A clean count: every station is Go
Astronaut · Who you talk to: The launch director
Weather is good and every system is healthy. You run the full count from call to stations to liftoff.
What this case adds
- Answer each poll with your station's call sign and "Go".
- Follow the holds and the hand-over to the ground launch sequencer at T-10.
Critical fails
- Answering "Go" with an open problem in your system.
- Waiving a mandatory launch constraint after the terminal count has started: it cannot be waived.
- Holding more than 3 minutes between T-6 and T-1:30 and pressing on instead of recycling to T-10.
- Not knowing the abort or emergency procedure for your role.
The full checklist of this mold, step by step with its official sources: Launch: go / no-go poll and final count.
Sources
- NASA Policy Directive 8610.24C, Launch Vehicle Technical Oversight Policy: Final Commit-to-Launch Poll https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PD_8610_024C_&page_name=main
- NASA, Artemis II Moon mission launch countdown https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-releases-artemis-ii-moon-mission-launch-countdown/
Making Synapses is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by NASA, the FAA or any space company. Artemis and the agencies are named and linked only to describe what this mold practices; real countdowns vary by mission.
Launch: go / no-go poll and final count