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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #120 on: 07/12/2014 08:46 pm »
question #1
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #121 on: 07/12/2014 08:46 pm »
engine #17 was involved
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #122 on: 07/12/2014 08:48 pm »
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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #123 on: 07/12/2014 08:49 pm »
a nebulous description of ensuring "proper configuration of critical components" identified as possible sources of the failure on the Orb-2 vehicle with no other details
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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #124 on: 07/12/2014 08:50 pm »
question #2 to Sarah on a weekend launch at this time of year with boaters

Mentions they actually visit the boaters

'Danger Zone' 30 nm hazard area

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #125 on: 07/12/2014 08:51 pm »
Robert Pearlman

5000th day of continuous crewed ops on ISS today!!

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #126 on: 07/12/2014 08:52 pm »
Dan Hartman on the phone adding the number of years on orbit, testing the maturation of hardware on orbit & the challenges to 'buy down' the risk for BEO exploration, cutting edge technology demonstrations, and experience

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #127 on: 07/12/2014 08:55 pm »
an odd question about polluting the atlantic ocean with space trash which actually burns up...
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #128 on: 07/12/2014 08:55 pm »
Freelance writer asking about the trash disposal from the ISS that coulgoes into the oceans adding garbage in to it, but Dan Hartman noting they choose trajectoris for vehicles so that they all completely burn up in the atmosphere.

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #129 on: 07/12/2014 08:56 pm »
another shot at the engine failure--claiming can't get into details
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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #130 on: 07/12/2014 08:56 pm »
Phone call for Frank
Notes no additional notes being offered on other customers for the Antares vehicle

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #131 on: 07/12/2014 08:57 pm »
SpaceX 4 on Sep 12 for now
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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #132 on: 07/12/2014 08:58 pm »
Q from Irene for Dan & SPaceX launch: SpaceX on Sept 12;
RFP on CRS2: RFI sent out but will look into it

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #133 on: 07/12/2014 08:59 pm »
Engine inspection was by borescope & port for access to areas of interest
Results were as expected

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #134 on: 07/12/2014 08:59 pm »
post failure inspections via bore scopes and non-invasive visual inspections
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #135 on: 07/12/2014 09:00 pm »
Frank: Looking at new profiles for re-entry, and saving fuel for others aspect of flight
Allows experiments for other users to stay longer in space.
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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #136 on: 07/12/2014 09:01 pm »
Frank (on weather): they never give us 100%

5 min launch window (typical from Wallops)

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #137 on: 07/12/2014 09:02 pm »
Q from Janet: wildlife mitigation by launching in July?

A: Mitigation for species called 'Fragmites?' in place

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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #138 on: 07/12/2014 09:03 pm »
Orb 3 in October with 3 more launches next year
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Re: Orbital's Antares/Cygnus ORB-2 (CRS-2) July 13, 2014
« Reply #139 on: 07/12/2014 09:04 pm »
Frank (on the future): 1 launch in Oct
3 next year
3 vehicles under construction
preps on-going for next 3
Building steadily

Will maintain this schedule with the traffic & schedule
Applauds NASA for pushing this

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