LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES

[Rex Chan]

ISS: ROBoT stuck at 10% for a while. How far should we log/back out?

H: log out of ROBoT

Mod: feel free to remove photos if taking too much space (I've never seen these before, but I figured you veterans here would have seen it 1000x times).

Edit: Where did simDragon go? 

[baldusi]

Awesome Rex, please continue doing it!

[rcoppola]

Just catching back up on C2+.
Do we have any actual NASA/SpaceX confirmation of Free Drift and Pulse burns etc? I am hoping to see a news conference at the official close of C2 as we head to C3 objectives.

[d3jf]

Mod: feel free to remove photos if taking too much space (I've never seen these before, but I figured you veterans here would have seen it 1000x times).

Only if you could post jpg instead of png, as png's are much larger and the quality difference is not that significant.

Other than that, your updates are awesome! Many people don't have time to listen in and your updates help get up to speed. Thanks for them!

[rdale]

Awesome! Obviously, did not know about that.  Are the videos recorded for public viewing later as well?

No. NASA just has to set a simple record switch on UStream but I've yet to be able to convince them.

Edit: just listened to some - very fast turnaround for those files, and great quality!

Thanks. I appreciate your updates - but for those moments when you drift off to sleep in boredom listening you can go back and review. They upload about :03 after each hour.

[Rex Chan]

Seems like the ISS/ROBoT thing is back in business.

Going in for a 2nd capture.

Edit: I think they're just doing captures over & over - going in for the 3rd one I've seen tonight. Probably trying out different scenarios??

Edit 2:

SFN NASA TV (Public?) has the same feed as NASA TV/ISS, with (knowledgeable) commentary.

ISS: 5th Auto selection before restart again... something I missed... then debreif

H: Understood.

[ehb]

I am hoping to see a news conference at the official close of C2 as we head to C3 objectives.

Next scheduled MSB 10am Eastern Thursday 24 May as
referenced here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html

& Another thank you to Rex.

-ehb

[mr. mark]

I'm just hearing news from the NASA TV feed that SpaceX's Dragon has passed all objects and are moving on..... They said there would be a news conference.

[Chris Bergin]

I'm hearing news from the SFN NASA TV feed that SpaceX's Dragon has passed all objects and are moving on.....

You mean NASA TV.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

It doesn't become NSF NASA TV if we embed it here.

[ChrisC]

On topic:

I'm just hearing news from the NASA TV feed that SpaceX's Dragon has passed all objects and are moving on..... They said there would be a news conference.

That would be new news.  There's nothing about it on the schedule.  Maybe a SpaceX-only presser that won't be on NASA TV?

Off topic:

Awesome! Obviously, did not know about that.  Are the videos recorded for public viewing later as well?

No. NASA just has to set a simple record switch on UStream but I've yet to be able to convince them.

Huh?  They DO have a rolling archive on Ustream.  Go to http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv , scroll down to "Recent Videos" and click "view all", or go straight to http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv/videos .  There you will find 2 hour chunks of whatever was on NASA Public.  As I type this the latest they have is the 7:24-9:24am ET chunk.  I used this Tuesday morning to review the launch coverage before John44 et al had had a chance to get their uploads done.

[Chris Bergin]

The PAO notes they are coming to the end of the training, after they had extended the session to cover the "entire script". I don't think anyone will be surprised by their motivation!

[rdale]

Sorry for the off-topic ... but huh?  They DO have a rolling archive on Ustream.  Go to http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv , scroll down to "Recent Videos" and click "view all", or go straight to http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv/videos .  There you will find 2 hour chunks of whatever was on NASA Public.

Yep - but last I checked the NASA Public archive isn't showing ISS video 24/7

Sorry for the confusion but we are referring to the ISS channel. All they have to do is set auto-record to on and it will do the same 2 hour chunks of ISS activity.

[Chris Bergin]

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
Dragon fly by of Space Station planned for 12:47 am California time. All systems green. #dragonlaunch

[corrodedNut]

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
Dragon fly by of Space Station planned for 12:47 am California time. All systems green. #dragonlaunch

So he's referring to the CE2-flyby burn scheduled for the beginning of FD3?

[Chris Bergin]

NTV has Dr Ruttley on speaking about how students will be "super, super thrilled" about having experiments on the Dragon nanoranks.

David has the overview of this on here:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19519.msg901974#msg901974