George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator T-10... nine... eight... seven... six... five... four... three... two... one... zero.
And lift off of the Taurus rocket with OCO, tracking a greenhouse gas in seek of clues to global warming.
Rick Haenke/Taurus Vehicle Engineer .... flight computers using RGU flight information
to view nominal vehicle attitude during Stage 0 burn.
Power bus is nominal. Approaching max Q. Power bus is nominal, attitude nominal. T plus 50 seconds.
Vehicle velocity is approximately 2,000 mph at an altitude of approximately 10 miles.
Attitude remains nominal. One minute into OCO mission, all systems nominal.
Expecting Stage 1 ignition in approximately 20 seconds. PVC's nominal, attitude nominal.
Stage 0 TVA initialize. Pressure nominal. Expecting Stage 1 ignition in approximately five seconds.
Vent cover jettison. Stage 0 burnout, Stage 1 ignition, Stage 0 separation.
Vehicle attitude nominal, power bus is nominal. Stage 1 burn will last approximately 70 seconds.
Nominal shedding in avionics current. T plus 100 seconds. Vehicle velocity is approximately
5,000 mph at an altitude of approximately 50 miles. Avionics temperatures nominal.
Stage 1 TVA system operating as expected to maintain nominal vehicle attitude.
Two minutes into the OCO mission, all systems nominal.