Weather briefing for possible undock tomorrow has moved to 1600Z from 1100Z.
Weather forecast is to press for undock at 0100 tomorrow [Oct 22 UTC]. WInds are probably too high for landing near Panama City but get worse the following days so this is the best shot. Later models will updated overnight.
https://twitter.com/commercial_crew/status/1848057703039709429QuoteNASA and SpaceX teams have seen a marginal improvement in forecast weather conditions in potential splashdown sites off the coast of Florida for the return of the Crew-8 mission. The teams are proceeding closer to undock in order to get better resolution on the weather forecast, targeting no earlier than undocking of the spacecraft at 9:05 p.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 21. Pending weather conditions, the earliest splashdown opportunity for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is about 12:55 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22. The next weather briefing will take place at 9 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 21.
NASA and SpaceX teams have seen a marginal improvement in forecast weather conditions in potential splashdown sites off the coast of Florida for the return of the Crew-8 mission. The teams are proceeding closer to undock in order to get better resolution on the weather forecast, targeting no earlier than undocking of the spacecraft at 9:05 p.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 21. Pending weather conditions, the earliest splashdown opportunity for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is about 12:55 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22. The next weather briefing will take place at 9 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 21.
CAPCOM update, weather is no go for undocking, so next attempt is Wednesday at 0100.
https://twitter.com/commercial_crew/status/1848390692844032112QuoteWeather conditions near the multiple splashdown sites off Florida’s coast remain unfavorable for the return of NASA’s SpaceX #Crew8 mission from @Space_Station.Forecasts remain marginal for an undocking on Tuesday, Oct. 22, and Wednesday, Oct. 23.If weather conditions improve, NASA and SpaceX will target no earlier than 9:05pm ET, Oct. 22, for undocking from the space station.More: https://go.nasa.gov/3UijkKG
Weather conditions near the multiple splashdown sites off Florida’s coast remain unfavorable for the return of NASA’s SpaceX #Crew8 mission from @Space_Station.Forecasts remain marginal for an undocking on Tuesday, Oct. 22, and Wednesday, Oct. 23.If weather conditions improve, NASA and SpaceX will target no earlier than 9:05pm ET, Oct. 22, for undocking from the space station.More: https://go.nasa.gov/3UijkKG
JAXA JDOCX on HTV-X2 to IDA-Z:
International Space Station @Space_StationThree @NASA_Astronauts and one Roscosmos cosmonaut, representing the @SpaceX #Crew8 mission, undocked from the space station aboard Dragon at 5:05pm ET today.
At 5:05 p.m. EDT, NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin undocked from the forward-facing port of International Space Station’s Harmony module aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.NASA’s return coverage continues with real-time, audio only commentary, and full coverage will resume at the start of the splashdown broadcast. The audio feed will remain available, including astronaut conversations with mission control, in addition to a live video feed from the orbiting laboratory.NASA’s coverage will resume at 2:15 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25, on NASA+ and the agency’s website until Dragon splashes down at approximately 3:29 a.m. off the coast of Florida, and Crew-8 members are safely recovered. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.
Dragon and Crew-8 autonomously undocked from the International Space Station at 5:05 p.m. ET on Wednesday, October 23. After performing a series of departure burns to move away from the space station, Dragon will now conduct multiple orbit-lowering maneuvers, jettison the trunk, and re-enter Earth’s atmosphere for splashdown off the coast of Florida in approximately 34 hours at 3:29 a.m. ET on Friday, October 25.
October 23 - October 25 Event3:20 p.m. | October 23 Dragon Hatch Closure5:05 p.m. | October 23 Dragon Autonomously Undocks from the International Space Station5:05 p.m. | October 23 Departure Burn 05:10 p.m. | October 23 Departure Burn 15:58 p.m. | October 23 Departure Burn 26:44 p.m. | October 23 Departure Burn 32:34 a.m. | October 25 Trunk Jettison2:39 a.m. | October 25 Deorbit Burn2:51 a.m. | October 25 Nosecone Closed3:25 a.m. | October 25 Drogue Parachutes Deploy3:26 a.m. | October 25 Main Parachutes Deploy3:29 a.m. | October 25 Dragon Splashdown
During a Rob Navias update, Nov 3rd revealed as the date for Crew 9 Dragon relocation to zenith port.
The briefing answered (in the affirmative) one question I had, namely as to whether there would be any trunk cargo:https://science.nasa.gov/mission/codex/Here's a link to a video showing the ROBO ops they'll use to install it on ELC-3.https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14647#media_group_375201
William Harwood @cbs_spacenewsCrew 8: The descent will begin with an 8-minute 20-second deorbit burn starting at 2:39am (0639 UTC), slowing the ship by about 130 mph - just enough to drop the far side of the orbit into the discernible atmosphere around 3:17am (0717 UTC); following a southwest-to-northeast trajectory, the spacecraft will streak across Mexico/Central America before splashing down south of Pensacola, Florida
William Harwood @cbs_spacenewsCrew 8: Deorbit ignition confirmed; this is a planned 8-minute 20-second burn, changing the spacecraft's velocity by about 130 mph, or 59.1 m/s
William Harwood @cbs_spacenewsCrew 8: Deorbit burn complete; nosecone closure momentarily; atmospheric entry expected at ~3:17am (0717 UTC); splashdown at 3:29am (0729 UTC)
William Harwood @cbs_spacenewsCrew 8: SPLASHDOWN! At ~3:29am EDT (0729 UTC); mission duration: 235 days 3 hours and 35 minutes since launch from the Kennedy Space Center on March 3; this was the longest flight by any piloted U.S. spacecraft in the history of the American space program
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589Dragon Crew-8 splashdown in Gulf of Mexico off Pensacola at 0729:02 UTC Oct 25
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University July 29 ·Welcome to the EagleSat Lab at Embry-Riddle's Prescott Campus!Our lab is the heart of the EagleSat space grant project, currently focused on EagleSat-2. This innovative satellite is designed to analyze the degradation of memory and data on modern solid-state memory devices.Once launched in Q1-2025, our ground station will communicate with EagleSat-2 for about nine minutes daily as it passes overhead. The satellite transmits telemetry signals on a 435.7 MHz amateur radio frequency, using the AX.25 protocol and 2-GFSK modulation.
Students at YUAA are building Yale's first CubeSat in partnership with the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative. After its inception in 2015 and a rocky initialization that featured multiple complete overhauls as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, the project entered development in 2021 and is now nearing integration with a launch No Earlier Than spring 2025.The Bouchet Low-earth Alpha/Beta Space Telescope (BLAST) is named in honor of Edward Bouchet, the first African American to earn a PhD at Yale. BLAST will hitch a ride to the International Space Station in low-earth orbit and deploy from the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer. Following an autonomous active detumbling phase (2-4 days), ground control will signal extension of a gravity gradient boom for passive stabilization (2-8 weeks), after which a scintillator-based cosmic ray detector will begin recording energy-resolved cosmic ray events that will be downlinked and published to enable astrophysical investigation for students and scientists around the world. BLAST is planned to remain in orbit for 1 year.
