Author Topic: SpaceX F9/Dragon 2 : CRS2 SpX-31 : KSC LC-39A : 4/5 November 2024 (02:29 UTC)  (Read 43625 times)

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MCC-H has polled GO to approach Waypoint 2.
« Last Edit: 11/05/2024 01:29 pm by Yellowstone10 »

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They were having a little trouble getting the Dragon approach monitoring video up in the Cupola for Butch and Nick, but it's working now.

Also - just reached Waypoint 1.
« Last Edit: 11/05/2024 01:35 pm by Yellowstone10 »

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Inside 100 meters.

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Dragon is holding at Waypoint 2, about 20 meters out.

Also I guess Butch and Nick are in the Lab, not the Cupola.

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Dragon is GO for docking.

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Inside 10 meters.

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CHOP.

Contact and soft capture complete!

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Ring retraction complete.

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First set of 6 hooks have closed.

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Hard capture complete.

Views of MCC-Houston and all 4 NASA crew up on the ISS (Don's in the back there grabbing a snack).

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A low-res view from a camera on the JEM and a high-res view from Sen of the Dragon parked at the forward port.

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Come on, nobody looked for the extra dracos in the trunk during dragon separation when the s2 cameras were looking in the trunk?

Thursters are the (nominal) ones close to the trunk, but they're not ON the trunk itself, they're as always on the reentry capsule.
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Nov. 5, 2024: International Space Station Configuration. Six spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon Freedom, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, the Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply ship, the Soyuz MS-26 crew ship, and the Progress 88 and 89 resupply ships.

After Docking seq. complete:
Node2 forward hatch open
Vestibule press: pressure equalization valve open.
Vestibule leak check
ISS's APAS hatch open
APAS Docking target removal and protective covet hatch outfit
Dragon's hatch equalization
Dragon's hatch open
Air duct Installation
IMV fan activation


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To boldly go where no human has gone before !

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Some reusability stats for this launch (SpaceX CRS-31):

Booster B1083.5 turnaround time:
55 days 17 hours 5 minutes
(its previous mission was Polaris Dawn on Sep 10, 2024 UTC).

FYI: median turnaround time for Falcon 9 / Heavy boosters is currently 51.10 days *
* – based on the last 30 launches, excluding new first stages.

Launchpad LC-39A turnaround time:
21 days 10 hours 23 minutes
(the previous launch from this pad was Europa Clipper on Oct 14, 2024 UTC).

FYI: median turnaround time for LC-39A is currently 17.56 days *
* – based on the last 30 launches.

The same type of stats for previous SpaceX launches may be found on this spreadsheet online.

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With Lignosat, there is also Onglaisat on board Dragon.

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Taipei, Nov. 5 (CNA) "Onglaisat," a satellite co-developed by Taiwan and Japan, was successfully launched into space Tuesday (Taipei time) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the United States, according to the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA).

The small cube satellite, or CubeSat, is scheduled to reach the International Space Station (ISS) and be deployed into a 410-kilometer low Earth orbit in approximately one month to begin its test mission, according to TASA in a statement.

During the six-month mission, Onglaisat will be utilized to validate the key technologies of the newly developed remote sensing system, said TASA, which is part of Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council.

TASA said that Onglaisat, launched into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard SpaceX's CRS-31 resupply mission, will also test high-resolution data collection and image compression technologies it developed in collaboration with the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute.

Source : https://focustaiwan.tw/sci-tech/202411050021

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A better view from Sen. (SpaceX's decal adhesion technology appears to be lagging a bit...)

Nick just reported the Dragon hatch open at 1618 UTC.

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Come on, nobody looked for the extra dracos in the trunk during dragon separation when the s2 cameras were looking in the trunk?

Thursters are the (nominal) ones close to the trunk, but they're not ON the trunk itself, they're as always on the reentry capsule.

Also, for some reason, starting with CRS-29 we have not gotten S2 camera views of Dragon separation - only a Dragon trunk camera view.

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Come on, nobody looked for the extra dracos in the trunk during dragon separation when the s2 cameras were looking in the trunk?

Thursters are the (nominal) ones close to the trunk, but they're not ON the trunk itself, they're as always on the reentry capsule.

Also, for some reason, starting with CRS-29 we have not gotten S2 camera views of Dragon separation - only a Dragon trunk camera view.

What was odd about that is that the SpaceX commentator was saying that we can see the dragon floating away, while we were looking at the Mvac, could they be looking at a different feed?

(Same for the nose cone opening, the commentator was saying that we can see the nose cone opening, but we were seeing a different view)

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After 31 cargo missions, NASA finds Dragon still has some new tricks [Nov 5]

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More than just a deborbit capability

But there's another important element of this week's Draco demonstration. Notably, the primary means of maneuvering the International Space Station—both to periodically raise its altitude and avoid collisions with space debris—comes from the Russian segment of the station and the Progress spacecraft.

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, tensions between the United States and Russia have increased, and this has strained the relationship between NASA and its counterpart Roscosmos. Engineer to engineer, the working relationship remains good, but at higher diplomatic levels there are definitely concerns.

With regard to space station relations, the public war of words has quieted down since Dmitry Rogozin was sacked as director general of Roscosmos in July 2022. However, there remains the threat that an escalation in the war might necessitate a breaking of the bond between Russia and the United States in space, or Russian officials could decide the partnership is no longer working for them. Additionally, Russia has only committed to flying the station through 2028, two years fewer than NASA's goal of 2030.

Northrop Grumman and NASA have previously demonstrated the capability of the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to provide propulsive capabilities for the space station, but Dragon is more useful in that one or more of the vehicles is almost always attached to the space station. Therefore, should the Russian side of the space station go dark or even be separated from the Western side of the facility, NASA would have a fighting chance to keep the station flying on its own.

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