Any chance this moves back to the 10th? Or has the schedule realignment already done its damage?
MCGREGOR, Texas (KWTX) The next rocket SpaceX launches will carry a tribute to Rhett Hering, the 15-year-old son of McGregor’s mayor whose death in an ATV accident in 2015 sparked the creation of a community-wide service project called the “Rhett Revolution.”The “Rhett Revolution” sticker was placed on the interior of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage booster, which is scheduled for launch in August. (Photo by Julie Hays)On Tuesday night, McGregor Mayor Jimmy Herrng, his wife Lorna and their children, Mara and Ryan, were invited to a hangar at SpaceX's rocket research and development facility in McGregor, to place a “Rhett Revolution” sticker on the interior of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage booster, which is scheduled for launch next month....
This is a really nice gesture, but if the article is correct about which flight it's on and when they did it, then I'm really confused about the current SpaceX booster inventory. Weren't we thinking the CRS-12 booster was already at the Cape?
The “Rhett Revolution” sticker was placed on the interior of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage booster, which is scheduled for launch in August. (Photo by Julie Hays)
Quote from: gongora on 07/27/2017 01:08 amThe “Rhett Revolution” sticker was placed on the interior of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage booster, which is scheduled for launch in August. (Photo by Julie Hays)What part of the booster is that? One of the leg "fairings"?Edit: fixed quote
Quote from: Swoopert on 07/27/2017 11:36 amQuote from: gongora on 07/27/2017 01:08 amThe “Rhett Revolution” sticker was placed on the interior of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage booster, which is scheduled for launch in August. (Photo by Julie Hays)What part of the booster is that? One of the leg "fairings"?Edit: fixed quoteNo, it is the cover for one of the QD plates (probably the LOX one)
Quote from: Swoopert on 07/27/2017 11:36 amWhat part of the booster is that? One of the leg "fairings"?No, it is the cover for one of the QD plates (probably the LOX one)
What part of the booster is that? One of the leg "fairings"?
Quote from: ChrisGebhardt on 07/25/2017 05:01 pmQuote from: gongora on 07/21/2017 10:23 pmPart of the decision on scrub turnarounds will depend on whether the biological experiments need to be swapped out (there will be more mice).Is this confirmed (i.e. can you point me to a link)? I'm writing up an article about CRS-12 and I'd like to take about scrub turnaround options if there are going to be mouse-tronauts on CRS-12. Thanks.Confirmed by NASA Kennedy PAO. "There are rodents." 🐭🐭🐭Rodent Research 9 for NASA and the Mouse Habitat Unit - 2 (or Mouse House) for JAXA.
Quote from: gongora on 07/21/2017 10:23 pmPart of the decision on scrub turnarounds will depend on whether the biological experiments need to be swapped out (there will be more mice).Is this confirmed (i.e. can you point me to a link)? I'm writing up an article about CRS-12 and I'd like to take about scrub turnaround options if there are going to be mouse-tronauts on CRS-12. Thanks.
Part of the decision on scrub turnarounds will depend on whether the biological experiments need to be swapped out (there will be more mice).
With the TDRS launch slipping to the 20th, is the 14th still safe?
Quote from: ChrisGebhardt on 07/25/2017 06:05 pmQuote from: ChrisGebhardt on 07/25/2017 05:01 pmQuote from: gongora on 07/21/2017 10:23 pmPart of the decision on scrub turnarounds will depend on whether the biological experiments need to be swapped out (there will be more mice).Is this confirmed (i.e. can you point me to a link)? I'm writing up an article about CRS-12 and I'd like to take about scrub turnaround options if there are going to be mouse-tronauts on CRS-12. Thanks.Confirmed by NASA Kennedy PAO. "There are rodents." 🐭🐭🐭Rodent Research 9 for NASA and the Mouse Habitat Unit - 2 (or Mouse House) for JAXA.Sorry I can't remember or find where this was posted, but I'm sure I've seen a post by someone who seemed to be in the know about the mice swapping options, they explained that they prepare two sets of mice and each set can handle a single 24 scrub, so that means you attempt on day 1, again on day 2 and then if needed you need to swap to try day 4 and 5.Perhaps that post was specific to that launch and not a general rule?For CRS-11 and the 48 delay on the first scrub, it's possible that they elected to swap after one scrub because the weather was expected to be bad on the 2nd and much better on the 3rd, if they attempted on the 2nd and scrubbed they'd lose the opportunity to launch on the 3rd, so they elected to swap after one scrub and give themselves better chance on the 3rd. (just speculation)
Quote from: abaddon on 07/27/2017 03:56 pmWith the TDRS launch slipping to the 20th, is the 14th still safe?at this time yes.
https://www.army.mil/article/191708/smdc_prepares_for_upcoming_kestrel_eye_launchREDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama -- One U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command team is preparing for an out of this world product launch.The USASMDC/ARSTRAT Technical Center's Kestrel Eye is a small, low-cost, visible-imagery satellite designed to provide images rapidly to the tactical-level ground Warfighter.
Quote from: Targeteer on 08/04/2017 08:47 pmhttps://www.army.mil/article/191708/smdc_prepares_for_upcoming_kestrel_eye_launchREDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama -- One U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command team is preparing for an out of this world product launch.The USASMDC/ARSTRAT Technical Center's Kestrel Eye is a small, low-cost, visible-imagery satellite designed to provide images rapidly to the tactical-level ground Warfighter. Forgive my ignorance. Are military payloads permitted to be serviced by the ISS? From the article, I gathered that the station crew will deploy the Kestrel Eye directly from the Dragon, so it won't ever be "aboard" the station. Still, it seems to me that other ISS partners might look askance at an operation that used the station to help test U.S. military hardware. What is the policy in this regard?
Forgive my ignorance. Are military payloads permitted to be serviced by the ISS?
Quote from: WindyCity on 08/05/2017 10:40 pmForgive my ignorance. Are military payloads permitted to be serviced by the ISS?This is not the first time that a military cubesat has been deployed from the ISS. The US/Australian Biarri military cubesat was deployed from the ISS on 18 May. There may also be other military cubesats that have been deployed that we don't know about. That might explain why Nanoracks is so secretive in announcing the payloads they are launching to ISS.
Biarri-Point is quite a mystery, as it has been claimed to be deployed, but has not been catalogized. I am not sure, if it has been indeed deployed. Perhaps it was to be deployed and was left stuck in the deployer. Or it remained stuck to another cubesat and has a shared ID with this one.
Quote from: Skyrocket on 08/06/2017 03:49 pmBiarri-Point is quite a mystery, as it has been claimed to be deployed, but has not been catalogized. I am not sure, if it has been indeed deployed. Perhaps it was to be deployed and was left stuck in the deployer. Or it remained stuck to another cubesat and has a shared ID with this one. Biarri-Point has been deployed. At the South Australian Space Forum on 7 June, a defence presentation mentioned that it had been deployed from ISS on 18 May and was being tested before the payload was turned on. They even showed a photo of it in orbit. I don't know why it hasn't been catalogued.
Maybe the mistery of Biarri-Point is solved?https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/894330390055444481