Author Topic: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES  (Read 32484 times)

Online Chris Bergin

Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #65 on: 10/22/2013 11:55 am »
Josh previewing the crazy November that's coming up for the ISS.
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #66 on: 10/22/2013 11:56 am »

RELEASE 13-308

Orbital Sciences Cygnus Spacecraft Departs Space Station, Ends Demonstration Mission for NASA

A cargo resupply demonstration mission by Orbital Sciences Corp. drew to a close Tuesday as Expedition 37 crew members aboard the International Space Station detached and released the Dulles, Va., company's Cygnus spacecraft from the orbiting laboratory.

Cygnus had been attached to the space station's Harmony module for 23 days. The spacecraft delivered about 1,300 pounds (589 kilograms) of cargo, including food, clothing and student experiments. Future Cygnus flights will ensure a robust national capability to deliver critical science research to orbit, significantly increasing NASA's ability to conduct new science investigations to the only laboratory in microgravity.

"Congratulations to the teams at Orbital Sciences and NASA who worked hard to make this demonstration mission to the International Space Station an overwhelming success," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "We are delighted to now have two American companies able to resupply the station. U.S. innovation and inspiration have once again shown their great strength in the design and operation of a new generation of vehicles to carry cargo to our laboratory in space. Orbital's success today is helping make NASA's future exploration to farther destinations possible."

Prior to its departure from the station, Cygnus was loaded with items no longer needed aboard the station. Astronauts Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency detached the spacecraft using the station's robotic arm and released Cygnus at 7:31 a.m. EDT. Orbital Sciences engineers now will conduct a series of planned burns and maneuvers to move Cygnus toward a destructive re-entry in Earth's atmosphere Wednesday, Oct. 23.

Cygnus was launched Sept. 18 on Orbital's Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The maiden flight of Cygnus and its 11-day journey to the station included a number of tests designed to demonstrate the spacecraft's ability to navigate, maneuver, lock on to the station and abort its approach. Following these demonstrations NASA cleared the spacecraft to approach the station Sept. 29. Cygnus had been scheduled for a rendezvous with the space station Sept. 22, but because of a data format mismatch, the first rendezvous attempt was postponed. Orbital updated and tested a software patch to resolve the issue.

Orbital built and tested its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Program. NASA initiatives, such as COTS, are helping to develop a robust U.S. commercial space transportation industry with the goal of achieving safe, reliable and cost-effective transportation to and from low-Earth orbit to meet the needs of both commercial and government customers. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program also is working with commercial partners to enable the availability of U.S. commercial human spaceflight capabilities in the next few years.

The International Space Station is a convergence of science, technology and human innovation that demonstrates new technologies and makes research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. The space station has had crew members continuous on board since November 2000. In that time, it has been visited by more than 200 people and a variety of international and commercial spacecraft. The space station remains the springboard to NASA's next great leap in exploration, including future missions to an asteroid and Mars.

For more information about the Orbital demonstration mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/orbital

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

-end-
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #69 on: 10/22/2013 12:01 pm »
And that's the coverage for the departure.

Top work by Josh again. Congrats to all involved and thanks to everyone that took part for what is a very early event for most people here, notably InfraNut2, Arachnitect and Philip.
« Last Edit: 10/22/2013 12:03 pm by Chris Bergin »
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Offline Prober

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10348
  • Save the spin....I'm keeping you honest!
  • Nevada
  • Liked: 721
  • Likes Given: 729
Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #70 on: 10/22/2013 12:19 pm »
I hope someone's taking still photos up there...

Looking forward to the Hi-Res.  ;)

Congrats to Orbital on the mission.
« Last Edit: 10/22/2013 12:35 pm by Prober »
2017 - Everything Old is New Again.
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant..." --Isoroku Yamamoto

Offline John44

  • Elite Veteran
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3887
  • Netherlands
    • space-multimedia
  • Liked: 258
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #71 on: 10/22/2013 01:20 pm »
Orbital Sciences - Release of the Cygnus Cargo Ship from the ISS
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8529

Offline ChrisC

  • Veteran
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2216
  • Liked: 1561
  • Likes Given: 1749
Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #72 on: 10/22/2013 01:23 pm »
Chris B posted one still of this earlier, but I think this is worthing watching in motion.  In the video of the hatch closure last night:

http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8528:orbital-sciences-cygnus-cargo-ship-hatch-closing&catid=1:latest

... starting at the 1m20s point you can see a very interesting view of how the hatch seal mechanism works.
« Last Edit: 10/22/2013 01:26 pm by ChrisC »
PSA #1: EST does NOT mean "Eastern Time".  Use "Eastern" or "ET" instead, all year round, and avoid this common error.  Google "EST vs EDT".
PSA #2: It's and its: know the difference and quietly impress grammar pedants.  Google "angry flower its" .  *** See profile for two more NSF forum tips. ***

Offline Lar

  • Fan boy at large
  • Global Moderator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13463
  • Saw Gemini live on TV
  • A large LEGO storage facility ... in Michigan
  • Liked: 11864
  • Likes Given: 11086
Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #73 on: 10/22/2013 01:51 pm »
Neat vid!  I think it's funny that there is a "to MPLM" stencilled on the passageway.  That isn't QUITE true any more.

Who is the astronaut whose picture is next to the hatch?

Congrats to Orbital for a successful mission.
"I think it would be great to be born on Earth and to die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact." -Elon Musk
"We're a little bit like the dog who caught the bus" - Musk after CRS-8 S1 successfully landed on ASDS OCISLY

Offline Space Pete

Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #74 on: 10/22/2013 01:57 pm »
So long Cygnus! What a fantastic debut mission!

... starting at the 1m20s point you can see a very interesting view of how the hatch seal mechanism works.

Yup, those are called tension rod assemblies, they are standard on all CBM hatches, however are shorter on the Cygnus CBM hatch since it is smaller than the standard 50-inch diameter hatch. On Dragon they are on the inside of the hatch in order to protect them from re-entry. They work by latching onto attachment points around the hatchway, and then pulling tight in order to hold the hatch to the hatchway and prevent it coming open.
NASASpaceflight ISS Editor

Offline Joffan

Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #75 on: 10/22/2013 09:53 pm »
The Swan has flown...

Great mission.
Getting through max-Q for humanity becoming fully spacefaring

Offline PahTo

  • Full Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1698
  • Port Angeles
  • Liked: 271
  • Likes Given: 1194
Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #76 on: 10/23/2013 02:24 am »
Just had a delightful 4+ minute pass at 50 degrees--and there was Cygnus close behind ISS!  She wasn't very apparent on approach, but from "zenith", and all the way downrange, very visible.  This makes two VV's this year for us from the backyard, HTV4 just before berthing, and ORB-D just after release.  I don't want to get ahead of entry, but big congrats to Orbital and all the teams on this mission.
« Last Edit: 10/23/2013 02:24 am by PahTo »

Offline QuantumG

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9238
  • Australia
  • Liked: 4477
  • Likes Given: 1108
Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #77 on: 10/23/2013 02:27 am »
Excuse me if this has been answered already, does anyone know whereabouts it will burn up?
Human spaceflight is basically just LARPing now.

Offline arachnitect

  • Member
  • Full Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1553
  • Liked: 501
  • Likes Given: 759
Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #78 on: 10/23/2013 02:46 am »
Excuse me if this has been answered already, does anyone know whereabouts it will burn up?


Usual Place:
Quote
Orbital's Cygnus team has updated its thruster burn schedule for the spacecraft's controlled reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Following its unberthing and departure from the ISS on October 22 at approximately 6:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. respectively, Cygnus is now expected to reenter the atmosphere on October 23rd at approximately 2:18 p.m. (eastern) over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand.

Offline Artyom.

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3937
  • Liked: 1416
  • Likes Given: 135
Re: LIVE: Orbital Cygnus ORB-D UNBERTHING/EOM UPDATES
« Reply #79 on: 10/23/2013 04:49 am »
Congrats to Orbital for a successful mission  :) !

https://twitter.com/AstroKarenN

Tags:
 

Advertisement NovaTech
Advertisement Northrop Grumman
Advertisement
Advertisement Margaritaville Beach Resort South Padre Island
Advertisement Brady Kenniston
Advertisement NextSpaceflight
Advertisement Nathan Barker Photography
1