MEDIA ADVISORY M13-139 NASA will host a televised news conference at 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 4, to preview the upcoming test flight of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.
If there's anyone around to cover that briefing, I'd appreciate it, as I'll be AWOL around that time.FRR has passed if NASA tweeting out the launch date is an indication.
Test flight named GW Low.
"If Orbital is ready to launch in Dec. they will get the launch.""We need a launch in Dec.""We don't see SpaceX launch to ISS until Jan."
Quote from: Prober on 09/04/2013 07:49 pm"If Orbital is ready to launch in Dec. they will get the launch.""We need a launch in Dec.""We don't see SpaceX launch to ISS until Jan." He never said "We need a launch in Dec." He said they're good until 2014 in terms of logistics and 2015 in terms of consumables.
Quote from: mlindner on 09/05/2013 02:05 amQuote from: Prober on 09/04/2013 07:49 pm"If Orbital is ready to launch in Dec. they will get the launch.""We need a launch in Dec.""We don't see SpaceX launch to ISS until Jan." He never said "We need a launch in Dec." He said they're good until 2014 in terms of logistics and 2015 in terms of consumables. your free to invest your time and effort to cover the next briefing if you don't care for my efforts.
Quote from: Prober on 09/05/2013 03:42 amQuote from: mlindner on 09/05/2013 02:05 amQuote from: Prober on 09/04/2013 07:49 pm"If Orbital is ready to launch in Dec. they will get the launch.""We need a launch in Dec.""We don't see SpaceX launch to ISS until Jan." He never said "We need a launch in Dec." He said they're good until 2014 in terms of logistics and 2015 in terms of consumables. your free to invest your time and effort to cover the next briefing if you don't care for my efforts. If you misrepresent what is said, you shouldn't be offended if it is corrected.
I just finished listening. It sounds like they are good with consumables, but they would have to cut back on the number of hours of science per week (currently at 43). So the CRS program needs to keep a decent cadence, or the amount of research on the ISS suffers.