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lutorm
Nice, that was like clockwork!
slimsag
As a distant follower of SpaceX it's not obvious to me if the Falcon 9 will attempt a landing this time?
kiba
There's no landing gear this time. Not enough margin to make it worthwhile.
agildehaus
Not this time. They plan on having later F9 geo launches do this, however.
jccooper
Two and a half weeks between launches. Pretty good.
JshWright
And three weeks until the next one.
Two9A
Not including the Dragon 2's pad-abort test, which is ostensibly next week. That may slip, though.
nraynaud
interesting, this satellite company was using Ariane before. I guess the mood in Toulouse must be a bit strange.
louhike
I cannot find what is the link with the city of Toulouse. As I'm currently living there, could you provide more details?
nraynaud
basically, the Ariane rockets partially built there and are controlled from there, and the satellites are built and controlled there.

I guess the meet each other pretty often, and now, the satellite guys are going out with another rocket company.

rsynnott
> and now, the satellite guys are going out with another rocket company.

Looking quickly at a random handful of currently operating Eutelsat satellites, two launched by Ariane, one by Zenit (Russian/American/Norwegian/Ukranian), one by Proton (Russian), one by Atlas V (American). I think Eutelsat is already pretty familiar with the multi-vendor approach.

nraynaud
oops, Ok. I couldn't find the info actually.
jcfrei
ESA definitely has to step up its game if it wants to keep its leading market share in satellite launches.
viraptor
What did they show starting around T+00:09:17? Blue, stargate-like view...
valevk
That's the fuel tank of the second stage. They want to capture the transfer into zero G.
Narkov
Fuel tank.
Crito
Oxidizer technically. Propellant is a good word that can be used for either fuel or oxidizer.
Already__Taken
Specifically, Liquid Oxygen.

The Kerosene tank is below that. You can tell because that RP1 tank would have a center shaft the LOX drains through to the engine.

mikeash
I found this webcast pretty boring, in the best possible way. It started, they showed a promo video, completely nominal countdown, launch, go, everything on time and as it's supposed to be. Pretty cool.