Author Topic: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD10 - EOM - UNBERTH, ENTRY, SPLASHDOWN (Read 294444 times)

Alpha Control · « **Reply #141 on:** 05/31/2012 03:05 pm »

Entry Interface scheduled for 10:25 CT (11:25 EDT).

Chris-A · « **Reply #142 on:** 05/31/2012 03:09 pm »

thomson · « **Reply #143 on:** 05/31/2012 03:13 pm »

Successful trunk jettison.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #144 on:** 05/31/2012 03:15 pm »

Josh confirms that any live video from the recovery assets will be fed into NTV.

Alpha Control · « **Reply #145 on:** 05/31/2012 03:15 pm »

10 min. from Entry Interface.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #146 on:** 05/31/2012 03:17 pm »

brodo · « **Reply #147 on:** 05/31/2012 03:19 pm »

blackout from 10:27 to 10:33 to be expected

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #148 on:** 05/31/2012 03:19 pm »

Blackout in seven minutes.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #149 on:** 05/31/2012 03:22 pm »

Closing in on EI (Entry Interface).

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #150 on:** 05/31/2012 03:23 pm »

MCC-H have a green board on the data they are being fed (MCC-X in full control).

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #151 on:** 05/31/2012 03:24 pm »

Chris-A · « **Reply #152 on:** 05/31/2012 03:25 pm »

20 minutes to splashdown.

Alpha Control · « **Reply #153 on:** 05/31/2012 03:26 pm »

Dragon at EI (Entry Interface).

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #154 on:** 05/31/2012 03:26 pm »

ISS Crew attempt to spot Dragon.

Chris-A · « **Reply #155 on:** 05/31/2012 03:27 pm »

#SpaceX

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During today's descent, dual drogue parachutes will deploy at 45,000 feet to stabilize and slow ‪#Dragon‬.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #156 on:** 05/31/2012 03:27 pm »

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #157 on:** 05/31/2012 03:28 pm »

Now into the expected blackout. Should regain comms at 33 minutes past the hour.

Silmfeanor · « **Reply #158 on:** 05/31/2012 03:31 pm »

Flying assets say they are starting to see peeks of dragon on their instruments - no live coverage yet.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #159 on:** 05/31/2012 03:31 pm »

Observations of Dragon re-entry noted. No video yet.

Telemetry looks good.