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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #20 on: 03/31/2018 03:23 am »
GO Quest has been sent out and she looks to be following the CRS-14 trajectory. There are no fairings, so this is likely related to a first stage water landing test. Based on the hazard zones, there probably won't be a boostback burn.

Edit: Oh, and I know the destination says Jacksonville on MarineTraffic. They went their last time for maintenance. I believe that's just outdated from the previous trip.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #21 on: 03/31/2018 03:48 pm »
Launch hazard area

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #22 on: 03/31/2018 04:57 pm »
L-2 lunch weather forecast, no real change - still 80% GO:

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Launch day probability of violating launch weather constraints: 20%
Primary concern(s): Flight Through Precipitation, Cumulus Cloud Rule
   
Delay day probability of violating launch weather constraints: 20%
Primary concern(s): Cumulus Cloud Rule, Thick Cloud Layer Rule

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #23 on: 03/31/2018 11:21 pm »
Well, this just appeared on YouTube.



Scheduled for Apr 2, 2018SpaceX is targeting Monday, April 2 for an instantaneous launch of its fourteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-14) at 4:30 p.m. EDT, or 20:30 UTC, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

An instantaneous backup launch opportunity is on Tuesday, April 3 at 4:08 p.m. EDT, or 20:08 UTC. Dragon will separate from Falcon 9’s second stage about 10 minutes after liftoff and attach to the space station on Wednesday, April 4.

Both Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft for the CRS-14 mission are flight-proven. Falcon 9’s first stage previously supported the CRS-12 mission in August 2017 and Dragon previously supported the CRS-8 mission in April 2016.

SpaceX will not attempt to recover Falcon 9’s first stage after launch.

Dragon will be filled with about 5,800 pounds of supplies, payloads and vehicle hardware, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that will occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

SpaceX CRS-14 is the fourteenth of up to 20 missions to the International Space Station that SpaceX will fly for NASA under the first CRS contract. In January 2016, NASA announced that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft were selected to resupply the space station through 2024 as part of a second Commercial Resupply Services contract award. Under the CRS contracts, SpaceX has restored an American capability to deliver and return significant amounts of cargo, including live plants and animals, to and from the orbiting laboratory. A variant of the Dragon spacecraft, called Crew Dragon, is being developed for U.S.- based crew transport to and from the space station.

On Wednesday, April 4 International Space Station crew members will use the station’s 57.7-foot (17.6-meter) robotic arm to reach out and capture the Dragon spacecraft and attach it to the orbiting laboratory.

Dragon will return to Earth with more than 3,900 pounds of cargo after an approximately one-month stay at the International Space Station. About five hours after Dragon leaves the space station, it will conduct its deorbit burn, which lasts up to 10 minutes. It takes about 30 minutes for Dragon to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere and splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.

For more information about the mission and payloads, visit www.nasa.gov/spacex.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #24 on: 03/31/2018 11:28 pm »
PRESS KIT
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #25 on: 04/01/2018 12:32 am »
Here is the patch:
8 stars= previously flown Dragon from CRS-8

PRESS KIT
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #26 on: 04/01/2018 04:33 pm »
L-1 day launch briefing is at 16:00 EDT (20:00 UTC) today.

If you have any questions specifically about CRS-14, PM me and I'll try to ask what I can.  (NOTE to other mods: I will remove this from the updates thread once the briefing starts, but I'm putting this here so people will see it.)
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #27 on: 04/01/2018 05:54 pm »
L-1 day weather.  No changes at all.

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #28 on: 04/01/2018 06:35 pm »
Science going up.

5,800 lbs of experiments headed to orbit on Dragon/CRS-14, including external experiments.

55/56 Increment, 280 experiments going on.  CRS-14 will help progress of 50 of those. 

ISS has now performed fo 2,500 experiments, 3,000 PIs, and 1,500 peer reviewed science papers they've bene able to track.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #29 on: 04/01/2018 06:37 pm »
Bone marrow experiment going up to see if fat cell creation happens at expense of red blood production.

Fluid shifts to study effects of microgravity to vision.

Bone turnover improvements - how bones regenerate to learn about age-related bone issues on the ground.

Cardiopulmonary study, advanced clothing studies.

All experiments are internationally related.  All use ISS crew as subjects.

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #30 on: 04/01/2018 06:39 pm »
Tech side:

Computer systems, multi-platform system performance.

Creating solid and metals through heat.

MISSE is being use for validation that the MISSE facility works.

SpaceX will return cargo for bio research.  Bringing hardware home, too -- Robonaut is coming home (launched on STS-133/Discovery)

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #31 on: 04/01/2018 06:43 pm »
APEX-6:

Looking for seed germination and how roots grow in microgravity.  Harvesting tissue and doing genetic expression analysis back on Earth.  Data will be made available to community at large.  It will NOT come back on this mission.

Coming back is a previous planet growth experiment that studied growth in different gravity environments (it launched on CRS-13 in December 2013).

Designed to understand planet growth to look at best plants and growth methods for interplanetary missions.

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #32 on: 04/01/2018 06:45 pm »
Materials experiment:

Making metal with nothing but heat.  Issue with this is that pours form more readily in microgravity creation of solid.  If we need to make parts to repair equipment, we've got to understand what's happening with making alloys in space.

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #33 on: 04/01/2018 06:49 pm »
CASIS updates:

Some companies sending continuation paylaods/experiments up to Station.

Talking about balance between SpaceX and Orbital ATK -- SpaceX missions tend to focus more on life sciences missions because of Dragon's return capability v. Cygnus which focuses more on materials experiments.

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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #34 on: 04/01/2018 06:52 pm »
Robonaut - stopped powering up.  Crew performed troubleshooting.  Some short in electrical system that not there in Robonaut onboard v. those on ground. 

Should go back up on another commercial resupply

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« Reply #36 on: 04/01/2018 06:58 pm »
Bioluminescence experiment going up, too.  New tech called auto-bioluminescence that get continuously monitor any living cell (instead of snapshots) and track metabolic activity in real-life.  Light is used to judge health of cell.

Important because on Earth this can reduce the cost of therapeutic compounds.

Glowing cells will be treated on ISS and ground to demonstrate effectiveness of therapeutic compounds of those already approved for human use and those that failed to pass measures to use in humans and comparing result to allow companies to better understand what compounds won't work - thus saving money.

Goal is to send up cells, get data back digitally or physically if needed.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #37 on: 04/01/2018 07:09 pm »
Atmosphere Space Interaction Monitor

Studying severe thunderstorms - gigantic lightning shooting upward from thunderstorms (we've only known of them for about 15 years) and flashes of high radiation (terrestrial gamma ray flashes).  First experiment to look for these things in space.

Instruments: x- and gamma-ray monitor and cameras.

External experiment that will be mounted to ESA Columbus module.

Interested in what these flashes are?  We know the physics but not how they are generated.  This combo of instruments will take the first step of understanding these further.  In the dilute atmosphere, everything happens slower (and larger) than it does closer to the ground. So it will look a lightning sub-processes.  ISS provides "balcony view" of these storms. If we know about lightning, we know more about what it does to the atmosphere.

Guaranteed 2 years outside ESA Columbus.
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« Reply #38 on: 04/01/2018 07:15 pm »
Multi-use Variable-g Platform

New platform from TechShot to host experiments on ISS. "provides the picks and shovels that others use to make discoveries."

About the size of a large microwave oven.  Aside from crew inserting and removing experiment module from the overall device, it's all automated and controlled from facility in Greenville, Indiana, or Space Life Science Lab at KSC.

NASA will use the facility first to validate it.  The experiments from NASA will be: fruit flies to study effect of spaceflight on immune system against a pathogen for fruit flies and humans (i.e.: does the pathogenicity of a pathogen change in microgravity and how does changes in an immune system in microgravity effect the host's ability to combat the pathogen.

First experiment has 600 fruit flies.  When it comes back in a month, they expect 100 times more fruits flies to return.

This new hardware helps because:
1) Sample size - good population sample size allowed with this new unit.  You can then get new generations of fruit flies over several months to a year.
2) Centrifuge provides 1g environment in space so that you can differentiate if its gravity of other aspect of space that affects the fruit flies; also also to distinguish between shock of launch and landing.
3) it's the "Tesla" of what we need.  It has temp control and humidity control.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-14 : April 2, 2018 - Updates
« Reply #39 on: 04/01/2018 07:23 pm »
Food.  In.  Space!

7 new ways of growing plants in space experiments are launching on CRS-14.  This will test replacement of VEGGIE units, which have seen issue with uniformity of growth on the ISS.

Another round of these goes up in May on OA-9E/Cygnus.

They can get 3 or 4 harvests from these plants, not just one.

Same weight as VEGGIE units.  But VEGGIE units are one-and-done, whereas these new units are built for reuse.
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