Third time's the charm, right? Is there any way to fly the hexacopter over the barge drone ship? I doubt it, but it would be really cool if they could pull it off.
Quote from: UberNobody on 05/03/2015 08:19 pmThird time's the charm, right? Is there any way to fly the hexacopter over the barge drone ship? I doubt it, but it would be really cool if they could pull it off.Just before CRS-6, SpaceX tweeted an aerial photo of the barge on station, presumably taken from a hexacopter.https://mobile.twitter.com/SpaceX/status/587430225572601859
Is there any way to fly the hexacopter over the barge drone ship? I doubt it, but it would be really cool if they could pull it off.
Quote from: Kabloona on 05/03/2015 09:14 pmQuote from: UberNobody on 05/03/2015 08:19 pmThird time's the charm, right? Is there any way to fly the hexacopter over the barge drone ship? I doubt it, but it would be really cool if they could pull it off.Just before CRS-6, SpaceX tweeted an aerial photo of the barge on station, presumably taken from a hexacopter.https://mobile.twitter.com/SpaceX/status/587430225572601859That's a lot of presuming. But drones are cool so that's probably what happened....right?
Quote from: corrodedNut on 05/03/2015 09:29 pmQuote from: Kabloona on 05/03/2015 09:14 pmQuote from: UberNobody on 05/03/2015 08:19 pmThird time's the charm, right? Is there any way to fly the hexacopter over the barge drone ship? I doubt it, but it would be really cool if they could pull it off.Just before CRS-6, SpaceX tweeted an aerial photo of the barge on station, presumably taken from a hexacopter.https://mobile.twitter.com/SpaceX/status/587430225572601859That's a lot of presuming. But drones are cool so that's probably what happened....right?No, it probably happened that way not because drones are cool, but because SpaceX has used them extensively to video Grasshopper test flights and to photgraph the barge from the air in the past.The only other alternative is that SpaceX sent an airplane or a helicopter 200 miles out to take an aerial photo of the barge on station, which would be much more expensive than simply launching a hexacopter from GO Quest.
Do you really think the spotter aircraft would attempt to film the landing without a practice run?
Anyone heard if the Progress failure is going to affect CRS-7 schedule yet?
I don't think this date can stay the 19th. There will 1 USOS crew member to capture the Dragon and I'm not sure that is allowed by flight rules. The Cosmonauts likely have little to no training on rendezvous or capture operations There will also only be Scott to do all the internal steps to open the Dragon, unload it, and carry out all the experiments launched. Getting Cosmonaut help for USOS tasks takes coordination and history shows that assistance is rare. Installation of the IDA will also have to the await arrival of Kjell.
SpaceX hopes that the next attempt to land its Falcon 9 reusable launch vehicle will occur on solid ground.While not providing details of when or where that attempt would occur, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX President and COO, told Defense News on Wednesday that the company hopes its next attempted landing will take place on land, not at sea.
Quote from: Targeteer on 05/12/2015 08:49 pmI don't think this date can stay the 19th. There will 1 USOS crew member to capture the Dragon and I'm not sure that is allowed by flight rules. The Cosmonauts likely have little to no training on rendezvous or capture operations There will also only be Scott to do all the internal steps to open the Dragon, unload it, and carry out all the experiments launched. Getting Cosmonaut help for USOS tasks takes coordination and history shows that assistance is rare. Installation of the IDA will also have to the await arrival of Kjell.The above was posted in the Expedition 43 thread in the ISS forum. If this is correct, the whole visiting vehicle schedule for the rest of the year will have to be completely tossed. If the next Soyuz launch doesn't bring up the next group until late July, we probably won't see CRS-7 go up until early August. Which then means the HTV, CRS-8, and Orbital CRS-4 will all be seriously delayed.
Shotwell had been quoted as saying they'd like to land on land the next time. Is there any indication that they'll be given a chance to do that for this CRS-7 ?
Quote from: yokem55 on 05/12/2015 10:35 pmQuote from: Targeteer on 05/12/2015 08:49 pmI don't think this date can stay the 19th. There will 1 USOS crew member to capture the Dragon and I'm not sure that is allowed by flight rules. The Cosmonauts likely have little to no training on rendezvous or capture operations There will also only be Scott to do all the internal steps to open the Dragon, unload it, and carry out all the experiments launched. Getting Cosmonaut help for USOS tasks takes coordination and history shows that assistance is rare. Installation of the IDA will also have to the await arrival of Kjell.The above was posted in the Expedition 43 thread in the ISS forum. If this is correct, the whole visiting vehicle schedule for the rest of the year will have to be completely tossed. If the next Soyuz launch doesn't bring up the next group until late July, we probably won't see CRS-7 go up until early August. Which then means the HTV, CRS-8, and Orbital CRS-4 will all be seriously delayed. Any chance that SpaceX can accelerate CRS-7, to catch Virts and Cristoforetti? Unlikely I know...
The Russians had planned to launch the Soyuz TMA-17M ferry ship on May 26 to carry spacecraft commander Oleg Kononenko, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren to the lab complex to boost the crew back to six. That flight now is on hold until late July.In the meantime, the Russians hope to accelerate processing of another Progress supply ship, moving launch of the M-28M/60P resupply spacecraft from Aug. 6 to early July. A U.S. resupply mission managed by SpaceX remains targeted for June 19, but sources say that flight could slip a week or so due to unrelated issues.
Quote from: sanman on 05/12/2015 10:47 pmShotwell had been quoted as saying they'd like to land on land the next time. Is there any indication that they'll be given a chance to do that for this CRS-7 ?Not that we've heard down here on L1, but maybe L2 has something. It sounds rather like wishful thinking to me, but maybe something is going on behind the scenes with the range that we don't know about. It would also require LC-13 to be ready, and we haven't had any recent status reports on construction progress there.