D12 Satellite Launched!

[Rey]

What time?

between 7 and 7:20pm

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Liftoff is scheduled for 7:22PM Eastern Time.

 

[Rey]

Liftoff is scheduled for 7:22PM Eastern Time.

thanks for putting this on the home page :up

 

[Madtown HD Junkie]

I love it when we get more HD sat launches

 

[raoul5788]

Phew thanks for the reminder I had it written on my calendar as tomorrow night! (Whoops!)

Unfortunately won't be able to watch it live as I will be at the Monday Night Raw show at the Hartford Civic Center.

GO DIRECTV 12!

It IS tomorrow night.....in Russia!

 

[wildbill129]

It will be several months of eager anticipation while they go through testing to see what this new bird brings us in terms of programming! I for one am hoping for my locals in HD....tired of messing with antennas!

 

[gadgtfreek]

Cool. Crossing my fingers now that I swapped to the dark side.


Heres to ESPNUHD and BBCHD.

 

[gadgtfreek]

Hope everything goes well...

 

[jcrandall]

Join us in the Satelliteguys Chat Room tonight at 7pm ET tonight as we watch the D12 launch!

 

[jcrandall]

Join us in the Satelliteguys Chat Room tonight at 7pm as we watch the D12 launch!

 

[jcrandall]

I'm glad for two things today, the launch is finally here and there is a light in the HD limitation tunnel, and the launch is at a resonable time to watch - not at 2 in the morning.

 

[jcrandall]

Here is a timeline of what to expect after the launch:

07:24:00pm ET 1st/2nd Stage Separation
07:27:26pm ET 2nd/3rd Stage Separation
07:27:48pm ET Payload Fairing (PLF) Separation
07:31:36pm ET 3rd Stage/Breeze M Separation
07:33:50pm ET 1st Burn Ignition
07:37:51pm ET 1st Burn Shutdown
08:27:58pm ET 2nd Burn Ignition
08:45:15pm ET 2nd Burn Shutdown
10:48:45pm ET 3rd Burn Ignition
11:00:14pm ET 3rd Burn Shutdown
11:01:04pm ET APT Jettison
11:02:31pm ET 4th Burn Ignition
11:08:16pm ET 4th Burn Shutdown
03:13:25am ET 5th Burn Ignition
03:19:43am ET 5th Burn Shutdown
4:32:00am ET D12 Separation

(From sixto at dbs)

 

[Hemi 6.1]

I'll be watching. I hope it goes well.

 

[Rey]

lets get ready folks!!! channel 577

 

[jcrandall]

The feed is up on channel 577.

Join us in the chatroom as you watch the launch!

 

[jerryez]

Is it up yet?

 

[Davedirectv]

yeah is just took off about 6 minutes ago.

 

[Juan]

where's the chat?

 

[Hemi 6.1]

So far so good.

 

[bamaweather]

Good update info here:

DTV 12 Blog