It's Sunday, January 17th and you're looking at a live shot of Falcon nine at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Hello and welcome to our live Webcast for the Space six launch of Jason three.

My name is Kate Thais, and I'm a process improvement engineer here at Space Sex and I'm currently standing in front of our Mission Control Center, located and company headquarters on Hawthorne, California Today's mission is launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base, which he might hear us refer to as Vandy during the Webcast.

That's about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

And while the crowd is still growing here behind me, the bucket list for the majority of space access to watch a rocket launch in person.

So most of us air up there off base watching today, Falcon nine is carrying Jason three a sadly, that will be measuring global sea levels.

This is a big science mission, and later on in the Webcast, I'll fill you in on all the cool stuff Jason three will be doing once we deliver it to the appropriate orbit.

Another exciting thing on the agenda today is the landing attempt of our first stage back on the autonomous spaceport drone ship while all of space sex celebrated after the successful in history making first stage landing back at Cape Canaveral, Florida just under a month ago.

Today's landing a temple be slightly different and that we're making in another attempt for our drone ship, which is currently about 200 miles downrange from Vandenberg S O.

We got a lot going on today.

There is a number of different camera shots of will Have Life for you from all around space sex as well as the Van Berg Air Force Base itself, live shot from the rocket and, of course, video from space and live video of our landing attempt So you'll see everything that we've got a lot going on.

So let's get started.

So we are live just here on the outskirts of Vandenberg Air Force Base, 20 minutes away from the live launch of Jason.

Three to space.

My name is Brian Marsten, and I write automation software for space sick.

So I'm very excited to get away from my keyboard and see this launch live.

I'm appear with the contingent of many friends, colleagues and family that have traveled from our headquarters in Hawthorne just three hours south to be up here for the live launch.

And as Kate just mentioned, if you've never seen a live lunch before, I would strongly recommend adding Get Seo Bucket list.

It was a very different experience in person than it is on your screen, but like it's you shoot similar to a lightning and thunder storm because it travels faster than the speed of sound.

After you have visual confirmation that the blaze has started, the roar of the engine reaches two years.

Just moments later, it's an intense experience, the world very excited.

Now the actual pad is in the distance will be on those trees.

We'll get to see a little sport travel up through this fog once we reach team might.

Ezio Vandenberg is a big, sprawling facility.

It's one of the largest Air Force bases in the United States.

For the reference, Falcon nine is about 21 stories tall.

And as you can see, you can't visually recognize that from here.

So it's one of the biggest Air Force bases in the United States.

It's a little bit windy, but that's totally fine for launch.

Very different than our lightning that we experience out at Cape Canaveral.

It's a little bit foggy, but that poses no risk to launch.

So it's a beautiful day.

Let's launch this thing.

This is Tom for Dario from the avionics department here.

It's basics.

And as my fellow co host just mentioned, we have a lot of very exciting stuff coming up for you on today's Webcast.

First and foremost, today's primary mission is to launch the Jason three satellite into Ah hi polar orbit above the Earth.

Jason three is a NASA and Noah scientific satellite designed to measure global sea levels down with centimetre level, which will allow scientists to better understand the Earth's climate patterns and how they're changing.

We are extremely excited to be launching such an important science mission, and we'll go into more details about Jason three spacecraft later on in the Webcast.

Now, today we're launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base, which is our West Coast launch site for our typical low earth orbit geosynchronous orbit missions we normally launch from Cape Canaveral site on the coast of Florida.

However, different launch sites have different advantages and disadvantages, depending on what type of orbit you're trying to get it now.

Jason three is headed to a holder orbit today, which is a fundamentally different type of orbit and much better suited by a South facing launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Jason three is also riding on the last of this configuration of the Falcon nine, which is appropriate, seeing as the first of this configuration also blasted off from this exact same launchpad back in September of 2013.

The countdown process for this version of the Falcon nine is a little bit different than our last flight, so you'll get to listen into the terminal count that he minus 13 minutes coming up very soon.

It's also good to know this is the last time you'll hear a T minus 13 minutes Count on pool for future launches.

Last but not least, the Fist Falcon nine.

First age will also be attempting to land after separating from the second stage.

Just like our last mission.

However, this time will be attempting a lander on on our autonomous spaceport drone ship rather than it had back to the launch site.

This drone ship is just read the instructions.

The very same drone ship that participated in our landing attempts in spring and summer of last year.

Now, if the Falcon 96 the landing today, it will be the very first successful landing of a rocket on an ocean platform.

Coming later.

We also have a 45 minute coast, very between our stage separation and our satellite deployment.

Now, our fellow co host Lauren Lines, also got a chance to take a look at the Jason's re satellite.

Let's take a look at her video right now.

My name is Lauren Lions on the mission integrator for the Jason three Mission, and I am standing here in the hangar at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the reason it's empty is the Rocket just rolled out this morning with Jason three spacecraft on its nose.

Jason three is the fourth in a series of the Jason missions.

Jason wanted Jason to are still on orbit, and Jason three is going to join them, and together they're gonna work in concert measure.

Global oceans see rise.

Jason three's radar altimeter is so sensitive that it can actually measure changes a seat height of 3.3 centimeters in, and it's worked on in partnership with NASA with connects, which is the French space Agency with You Met that and the spacecraft was built by Tallis Alenia Space.

I've got more commission integrating to go do.

But you guys enjoying lunch?

Go Falcon nine and go, Jason three.

Good morning, Happy New Year And welcome to the launch of the Jason Three Spacecrafts.

I'm John Federal Feel a lead mechanical engineer here, John is Brooker is currently at Vandenberg Air Force Base supporting today's mission.

So instead, I have been doing my best to keep up with the various voice loops as well as keep in touch with our engineers at the launch site to provide you with some updates as we go along.

Today we are targeting a T minus zero time of 10:42 a.m. Pacific standard time and this is actually the last flight of our previous configuration of the Falcon nine launch vehicle.

Now, the biggest change with today's Falcon nine that affects our countdown is that we're not flying with dense.

If I propellants sense of I propellants are significantly colder than what we're loading today.

So we try and minimize their low time, and that's what we did at the Orbcomm to mission for this mission.

Since we're not fine with sense of I propellants, we began loading those propellants in a little over three hours ago.

And right now we are nearly full on the pad, just doing some final top offs.

Now, there is a minor issue that the prop team is working through, and we're going to know a little bit Maur later on as we get to the countdown at in a few minutes.

But at the moment, it looks like we're go to enter into the terminal counts in at T minus 10 minute mark.

Now, because that countdown sequence is a little different, the terminal count auto sequence begins at the T minus 10 minute mark.

Where is our Orbcomm to Mission.

We began the terminal count auto sequence at the T minus 30 minute mark toe, enter the terminal count auto sequence.

Our launch conductor pulls the team at thes T minus 30 minute mark.

So just coming up here shortly, make sure you turn your speakers up in the next 45 seconds because this is gonna be the first and last time you're going to hear a readiness pole.

Come on the air for a space X webcast.

Now, today we are taking the Jason three spacecraft soon orbit of nearly 800 miles away and going go to a speed of over 17,000 miles per hour.

We're gonna do that in all, just under 10 minutes for the initial orbit burn and then an additional 45 minute coast to reach our final orbit A polar orbit at 1300 kilometres by 1300 kilometres.

The team at NASA have given us a go for today's mission and they are also standing by ready for today's lunch.

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So we had confirmation from our launch director That are gonna go pole is good.

So let's talk about a little bit about the details for the mission objective today.

Like we said, we'll be delivering Jason three to a parking zone of about 820 miles for those of us that haven't been to space.

You can think of that as the distance from New York City to Atlanta.

So while it's up there, it'll be.

It'll be conducting a number of measurements.

This is a big science mission.

For the next 3 to 5 years, Jason three will be our eye on sea levels.

It'll measure global sea level once every 10 days.

In fact, it will be doing that with an accuracy less than four centimeters, so you can think of that as the distance of the short side of my phone for something that's 800 miles away from us, and to measure accurately, less than that.

That's pretty incredible.

Increases in ocean levels because, um, increase increase in that ocean volume generally means that that area of water is warmer, warmer waters take up more volume, causing ocean levels to rise.

And while the only time you might think of looking for warm water is when you're looking for your next vacation spots, forecasters and scientists look for warm water to help predict things like tropical storms and hurricanes.

Both of these things are intensified by warmer waters, so the data gathered by Jason three can actually be used to possibly save lives from space.

Yea, science.

Another element of whether that everyone likes to talk about, especially here in Southern California, is el medio.

El Nino is characterized by warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean.

Therefore, they could be detected from space by Jason three.

Because of that higher sea level.

In fact, many of the images that you have seen of this year's El Nino have been taken by the Jason family of satellites that my fellow co host Lauren Lions, have mentioned a little bit earlier today's launch window.

It will last for 30 seconds and no longer if for some reason we're unable to launch today, our backup date is tomorrow.

Monday, January 18th at 10:31 a.m. Pacific time.

So be sure to stay tuned.

And like I said before we have live video, you can see that the crowd is gathering here behind me and we're getting excited back.

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Just outside of Vandenberg Air Force Base.

The energy in this field right now is palpable because we're just under 10 minutes away from sending that vehicle through the fog to space.

A quick moment to discuss the facility itself.

This that is actually built for Falcon Heavy Falcon heavy for those who don't know is our heavy lift launch vehicle.

It's three of the first stage is that we're sending up today, essentially strap side by side.

This allows us to carry more mass to space.

So that's one difference than the launch site out at Cape Canaveral is.

This one is designed for the infrastructure for Falcon heavy, similar function.

Just a little bit beef here now Why do we have one on the East Coast?

And why do we have a lot site on the West Coast?

As Tom mentioned earlier, you need access to where you want to go In space, you need direct line of sight to the orbit that you want to get to.

But with that in mind, the selection is typically dictated.

Are the path that gets you there with the minimum amount of time over inhabited areas.

You want to fly over oceans instead of people.

So if you're going west to if you're going south like today, you want to go out of the West Coast.

If you're flying Easter, you flying north, you want to fly out of Florida?

So you're going over the Atlantic Ocean instead of beings coast itself.

So that's why we have to separate launch sites now, just like at Cape Canaveral, where we have the landing for the last flight.

We have a landing zone here at Vandenberg, but for today's mission, we're gonna be doing the proof of concept to attempted landing again on the drone ship.

This drone ship is deaf.

Just read the instructions.

Is currently station keeping a little bit under 200 miles west of San Diego.

Now landing on a drone ship is different than landing on the landing zone because it takes less fuel to get all the way back.

The U turn is less drastic, and you don't have to go as far because you can jump off of the ocean, get back.

So because of that, you can use the extra few to send it hired defendant faster into orbit.

And that's exactly what we're doing here today that it was about 300 giga jewels, which is about the same energy it takes the power San Francisco.

So look about this topic.

I got the chance to speak to talk with an expert in the field.

I'm standing here on the surface of just read the instructions, one of our two autonomous spaceport drone ships that will host the vehicle as it re enters the