Well, gotta give 'em credit, that was a pretty glorious launch. The solid boosters may be a total disaster in every economic or engineering sense, but they are bright. That incandescent exhaust virtually turns night into day.
BTW, the Everyday Astronaut feed has some great tracking shots, including some from an 8k @ 120 Hz camera. He’s a little more enthusiastic than I’d like but the video quality is great.
TLI start confirmed. Artemis is on its way to the moon!
I guess technically it’s Orion, not Artemis, that’s on its way to the moon. Anyway, TLI is complete and it’s on its way!
I just watched a rocket go to the moon.
It was nice to hear that the “Team Miles” cubesat was deployed. I worked with them in pretty limited fashion about 4 years ago on their cubesat, in the communications department (trying to get an SDR radio to produce turbo-coded signals compatible with the Deep Space Network receivers). I was only working as a part-time volunteer, and kinda lost track of them–IIRC, they put a pause on development when it became clear SLS wasn’t flying anytime soon. I think I still have their Ettus SDR radio, come to think of it. Anyway, I’m glad they finally got it sent flying past the moon.
Hooray!
Congratulations!
Thanks. I’ll post more about it later. Today I’m going to Disneyworld on three hours of sleep.
I tried out this line on the crowd. A German guy laughed.
I’m calling Red Team plumbers the next time my sink leaks. Them’s some steel-eyed missile dudes!
If your plumbing system is about to launch itself to the moon, I recommend checking the pressure relief valve on your hot water tank.
Point taken. 
Is there a site showing where Orion is now?
Amazing. I’m waiting for you to tell us all about it!
Picture from Orion/Artemis nine hours after launch.
It’s gonna be hard to describe, but I’ll try. It’ll have to wait 'til I get home, though.
Thanks, but it’s bizarre. I get runtime errors accessing that on my iPhone:
I found this on YouTube —
Yeah that site is definitely intended for desktop browser use - it’s a real-time graphical simulation.
So I understand the lack of coverage is due to bandwidth limitations. I wonder what the story is here - did NASA want to test this away from the glare of the public or are there genuine technical reasons why there cannot be better coverage? What happens for later missions? Will NASA share more?