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Kicking off a CRS / SpX - 10 Discussion thread (with permission from Chris Bergin)

NSF Threads for CRS-10 : Discussion / Updates / CRS-10 Launch Viewing / L2 January 2017 / L2 February 2017 / ASDS / Party

NSF Articles for CRS-10:
      Dragon pulls rank as LC-39A readiness realigns SpaceX manifest
      Fire to return to LC-39A with Falcon 9 static fire ahead of CRS-10 launch
      SpaceX debuts Falcon 9 launch from 39A with CRS-10 Dragon mission
      CRS-10 Dragon completes rendezvous and berthing with Station
      SpaceX science – Dragon delivers experiments for busy science period

LC-39A Preparation Threads: Pad 39A - Transition to SpaceX Falcon Heavy debut - Thread 3 / L2 Coverage

NSF Articles for CRS missions :  https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/?s=CRS


Successful Launch on Feb. 19, 2017 at 09:39 EST/14:39 UTC.  Successful first stage landing at LZ-1.  This flight used a new booster, serial number 1031.


(I don't think "NET" is appropriate for CRS missions to the ISS. "Leftward" slide unlikely but possible.)

External cargo: SAGE-III-ISS (Instrument Platform and Nadir Viewing Platform) and STP-H5

Mission patch and SAGE-III-ISS patch:
(What's with the dark blue mouse on the light blue background just below the Dragon trunk?)



Other SpaceX resources on NASASpaceflight:
   SpaceX News Articles (Recent)  /   SpaceX News Articles from 2006 (Including numerous exclusive Elon interviews)
   SpaceX Dragon Articles  /  SpaceX Missions Section (with Launch Manifest and info on past and future missions)
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« Last Edit: 03/14/2017 11:37 pm by gongora »
What kind of wastrels would dump a perfectly good booster in the ocean after just one use?

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(What's with the dark blue mouse on the light blue background just below the Dragon trunk?)

It probably means that mice are being carried by SpX-10 to ISS for some experiments.
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(What's with the dark blue mouse on the light blue background just below the Dragon trunk?)

It probably means that mice are being carried by SpX-10 to ISS for some experiments.

Answered my own question.  There is a Mouse Habitat manifested for SpX-10 as part of the Rodent Research
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What kind of wastrels would dump a perfectly good booster in the ocean after just one use?

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How many life biological cargoes (and I'm talking about macroscopic animals here, not the microorganisms in the cheese) has Dragon carried to date?
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How many life biological cargoes (and I'm talking about macroscopic animals here, not the microorganisms in the cheese) has Dragon carried to date?

At least 40 -- 20 mice on CRS-4 and 20 mice on CRS-6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space

In one of the two last science pressers prior to the CRS-9 launch (probably the second one I link to here), someone mentioned that mice had gone up before, but no mice had ever come back alive.  Up to now they've been killing and freezing them on orbit, I guess, prior to return for ground analysis.  Naturally, they don't focus on that last part in the outreach / PR.

EDIT: inserted Youtube URLs after learning how to suppress auto-embed (delete the "www." prefix).
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So Shotwell is saying that the next launch is hopefully Nov, and this is scheduled for Nov.  What are the odds that a return to flight is a Dragon flight?  They could leave off the external payload if the customer wished, and just fly a tang and toilet paper mission.  If anything were to go wrong it wouldn't impact a customer, just SpaceX hardware and low cost consumables.

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According to next FCC application issued at 09/23/2016 there is CRS-10 flight from LC-40 still NET 11/10/2016 with landing targeted to LZ-1.
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/STA_Print.cfm?mode=current&application_seq=73865

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Explanation
Please explain in the area below why an STA is necessary:
This STA modifies information from previous application 0830-EX-ST-2016. This STA covers the experimental first-stage recovery operation, following a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral. This request is limited to the TC uplink from an onshore station at CCAFS. This includes pre-launch check-out operations at CCAFS as pre-coordinated with the launch Range. Launch vehicle flight communications for this mission are covered by a separate STA. The current launch planning date is NET 11/10/2016. The requested expiration date is 6 months following the grant date or upon completion of the experimental recovery operation, whichever occurs first.

previous application 0830-EX-ST-2016 - is similar FCC application for CRS-9
pre-launch check-out operations at CCAFS - is LC-40
"North  28  29  11    West  80  32  51" - is LZ-1 landing pad


Little conflicting with tweet about EchoStar-23 RTF.

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According to next FCC application issued at 09/23/2016 there is CRS-10 flight from LC-40 still NET 11/10/2016 with landing targeted to LZ-1.
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/STA_Print.cfm?mode=current&application_seq=73865

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Explanation
Please explain in the area below why an STA is necessary:
This STA modifies information from previous application 0830-EX-ST-2016. This STA covers the experimental first-stage recovery operation, following a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral. This request is limited to the TC uplink from an onshore station at CCAFS. This includes pre-launch check-out operations at CCAFS as pre-coordinated with the launch Range. Launch vehicle flight communications for this mission are covered by a separate STA. The current launch planning date is NET 11/10/2016. The requested expiration date is 6 months following the grant date or upon completion of the experimental recovery operation, whichever occurs first.

previous application 0830-EX-ST-2016 - is similar FCC application for CRS-9
pre-launch check-out operations at CCAFS - is LC-40
"North  28  29  11    West  80  32  51" - is LZ-1 landing pad


Little conflicting with tweet about EchoStar-23 RTF.

I don't think anything will be launching from LC-40 anytime soon.
This is an application for TC  (traffic control?) uplink related to the 1st stage recovery operation. As far as I understand this, they have a transmitter at LC-40 that will be used for recovery operations. They are asking for a permit valid for 6 months, so it does not necessarily imply they will launch on 11/10/2016 but this is a (not very realistic) NET date.

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A launch from 39-A could still land the booster at LZ-1, couldn't it? Does it matter if the launch is one place and RF another?

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A launch from 39-A could still land the booster at LZ-1, couldn't it? Does it matter if the launch is one place and RF another?

I see no reason it couldn't. But from what we have heard so far CRS10 does not seem to be planned as a return to flight mission.

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A launch from 39-A could still land the booster at LZ-1, couldn't it?

Yes, it's possible.

But in my humble opinion, since Pad 39A is farther north than Pad 40 and if CRS-10 was to return to LZ-1, it would probably have to conduct a longer boostback burn to land precisely on the center of the pad.
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A launch from 39-A could still land the booster at LZ-1, couldn't it?

Yes, it's possible.

But in my humble opinion, since Pad 39A is farther north than Pad 40 and if CRS-10 was to return to LZ-1, it would probably have to conduct a longer boostback burn to land precisely on the center of the pad.

The distance added between 39A and LZ-1 compared to 40 and LZ-1 is so comparatively minor I do not think it would make any noticeable difference.
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A launch from 39-A could still land the booster at LZ-1, couldn't it?

Yes, it's possible.

But in my humble opinion, since Pad 39A is farther north than Pad 40 and if CRS-10 was to return to LZ-1, it would probably have to conduct a longer boostback burn to land precisely on the center of the pad.

The distance added between 39A and LZ-1 compared to 40 and LZ-1 is so comparatively minor I do not think it would make any noticeable difference.

A difference easily absorbed by the grid fins.

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A launch from 39-A could still land the booster at LZ-1, couldn't it?

Yes, it's possible.

But in my humble opinion, since Pad 39A is farther north than Pad 40 and if CRS-10 was to return to LZ-1, it would probably have to conduct a longer boostback burn to land precisely on the center of the pad.

The distance added between 39A and LZ-1 compared to 40 and LZ-1 is so comparatively minor I do not think it would make any noticeable difference.

A difference easily absorbed by the grid fins.

No, the boost back would redirect the vehicle

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A launch from 39-A could still land the booster at LZ-1, couldn't it?

Yes, it's possible.

But in my humble opinion, since Pad 39A is farther north than Pad 40 and if CRS-10 was to return to LZ-1, it would probably have to conduct a longer boostback burn to land precisely on the center of the pad.

The distance added between 39A and LZ-1 compared to 40 and LZ-1 is so comparatively minor I do not think it would make any noticeable difference.

A difference easily absorbed by the grid fins.

No, the boost back would redirect the vehicle

The boost back would redirect the vehicle but it would still be no noticeable difference as far as the amount of boost needed.

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A launch from 39-A could still land the booster at LZ-1, couldn't it?

Yes, it's possible.

But in my humble opinion, since Pad 39A is farther north than Pad 40 and if CRS-10 was to return to LZ-1, it would probably have to conduct a longer boostback burn to land precisely on the center of the pad.

The distance added between 39A and LZ-1 compared to 40 and LZ-1 is so comparatively minor I do not think it would make any noticeable difference.

A difference easily absorbed by the grid fins.

No, the boost back would redirect the vehicle

Of course, but the grid fins do the detail work. And the difference between these two pads is detail.

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I don't believe grid fins would be able compensate if the booster missed LZ1 by that distance.
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I don't believe grid fins would be able compensate if the booster missed LZ1 by that distance.

There have been calculations in prior mission threads, or perhaps the General Falcon & Dragon thread, that body lift and the grid fins' ability to modulate angle of attack basically give the F9 stage maybe 15 - 20  miles of cross-range from the end of the boost back burn to landing. Can't remember which thread(s) this has been discussed in but a search might locate the posts.

The point being, of course, that any mission capable of RTLS in the first place would have no problem if launched from LC-39A instead of LC-40. The boost back burn would be adjusted by a couple degrees and the grid fins would allow the vehicle to "fly out" the en route course corrections in any case.
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There have been calculations in prior mission threads, or perhaps the General Falcon & Dragon thread, that body lift and the grid fins' ability to modulate angle of attack basically give the F9 stage maybe 15 - 20  miles of cross-range from the end of the boost back burn to landing. Can't remember which thread(s) this has been discussed in but a search might locate the posts.

IIRC this was mentioned regarding possible RTLS for a Vandenberg launch - Landing location would be either RTLS or the ASDS ~50 miles away, decided on short notice with one pre-planned boostback burn working for both locations.

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