{"id":6165,"date":"2018-01-31T22:50:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2018-01-31T22:51:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:51:24","slug":"6165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6165","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Govsat-1 Mission Viewed Live In Sansar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Liftoff, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/39978632472\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4606\/39978632472_0ddb43b675.jpg?resize=500%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Liftoff\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/atlas.sansar.com\/experiences\/lootinteractive\/nasa-apollo-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA Appollo Museum<\/a> in Linden Lab&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sansar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sansar<\/a> was the setting for a virtual world \/ virtual reality gathering to watch the launch of Falcon 9 as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> Govesat-1 mission.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Watching Falcon 9, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/39978633462\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4670\/39978633462_3e7c74141e.jpg?resize=500%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Watching Falcon 9\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blurb from the SpaceX website informed us :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>SpaceX is now targeting launch of the GovSat-1 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Wednesday, January 31, at 4:25 p.m. EST, or 21:25 UTC. The satellite will deploy approximately 32 minutes after launch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Falcon 9\u2019s first stage for the GovSat-1 mission previously supported the NROL-76 mission from LC-39A in May 2017. SpaceX will not attempt to recover Falcon 9\u2019s first stage after launch.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A fairly healthy sized crowd gathered to watch the liftoff, with the live webcast playing on a screen inside the museum and we got some pretty good views of the action.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Falcon 9 in action, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/39978635052\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4721\/39978635052_d8e2eaa794.jpg?resize=500%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Falcon 9 in action\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite some scary looking images, everything seemed to go to plan and we could hear the applause on the webcast from those closer to the mission.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Torley at launch, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/39978631612\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4649\/39978631612_bb82b76c40.jpg?resize=500%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Torley at launch\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lindens were in attendance, Sansar Jenn (as she is known in Sansar circles) and Torley (as he is known in pretty much all circles) were in early attendance.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Strawberry Singh at Falcon 9 launch, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/26137779888\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4717\/26137779888_9f00328598.jpg?resize=500%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Strawberry Singh at Falcon 9 launch\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/strawberrysingh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strawberry Singh<\/a>\u00a0was amongst the crowd. Strawberry wears her name on her sleeve in Sansar. I can only assume that this is so that when she&#8217;s dancing at the disco bumper to bumper that she doesn&#8217;t end up exclaiming &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kB69zdycLIM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wait a minute, where&#8217;s me jumper?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Strawberry also <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NAzxoQ3q5HU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live streamed the event<\/a>, so you can get a better view of matters by following the link to the stream.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ebbe Late To The Party, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/25139887977\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4712\/25139887977_326f663d5a.jpg?resize=500%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ebbe Late To The Party\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linden Lab CEO Ebbe Altberg made an appearance later in the event, sporting a stripey T-Shirt and a modern haircut.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Audience watching Falcon 9 launch, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/26137778728\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4741\/26137778728_a1f3bb75b0.jpg?resize=500%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Audience watching Falcon 9 launch\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event also exemplified the fact that Sansar is getting a fashion makeover as there were many weird and wonderful avatars in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ravioli at SpaceX launch, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/39112751825\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4763\/39112751825_d98fabce6f.jpg?resize=500%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ravioli at SpaceX launch\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a fun event and fortunately all went well, which prevented us from ending up in a pickle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA Appollo Museum in Linden Lab&#8217;s Sansar was the setting for a virtual world \/ virtual reality gathering to watch the launch of Falcon 9 as part of the SpaceX Govesat-1 mission. The blurb from the SpaceX website informed us : SpaceX is now targeting launch of the GovSat-1 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SpaceX Govsat-1 Mission Viewed Live In Sansar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[996,997,14],"tags":[1195,1196,1129,1194],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6rJUK-6165","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}