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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #480 on: 05/24/2012 05:58 pm »

Grapple is supposed to occur sometime around 8:00 am CST.

Your confusion begins by not living in the US and understanding our timezones ;) We are on Daylight Saving Time, so in Houston it is CDT (one hour ahead of CST.)

I live in and was born in Texas. I know about the one hour ahead, thats not the problem, the problem is one part of the mission schedule says grapple at 9 am eastern and another part says hatch opening at 5 am eastern on the same day.

Which of course makes no sense hence my confusion.
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #481 on: 05/24/2012 06:09 pm »
I think the grapple is for Friday while the hatch opening is for Saturday. They worded it weirdly, and that threw me off as well. But if you check the header, it indicates that the hatch opening is Saturday AM.
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #482 on: 05/24/2012 06:10 pm »
I think the grapple is for Friday while the hatch opening is for Saturday. They worded it weirdly, and that threw me off as well. But if you check the header, it indicates that the hatch opening is Saturday AM.

Meaning the grapple should be at 9 Am eastern Fri, hatch open Sat 5 Am?
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #483 on: 05/24/2012 06:13 pm »
I think the grapple is for Friday while the hatch opening is for Saturday. They worded it weirdly, and that threw me off as well. But if you check the header, it indicates that the hatch opening is Saturday AM.

Meaning the grapple should be at 9 Am eastern Fri, hatch open Sat 5 Am?

Correct.


FRIDAY MORNING – Final Approach, Dragon Grapple

 
Sometime around 6:00 AM Pacific/9:00 AM Eastern, astronauts on the space station will grapple Dragon with the space station’s robotic arm and the spacecraft will attach to the station.

 

SATURDAY MORNING – Hatch Opening

 

If all goes well, at approximately 2:00 AM Pacific/5:00 AM Eastern, the crew will start procedures to open Dragon’s hatch.

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #484 on: 05/24/2012 06:36 pm »
Is there any way to update the acronym list or something?   I forgot what DCE and all the other burns and so forth mean.

I just went thru the thread again, but no could find.

Is there a thread somewhere (in the FAQ section???) to post about acronyms that might be candidates for inclusion in the acronym list?
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #485 on: 05/24/2012 06:37 pm »
http://twitter.com/#/SpaceX/status/205728761319137280

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #486 on: 05/24/2012 06:43 pm »
If somebody could help fill this out it'd be a big help.
HA1 – Height Adjustment 1
CE1 – Co-Elliptic 1
HA2 – Height Adjustment 2
CE2 – Co-Elliptic 2
DHA – D? Height Adjust
DCE – D? Co-Elliptic
FHA1 - Flyby Height Adjust burn 1
FCE1 – Flyby Co-Elliptic 1
FHA2 - Flyby Height Adjust burn 2
FCE2 – Flyby Co-Elliptic 2
RHA1 – Rear Height Adjust
RCE2 – Rear Co-Elliptic
« Last Edit: 05/24/2012 06:43 pm by ChefPat »
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #487 on: 05/24/2012 07:04 pm »
Is there any way to update the acronym list or something?   I forgot what DCE and all the other burns and so forth mean.

I just went thru the thread again, but no could find.

I have been compiling one at http://nssphoenix.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/cots-23-acronyms/

Here is a screen shot.  Correct me if I missed a definition.

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #488 on: 05/24/2012 07:09 pm »
You've got CUCU labelled at CUCO.  Other than that I don't see anything wrong.

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #489 on: 05/24/2012 07:12 pm »
You've got CUCU labelled at CUCO.  Other than that I don't see anything wrong.

Thanks.  Fixed.

Any definitions that you folks want added?
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #490 on: 05/24/2012 07:22 pm »
To the best of my understanding, and please correct me if I am in error:

"CE" for Co-Elliptic, is a burn that is used to cirularize the orbit.  This is preceeded by any of several letters.  F seems to be for forward, used at apogee to circularize the orbit on the high end. R seems to be for Reverse, used at perigee to circularize the orbit on the low end.  D is "Descending" in the above list, which would be the same as Forward, that is, the thruster exhaust is pointed in the direction of motion. 

"HA" for Height Adjust, is  a burn used to go from a ciruclar orbit to an elliptical orbit.  This is also preceeded by any of several letters with similar meanings.

You can see this in the diagram found a few pages back of the Dragon's flight path around the station, with this morining's nadir / R-bar pass followed by a climb, a falling back, and a descent to the starting point.

edit: corrected typo
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...  D is "Descending" in the above list, which would be the same as Forward, that is, the thruster exhaust is pointed in the direction of motion. 
A descending burn would move to a lower orbit, which would require a burn against the direction of motion. The lower orbit would also be faster, so the effect would be to "speed up". Orbital mechanics - tricky stuff.

I actually guessed that "D" in this case stood for "departure", but I have no evidence either way so I am quite prepared to believe "descending" also.
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #492 on: 05/24/2012 08:48 pm »
...  D is "Descending" in the above list, which would be the same as Forward, that is, the thruster exhaust is pointed in the direction of motion. 
A descending burn would move to a lower orbit, which would require a burn against the direction of motion. The lower orbit would also be faster, so the effect would be to "speed up". Orbital mechanics - tricky stuff.

I actually guessed that "D" in this case stood for "departure", but I have no evidence either way so I am quite prepared to believe "descending" also.
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #493 on: 05/24/2012 08:49 pm »
You've got CUCU labelled at CUCO.  Other than that I don't see anything wrong.

Thanks.  Fixed.

Any definitions that you folks want added?

will get a list started  ::)
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #495 on: 05/24/2012 10:07 pm »
mod edit: please do not embed images
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #496 on: 05/24/2012 10:12 pm »
Some great pics of Dragon here http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/7263995866/in/photostream/
Woah, neat!

I made some crops of the full-res pictures:

It is interesting how different the trunk color looks depending on the lighting.
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #497 on: 05/24/2012 10:15 pm »
Are we looking at trunk charring from the Draco thrusters? Are those shadows? Must be shadows.
« Last Edit: 05/24/2012 10:18 pm by mr. mark »

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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #498 on: 05/24/2012 10:17 pm »
Just shadows, it seems. Here is another one:

I can't wait to see how much better the pictures will be tonight - since these were taken 2.4 km away.
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Re: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES
« Reply #499 on: 05/24/2012 10:18 pm »
Cropped and sharpened a bit

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