Author Topic: LIVE: SpaceX CRS-3 Dragon - RNDZ, Berthing, ISS Ops - UPDATES (Read 130365 times)

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #40 on:** 04/20/2014 10:03 am »

She's getting big in the window.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #41 on:** 04/20/2014 10:04 am »

70 mins to capture.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #42 on:** 04/20/2014 10:08 am »

Strobe flashing.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #43 on:** 04/20/2014 10:10 am »

30 meter hold will involve another go/no go polling.

Currently 50 meters out.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #44 on:** 04/20/2014 10:13 am »

All very quiet on the loop - which is a good thing.

Targeteer · « **Reply #45 on:** 04/20/2014 10:14 am »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 04/20/2014 10:13 am

All very quiet on the loop

In stark contrast to a Russian segment vehicle approach

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #46 on:** 04/20/2014 10:15 am »

Nice and speedy array movement there.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #47 on:** 04/20/2014 10:16 am »

At the 30 meter hold point.

Targeteer · « **Reply #48 on:** 04/20/2014 10:16 am »

at 30m

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #49 on:** 04/20/2014 10:17 am »

Waiting for sunrise to continue towards the arm.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #50 on:** 04/20/2014 10:18 am »

Flying over South America, passing over Chile.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #51 on:** 04/20/2014 10:22 am »

Sat patiently, waiting for sunrise.

(I say sat, both vehicles are absolutely racing through space at 17,500mph - so hard to get one's head around that via this footage)

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #52 on:** 04/20/2014 10:24 am »

Crew ready for approach to 10 meters. MCC-H working a solid plan on the link between the spacecraft.

Targeteer · « **Reply #53 on:** 04/20/2014 10:24 am »

UHF comm link still misbehaving

15 minutes before pressing in due to lighting

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #54 on:** 04/20/2014 10:25 am »

15 mins to press. It's still the short comm dropouts that MCC-H are working on.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #55 on:** 04/20/2014 10:26 am »

Comm dropouts impact for 10 seconds for a reboot. Only a problem if the drop outs were 50 seconds long. In that event, Dragon would abort.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #56 on:** 04/20/2014 10:33 am »

MCC-H and MCC-X happy for Dragon to approach to 10 meters, shortly.

Targeteer · « **Reply #57 on:** 04/20/2014 10:39 am »

no channel swaps for 30 minutes

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #58 on:** 04/20/2014 10:39 am »

No channel swaps in the last 30 minutes, per MCC-H. Looks good.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #59 on:** 04/20/2014 10:39 am »

Ready for approach to 10 meters very shortly.