:04:33,923 SHIRT AND SLEEVE ENVIRONMENT AS 69 00:04:33,923 --> 00:04:36,059 YOU CAN SEE THERE. 70 00:04:36,059 --> 00:04:38,361 >> HYDRO SEEN IS THE COMMON 71 00:04:38,361 --> 00:04:39,762 SPACECRAFT PROPELLANT IN USED 72 00:04:39,762 --> 00:04:40,029 TO. 73 00:04:40,029 --> 00:04:41,264 >> IT WOULD BE IMPASSIBLE TO DO 74 00:04:41,264 --> 00:04:41,564 THAT. 75 00:04:41,564 --> 00:04:44,400 THIS IS MUCH MORE LESS TOXIC I 76 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,602 SHOULD SAY, A LOT LESS TOXIC. 77 00:04:46,602 --> 00:04:47,837 >> IT WOULDN'T ABE VERY GOOD 78 00:04:47,837 --> 00:04:52,809 ROCKET PROPELLANT IF YOU 79 00:04:52,809 --> 00:04:53,643 SACRIFICE PROPELLANT. 80 00:04:53,643 --> 00:04:55,378 IN ADDITION TO THE HANDLING AND 81 00:04:55,378 --> 00:04:57,380 SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS WITH THIS 82 00:04:57,380 --> 00:05:01,150 PROPELLANT, IT HAS BETTER FUEL 83 00:05:01,150 --> 00:05:03,753 EFFICIENCY AND HAS SUBSTANTIALLY 84 00:05:03,753 --> 00:05:05,455 GREATER DENSITY THAN HYDRO SEEN, 85 00:05:05,455 --> 00:05:07,890 SO THE OVERALL ENERGY DENSITY IS 86 00:05:07,890 --> 00:05:12,628 ABOUT 50 PERCENT HIGHER I CAN 87 00:05:12,628 --> 00:05:14,564 GET 50% MORE ENERGY OR I CAN USE 88 00:05:14,564 --> 00:05:16,566 A SMALLER PROPELLANT TANK TO GET 89 00:05:16,566 --> 00:05:18,267 THE SAME AMOUNT OF ENERGY. 90 00:05:18,267 --> 00:05:19,202 >> YOU CAN'T JUST DEVELOP IT, 91 00:05:19,202 --> 00:05:20,236 YOU HAVE TO TEST IT IN SPACE. 92 00:05:20,236 --> 00:05:21,304 HOW CAN ABOUT HOW YOU WILL DO 93 00:05:21,304 --> 00:05:27,543 THAT AS WE SHOW THIS ANIMATION. 94 00:05:27,543 --> 00:05:29,979 I BROUGHT A COUPLE OF MOD THINKS 95 00:05:29,979 --> 00:05:31,681 OF THE SPACECRAFT DEVELOPED BY 96 00:05:31,681 --> 00:05:34,784 BALL AEROSPACE, BALL IS THE 97 00:05:34,784 --> 00:05:39,822 PRINCIPLE COMPANY LEAD THIS IS 98 00:05:39,822 --> 00:05:42,458 GREEN PROPELLANT MISSION. 99 00:05:42,458 --> 00:05:44,060 THE SOLAR RAYS ARE DID HE PLAYED 100 00:05:44,060 --> 00:05:47,030 HERE, THEY WILL BE STOW THE FOR 101 00:05:47,030 --> 00:05:47,363 LAUNCH. 102 00:05:47,363 --> 00:05:49,866 AND SO WE HAVE THE PROPULSION 103 00:05:49,866 --> 00:05:52,001 SYSTEMS DEVELOPED EYE ARROW JET 104 00:05:52,001 --> 00:05:55,405 ROCKET KANE. 105 00:05:55,405 --> 00:06:01,244 THIS DYNE. 106 00:06:01,244 --> 00:06:03,913 THIS IS AN ACTUAL SIZED TRUSTER. 107 00:06:03,913 --> 00:06:05,915 SO THEY TOOK THE PROPELLANT, 108 00:06:05,915 --> 00:06:09,986 DEVELOPED BY AIR FORCE RESEARCH 109 00:06:09,986 --> 00:06:10,686 LAB. 110 00:06:10,686 --> 00:06:13,089 STARTING BACK IN THE '90s AND 111 00:06:13,089 --> 00:06:15,024 BUILT THE THRUSTERS TO PRODUCE 112 00:06:15,024 --> 00:06:16,292 THE THRUST FORCE THAT YOU NEED 113 00:06:16,292 --> 00:06:18,795 TO PRO TELL THE SPACECRAFT AND 114 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:19,829 WE HAVE DESIGNED THE 115 00:06:19,829 --> 00:06:23,266 DEMONSTRATION SO THE SPACECRAFT 116 00:06:23,266 --> 00:06:24,500 WILL DO ALL THE MANEUVERS 117 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:26,102 NECESSARY IN SPACE, CONTROLLING 118 00:06:26,102 --> 00:06:28,504 THE ATTITUDE, POINTING IN 119 00:06:28,504 --> 00:06:29,839 SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS. 120 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:31,474 CHANGING THE ORBIT OF THE 121 00:06:31,474 --> 00:06:31,874 SPACECRAFT. 122 00:06:31,874 --> 00:06:34,277 YOU CAN SEE IT THERE ON THE 123 00:06:34,277 --> 00:06:35,678 MONITOR, THAT'S BEING 124 00:06:35,678 --> 00:06:36,112 MANIPULATED. 125 00:06:36,112 --> 00:06:40,450 THAT'S PROBABLY A BALL AEROSPACE 126 00:06:40,450 --> 00:06:41,818 AND, YOU CAN SEE THE SIZE OF IT 127 00:06:41,818 --> 00:06:42,852 AND NBA COMPARISON TO THE PERSON 128 00:06:42,852 --> 00:06:43,453 THERE. 129 00:06:43,453 --> 00:06:45,388 THE THRUSTERS IN THIS VIEW ARE 130 00:06:45,388 --> 00:06:46,255 ON THE TOP. 131 00:06:46,255 --> 00:06:47,156 >> SO IT IS QUITE LARGE. 132 00:06:47,156 --> 00:06:49,292 >> Reporter: AND SO WHAT 133 00:06:49,292 --> 00:06:50,626 ALTERNATIVE FUEL ADVANTAGES ARE 134 00:06:50,626 --> 00:06:52,228 THERE FOR FUTURE MISSIONS TO THE 135 00:06:52,228 --> 00:06:53,963 MOON OR MARS? 136 00:06:53,963 --> 00:06:56,032 >> THE, YOU KNOW, HANDLING AND 137 00:06:56,032 --> 00:06:57,200 SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS WITH THIS 138 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,068 FUEL BEING MUCH LESS THAN 139 00:06:59,068 --> 00:07:01,404 COMMONLY USED PROPELLANT IS A 140 00:07:01,404 --> 00:07:03,005 TREMENDOUS ADVANTAGE. 141 00:07:03,005 --> 00:07:04,107 THE PERFORMANCE INCREASE IS A 142 00:07:04,107 --> 00:07:06,142 HUGE ADVANTAGE. 143 00:07:06,142 --> 00:07:07,043 AND ONE THING I HAVEN'T 144 00:07:07,043 --> 00:07:08,711 MENTIONED IS THIS PROPELLANT IS 145 00:07:08,711 --> 00:07:13,616 MUCH MORE COLD TO HIM RAPT THAN 146 00:07:13,616 --> 00:07:14,016 HYDRAZINE. 147 00:07:14,016 --> 00:07:15,418 YOU CAN LET IT GO TO VERY COLD 148 00:07:15,418 --> 00:07:16,252 TEMPERATURES IT WARMS BACK UP 149 00:07:16,252 --> 00:07:17,120 AND IS JUST FINE. 150 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,255 IT WON'T CRACK YOUR FUEL LINES 151 00:07:19,255 --> 00:07:21,958 OR RUIN YOUR PROPELLANT TANK AND 152 00:07:21,958 --> 00:07:24,227 SO THERE IS A NUMBER OF MISSION 153 00:07:24,227 --> 00:07:25,194 OPPORTUNITIES THAT THIS 154 00:07:25,194 --> 00:07:27,063 PROPELLANT COULD SATISFY THAT 155 00:07:27,063 --> 00:07:29,866 MIGHT NOT BE ATTAINABLE WITH -- 156 00:07:29,866 --> 00:07:31,200 >> LAST QUESTION, I WAS 157 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:32,068 SURPRISED HOW MANY ORGANIZATIONS 158 00:07:32,068 --> 00:07:32,935 WERE INVOLVED IN THIS. 159 00:07:32,935 --> 00:07:35,638 >> IT WAS A GREAT PARTNERSHIP OF 160 00:07:35,638 --> 00:07:37,039 REALLY EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF NASA 161 00:07:37,039 --> 00:07:38,875 TEAMING WITH THE PRIVATE 162 00:07:38,875 --> 00:07:41,144 INDUSTRY, BALL AEROSPACE, AS I 163 00:07:41,144 --> 00:07:42,945 SAID, BUILT THE SPACECRAFT, 164 00:07:42,945 --> 00:07:45,414 CHRIS McLEAN AT BALL IS THE 165 00:07:45,414 --> 00:07:46,816 PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR, ARROW 166 00:07:46,816 --> 00:07:50,219 JET ROCK EN DYNE DID THE 167 00:07:50,219 --> 00:07:50,620 PROPELLANT. 168 00:07:50,620 --> 00:07:51,754 THREE NASA CENTERS WERE INVOLVED 169 00:07:51,754 --> 00:07:53,256 IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE 170 00:07:53,256 --> 00:07:55,091 PROPELLANT AND EXHAUST FROM THE 171 00:07:55,091 --> 00:07:56,659 PROPEL AMOUNT AND OF COURSE AIR 172 00:07:56,659 --> 00:07:58,027 FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY NOT 173 00:07:58,027 --> 00:07:59,562 ONLY DEVELOPED AND DELIVERED THE 174 00:07:59,562 --> 00:08:02,865 PROPELLANT BUT PAUL THERE LET 175 00:08:02,865 --> 00:08:06,569 THE TEAM TO DESIGN THE FUELING 176 00:08:06,569 --> 00:08:07,970 EQUIPMENT NEEDED AT THE PAYLOAD 177 00:08:07,970 --> 00:08:08,604 PROCESSING FACILITY. 178 00:08:08,604 --> 00:08:10,339 >> ALL THESE PEOPLE VERY ANXIOUS 179 00:08:10,339 --> 00:08:12,575 TONIGHT WATCH THE LAUNCH GET OFF 180 00:08:12,575 --> 00:08:13,042 THE GROUND. 181 00:08:13,042 --> 00:08:14,343 >> MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE I 182 00:08:14,343 --> 00:08:16,078 MENTIONED ARE HERE AND EAGER TO 183 00:08:16,078 --> 00:08:17,580 SEE IT GO. 184 00:08:17,580 --> 00:08:19,215 >> LOOKING FORWARD TO IT, JEFF, 185 00:08:19,215 --> 00:08:19,949 THANKS FOR BEING HERE AND 186 00:08:19,949 --> 00:08:20,883 EXPLAINING IT. 187 00:08:20,883 --> 00:08:21,617 >> GREAT PLEASURE. 188 00:08:21,617 --> 00:08:22,852 >> ALL RIGHT, MOVING O LET'S GO 189 00:08:22,852 --> 00:08:23,719 TO THE PAD. 190 00:08:23,719 --> 00:08:24,954 THAT'S WHERE THE GREEN 191 00:08:24,954 --> 00:08:25,821 PROPELLANT IS CURRENTLY LOADED 192 00:08:25,821 --> 00:08:31,093 IN THE SPACECRAFT. 193 00:08:31,093 --> 00:08:34,297 THE TOP FALL ONE HEAVY ROCKET 194 00:08:34,297 --> 00:08:35,131 CURRENTLY 22 MINUTES ROUGHLY 195 00:08:35,131 --> 00:08:36,032 FROM THE LAUNCH. 196 00:08:36,032 --> 00:08:37,433 EVERYTHING IS LOOKING GOOD SO 197 00:08:37,433 --> 00:08:37,967 FAR. 198 00:08:37,967 --> 00:08:39,168 WARM WEATHER HERE IN FLORIDA IN 199 00:08:39,168 --> 00:08:41,103 THIS EARLY MORNING ON A TUESDAY, 200 00:08:41,103 --> 00:08:43,105 TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE MID 201 00:08:43,105 --> 00:08:43,406 80s. 202 00:08:43,406 --> 00:08:44,540 OR SO. 203 00:08:44,540 --> 00:08:46,709 WEATHER IS 80% GO AT THIS POINT. 204 00:08:46,709 --> 00:08:49,745 SO WE ARE LOOKING GOOD IN THAT 205 00:08:49,745 --> 00:08:50,079 REGARD. 206 00:08:50,079 --> 00:08:52,181 ANOTHER PAYLOAD GO UP TONIGHT IS 207 00:08:52,181 --> 00:08:54,517 A CUBESAT CREATED BY STUDENTS 208 00:08:54,517 --> 00:08:56,519 RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD FROM HERE 209 00:08:56,519 --> 00:08:58,354 HERE AT THE KEPT DID I SPACE 210 00:08:58,354 --> 00:09:02,258 CENTER IT'S CALLED STAYING SAT 211 00:09:02,258 --> 00:09:04,460 BUILT BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AT 212 00:09:04,460 --> 00:09:06,095 MERIT HIGH SCHOOL. 213 00:09:06,095 --> 00:09:09,765 NAMED FOR THE MUSTANG THEIR 214 00:09:09,765 --> 00:09:11,434 MASCOT. 215 00:09:11,434 --> 00:09:13,536 S T.A. NG'S PURPOSE IS TO 216 00:09:13,536 --> 00:09:15,771 DETERMINE HOW DURABLE CUBESATS 217 00:09:15,771 --> 00:09:16,439 MUST BE BUILT. 218 00:09:16,439 --> 00:09:19,008 WE ARE WISHING THEM WELL AS YOU 219 00:09:19,008 --> 00:09:21,143 CAN SEE THE STUDENTS THERE. 220 00:09:21,143 --> 00:09:22,345 FROM POWERING SPACECRAFTS TO 221 00:09:22,345 --> 00:09:23,546 STEERING THEM. 222 00:09:23,546 --> 00:09:25,081 RIGHT NOW SPACECRAFTS MUST 223 00:09:25,081 --> 00:09:26,282 ENDURE LONG WAITS ON SIGNALS 224 00:09:26,282 --> 00:09:29,652 FROM EARTH TO KNOW WHERE IT IS 225 00:09:29,652 --> 00:09:31,621 BUT AS WE LEARN IN IT THIS VIDEO 226 00:09:31,621 --> 00:09:34,023 FROM NASA THINKS JET PROPULSION 227 00:09:34,023 --> 00:09:34,657 LABORATORY. 228 00:09:34,657 --> 00:09:36,659 NEW TECHNOLOGY CALLED DEEP SPACE 229 00:09:36,659 --> 00:09:38,461 ATOMIC CLOCK COULD ONE DAY ALLOW 230 00:09:38,461 --> 00:09:42,398 FOR SELF-DRIVING SPACECRAFT. 231 00:09:42,398 --> 00:09:44,267 >> HOW DO WE NAVIGATE THROUGH 232 00:09:44,267 --> 00:09:44,834 SPACE? 233 00:09:44,834 --> 00:09:46,836 CURRENTLY SPACECRAFT FLYING 234 00:09:46,836 --> 00:09:48,771 BEYOND EARTH DON'T HAVE A GPS TO 235 00:09:48,771 --> 00:09:51,574 FIND THEIR WAY THROUGH SPACE. 236 00:09:51,574 --> 00:09:52,775 NAVIGATORS ON EARTH SEND A 237 00:09:52,775 --> 00:09:53,876 SIGNAL FOR THE SPACECRAFT THAT 238 00:09:53,876 --> 00:09:56,445 RECEIVES IT AND SEND IT BACK. 239 00:09:56,445 --> 00:09:57,613 EXTREMELY PRECISE CLOCKS ON THE 240 00:09:57,613 --> 00:09:59,949 GROUND CALLED ATOMIC CLOCKS 241 00:09:59,949 --> 00:10:00,750 MEASURE HOW LONG THE SIGNAL 242 00:10:00,750 --> 00:10:02,084 TAKES TO MAKE THIS TWO-WAY 243 00:10:02,084 --> 00:10:02,418 JOURNEY. 244 00:10:02,418 --> 00:10:05,254 THE AMOUNT OF TIME TELLS THEM 245 00:10:05,254 --> 00:10:07,523 THERE ARE FAR WAY THE SPACECRAFT 246 00:10:07,523 --> 00:10:09,125 IT & IS HOW FAR IT'S GOING. 247 00:10:09,125 --> 00:10:10,059 THE FARTHER OUT IT IS, THE 248 00:10:10,059 --> 00:10:11,160 LONGER IT TAKES TO RECEIVE AND 249 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:11,894 SEND A SIGNAL. 250 00:10:11,894 --> 00:10:13,596 BUT WHAT IF HUMANS ARE SENT TO 251 00:10:13,596 --> 00:10:15,498 ANOTHER PLANET LIKE MARS? 252 00:10:15,498 --> 00:10:17,500 A TWO-WAY SYSTEM THAT SENDS A 253 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:20,336 SIGNAL FROM EFFORT TO A 254 00:10:20,336 --> 00:10:21,137 SPACECRAFT, BACK TO EARTH AND 255 00:10:21,137 --> 00:10:23,172 THEN TO THE SPACECRAFT AGAIN, 256 00:10:23,172 --> 00:10:24,874 WOULD TAKE AN AVERAGE OF 40 257 00:10:24,874 --> 00:10:26,909 MINUTES, IMAGINE IF THE GPS ON 258 00:10:26,909 --> 00:10:28,811 YOUR PHONE TOOK 40 MINUTES TO 259 00:10:28,811 --> 00:10:29,845 CALCULATE YOUR POSITION, YOU 260 00:10:29,845 --> 00:10:31,480 MIGHT MISS YOUR TURN OR BE 261 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:32,581 SEVERAL EXITS DOWN THE HIGHWAY 262 00:10:32,581 --> 00:10:34,350 BEFORE IT CAUGHT UP WITH YOU. 263 00:10:34,350 --> 00:10:36,285 IF HUMANS TRAVEL TO THE RED 264 00:10:36,285 --> 00:10:37,286 PLANET IT WOULD BE BETTER IF THE 265 00:10:37,286 --> 00:10:38,421 SYSTEM WHITE SOX JUAN WAY, 266 00:10:38,421 --> 00:10:40,523 ALLOWING THE EXPLORERS TO 267 00:10:40,523 --> 00:10:41,290 IMMEDIATELY DETERMINE THEIR 268 00:10:41,290 --> 00:10:42,091 CURRENT POSITION RATHER THAN 269 00:10:42,091 --> 00:10:43,292 WAITING FOR THAT INFORMATION TO 270 00:10:43,292 --> 00:10:47,463 COME BACK FROM EARTH. 271 00:10:47,463 --> 00:10:48,798 NAS IS TESTING NEW TECHNOLOGY 272 00:10:48,798 --> 00:10:51,901 THAT ALLOWS FUTURE EXPLORERS TO 273 00:10:51,901 --> 00:10:52,635 DO JUST THAT. 274 00:10:52,635 --> 00:10:55,538 THE DEEP SPACE ATOMIC CLOCK IS 275 00:10:55,538 --> 00:10:56,372 THE FIRST DETERMINE STATION THAT 276 00:10:56,372 --> 00:10:58,374 CAN BE USED FOR NAVIGATION IN 277 00:10:58,374 --> 00:11:00,176 DEEP SPACE ARC HOW LONG A 278 00:11:00,176 --> 00:11:03,012 SPACECRAFT TO CALCULATE ITS OWN 279 00:11:03,012 --> 00:11:03,612 TRAJECTORY. 280 00:11:03,612 --> 00:11:04,914 IF A SPACE CRAFT HAD ONE OF 281 00:11:04,914 --> 00:11:06,449 THESE CLOCKS ON BOARD, IT COULD 282 00:11:06,449 --> 00:11:07,950 RECEIVE A SIGNAL FROM ONE OF THE 283 00:11:07,950 --> 00:11:09,285 BIG ANTENNAS ON EARTH AND 284 00:11:09,285 --> 00:11:11,587 QUICKLY MEASURE IT'S SPEED AND 285 00:11:11,587 --> 00:11:11,987 POSITION. 286 00:11:11,987 --> 00:11:14,056 THE DEEP SPACE ATOMIC CLOCK 287 00:11:14,056 --> 00:11:17,360 COULD ONE DAY LEFT ASTRONAUTS 288 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:18,728 MAY HAVE DATE SAFELY TO MARS AND 289 00:11:18,728 --> 00:11:19,595 I DON'T UNDERSTAND. 290 00:11:19,595 --> 00:11:21,497 THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN MAKING 291 00:11:21,497 --> 00:11:22,465 ONE-WAY SPACE AND A HALF BASE 292 00:11:22,465 --> 00:11:26,702 GASE A REALITY. 293 00:11:26,702 --> 00:11:29,205 >> AND THE DEEP SPACE ATOMIC 294 00:11:29,205 --> 00:11:30,339 CLOCK IS SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH 295 00:11:30,339 --> 00:11:31,640 TONIGHT TO DEMONSTRATE ITS 296 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:33,376 CAPABILITY AND THIS IS A FULL 297 00:11:33,376 --> 00:11:34,076 SCALE MODEL. 298 00:11:34,076 --> 00:11:35,878 >> IT IS, YES. 299 00:11:35,878 --> 00:11:37,880 >> AND THIS IS JILL, THE DEPUTY 300 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:39,415 PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR FOR THIS 301 00:11:39,415 --> 00:11:40,549 DEMONSTRATION, THANK YOU FOR 302 00:11:40,549 --> 00:11:41,951 BRINGING A LITTLE SHOW AND TELL 303 00:11:41,951 --> 00:11:42,485 HERE. 304 00:11:42,485 --> 00:11:42,985 >> ABSOLUTELY. 305 00:11:42,985 --> 00:11:44,754 >> SO WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE? 306 00:11:44,754 --> 00:11:46,589 THIS IS -- IT'S NOT THAT BIG FOR 307 00:11:46,589 --> 00:11:47,990 AN ON A* TO HIM I CAN CLOCK, 308 00:11:47,990 --> 00:11:48,290 RIGHT? 309 00:11:48,290 --> 00:11:50,326 >> THIS IS A 3D PRINTED MODEL OF 310 00:11:50,326 --> 00:11:52,361 OUR DEEP SPACE ATOMIC CLOCK 311 00:11:52,361 --> 00:11:53,229 DEMONSTRATION UNIT OF THIS IS A 312 00:11:53,229 --> 00:11:55,197 HOW OLD, OBVIOUSLY THIS ONE IS 313 00:11:55,197 --> 00:11:56,899 NOT GOING IN TO SPACE TONIGHT 314 00:11:56,899 --> 00:11:58,100 BUT IT'S AN ACCURATE 315 00:11:58,100 --> 00:11:58,934 REPRESENTATION OF THE SIZE OF 316 00:11:58,934 --> 00:12:00,970 THE UNIT THAT WE ARE SENDING OUT 317 00:12:00,970 --> 00:12:03,372 ON THE ORBITAL TEST BED 318 00:12:03,372 --> 00:12:04,039 SPACECRAFT TONIGHT. 319 00:12:04,039 --> 00:12:06,375 >> HOW DO THESE ATOMIC CLOCKS 320 00:12:06,375 --> 00:12:09,779 HELP US AND A HALF GATE IN DEEP 321 00:12:09,779 --> 00:12:10,679 SPACE? 322 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:12,248 >> ATOMIC CLOCKS KEEP TIME JUST 323 00:12:12,248 --> 00:12:13,816 LIKE ANY CLOCK KEEPS TIME AND 324 00:12:13,816 --> 00:12:15,151 NAVIGATING A SPACECRAFT 325 00:12:15,151 --> 00:12:16,452 THROUGHOUT DEEP SPACE IS 326 00:12:16,452 --> 00:12:17,953 FUNDAMENTALLY A PROBLEM OF 327 00:12:17,953 --> 00:12:19,955 MEASURING THAT TIME. 328 00:12:19,955 --> 00:12:21,123 WE SEND A SIGNAL FROM THE EARTH 329 00:12:21,123 --> 00:12:22,191 TO THE SPACECRAFT AND BACK 330 00:12:22,191 --> 00:12:23,159 AGAIN, RIGHT NOW THAT'S THE WAY 331 00:12:23,159 --> 00:12:25,227 WE HAVE TO OPERATE BECAUSE 332 00:12:25,227 --> 00:12:26,629 MEASURING THAT SIGNAL TIME 333 00:12:26,629 --> 00:12:27,863 ACCURATELY ENOUGH CAN ONLY BE 334 00:12:27,863 --> 00:12:30,599 DONE BY THESE REFRIGERATOR-SIZED 335 00:12:30,599 --> 00:12:32,501 ATOMIC CLOCKS IN THE DEEP SPACE 336 00:12:32,501 --> 00:12:33,436 NETWORK TODAY. 337 00:12:33,436 --> 00:12:35,504 BUT THIS CLOCK MEASURES TIME AS 338 00:12:35,504 --> 00:12:36,338 ACCURATELY AND WITH THE SAME 339 00:12:36,338 --> 00:12:38,007 LEVEL OF STABILITY OF THOSE 340 00:12:38,007 --> 00:12:39,141 OTHER A* TO HIM I CAN CLOCKS IN 341 00:12:39,141 --> 00:12:40,443 THE DEEP SPACE NETWORK BUT AS 342 00:12:40,443 --> 00:12:42,178 YOU CAN SEE A MUCH SMALLER 343 00:12:42,178 --> 00:12:43,479 PACKAGE THAN SOMETHING THE SIDES 344 00:12:43,479 --> 00:12:46,015 OF YOUR RE FRANK RATER SOMETHING 345 00:12:46,015 --> 00:12:47,249 NOW WE CAN POUT A SPACECRAFT AND 346 00:12:47,249 --> 00:12:48,417 LAUNCH INCH TO SPACE. 347 00:12:48,417 --> 00:12:49,652 >> I CAN'T PUT IT ON MY WRIST 348 00:12:49,652 --> 00:12:51,253 BUT YOU CAN PUT IT ON A 349 00:12:51,253 --> 00:12:53,289 SPACECRAFT AND IT INCREASES ITS 350 00:12:53,289 --> 00:12:54,390 STABILITY FOR TIME AND 351 00:12:54,390 --> 00:12:55,224 MEASUREMENT WHERE IT'S GOING, 352 00:12:55,224 --> 00:13:01,363 HOW IT GETS THERE. 353 00:13:01,363 --> 00:13:02,465 >> WILL THIS HELP IN FUTURE 354 00:13:02,465 --> 00:13:03,966 MISSIONS GOING TO THE MOON OR 355 00:13:03,966 --> 00:13:08,103 MARS? 356 00:13:08,103 --> 00:13:08,838 >> ABSOLUTELY. 357 00:13:08,838 --> 00:13:12,842 IF LETS US MEASURE FORE FOOSHLY. 358 00:13:12,842 --> 00:13:15,377 IT GIVES US A REALLY COOL 359 00:13:15,377 --> 00:13:16,278 APPLICATION WE CAN SEEMED SIGNAL 360 00:13:16,278 --> 00:13:17,580 DIRECT FROM THE EARTH TO THE 361 00:13:17,580 --> 00:13:17,980 SPACECRAFT. 362 00:13:17,980 --> 00:13:19,315 COLLECT THAT SIGNAL ON BOARD, 363 00:13:19,315 --> 00:13:21,016 AND THEN PUT NAVIGATORS LIKE ME 364 00:13:21,016 --> 00:13:22,618 HERE ON THE EARTH, OUT OF WORK. 365 00:13:22,618 --> 00:13:24,720 BECAUSE THE SPACECRAFT CAN 366 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:25,621 NAVIGATE ITSELF. 367 00:13:25,621 --> 00:13:27,957 WE LIKE TO CALL ITSELF-DRIVING 368 00:13:27,957 --> 00:13:31,694 OR ON-BOARD AUTONOMOUS 369 00:13:31,694 --> 00:13:32,495 NAVIGATION. 370 00:13:32,495 --> 00:13:33,028 >> FANTASTIC. 371 00:13:33,028 --> 00:13:35,164 THERE ARE BENEFITS FOR US ON 372 00:13:35,164 --> 00:13:35,531 EARTH? 373 00:13:35,531 --> 00:13:36,031 >> ABSOLUTELY. 374 00:13:36,031 --> 00:13:37,266 THIS CLOCK HAS THE STABILITY 375 00:13:37,266 --> 00:13:39,668 ABOUT 50 TIMES BETTER THAN THE 376 00:13:39,668 --> 00:13:42,805 ON BOARD CLOCKS ON THE GPS 377 00:13:42,805 --> 00:13:44,507 SATELLITES TODAY. 378 00:13:44,507 --> 00:13:46,342 SO YOU USE GPS TO FIND YOUR WAY 379 00:13:46,342 --> 00:13:47,576 HERE I AM SURE, I DID THE SAME 380 00:13:47,576 --> 00:13:49,078 THING, I USE IT EVERY DAY. 381 00:13:49,078 --> 00:13:50,913 IF YOU HAVE A 50-TIME 382 00:13:50,913 --> 00:13:52,481 IMPROVEMENT IN THE STABILITY OF 383 00:13:52,481 --> 00:13:54,617 YOUR CLOCK ON YOUR GPS 384 00:13:54,617 --> 00:13:56,352 SATELLITE, YOUR GPS SIGNAL YOU 385 00:13:56,352 --> 00:13:58,888 WILL SEE A BETTER ABILITY TO 386 00:13:58,888 --> 00:14:00,189 NAVIGATE YOURSELF USING GPS 387 00:14:00,189 --> 00:14:01,056 EVERY. 388 00:14:01,056 --> 00:14:01,891 >> A FANTASTIC. 389 00:14:01,891 --> 00:14:03,559 WHICH THIS GETS UP IN TO SPACE, 390 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,127 WHAT WILL YOU BE LOOKING FOR NO 391 00:14:05,127 --> 00:14:06,662 HOW WILL COMMUNICATE TO FIND 392 00:14:06,662 --> 00:14:08,163 OUTFITS WORKING CORRECTLY? 393 00:14:08,163 --> 00:14:10,466 >> WE'LL BE DOING A YEAR LONG 394 00:14:10,466 --> 00:14:11,166 DEMONSTRATION EXPERIMENT. 395 00:14:11,166 --> 00:14:12,768 SO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT, 396 00:14:12,768 --> 00:14:14,670 WELL, IT'S THE FIRST ION-BASED 397 00:14:14,670 --> 00:14:15,404 ATOMIC CLOCK. 398 00:14:15,404 --> 00:14:17,006 THE FIRST TIME THIS TECHNOLOGY 399 00:14:17,006 --> 00:14:18,173 HAS EVER BEEN FLOWN. 400 00:14:18,173 --> 00:14:19,642 I AM JUST EXCITED TO TURN THE 401 00:14:19,642 --> 00:14:20,676 THING ON. 402 00:14:20,676 --> 00:14:22,578 AND WE'LL RUN A SUITE OF TESTS 403 00:14:22,578 --> 00:14:23,712 TO CHECK OUT THE HEALTH AND 404 00:14:23,712 --> 00:14:24,580 STATUS OF THE CLOCK. 405 00:14:24,580 --> 00:14:26,515 AND THEN WE WILL RUN AN 406 00:14:26,515 --> 00:14:29,118 EXPERIMENT WHERE WE COLLECT GPS 407 00:14:29,118 --> 00:14:30,519 DATA THAT'S TIME TAGGED WITH OUR 408 00:14:30,519 --> 00:14:32,454 CLOCK AND WE ESTIMATE THE ORBIT 409 00:14:32,454 --> 00:14:34,423 AND THE CLOCK ERROR THAT'S BEING 410 00:14:34,423 --> 00:14:35,291 INTRODUCED OVERTIME. 411 00:14:35,291 --> 00:14:36,992 AND WE LOOK AT THE STATISTICS OF 412 00:14:36,992 --> 00:14:39,762 THAT, TO SEE HOW DOES THAT CLOCK 413 00:14:39,762 --> 00:14:42,731 DRIFT OVERTIME RELATIVE TO A 414 00:14:42,731 --> 00:14:43,332 PERFECT CLOCK. 415 00:14:43,332 --> 00:14:45,167 TO GIVE YOU A TEASER IF IT 416 00:14:45,167 --> 00:14:46,468 PERFORMS WATT I IT TKOUTZ GROUND 417 00:14:46,468 --> 00:14:46,869 LABORATORY. 418 00:14:46,869 --> 00:14:49,004 IF I TURN THIS CLOCK ON TODAY 419 00:14:49,004 --> 00:14:51,507 AND LET IT RUN IT WOULD TAKE 420 00:14:51,507 --> 00:14:53,676 ABOUT 10 MILLION YEARS FOR IT TO 421 00:14:53,676 --> 00:14:56,779 DRIFT OFF BY ONE SECOND. 422 00:14:56,779 --> 00:14:57,713 >> INCREDIBLABLE IS A EVERYBODY 423 00:14:57,713 --> 00:14:59,481 THE SWISS WOULD BE JEALOUS OF. 424 00:14:59,481 --> 00:15:01,317 WHEN IT GETS OUT THERE WILL THAT 425 00:15:01,317 --> 00:15:04,553 GIVE BETTER AND A NAVIGATIONS FR 426 00:15:04,553 --> 00:15:05,888 FUTURE ASTRONAUTS? 427 00:15:05,888 --> 00:15:06,388 >> ABSOLUTELY. 428 00:15:06,388 --> 00:15:07,890 IN ADDITION TO BEING ABLE DO THE 429 00:15:07,890 --> 00:15:08,824 SELF DRIVING SPACECRAFT THING 430 00:15:08,824 --> 00:15:10,059 WHICH IS A CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY 431 00:15:10,059 --> 00:15:11,927 FOR SENDING HUMANS TO PLACES 432 00:15:11,927 --> 00:15:13,629 LIKE MARS, IN THAT SCENARIO, NOW 433 00:15:13,629 --> 00:15:15,364 THEY CAN NAVIGATE THEIR OWN SHIP 434 00:15:15,364 --> 00:15:16,165 IN REAL TIME. 435 00:15:16,165 --> 00:15:17,032 NOT WAITING FOR DIRECTIONS TO 436 00:15:17,032 --> 00:15:18,000 COME FROM THE EARTH. 437 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,368 FROM SOMEONE LIKE ME. 438 00:15:19,368 --> 00:15:21,203 SO THEY CAN DOLL A REAL TIME 439 00:15:21,203 --> 00:15:22,805 COURSE CORRECTIONS THAT HELPS 440 00:15:22,805 --> 00:15:25,574 THEM LAND MORE SAFELY WITH 441 00:15:25,574 --> 00:15:26,675 LESSON CERTAINTY IN THEIR PATH. 442 00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:28,277 ONCE THEY ARE ON THE SURFACE OF 443 00:15:28,277 --> 00:15:29,445 THE MAN OR MARS, WHENEVER THEY 444 00:15:29,445 --> 00:15:31,280 ARE GOING, MAYBE SOMEWHERE 445 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:32,214 EVERYBODY FURTHER AWAY, YOU CAN 446 00:15:32,214 --> 00:15:33,749 USE THIS CLOCK TECHNOLOGY TO 447 00:15:33,749 --> 00:15:36,385 BUILD A GPS LIKE NAVIGATION 448 00:15:36,385 --> 00:15:37,620 SYSTEM AT THOSE DESTINATIONS. 449 00:15:37,620 --> 00:15:40,789 THEYSO JUST IMAGINE HAVING GPS N 450 00:15:40,789 --> 00:15:41,790 MARS, PRETTY COOL. 451 00:15:41,790 --> 00:15:42,291 >> FANTASTIC. 452 00:15:42,291 --> 00:15:43,225 I WOULDN'T WANT TO GET LOST ON 453 00:15:43,225 --> 00:15:43,892 THE PLANET. 454 00:15:43,892 --> 00:15:44,827 >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. 455 00:15:44,827 --> 00:15:45,527 STAKES ARE HIGH. 456 00:15:45,527 --> 00:15:46,562 >> JUST A FEW MINUTES BEFORE 457 00:15:46,562 --> 00:15:47,529 LAUNCH, ARE YOU EXCITED? 458 00:15:47,529 --> 00:15:49,164 >> I AM SEWS EXCITED, YES. 459 00:15:49,164 --> 00:15:51,500 WAIT AID LONG TIME FOR THAT. 460 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:52,635 >> JILL, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING 461 00:15:52,635 --> 00:15:53,602 THE CLOCK, THE MODEL. 462 00:15:53,602 --> 00:15:54,803 AND FOR EXPLAINING IT TO US. 463 00:15:54,803 --> 00:15:56,805 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DARRYL. 464 00:15:56,805 --> 00:15:58,407 >> ALL RIGHT, GREAT HAVING YOU. 465 00:15:58,407 --> 00:16:02,378 NOW BACK OUT TO THE PAD AND GET 466 00:16:02,378 --> 00:16:04,113 ANOTHER CHECK ON THE SPACEX 467 00:16:04,113 --> 00:16:04,980 FALCON HEAVY ROCKET. 468 00:16:04,980 --> 00:16:11,553 AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE SHOT. 469 00:16:11,553 --> 00:16:14,556 TWO BOOST ORES EITHER SIDE OF 470 00:16:14,556 --> 00:16:15,991 THE PARTICULAR FALLON HEAVY IT'S 471 00:16:15,991 --> 00:16:17,092 THE FIRST TIME IT GOES UP IN TO 472 00:16:17,092 --> 00:16:22,364 SPACE AT NIGHT. 473 00:16:22,364 --> 00:16:23,532 WE SHOULD GET QUITE A SHOW. 474 00:16:23,532 --> 00:16:25,467 WE UNDERSTAND THE RP1 LOAD UP IS 475 00:16:25,467 --> 00:16:26,468 COMPLETE AND CLOSED OUT. 476 00:16:26,468 --> 00:16:28,303 AND SO THINGS ARE LOOKING GOOD 477 00:16:28,303 --> 00:16:33,342 FOR THIS COUNT AS WE CONTINUE 478 00:16:33,342 --> 00:16:34,243 ON. 479 00:16:34,243 --> 00:16:36,812 NOW WENT TO MOVE TO THE LAST TWO 480 00:16:36,812 --> 00:16:38,480 EXPERIMENTS AND TECHNOLOGY 481 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:39,381 DEMONSTRATIONS WE ARE EXPLAINING 482 00:16:39,381 --> 00:16:39,682 TODAY. 483 00:16:39,682 --> 00:16:42,317 THIS IS THE ONE THAT NICKY FOX 484 00:16:42,317 --> 00:16:43,485 IS JOINING US HERE FOR. 485 00:16:43,485 --> 00:16:44,620 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING 486 00:16:44,620 --> 00:16:44,920 HERE. 487 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:48,157 YOU ARE THE DIRECTOR OF NASA'S 488 00:16:48,157 --> 00:16:48,791 HELIOPHYSICS DIVISION. 489 00:16:48,791 --> 00:16:49,491 >> I AM, YES. 490 00:16:49,491 --> 00:16:50,392 >> AND YOU ALWAYS COME DRESS 491 00:16:50,392 --> 00:16:52,928 TODAY THE OCCASION. 492 00:16:52,928 --> 00:16:54,296 >> SPACE FOXES TODAY. 493 00:16:54,296 --> 00:16:55,631 >> SPACE FOXES . 494 00:16:55,631 --> 00:16:56,265 >> AFTER THE NAME. 495 00:16:56,265 --> 00:16:57,266 >> ARE YOU EXCITED FOR THE LAWN 496 00:16:57,266 --> 00:16:57,566 INCH. 497 00:16:57,566 --> 00:16:58,600 >> NOT AT ALL? 498 00:16:58,600 --> 00:16:59,334 >> NOT AT ALL? 499 00:16:59,334 --> 00:17:00,135 >> OF COURSE I CAN'T WAIT. 500 00:17:00,135 --> 00:17:01,403 I HAVE BEEN LIKE THIS ALL DAY. 501 00:17:01,403 --> 00:17:03,906 THE ROCK SET RIGHT BEHIND ME. 502 00:17:03,906 --> 00:17:05,541 WE ARE 13 MINUTES AWAY, JUST AN 503 00:17:05,541 --> 00:17:06,775 AMAZING TIME. 504 00:17:06,775 --> 00:17:08,977 >> WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT BETTER 505 00:17:08,977 --> 00:17:09,478 PROPELLANT. 506 00:17:09,478 --> 00:17:12,381 BETTER NAVIGATION, BUT YOUR 507 00:17:12,381 --> 00:17:13,982 EXPERIMENTS I'M TO GIVE US 508 00:17:13,982 --> 00:17:15,250 BETTER PRODUCTION FOR 509 00:17:15,250 --> 00:17:15,684 SPACECRAFT. 510 00:17:15,684 --> 00:17:16,919 EXPLAIN HOW YOU PLAN DO THAT? 511 00:17:16,919 --> 00:17:17,519 >> THAT'S RIGHT. 512 00:17:17,519 --> 00:17:19,955 WE HAVE TWO EXPERIMENTS THAT ARE 513 00:17:19,955 --> 00:17:20,889 FLYING UP TODAY. 514 00:17:20,889 --> 00:17:23,759 BUT ONE OF THEM IS A LITTLE 515 00:17:23,759 --> 00:17:25,394 TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION, IT IS 516 00:17:25,394 --> 00:17:28,130 FOUR SMALL PAYLOADS AND IT IS -- 517 00:17:28,130 --> 00:17:28,931 BASICALLY THEY ARE LOOKING AT 518 00:17:28,931 --> 00:17:31,633 THE EFFECT OF RADIATION ON 519 00:17:31,633 --> 00:17:33,168 TECHNOLOGY THAT WE FLY EVERY DAY 520 00:17:33,168 --> 00:17:34,303 ON SPACECRAFT. 521 00:17:34,303 --> 00:17:37,172 AND SEWER TAKING THEM TO THE 522 00:17:37,172 --> 00:17:38,240 MOST DANGEROUS AREA WE CAN GET 523 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:39,541 TO EASILY AND OF COURSE THAT'S 524 00:17:39,541 --> 00:17:42,144 OUR VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELTS, 525 00:17:42,144 --> 00:17:43,779 LOOKING AT ALL THE -- THAT'S OF 526 00:17:43,779 --> 00:17:44,747 COURSE WHERE SPACECRAFT GET 527 00:17:44,747 --> 00:17:46,014 DAMAGE AND THE THIS POOR LITTLE 528 00:17:46,014 --> 00:17:48,851 ONE IS GETTING CRIPPLED BY ALL 529 00:17:48,851 --> 00:17:50,119 THE RADIATION HITTING IT. 530 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:51,220 THAT RADIATION OF COURSE IS SOME 531 00:17:51,220 --> 00:17:53,255 IS COMING FROM THE SUN SOME 532 00:17:53,255 --> 00:17:55,057 COMING FROM OUTSIDE OUR SOLAR 533 00:17:55,057 --> 00:17:56,992 SYSTEM EACH OF THESE LITTLE 534 00:17:56,992 --> 00:17:58,060 TECHNOLOGY PAYLOADS IS LOOKING 535 00:17:58,060 --> 00:17:59,828 AT DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THAT SO 536 00:17:59,828 --> 00:18:03,065 WE CAN BETTER PLAN FOLLOW 537 00:18:03,065 --> 00:18:05,033 SPACECRAFT, BETTER PLAN FOR 538 00:18:05,033 --> 00:18:06,869 MISSIONS THAT WILL TAKE 539 00:18:06,869 --> 00:18:08,637 ASTRONAUTS TO THE MOON TO MARS 540 00:18:08,637 --> 00:18:09,438 AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND TO MAKE 541 00:18:09,438 --> 00:18:11,006 SURE THAT WE CAN MITIGATE ANY 542 00:18:11,006 --> 00:18:11,807 PROBLEMS THAT THEY WOULD SEE 543 00:18:11,807 --> 00:18:12,741 WITH THAT HARDWARE. 544 00:18:12,741 --> 00:18:14,343 >> AND SO THIS TECHNOLOGY, HOW 545 00:18:14,343 --> 00:18:16,211 DOES IT ABSORB WHAT'S HAPPENING 546 00:18:16,211 --> 00:18:16,745 OUT THERE? 547 00:18:16,745 --> 00:18:18,080 THIS ASSAULT ON SPACECRAFT FROM 548 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,181 THE SUN? 549 00:18:19,181 --> 00:18:20,482 >> WE ARE VERY LUCKY WE ARE RIDE 550 00:18:20,482 --> 00:18:24,787 AGO LONG WITH THE AIR FORCE DFX 551 00:18:24,787 --> 00:18:25,854 DEMONSTRATION SPACE EXPERIMENT. 552 00:18:25,854 --> 00:18:28,524 OF COURSE NASA HAS THE TWO VALUE 553 00:18:28,524 --> 00:18:30,559 ALLEN PROBES WORKING IN THE 554 00:18:30,559 --> 00:18:31,894 RADIATION BELTS ABOUT 6 1/2 555 00:18:31,894 --> 00:18:32,961 YEARS AND THEY CAN TELL US WHAT 556 00:18:32,961 --> 00:18:33,796 THE ENVIRONMENT IS LIKE. 557 00:18:33,796 --> 00:18:35,531 AND THEN THESE LITTLE TEST BEDS 558 00:18:35,531 --> 00:18:36,498 ARE GOING TO TELL US WHAT THE 559 00:18:36,498 --> 00:18:37,933 ENVIRONMENT IS DOING TO OUR 560 00:18:37,933 --> 00:18:39,334 ELECTRICS, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL 561 00:18:39,334 --> 00:18:40,035 PARTNERSHIP. 562 00:18:40,035 --> 00:18:41,236 >> AMAZING. 563 00:18:41,236 --> 00:18:42,437 THE FOURTH PAYLOAD IS THE 564 00:18:42,437 --> 00:18:44,873 ENHANCED TANDEM BEACON 565 00:18:44,873 --> 00:18:45,674 EXPERIMENT, WHAT IS THAT AND HOW 566 00:18:45,674 --> 00:18:46,575 DOES IT WORK? 567 00:18:46,575 --> 00:18:48,443 >> THEY ARE TWO CUBESATS AND 568 00:18:48,443 --> 00:18:50,179 THEY ARE SENDING BEACON TONES. 569 00:18:50,179 --> 00:18:51,847 THEY ARE BASICALLY SENDING 570 00:18:51,847 --> 00:18:53,782 SIGNALS OUT FROM SPACE DOWN TO 571 00:18:53,782 --> 00:18:55,784 GROUND STATIONS HERE ON EARTH. 572 00:18:55,784 --> 00:18:58,687 AND SO THERE IS A -- THIS LAYER, 573 00:18:58,687 --> 00:18:59,521 TWINKLING LAYER THAT YOU SEE 574 00:18:59,521 --> 00:19:02,124 THERE AND YOU HAVE THE 575 00:19:02,124 --> 00:19:02,958 TERRESTRIAL WEATHER FORCING UP 576 00:19:02,958 --> 00:19:04,459 FROM BELOW, MEETING SPACE 577 00:19:04,459 --> 00:19:06,395 WEATHER COMING DOWN FROM ABOVE. 578 00:19:06,395 --> 00:19:07,563 AND THAT ATMOSPHERE SOMETIMES 579 00:19:07,563 --> 00:19:10,399 GETS VERY DISTURBED AND IT GETS 580 00:19:10,399 --> 00:19:11,600 LIKE IRREGULARITIES IN IT. 581 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,635 WE CALL THOSE BUBBLES. 582 00:19:13,635 --> 00:19:15,537 AND THEY CAN ACTUALLY CORRUPT 583 00:19:15,537 --> 00:19:16,738 THOSE SIGNALS, AND CHANGE THEM. 584 00:19:16,738 --> 00:19:18,373 AND SO WE ARE SENDING THESE 585 00:19:18,373 --> 00:19:20,676 LITTLE BEACON TONES AND IT WILL 586 00:19:20,676 --> 00:19:23,212 TELL US A LOT ABOUT HOW THAT 587 00:19:23,212 --> 00:19:24,146 ATMOSPHERE IS INTERFERING WITH 588 00:19:24,146 --> 00:19:26,148 THE SIGNALS THAT HAVE PROFOUND 589 00:19:26,148 --> 00:19:27,950 EFFECTS FOR US ON OUR ABILITY TO 590 00:19:27,950 --> 00:19:28,750 DO COMMUNICATIONS AND 591 00:19:28,750 --> 00:19:29,985 NAVIGATION, JUST LIKE JILL SAID, 592 00:19:29,985 --> 00:19:31,420 NOBODY GOES ANYWHERE WITHOUT 593 00:19:31,420 --> 00:19:32,120 THEIR GPS. 594 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:34,022 I CAN'T GO ANYWHERE WITHOUT MY 595 00:19:34,022 --> 00:19:34,323 PHONE. 596 00:19:34,323 --> 00:19:36,658 AND SO I TO IT'S REALLY CRITICAL 597 00:19:36,658 --> 00:19:38,660 FOR ME THAT THAT GPS IS REALLY 598 00:19:38,660 --> 00:19:39,027 ACCURATE. 599 00:19:39,027 --> 00:19:40,229 SO I DON'T GET TOTALLY LOST. 600 00:19:40,229 --> 00:19:41,897 I WOULD BE LOST WITHOUT MY 601 00:19:41,897 --> 00:19:42,197 PHONE. 602 00:19:42,197 --> 00:19:44,399 LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY. 603 00:19:44,399 --> 00:19:45,767 >> AND THESE BEACONS ARE THEY 604 00:19:45,767 --> 00:19:47,236 GOING TO BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT 605 00:19:47,236 --> 00:19:49,338 WHERE THAT BUBBLE IS FORMED AND 606 00:19:49,338 --> 00:19:50,405 THEN START SENDING SIGNALS 607 00:19:50,405 --> 00:19:51,340 THROUGH IT? 608 00:19:51,340 --> 00:19:52,975 >> WE WILL SEND THE SIGNALS 609 00:19:52,975 --> 00:19:53,308 THROUGH. 610 00:19:53,308 --> 00:19:57,379 WE HAVE ANOTHER MISSION, GOLD 611 00:19:57,379 --> 00:19:59,147 THAT IS TAKING IMAGES OF THE 612 00:19:59,147 --> 00:20:00,649 BUBBLES AND WE CAN SEE HOW THOSE 613 00:20:00,649 --> 00:20:02,384 TONES, THOSE BEACON TONES ARE 614 00:20:02,384 --> 00:20:04,086 CHANGED BY THOSE IRREGULARITIES 615 00:20:04,086 --> 00:20:05,087 AND NBA THAT AREA. 616 00:20:05,087 --> 00:20:08,023 ALSO A PARTNERSHIP WITH COSMIC 617 00:20:08,023 --> 00:20:11,059 TWO, A SPACECRAFT THEIR LAUNCH 618 00:20:11,059 --> 00:20:13,028 BEING NOA IS LAUNCHING THOSE 619 00:20:13,028 --> 00:20:14,096 THIS EVERYBODY THEY ARE EVERY 620 00:20:14,096 --> 00:20:16,398 NOW AND THEN REYNOLDSING US SIX 621 00:20:16,398 --> 00:20:17,799 BEACON TONES TO GO WITH OUR TWO 622 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:19,968 TO GIVE US A FULL UP ROBUST 623 00:20:19,968 --> 00:20:20,669 EXPERIMENT. 624 00:20:20,669 --> 00:20:21,169 >> EXCELLENT. 625 00:20:21,169 --> 00:20:22,504 AND I HEAR THAT YOU HAVE HELP 626 00:20:22,504 --> 00:20:23,672 FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 627 00:20:23,672 --> 00:20:24,039 STUDENTS. 628 00:20:24,039 --> 00:20:25,908 >> I HAVE STUDENT. 629 00:20:25,908 --> 00:20:27,509 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN YES, THEY 630 00:20:27,509 --> 00:20:30,112 HELPED BUILD THE CUBESATS. 631 00:20:30,112 --> 00:20:32,014 NASA'S CUBESAT PROGRAM IS AN 632 00:20:32,014 --> 00:20:33,081 AMAZING EXPERIENCE FOR EARLY 633 00:20:33,081 --> 00:20:35,150 CAREER STUDENTS AND NEW POST 634 00:20:35,150 --> 00:20:37,119 DOCKS THAT CAN GET TO BUILD 635 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:41,023 TECHNOLOGY AND PUT IT IN TO 636 00:20:41,023 --> 00:20:42,024 SPACE SOME OF THE STUDENTS ARE 637 00:20:42,024 --> 00:20:43,959 STAYING ON DOING THE MISSION OPS 638 00:20:43,959 --> 00:20:46,361 AND TRACK THE SPACECRAFT AND 639 00:20:46,361 --> 00:20:48,597 BRING DOWN THE DATA AND WE 640 00:20:48,597 --> 00:20:49,898 INVITE THEM TO LOOK AT THE DATA 641 00:20:49,898 --> 00:20:51,633 ALSO. 642 00:20:51,633 --> 00:20:52,834 >> WHAT AN INCREDIBLE 643 00:20:52,834 --> 00:20:53,735 OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE STUDENT. 644 00:20:53,735 --> 00:20:55,270 >> IT IS FOR THEM AND A GREAT 645 00:20:55,270 --> 00:20:56,772 TIME TO BE A HELIO PHYSICIST. 646 00:20:56,772 --> 00:20:57,773 >> THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, WE 647 00:20:57,773 --> 00:20:58,840 APPRECIATE THE SHIRT AS WELL. 648 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,510 >> THANK YOU. 649 00:21:01,510 --> 00:21:02,711 >> ENJOY THE LAUNCH THIS 650 00:21:02,711 --> 00:21:03,045 EVENING. 651 00:21:03,045 --> 00:21:03,812 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 652 00:21:03,812 --> 00:21:04,913 >> TIME TO TURN OUR FOCUS BACK 653 00:21:04,913 --> 00:21:06,281 TO THE COUNTDOWN, EVERYTHING 654 00:21:06,281 --> 00:21:09,952 LOOKING GOOD, T-MINUS NINE 655 00:21:09,952 --> 00:21:11,687 MINUTES AND 25 SECONDS AND 656 00:21:11,687 --> 00:21:12,054 COUNTING. 657 00:21:12,054 --> 00:21:13,922 WE ARE GOING TO STEP ASIDE THAT 658 00:21:13,922 --> 00:21:15,824 FROM NASA AND LET SPACEX TAKE 659 00:21:15,824 --> 00:21:17,426 YOU THROUGH THE REST OF THE 660 00:21:17,426 --> 00:21:18,460 COUNTDOWN, JESSE AND ALEX ARE 661 00:21:18,460 --> 00:21:20,696 LIVE IN HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA 662 00:21:20,696 --> 00:21:22,197 WHERE THEIR COUNT DOWN COVERAGE 663 00:21:22,197 --> 00:21:25,300 IS ALREADY UNDERWAY. 664 00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:25,767 >> SMC2.0. 665 00:21:25,767 --> 00:21:26,702 THAT MEANS SPEED TO QUICKLY 666 00:21:26,702 --> 00:21:28,136 IMPLEMENT THE BEST SOLUTIONS TO 667 00:21:28,136 --> 00:21:30,572 NEW PROBLEMS. 668 00:21:30,572 --> 00:21:32,074 PARTNERSHIPS, TO FORGE THE 669 00:21:32,074 --> 00:21:33,709 RELATIONSHIPS NECESSARY FOR THE 670 00:21:33,709 --> 00:21:34,676 MUTUAL BENEFIT OF THE U.S. AND 671 00:21:34,676 --> 00:21:37,212 OUR INTERNATIONAL ALLIES. 672 00:21:37,212 --> 00:21:39,114 INNOVATION, TO CAPITALIZE ON THE 673 00:21:39,114 --> 00:21:40,782 MOST ADVANCED CUTTING EDGE 674 00:21:40,782 --> 00:21:42,384 TECHNOLOGY IN THE WORLD. 675 00:21:42,384 --> 00:21:42,718 CULTURE. 676 00:21:42,718 --> 00:21:44,987 TO INSPIRE THE NECESSARY RISK 677 00:21:44,987 --> 00:21:46,288 TAKING THAT WILL PROPEL US IN TO 678 00:21:46,288 --> 00:21:48,357 THE FUTURE. 679 00:21:48,357 --> 00:21:50,225 AND ENTERPRISE, TO SHARE OUR 680 00:21:50,225 --> 00:21:51,760 VISION OF ACCELERATED AND 681 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,795 AFFORDABLE SPACE SYSTEMS FOR THE 682 00:21:53,795 --> 00:21:54,963 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. 683 00:21:54,963 --> 00:21:57,199 INITIALLY FOUNDED IN 1954, TO 684 00:21:57,199 --> 00:21:59,101 DEVELOP THE FIRST 685 00:21:59,101 --> 00:21:59,901 INTERCONTINENTAL PLASTIC 686 00:21:59,901 --> 00:22:02,371 MISSILE, SMC HAS PRODUCED 687 00:22:02,371 --> 00:22:04,973 UNPRECEDENTED AND UNPARALLELED 688 00:22:04,973 --> 00:22:05,774 NATIONAL SPACE DEFENSE 689 00:22:05,774 --> 00:22:06,875 TECHNOLOGY FOR OVER 60 YEARS, 690 00:22:06,875 --> 00:22:08,010 DURING THIS TIME, WE HAVE BEEN 691 00:22:08,010 --> 00:22:11,213 CALLED UPON TO SUPPORT MANNED 692 00:22:11,213 --> 00:22:12,614 SPACE, ANTI-SAT SLIGHT, AND 693 00:22:12,614 --> 00:22:14,416 MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS, WHILE 694 00:22:14,416 --> 00:22:15,584 CONTINUOUSLY INCREASING OUR 695 00:22:15,584 --> 00:22:16,184 SPACE CAPABILITY. 696 00:22:16,184 --> 00:22:18,186 THAT'S WHERE WE CAME FROM. 697 00:22:18,186 --> 00:22:19,688 BUT A MORE IMPORTANT QUESTION 698 00:22:19,688 --> 00:22:21,823 IS, WHERE ARE WE GOING? 699 00:22:21,823 --> 00:22:24,126 HUMANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN 700 00:22:24,126 --> 00:22:25,127 EXPLORERS, WE VENTURE AND THE 701 00:22:25,127 --> 00:22:26,495 DISCOVERED THAT WHICH IS 702 00:22:26,495 --> 00:22:26,862 UNKNOWN. 703 00:22:26,862 --> 00:22:28,463 AT SMC, WE PUSH THE BOUNDARIES 704 00:22:28,463 --> 00:22:29,965 OF THE KNOWN AND FIGHT EVERY 705 00:22:29,965 --> 00:22:31,800 SINGLE DAY TO ENHANCE OUR 706 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,335 TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES. 707 00:22:33,335 --> 00:22:34,603 LAUNCHING PAST THE LIMITS OF THE 708 00:22:34,603 --> 00:22:34,870 SKY. 709 00:22:34,870 --> 00:22:37,172 WE ARE THE PATH FINDERS TO THE 710 00:22:37,172 --> 00:22:38,974 HIGH FRONTIER AND WE ARE 711 00:22:38,974 --> 00:22:43,912 BUILDING THE FUTURE OF SPACE. 712 00:22:43,912 --> 00:22:44,246 THINK. 713 00:22:44,246 --> 00:22:46,214 >> THE SPACEX TEAM CONTINUES TO 714 00:22:46,214 --> 00:22:48,150 COUNTDOWN FOR LAUNCH FOR THE 715 00:22:48,150 --> 00:22:50,252 NIGHTTIME LAUNCH OF FALCON 716 00:22:50,252 --> 00:22:50,752 HEAVY. 717 00:22:50,752 --> 00:22:52,087 I REMEMBER WATCHING THE NIGHT 718 00:22:52,087 --> 00:22:53,989 LAUNCH OF SATURN FIVE ON AT POLL 719 00:22:53,989 --> 00:22:54,523 SO -- 720 00:22:54,523 --> 00:22:56,925 17 MISSION IN DECEMBER 1972. 721 00:22:56,925 --> 00:22:59,161 AND IT TURNED NIGHT IN TO DAY. 722 00:22:59,161 --> 00:23:00,862 WE ARE EXPECTING THE SAME 723 00:23:00,862 --> 00:23:04,466 TONIGHT FROM 27 MERLIN ENGINES. 724 00:23:04,466 --> 00:23:08,970 WE ARE CURRENT A LET T-MINUS 725 00:23:08,970 --> 00:23:10,739 SEVEN MINUTES AND 28 SECONDS AND 726 00:23:10,739 --> 00:23:11,106 COUNTING. 727 00:23:11,106 --> 00:23:12,040 WE ARE ABOUT TO WRAP YOU WOULD 728 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,443 FUEL LOAD ON THIS THREES FIRST 729 00:23:14,443 --> 00:23:15,677 STAGE BOOSTERS OVER THE NEXT 730 00:23:15,677 --> 00:23:16,711 MINUTE. 731 00:23:16,711 --> 00:23:17,546 LIQUID OBJECTION JOAN LOADING 732 00:23:17,546 --> 00:23:18,146 IS CONTINUING. 733 00:23:18,146 --> 00:23:19,815 THAT WILL WRAP UP BETWEEN THREE 734 00:23:19,815 --> 00:23:21,116 AND TWO MINUTES BEFORE LIFT OFF 735 00:23:21,116 --> 00:23:25,754 ON ALL THE STAGES. 736 00:23:25,754 --> 00:23:27,589 THE LAST SATELLITE WE WANT ON 737 00:23:27,589 --> 00:23:30,992 INTERNAL POWER A MOMENT AGO. 738 00:23:30,992 --> 00:23:33,228 NOW A MAJOR ACTIVITY COMING UP 739 00:23:33,228 --> 00:23:37,999 HERE IN ANOTHER 2 1/2 MINUTES IS 740 00:23:37,999 --> 00:23:41,570 RETRACT OF THE STRONG BACK, THE 741 00:23:41,570 --> 00:23:42,804 CLAMPS WILL OPEN IMMATERIAL. 742 00:23:42,804 --> 00:23:44,106 AND DECLINE TWO DEGREES IN 743 00:23:44,106 --> 00:23:44,806 PREPARATION FOR LAUNCH. 744 00:23:44,806 --> 00:23:48,009 WE ARE ALSO JUST INSIDE T-MINUS 745 00:23:48,009 --> 00:23:50,445 SEVEN MINUTES, WE HAVE BEEN 746 00:23:50,445 --> 00:23:52,781 CHILLING IN THE MERLIN 1B 747 00:23:52,781 --> 00:23:53,148 ENGINES. 748 00:23:53,148 --> 00:23:54,049 A LOT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FIRST 749 00:23:54,049 --> 00:23:56,318 FOUR MINUTES OF FLIGHT OF THE 750 00:23:56,318 --> 00:23:57,119 FALCON HEAVY. 751 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,321 WE'LL FIRST LIGHT THE TWO SIDE 752 00:23:59,321 --> 00:24:01,289 BOOSTERS AND THEN THE CENTER 753 00:24:01,289 --> 00:24:01,690 CAR. 754 00:24:01,690 --> 00:24:03,692 THE FLIGHT COMPUTE ORE FALCON 755 00:24:03,692 --> 00:24:04,626 HEAVY WILL CHECK THE POWER ON 756 00:24:04,626 --> 00:24:07,496 ALL THE ENGINES, THEN COMMAND OR 757 00:24:07,496 --> 00:24:08,730 RELEASE FROM THE GROUND HOLD 758 00:24:08,730 --> 00:24:09,831 DOWNS AT 20. 759 00:24:09,831 --> 00:24:13,168 WE LIFT OFF AT MINUS T-MINUS 760 00:24:13,168 --> 00:24:13,468 ZERO. 761 00:24:13,468 --> 00:24:14,469 RIGHT AFTER WE LIFT OFF WE ARE 762 00:24:14,469 --> 00:24:17,606 AT FULL POWER OF OVER 763 00:24:17,606 --> 00:24:18,740 5.1 MILLION-POUNDS OF THRUST. 764 00:24:18,740 --> 00:24:20,442 40 SECONDS IN TO FLIGHT, WE 765 00:24:20,442 --> 00:24:22,644 DECREASE POWER ON THE TWO SIDE 766 00:24:22,644 --> 00:24:24,746 BOOSTERS IN PREPARATION FOR 767 00:24:24,746 --> 00:24:26,414 MAXIMUM AERODYNAMIC LOADS ON THE 768 00:24:26,414 --> 00:24:26,781 VEHICLE. 769 00:24:26,781 --> 00:24:28,416 ONCE WE GET THROUGH THIS PERIOD, 770 00:24:28,416 --> 00:24:30,218 FALCON HEAVY WILL THROTTLE BACK 771 00:24:30,218 --> 00:24:32,454 UP TO THE POWER ON THE TWO SIDE 772 00:24:32,454 --> 00:24:32,821 BOOSTERS. 773 00:24:32,821 --> 00:24:34,089 WE NOW ARE TWO MINUTES IN TO 774 00:24:34,089 --> 00:24:35,891 FLIGHT AND WE ARE AGAIN REDUCING 775 00:24:35,891 --> 00:24:37,893 THRUST ON THE TWO SIDE BOOSTERS. 776 00:24:37,893 --> 00:24:39,694 THIS TIME IT'S TO DECREASE 777 00:24:39,694 --> 00:24:41,730 FORCES ON THE ROCKET STRUCTURE. 778 00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:43,031 ESPECIALLY THAT STRUCTURE THAT 779 00:24:43,031 --> 00:24:44,599 HOLDS THE SIDE BOOSTERS TO THE 780 00:24:44,599 --> 00:24:46,134 CENTER CORE. 781 00:24:46,134 --> 00:24:47,869 IT THE ACCELERATION IS BUILDING 782 00:24:47,869 --> 00:24:49,838 EVERY SECOND AS WE BURN 783 00:24:49,838 --> 00:24:51,206 PROPELLANT AND LIGHTENING THE 784 00:24:51,206 --> 00:24:51,540 ROCKET. 785 00:24:51,540 --> 00:24:53,408 SO WE NEED TO THROTTLE DOWN THE 786 00:24:53,408 --> 00:24:55,043 SIDE BOOSTERS BY PHYSICALLY 787 00:24:55,043 --> 00:24:56,878 TURNING OFF ENGINES TO KEEP THE 788 00:24:56,878 --> 00:24:59,381 LOADS BELOW THE MAXIMUM 789 00:24:59,381 --> 00:24:59,981 ALLOWABLE. 790 00:24:59,981 --> 00:25:01,416 2 1/2 MINUTES IN TO FLIGHT, WE 791 00:25:01,416 --> 00:25:04,920 FULLY TURN OFF THE SIDE 792 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:05,320 BOOSTERS. 793 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,988 CALLED BOOST HE HAVE ENGINE CUT 794 00:25:06,988 --> 00:25:07,689 OFF. 795 00:25:07,689 --> 00:25:10,091 THEN WE'LL USE HIGH PRESSURE GAS 796 00:25:10,091 --> 00:25:10,959 SEPARATION SYSTEM MOUNT ODD THE 797 00:25:10,959 --> 00:25:12,227 TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE CENTER CAR 798 00:25:12,227 --> 00:25:13,995 THAT, WILL UNLOCK THE TWO SIDE 799 00:25:13,995 --> 00:25:16,464 BOOSTERS AND PUSH THEM AWAY. 800 00:25:16,464 --> 00:25:17,666 NOW ONCE WE ARE CLEAR OF THE 801 00:25:17,666 --> 00:25:20,468 SIDE BOOSTERS, THE CENTER CAR 802 00:25:20,468 --> 00:25:22,003 WILL THROTTLE UP TO FULL POWER 803 00:25:22,003 --> 00:25:24,206 AND BURN ANOTHER MINUTE. 804 00:25:24,206 --> 00:25:25,707 FINALLY, JUST PAST 3 1/2 MINUTES 805 00:25:25,707 --> 00:25:28,877 AFTER LIFT OFF, THE CENTER CORE 806 00:25:28,877 --> 00:25:32,681 SETS DOWN MAIN ENGINE CUT OFF 1K 807 00:25:32,681 --> 00:25:37,819 THE SECOND STAGE SEPARATES. 808 00:25:37,819 --> 00:25:40,522 FROM THIS POINT ON IT'S LIKE A 809 00:25:40,522 --> 00:25:41,823 FALCON NINE OTHER THAT WE HAVE 810 00:25:41,823 --> 00:25:43,758 THREE ROCKETS RETURNING TO EARTH 811 00:25:43,758 --> 00:25:45,694 AT BOTH CAPE CANAVERAL AND THE 812 00:25:45,694 --> 00:25:48,897 GROUND SHIP. 813 00:25:48,897 --> 00:25:50,198 MEANWHILE THE FAIRING SEPARATES 814 00:25:50,198 --> 00:25:52,400 AND THE SECOND STAGE EVENING 815 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,402 UNUNDER GOERS A SERIES OF FOUR 816 00:25:54,402 --> 00:25:56,171 BURNS LIVERING ALL 24 SATELLITES 817 00:25:56,171 --> 00:26:00,542 TO THE INTENDED ORBIT. 818 00:26:00,542 --> 00:26:03,211 AS A DEMANDING SEQUENCE OF EVENT 819 00:26:03,211 --> 00:26:07,549 FOR THE FALCON HEAVY TO. 820 00:26:07,549 --> 00:26:08,450 EVERYTHING LOOKS GOOD. 821 00:26:08,450 --> 00:26:10,518 SO LET'S WATCH AND LISTEN TO THE 822 00:26:10,518 --> 00:27:01,736 FINAL COUNT DOWN. 823 00:27:01,736 --> 00:27:04,239 >> STARTING TO RETRACT. 824 00:27:04,239 --> 00:27:09,511 NEGATIVE FLY LOCK LOAD IS CLOSED 825 00:27:09,511 --> 00:27:21,356 OUT. 826 00:27:21,356 --> 00:27:23,458 >> AND POSITIVE Y LOCK LOAD IS 827 00:27:23,458 --> 00:27:35,637 CLOSED OUT. 828 00:27:35,637 --> 00:27:45,747 STRONG BACKDOOR IS CLOSED OUT. 829 00:27:45,747 --> 00:27:47,816 AND STAGE ONE LOCK LOAD IS 830 00:27:47,816 --> 00:28:18,546 CLOSED OUT. 831 00:28:18,546 --> 00:28:23,852 AND VEHICLE IS ON INTERNAL 832 00:28:23,852 --> 00:28:37,565 POWER. 833 00:28:37,565 --> 00:28:39,067 AND STAGE TWO LOCKS LOAD IS 834 00:28:39,067 --> 00:29:38,660 CLOSED OUT. 835 00:29:38,660 --> 00:29:39,160 >> COMPLETE. 836 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,030 >> THE VEHICLE IS IN START UP. 837 00:29:42,030 --> 00:29:49,971 [ CHEERING AND APPLAUSE ] 838 00:29:49,971 --> 00:29:51,473 >> THIS IS THE MISSION DIRECTOR, 839 00:29:51,473 --> 00:30:06,287 GO FOR LAUNCH. 840 00:30:06,287 --> 00:30:22,303 >> T-MINUS 30 SECONDS. 841 00:30:22,303 --> 00:30:25,573 >> T-MINUS 15 SECONDS. 842 00:30:25,573 --> 00:30:28,910 10, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN, SIX, 843 00:30:28,910 --> 00:30:35,650 FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE, 844 00:30:35,650 --> 00:30:37,752 ZERO. 845 00:30:37,752 --> 00:30:45,927 IGNITION. 846 00:30:45,927 --> 00:31:01,643 >> THE VEHICLE IS IN DOWN RANGE. 847 00:31:01,643 --> 00:31:03,411 >> TWO PLUS 25 SECONDS IN TO THE 848 00:31:03,411 --> 00:31:07,282 FLIGHT UNDER THE THRUST OF OVER 849 00:31:07,282 --> 00:31:08,149 5 MILLION-POUND FALCON THEY HAVE 850 00:31:08,149 --> 00:31:08,983 IS A HEADING IN TO SPACE. 851 00:31:08,983 --> 00:31:11,819 WE ARE GETTING READY TO THROTTLE 852 00:31:11,819 --> 00:31:14,589 DOWN FOR A PERIOD OF MAXIMUM 853 00:31:14,589 --> 00:31:18,192 DYNAMIC PRESSURE. 854 00:31:18,192 --> 00:31:20,562 WE HAVE HEARD CALL OUT OF 855 00:31:20,562 --> 00:31:22,096 THROTTLE BUCKET FOR SIDE CORE. 856 00:31:22,096 --> 00:31:33,575 WE ARE FLEW MAX "Q." 857 00:31:33,575 --> 00:31:37,011 >> VEHICLE IS SUPERSONIC. 858 00:31:37,011 --> 00:31:37,845 >> EVERYTHING CONTINUES TO GO 859 00:31:37,845 --> 00:31:42,684 LOOK GOOD ON THE MERLIN 1D 860 00:31:42,684 --> 00:31:43,051 ENGINES. 861 00:31:43,051 --> 00:31:44,118 WE ARE THAT ROTING BACK UP ON 862 00:31:44,118 --> 00:31:49,924 THE SIDE BOOSTERS TO FULL POWER. 863 00:31:49,924 --> 00:31:51,259 1:15 IN TO FLIGHT. 864 00:31:51,259 --> 00:32:05,740 PERFORMANCE LOOKS NO, NOMINAL. 865 00:32:05,740 --> 00:32:06,908 CURRENTLY THE NEXT EVENT COMING 866 00:32:06,908 --> 00:32:08,876 UP IN ABOUT TWO MINUTES, WE'LL 867 00:32:08,876 --> 00:32:13,014 HEAR CALL OUT OF CHILLING OF THE 868 00:32:13,014 --> 00:32:14,215 ENGINES ALLOWING LIQUID OXYGEN 869 00:32:14,215 --> 00:32:16,517 TO THE TOP OF THE TURBO PUMP TO 870 00:32:16,517 --> 00:32:17,785 GET THE SECOND STAGE ENGINE 871 00:32:17,785 --> 00:32:19,087 READY TO CHILL FOR IGNITION IN 872 00:32:19,087 --> 00:32:35,503 JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES. 873 00:32:35,503 --> 00:32:37,372 WE ARE TWO MINUTES IN TO FLIGHT. 874 00:32:37,372 --> 00:32:39,073 WE HAVE BEGUN TO DECREASE THRUST 875 00:32:39,073 --> 00:32:41,843 ON THE SIDE BOOSTERS TO MINIMIZE 876 00:32:41,843 --> 00:32:43,244 ACCELERATION AND LOADS ON THE 877 00:32:43,244 --> 00:32:44,278 FALCON HEAVY STRUCTURE. 878 00:32:44,278 --> 00:32:46,080 WE HAVE TURN OFFS ONE ENGINE ON 879 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:47,482 EACH OF THE SIDE BOOSTERS TO 880 00:32:47,482 --> 00:32:48,383 DECREASE THAT LOAD. 881 00:32:48,383 --> 00:32:49,817 NOW OUR NEXT MAJOR EVENT COMING 882 00:32:49,817 --> 00:32:52,220 UP HERE IN ABOUT 10 SECONDS, 883 00:32:52,220 --> 00:32:53,755 SHUTDOWN AND SEPARATION OF THE 884 00:32:53,755 --> 00:33:02,096 SIDE BOOSTERS. 885 00:33:02,096 --> 00:33:03,598 THE VIEW SHOULD BE THE SIDE 886 00:33:03,598 --> 00:33:04,732 BOOSTERS CAMERAS ON TWO SIDES 887 00:33:04,732 --> 00:33:06,167 AND THE CENTER CORE IN THE 888 00:33:06,167 --> 00:33:06,534 MIDDLE. 889 00:33:06,534 --> 00:33:13,041 >> BOOSTER SHUTDOWN. 890 00:33:13,041 --> 00:33:15,643 >> BOOSTER ACCEPT INDICATION 891 00:33:15,643 --> 00:33:16,044 CONFIRMED. 892 00:33:16,044 --> 00:33:20,848 [ CHEERING AND APPLAUSE ] 893 00:33:20,848 --> 00:33:22,250 >> OVER THE CHEERING IN THE BOOK 894 00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:23,484 GROUND IT'S GOING ON MIDNIGHT 895 00:33:23,484 --> 00:33:25,586 BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE AT 896 00:33:25,586 --> 00:33:27,722 SPACEX SIDE BOOSTERS HAVE 897 00:33:27,722 --> 00:33:28,089 SEPARATED. 898 00:33:28,089 --> 00:33:29,824 THEY ARE GETTING READY FOR THEIR 899 00:33:29,824 --> 00:33:31,559 BURN BACK TO CAPE CANAVERAL. 900 00:33:31,559 --> 00:33:32,660 YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT AND 901 00:33:32,660 --> 00:33:33,761 RIGHT VIEWS. 902 00:33:33,761 --> 00:33:35,096 THE SIDE BOOSTERS AND HE GO 903 00:33:35,096 --> 00:33:35,530 NIGHTED. 904 00:33:35,530 --> 00:33:37,298 THE CENTER CORE CONTINUES UNDER 905 00:33:37,298 --> 00:33:38,633 FULL POWER. 906 00:33:38,633 --> 00:33:40,635 EVERYTHING LOOKING GOOD ON THE 907 00:33:40,635 --> 00:33:44,605 FALCON HEAVY. 908 00:33:44,605 --> 00:33:46,207 NEXT VENT COMING ENOUGH ABOUT 15 909 00:33:46,207 --> 00:33:47,542 SECONDS WILL BE SHUTDOWN OF THE 910 00:33:47,542 --> 00:33:50,511 CENTER CORE, FOLLOWED BY STAGE 911 00:33:50,511 --> 00:33:52,613 SEPARATION AND IGNITION OF THE 912 00:33:52,613 --> 00:33:56,150 SECOND-STAGE ENGINE. 913 00:33:56,150 --> 00:33:56,851 GOOD VIEWS. 914 00:33:56,851 --> 00:33:59,353 TWO SIDE BOOSTERS UNDER THE 915 00:33:59,353 --> 00:34:00,688 THRUST OF THREE UNDERNEATH. 916 00:34:00,688 --> 00:34:02,190 SLOWING DOWN THEIR VELOCITY AND 917 00:34:02,190 --> 00:34:05,593 COMING BACK TOWARDS CAPE 918 00:34:05,593 --> 00:34:07,962 CANAVERAL. 919 00:34:07,962 --> 00:34:11,699 WE HAVE SHUTDOWN ON THE CENTER 920 00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:12,300 CORE. 921 00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:15,136 >> STAGE SEPARATION CONFIRMED. 922 00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:23,277 [ CHEERING AND APPLAUSE ] 923 00:34:23,277 --> 00:34:25,279 >> WE HAVE SUCCESSFUL SEPARATION 924 00:34:25,279 --> 00:34:27,081 AND IGNITION. 925 00:34:27,081 --> 00:34:28,816 WE ARE COMING UP ON SHUTDOWN OF 926 00:34:28,816 --> 00:34:32,453 THE TWO SLIDE BOOSTERS. 927 00:34:32,453 --> 00:34:33,921 AND WE HAVE HEARD THE CALL 928 00:34:33,921 --> 00:34:36,157 OUTSIDE BOOSTER, BOOST BACK 929 00:34:36,157 --> 00:34:37,325 SHUTDOWN THE CENTER CORE YOU CAN 930 00:34:37,325 --> 00:34:39,393 SEE IS NOT DOING A BOOST BACK 931 00:34:39,393 --> 00:34:40,995 IT'S HEADED DOWN RANGE TO THE 932 00:34:40,995 --> 00:34:42,096 GROUND SHIP. 933 00:34:42,096 --> 00:34:43,331 HERE COMES SEPARATION. 934 00:34:43,331 --> 00:34:44,932 >> CROSS RANGE NOMINAL. 935 00:34:44,932 --> 00:34:45,633 [ CHEERING AND APPLAUSE ] 936 00:34:45,633 --> 00:34:48,169 >> WE HAVE CONFIRMATION OF THE 937 00:34:48,169 --> 00:34:49,403 PAYLOAD CLEARING SEPARATION. 938 00:34:49,403 --> 00:34:51,839 SO SO FAR FOUR MINUTES 17 939 00:34:51,839 --> 00:34:53,007 SECONDS IN TO FLIGHT. 940 00:34:53,007 --> 00:34:55,209 SECOND STAGE LOOKING GOOD. 941 00:34:55,209 --> 00:34:56,944 HEADED TO LOWER EARTH ORBIT 942 00:34:56,944 --> 00:34:58,546 CARRY THE 24 SATELLITES, THE 943 00:34:58,546 --> 00:35:00,915 SIDE BOOSTERS HAVE DONE THEIR 944 00:35:00,915 --> 00:35:03,184 FIRST BOOM COMING BACK TO CAPE 945 00:35:03,184 --> 00:35:05,520 RAH KAMINSKY AND A HALF AL. 946 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,655 THE CENTER CORE IS SEPARATED AND 947 00:35:07,655 --> 00:35:10,224 BEGINNING IT'S A LONG COAST TO 948 00:35:10,224 --> 00:35:12,493 THE SHIP IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, 949 00:35:12,493 --> 00:35:13,995 EVERYTHING LOOKING GOOD ON 950 00:35:13,995 --> 00:35:34,215 FALCON HEAVY. 951 00:35:34,215 --> 00:35:35,650 >> NOW THOSE SIDE BOOSTERS ARE 952 00:35:35,650 --> 00:35:37,351 MAKING THEIR WAY BACK. 953 00:35:37,351 --> 00:35:39,287 THEIR GRID FINS ON ALL THREE 954 00:35:39,287 --> 00:35:40,788 BOOSTERS SHOULD BE DEPLOYED AND 955 00:35:40,788 --> 00:35:42,890 THOSE ARE HELP GUIDING THEM TO 956 00:35:42,890 --> 00:35:44,091 THEIR LANDING ZONES. 957 00:35:44,091 --> 00:35:46,561 AS A REMINDER TODAY WE WILL BE A 958 00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:48,729 TIPPING TO RECOVER ALL THREE OF 959 00:35:48,729 --> 00:35:49,330 THESE FIRST STAGES. 960 00:35:49,330 --> 00:35:50,464 AND ALL THREE BOOSTERS ARE 961 00:35:50,464 --> 00:35:53,634 CURRENTLY MAKING THEIR WAY HOME. 962 00:35:53,634 --> 00:35:56,504 IN JUST A FEW MINUTES THE SIDE 963 00:35:56,504 --> 00:35:58,239 BOOSTERS WILL EXECUTE A ENTRY 964 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,008 BURN FOLLOWED BY A LANDING BURN 965 00:36:01,008 --> 00:36:02,376 AND THE CENTER CORE WILL 966 00:36:02,376 --> 00:36:03,711 COMPLETE SAME BURNS JUST A FEW 967 00:36:03,711 --> 00:36:04,412 MINUTES LATER. 968 00:36:04,412 --> 00:36:06,514 BOTH BURNS ARE USED TO SLOW THE 969 00:36:06,514 --> 00:36:09,350 STAGES SPEED DOWN RAPIDLY BEFORE 970 00:36:09,350 --> 00:36:09,684 LANDING. 971 00:36:09,684 --> 00:36:10,852 >> AT THE TIME OF SEPARATION, 972 00:36:10,852 --> 00:36:12,787 THE SIDE BOOSTERS WERE TRAVELING 973 00:36:12,787 --> 00:36:13,888 SLOW ENOUGH TO TURN AROUND, AND 974 00:36:13,888 --> 00:36:16,791 MAKE THEIR WAY BACK TO LAND AT 975 00:36:16,791 --> 00:36:19,327 OUR SIDE BY SIDE LANDING PAD. 976 00:36:19,327 --> 00:36:21,229 THE CENTER CORE IS GOING TOO 977 00:36:21,229 --> 00:36:22,630 FAST TO RETURN TO THE CAPE SO WE 978 00:36:22,630 --> 00:36:25,600 ARE USING OUR ON AUTONOMOUS JOAN 979 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,068 SHIP AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER. 980 00:36:27,068 --> 00:36:29,003 AS A REMIND OUR DRONE SHIP IS 981 00:36:29,003 --> 00:36:31,138 POSITIONED TWICE AS FAR OFFSHORE 982 00:36:31,138 --> 00:36:32,740 THAN NORMAL SO WE MAY NOT GET 983 00:36:32,740 --> 00:36:33,908 VISUALS OF LANDING TONIGHT, ALSO 984 00:36:33,908 --> 00:36:35,977 COMING ENOUGH A FEW MINUTES, 985 00:36:35,977 --> 00:36:37,612 WILL BE THE CALL OUT FOR SECOND 986 00:36:37,612 --> 00:36:44,151 ENGINE CUT OFF. 987 00:36:44,151 --> 00:36:45,319 COMING UP IN ABOUT A MINUTE HERE 988 00:36:45,319 --> 00:36:49,590 WE'LL LOOK FOR THE SIDE BOOSTER 989 00:36:49,590 --> 00:36:50,925 REEVENING ARE YOU BURN TO BEGIN. 990 00:36:50,925 --> 00:36:52,393 SHORTLY AFTER THAT THAT SHOULD 991 00:36:52,393 --> 00:36:58,866 END ABOUT 20 SECONDS LATER. 992 00:36:58,866 --> 00:37:01,469 YOU CAN SEE BOTH BOOSTERS ON THE 993 00:37:01,469 --> 00:37:02,303 INFRARED CAMERA ON THE LEFT SIDE 994 00:37:02,303 --> 00:37:18,185 OF YOUR SCREEN. 995 00:37:18,185 --> 00:37:19,520 AGAIN ABOUT 30 SECONDS UNTIL WE 996 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,188 EXPECT THE SIDE BOOSTERS ENTRY 997 00:37:21,188 --> 00:37:22,223 BURN TO BEGIN. 998 00:37:22,223 --> 00:37:23,324 KEEP OTHER EYE ON THE LEFT SIDE 999 00:37:23,324 --> 00:37:27,862 OF YOUR SCREEN. 1000 00:37:27,862 --> 00:37:38,973 THEIN ABOUT 10 SECONDS WE SHOULD 1001 00:37:38,973 --> 00:37:40,741 SEE THE SIDE BOOSTERS REAR 1002 00:37:40,741 --> 00:37:46,714 IGNITE FOR THEIR ENTRY BURN. 1003 00:37:46,714 --> 00:37:48,849 >> SIDE BOOSTER ENTRY START UP. 1004 00:37:48,849 --> 00:37:50,051 >> WE HAVE CONFIRMATION THAT THE 1005 00:37:50,051 --> 00:37:51,052 ENTRY BURN HAS BEGUN. 1006 00:37:51,052 --> 00:37:52,653 IN ABOUT 15 SECONDS FROM NOW WE 1007 00:37:52,653 --> 00:37:54,555 EXPECT THAT TO END. 1008 00:37:54,555 --> 00:38:01,862 >> OH, WOW. 1009 00:38:01,862 --> 00:38:04,532 [ CHEERING AND APPLAUSE ] 1010 00:38:04,532 --> 00:38:05,666 >> YOU CAN HEAR THE CROWD 1011 00:38:05,666 --> 00:38:08,569 CHEERING BEHIND US. 1012 00:38:08,569 --> 00:38:11,706 AND THAT ENTRY BURN HAS 1013 00:38:11,706 --> 00:38:12,106 COMPLETED. 1014 00:38:12,106 --> 00:38:13,341 NOTE THAT SECOND ENGINE CUT OFF 1015 00:38:13,341 --> 00:38:15,042 IN THE CENTER CORE WILL BE 1016 00:38:15,042 --> 00:38:16,344 LANDING ALMOST AT THE SAME TIME. 1017 00:38:16,344 --> 00:38:18,446 SO WE'LL HAVE A FEW EVENTS IN 1018 00:38:18,446 --> 00:38:20,982 SUCCESSION AT ABOUT T-PLUS EIGHT 1019 00:38:20,982 --> 00:38:25,019 MINUTES AND 21 SECONDS. 1020 00:38:25,019 --> 00:38:30,825 >> SIDE BOOSTER IS SAVED. 1021 00:38:30,825 --> 00:38:34,962 STAGE 2FTL SAVED. 1022 00:38:34,962 --> 00:38:35,863 >> IN ABOUT 20 SECONDS WE'LL 1023 00:38:35,863 --> 00:38:37,398 LOOK FOR THAT SIDE BOOSTER 1024 00:38:37,398 --> 00:38:39,200 LANDING BURN TO BEGIN ON BOTH 1025 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:39,934 BOOSTERS. 1026 00:38:39,934 --> 00:38:45,573 >> SIDE BOOSTER IS TRANSONIC. 1027 00:38:45,573 --> 00:38:52,713 10 SECONDS AWAY. 1028 00:38:52,713 --> 00:38:54,548 >> SIDE BOOSTING LANDING BURN 1029 00:38:54,548 --> 00:38:55,683 START UP. 1030 00:38:55,683 --> 00:38:57,351 >> YOU HAVE HEARD THE CALL UP 1031 00:38:57,351 --> 00:38:58,853 FOR SIDE BOOSTER LANDING START 1032 00:38:58,853 --> 00:39:00,654 UP AND THERE YOU CAN SEE IT ON 1033 00:39:00,654 --> 00:39:03,391 YOUR SCREEN. 1034 00:39:03,391 --> 00:39:05,226 YOU CAN SEE IT COMING TOWARDS 1035 00:39:05,226 --> 00:39:11,098 OUR LANDING PADS. 1036 00:39:11,098 --> 00:39:16,504 [ CHEERING AND APPLAUSE ] 1037 00:39:16,504 --> 00:39:18,906 >> YOU CAN SEE THOSE LANDING 1038 00:39:18,906 --> 00:39:24,245 LEGS DID DEPLOY. 1039 00:39:24,245 --> 00:39:24,678 INCREDIBLE. 1040 00:39:24,678 --> 00:39:27,248 [ CHEERING AND APPLAUSE ] 1041 00:39:27,248 --> 00:39:28,082 >> CONFIRMED SIDE BOOSTER 1042 00:39:28,082 --> 00:39:28,416 LANDING. 1043 00:39:28,416 --> 00:39:30,551 WHAT AN ICONIC VIEW. 1044 00:39:30,551 --> 00:39:32,853 WE HAVE ALSO AT THE SAME TIME 1045 00:39:32,853 --> 00:39:33,888 BELIEVE WE HAVE SECOND ENGINE 1046 00:39:33,888 --> 00:39:45,533 CUT OFF AT THE SAME TIME. 1047 00:39:45,533 --> 00:39:47,435 AS MENTIONED EARLIER, THE CENTER 1048 00:39:47,435 --> 00:39:48,436 CORE ENTRY AND LANDING IS GOING 1049 00:39:48,436 --> 00:39:49,770 TO BE RISKY. 1050 00:39:49,770 --> 00:39:51,405 DURING ENTRY IT WILL FACE MORE 1051 00:39:51,405 --> 00:39:53,474 HEATING AND DYNAMIC PRESSURE 1052 00:39:53,474 --> 00:39:56,177 THAN WE HAVE EVER EXPERIENCE ODD 1053 00:39:56,177 --> 00:39:57,411 FALL 19 BEFORE. 1054 00:39:57,411 --> 00:39:58,512 WHY, YOU AND? 1055 00:39:58,512 --> 00:39:59,613 BECAUSE WE HAVE TO LIFT THE 1056 00:39:59,613 --> 00:40:00,648 SECOND STAGE HIRE AND FASTER 1057 00:40:00,648 --> 00:40:02,083 THAN OTHER FALL ONE HEAVY 1058 00:40:02,083 --> 00:40:03,417 FLIGHTS NO ORDER TO HAVE ENOUGH 1059 00:40:03,417 --> 00:40:05,286 PERFORMANCE IN IT TO EXECUTE 1060 00:40:05,286 --> 00:40:06,921 FOUR BURNS TO ALL THE DIFFERENT 1061 00:40:06,921 --> 00:40:07,254 ORBITS. 1062 00:40:07,254 --> 00:40:10,858 COMING UP AT IT. 1063 00:40:10,858 --> 00:40:11,292 T-PLUS 9:39. 1064 00:40:11,292 --> 00:40:13,027 WE SHOULD SEE THE CENTER CORE 1065 00:40:13,027 --> 00:40:14,161 ENTRY BURN ENDING. 1066 00:40:14,161 --> 00:40:15,029 >> CENTER CORE ENTRY BURN. 1067 00:40:15,029 --> 00:40:21,001 >> WE HAVE THE CONFIRMATION. 1068 00:40:21,001 --> 00:40:22,069 LOOKS LIKE THAT WAS THE 1069 00:40:22,069 --> 00:40:23,904 CONFIRMATION FOR IT TO BEGIN. 1070 00:40:23,904 --> 00:40:25,973 SO WE ARE A LITTLE BIT OFF THE 1071 00:40:25,973 --> 00:40:26,340 TIMELINE. 1072 00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:27,708 >> CENTER CORE ENTRY BURN 1073 00:40:27,708 --> 00:40:28,109 SHUTDOWN. 1074 00:40:28,109 --> 00:40:29,577 >> AND WE JUST HEARD THE 1075 00:40:29,577 --> 00:40:30,744 CONFIRMATION THAT CENTER CORE 1076 00:40:30,744 --> 00:40:32,947 ENTRY BURN HAS SHUTDOWN NOW THAT 1077 00:40:32,947 --> 00:40:34,081 THE ENTRY BURN IS COMPLETE THE 1078 00:40:34,081 --> 00:40:36,684 CENTER CORE IS MOVING BACK ABOUT 1079 00:40:36,684 --> 00:40:37,585 20% FASTER THAN IT WAS AT THE 1080 00:40:37,585 --> 00:40:41,522 END OF THE FALCON HEAVY -- 1081 00:40:41,522 --> 00:40:42,223 [SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME] 1082 00:40:42,223 --> 00:40:43,157 >> AS EXPECTED. 1083 00:40:43,157 --> 00:40:44,558 >> NOW WE ARE COMING UP, JUST 1084 00:40:44,558 --> 00:40:45,960 ABOUT A MINUTE AWAY FROM THAT 1085 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,495 CENTER CORE LANDING BURN 1086 00:40:47,495 --> 00:40:49,130 BEGINNING AND AS WE HAVE 1087 00:40:49,130 --> 00:40:50,698 MENTIONED THIS WILL BE THE MOST 1088 00:40:50,698 --> 00:40:52,099 DIFFICULT LANDING THAT WE HAVE 1089 00:40:52,099 --> 00:40:56,704 HAD TO DATE. 1090 00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:58,572 THIS WILL BE A THREE ENGINE CORE 1091 00:40:58,572 --> 00:41:00,608 THAT CENTER ENGINE WILL START UP 1092 00:41:00,608 --> 00:41:01,775 FIRST AND FOUGHT ORE ENGINES 1093 00:41:01,775 --> 00:41:06,814 START UP AS WELL FOR THE LANDING 1094 00:41:06,814 --> 00:41:07,114 BURN. 1095 00:41:07,114 --> 00:41:08,549 WE ARE JUST 30 SECONDS WAY FROM 1096 00:41:08,549 --> 00:41:09,517 THE CENTER CORE LANDING. 1097 00:41:09,517 --> 00:41:11,085 IT'S NO SURPRISE THAT WE DO NOT 1098 00:41:11,085 --> 00:41:12,753 HAVE A LIVE VIEW OF THAT CENTER 1099 00:41:12,753 --> 00:41:13,787 CORE AS IT'S COMING DOWN, BUT IT 1100 00:41:13,787 --> 00:41:16,724 LOOKS LIKE WE GET A LIVE VIEW OF 1101 00:41:16,724 --> 00:41:17,391 THE DRONE SHIP THERE. 1102 00:41:17,391 --> 00:41:27,434 OF COURSE I STILL LOVE YOU. 1103 00:41:27,434 --> 00:41:29,670 IF YOU ARE JUST KNEW TUNING IN 1104 00:41:29,670 --> 00:41:31,138 WE ARE 10 SECONDS WAY FROM THE 1105 00:41:31,138 --> 00:41:34,074 CENTER CORE LANDING BURN 1106 00:41:34,074 --> 00:41:42,516 BEGINNING. 1107 00:41:42,516 --> 00:41:44,652 >> STAGE ONE LANDING BURN HAS 1108 00:41:44,652 --> 00:41:44,985 STARTED. 1109 00:41:44,985 --> 00:41:45,920 >> AND WE HAVE CONFIRMATION THAT 1110 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,823 THE CENTER CORE LANDING BURN HAS 1111 00:41:49,823 --> 00:41:50,124 BEGUN. 1112 00:41:50,124 --> 00:41:52,226 YOU CAN SEE THAT COMING DOWN ON 1113 00:41:52,226 --> 00:41:55,162 OF COURSE I STILL LOVE YOU. 1114 00:41:55,162 --> 00:41:55,829 [ CHEERING AND APPLAUSE ] 1115 00:41:55,829 --> 00:42:00,935 >> GOT A PRETTY GOOD VIEW. 1116 00:42:00,935 --> 00:42:02,503 AND AS YOU CAN SEE ON OUR 1117 00:42:02,503 --> 00:42:04,138 SCREEN, IT LOOKS LIKE OUR CENTER 1118 00:42:04,138 --> 00:42:07,808 CORE DID NOT MAKE IT ON OUR 1119 00:42:07,808 --> 00:42:09,543 DRONE I STILL LOVE YOU TONIGHT. 1120 00:42:09,543 --> 00:42:11,078 AGAIN, AS WE HAVE BEEN 1121 00:42:11,078 --> 00:42:12,580 MENTIONING, THIS WAS THE MOST 1122 00:42:12,580 --> 00:42:13,614 CHALLENGING LANDING THAT WE HAVE 1123 00:42:13,614 --> 00:42:14,815 HAD TO DATE. 1124 00:42:14,815 --> 00:42:17,718 AND THIS IS -- THIS IS OUR 1125 00:42:17,718 --> 00:42:19,520 SECONDARY MISSION, SO OUR 1126 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,822 PRIMARY MISSION, WE JUST HEARD 1127 00:42:21,822 --> 00:42:23,457 THE CALL OUT OF GOOD ORBIT OF 1128 00:42:23,457 --> 00:42:25,159 OUR SECOND STATEMENT SO WE ARE 1129 00:42:25,159 --> 00:42:26,493 JUST MOMENTS WAY FROM OUR FIRST 1130 00:42:26,493 --> 00:42:27,828 DEPLOYMENT OF THE EVENING FOR 1131 00:42:27,828 --> 00:42:29,196 OCULUS ASR. 1132 00:42:29,196 --> 00:42:30,764 WHICH WAS DEVELOPED BY STUDENTS 1133 00:42:30,764 --> 00:42:32,533 AT MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL 1134 00:42:32,533 --> 00:42:32,933 UNIVERSITY. 1135 00:42:32,933 --> 00:42:35,669 WE WILL BE PASSING BEYOND THE 1136 00:42:35,669 --> 00:42:36,570 BERMUDA GROUND STATION SO THERE 1137 00:42:36,570 --> 00:42:38,772 IS A CHANCE THAT TELEMETRY MAY 1138 00:42:38,772 --> 00:42:40,474 CUT OUT A FEW SECONDS BEFORE 1139 00:42:40,474 --> 00:42:41,008 DEPLOYMENT. 1140 00:42:41,008 --> 00:42:43,444 IN WHICH CASE WE WON'T WON'T SEE 1141 00:42:43,444 --> 00:42:44,845 IT DEPLOY ON CAMERA OR GET 1142 00:42:44,845 --> 00:42:46,847 CONFIRMING A OF ITS SUCCESSFUL 1143 00:42:46,847 --> 00:42:49,083 DEPLOYMENT UNTIL TELEMETRY IS 1144 00:42:49,083 --> 00:42:49,450 RESTORED. 1145 00:42:49,450 --> 00:42:50,918 AND WE ARE JUST ABOUT 30 SECONDS 1146 00:42:50,918 --> 00:42:52,920 AWAY FROM THAT DEPLOYMENT. 1147 00:42:52,920 --> 00:43:03,697 SO WE'LL HIS THEN LISTEN IN FORT 1148 00:43:03,697 --> 00:43:17,044 CONFIRMATION. 1149 00:43:17,044 --> 00:43:18,312 LOOKS LIKE WE STILL HAVE THAT 1150 00:43:18,312 --> 00:43:20,180 LIVE VIEW. 1151 00:43:20,180 --> 00:43:22,616 MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE TO DECIDE 1152 00:43:22,616 --> 00:43:32,326 DEPLOYMENT LIVE ON CAMERA. 1153 00:43:32,326 --> 00:43:34,094 AGAIN WE ARE WAITING FOR THE 1154 00:43:34,094 --> 00:43:40,367 OCULUS SATELLITE DEPLOYMENT. 1155 00:43:40,367 --> 00:43:41,869 AND AS WE EXPECTED LOOKS LIKE WE 1156 00:43:41,869 --> 00:43:46,206 LOST HA LIVE THAT LIVE VIEW. 1157 00:43:46,206 --> 00:43:47,441 WE'LL WAIT FOR CONFIRMATION OF 1158 00:43:47,441 --> 00:43:49,143 THE DEPLOYMENT AND UPDATE NEW A 1159 00:43:49,143 --> 00:43:51,345 FEW MINUTES LATER ON IN THE 1160 00:43:51,345 --> 00:43:51,679 WEBCAST. 1161 00:43:51,679 --> 00:43:52,746 WE ARE NOW IN BETWEEN GROUND 1162 00:43:52,746 --> 00:43:53,681 STATIONS FOR THE NEXT FEW 1163 00:43:53,681 --> 00:43:55,015 MINUTES WITH NOTHING TO SEE. 1164 00:43:55,015 --> 00:43:57,051 SO WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A QUICK 1165 00:43:57,051 --> 00:43:58,419 BREAK, BUT WE WILL BE LEAVING 1166 00:43:58,419 --> 00:43:59,653 WITH YOU AN ANIMATION THAT SHOWS 1167 00:43:59,653 --> 00:44:02,456 YOU WHERE WE ARE THROUGHOUT THE 1168 00:44:02,456 --> 00:44:02,790 STAGES. 1169 00:44:02,790 --> 00:44:05,626 WE WILL BE BACK AROUND T-PLUS 20 1170 00:44:05,626 --> 00:44:08,195 MINUTES FOR OUR NEXT SET OF 1171 00:44:08,195 --> 00:44:08,629 DEPLOYMENTS. 1172 00:44:08,629 --> 00:44:11,265 IT'S WORTH NOTICING WE WON'T 1173 00:44:11,265 --> 00:44:14,601 HAVE COVERAGE WE WILL MISS THE 1174 00:44:14,601 --> 00:44:16,270 FIRST P-POT 1Q STAT. 1175 00:44:16,270 --> 00:44:17,671 SEE YOU BACK HERE IN SIX 1176 00:44:17,671 --> 00:44:19,606 MINUTES. 1177 00:44:27,614 --> 00:44:29,583 AND GREAT JOB BY OUR FRIENDS THE 1178 00:44:29,583 --> 00:44:32,186 SPACEX COVERING THE LAWN OF 1179 00:44:32,186 --> 00:44:34,521 FALCON X AS IT LIT UP THE COAST 1180 00:44:34,521 --> 00:44:34,822 HERE. 1181 00:44:34,822 --> 00:44:36,557 WATCHING THE BOOSTERS COME BACK 1182 00:44:36,557 --> 00:44:38,092 WAS JUST AS IMPRESSIVE HERE AT 1183 00:44:38,092 --> 00:44:39,360 THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER THERE 1184 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,395 WERE SOME BIG BOOMS HEARD AND IT 1185 00:44:41,395 --> 00:44:43,030 WAS IMPRESSIVE. 1186 00:44:43,030 --> 00:44:44,531 THE WORK IS NOT DONE THE NASA 1187 00:44:44,531 --> 00:44:46,133 MISSIONS AND THEIR HOST 1188 00:44:46,133 --> 00:44:47,134 SATELLITES WILL DEPLOY OVER THE 1189 00:44:47,134 --> 00:44:48,535 COURSE OF THE NEXT THREE HOURS, 1190 00:44:48,535 --> 00:44:51,472 THE SPACE X TEAM WILL STAY LIVE 1191 00:44:51,472 --> 00:44:52,606 UNTIL FINAL SATELLITE DEPLOYS, 1192 00:44:52,606 --> 00:44:54,475 NOW FOR NASA-RELATED DEPLOYMENT 1193 00:44:54,475 --> 00:44:56,910 AND OTHER POST LAUNCH UPDATES 1194 00:44:56,910 --> 00:45:00,748 VISIT W WW.NASA.GOFF/SPACEX AND 1195 00:45:00,748 --> 00:45:03,083 FOLLOW ALONG ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA 1196 00:45:03,083 --> 00:45:03,450 CHAMPIONS. 1197 00:45:03,450 --> 00:45:04,685 WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED OUR COVERAGE 1198 00:45:04,685 --> 00:45:07,087 OF THE LAUNCH OF A FALL ONE THEY 1199 00:45:07,087 --> 00:45:08,222 HAVE FRIDAY FLORIDA SPACE COST 1200 00:45:08,222 --> 00:45:09,857 OF I AM DARRYL NAIL AND FOR ALL 1201 00:45:09,857 --> 00:45:12,059 OF US HERE AT NASA AND THE 1202 00:45:12,059 --> 00:45:13,260 KENZIE BR* I SPACE CENTER HAVE A 1203 00:45:13,260 --> 00:45:16,263 GOOD NIGHT AND KEEP LOOKING UP.