Author Topic: LIVE: SpaceX CRS-6 Dragon - RNDZ, Berthing, ISS Ops - UPDATES  (Read 62124 times)

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LIVE UPDATE thread for CRS-6/Spx-6 Dragon Rendezvous, Berthing and ISS Ops.

Any posts that are not updates will be removed. Other threads are available, see below.

Dragon will be grappled at 7 am (Eastern).

Main SpX-6/CRS-6 Articles:

Hot Fire:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/04/spacex-tanking-tests-in-flight-abort-falcon-9/

Launch Day Article - by William Graham
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/04/spacex-falcon-9-crs-6-dragon-stage-return/

Berthing Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/04/crs-6-dragon-berth-iss/

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Resources:

SpaceX News Articles from 2006 (Including numerous exclusive Elon interviews):
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=21862.0

SpaceX News Articles (Recent):
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/spacex/

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SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 - CRS-6/SpX-6 DISCUSSION THREAD:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36892.0

Party Thread:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=37098.0

SCRUB - ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=37186.0

LAUNCH UPDATES:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=37294.0

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Dragon SpX-6 seen from the Netherlands.
credit: Ralf Vandebergh.
source: http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=111764&PHPSESSID=ialc4auj5bmf4m8p63f5a64v73

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crew is awake and checked in during the morning DPC. Dragon approach is proceeding nominally and was 1.8km below ISS
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

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dragon range is 1000 meters
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

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Morning ;)
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4am in Houston. PAO sounds like he's feeling it ;)
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Your grapple team. (Sam doing the deed).
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Dragon on the R-Bar.
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Go/No Go to enter the KOS next.
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Sam using the Cupola RWS.
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Dragon still in stalk mode. Sneaking up at 350 meters.
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Terry's got his cameras ready.
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Go to depart 350m.
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Dragon at 250m and holding.
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Anton Shkaplerov ‏@AntonAstrey 5m ago

#Dragon is docking. 400 meters to the #ISS

 

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Hard to capture, but Dragon is flashing her lights at the Station.
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Go to depart 250m.
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Sam's finding this all rather exciting. All nominal so far.
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Scott Kelly's turned up.
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Dragon has entered 200m. CUCU abort enabled if they require it.
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20 mins to 30 meter point.
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Inside 100 meters.
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Finally back to LEE views.
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I wish someone would pan the bloody camera down.
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HA They heard me ;)
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50 mins to grapple.
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Sam has not stopped smiling! Not for a second! ;D
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Oh, hi Dragon.
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They look pretty excited indeed  ;D

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30 meters!
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30M
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Should be at 10 meters in about 20 mins.
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The best parking spot out of this world  :D

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Go to proceed to capture point.
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Dragon moving again, to 10 meters.
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Everything down the centerline.
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Waiting for KU to come back.
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Meanwhille at SpaceX

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Getting close.
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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KU video back.
« Last Edit: 04/17/2015 10:41 am by mlindner »
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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No Terry, you're supposed to use the robotic arm, not your own, to capture! ;)
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There be Dragons....
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Nice image with Kibou module.
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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Whoa! New viewpoint!
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Camera zoom in.
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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Dragon at the capture point.
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More kibou module with Dragon.
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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Crossing the terminator.
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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More kibou module with Dragon.


Really like this new view  :)

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Ready for capture.
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Going to be an orbital night time capture.
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Go for capture

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Shadows getting long.
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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MCC-H and MCC-X are go for capture.
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I like Sam's astro t-shirt.
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LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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Arm in motion
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Under 4M, having fun

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3m

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Here we go!
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2m

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Sunset.
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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1m

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Capture! 6:55 am Eastern.
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Very smooth!  :D

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Happy Sam!
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Got image with lights on.
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Sam with nice words for SpaceX saying Dragon was stready as a rock.
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Capture image sequence.
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End of webcast for now. Back in a few hours

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NASA TV signed off until later for continuing coverage of berthing.
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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Might need you guys to cover the berthing as I've got to go catch up on work.

Article updated:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/04/crs-6-dragon-berth-iss/
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If this was a first stage landing you guys would be falling all over yourselves to cover it ;)

Dragon is cool too you know! :)
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Dragon in pre-berth.

30 mins ahead of schedule!
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PAO using the word "docking"... :o
"The laws of physics are unforgiving"
~Rob: Physics instructor, Aviator

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Moving to the RTL (Ready To Latch) point.
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PAO using the word "docking"... :o

Shocking. Absolutely shocking! To whom do I write to about this? ;)
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Orbital Sunrise Sequence Start!

Oh for pity's sake. Lost KU.
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Back!
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Kissing distance.
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RTL, and into First Stage capture.
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Second stage capture confirmed.

Dragon is berthed!

(NASA's twitter jumped the gun by about five minutes ;D Although it could have been, the PAO sounded like he didn't want to cover this! Probably just tired due to it being very early morning his time)
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Nope, it was as announced. 29 minutes past the hour for berthing confirmation. NASA Twitter must have referenced first stage capture, but second stage capture is the point of berthing confirmation.
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If this was a first stage landing you guys would be falling all over yourselves to cover it ;)

Dragon is cool too you know! :)

Haha, i came back just to late.
But yeah, Dragons are cool too!  ;D
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"There's coffee in that nebula"... ehm, I mean... in that #Dragon. 
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The crew has opened the Node 2 hatch
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Houston cleared for Dragon power-up
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From the evening DPC.  Dragon is on ISS power/data and crew is go for ingress tomorrow.
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From the conversations with the ISS crew, it appears that they are unloading the Dragon.

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Terry Virts and I in our Dragon slaying gear (vehicle entry protection equipment) today.

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If you were hoping to hear or see any of the rodent/mice activities on ISS, don't count on it.  After extensive audio discussion of problems setting up two testing facilities this morning, once simple movement of the mice to those facilities was started, it was done in a total video/audio blackout.  CAPCOM just confirmed that video restrictions had been lifted and that both Houston and Marshall could once again be called on SG--2 because SG-3 was no longer privatized.  The fact that the test subjects would be euthanized, dissected, and frozen on orbit was grudgingly acknowledged in pre-flight briefings but apparently any coverage of those activities is considered too sensitive, disturbing, or otherwise unacceptable to the general public on the open feed...
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An update on Dragon unloading:

https://twitter.com/astrosamantha/status/592260400252592128

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Sam Cristoforetti @AstroSamantha:
10:34am - 26 Apr 15

#Dragon berthed to ISS. It's almost empty inside now - we worked hard on unloading it this past week!
pic.twitter.com/Ill2gDROXq

Edit: added tweet time
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ISS043E125469 (04/18/2015) --- A dying sun turns the Earth gold with cities sparkling to match the stars that spread out from the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Terry Verts tweeted this wondrous image with the attached comment about the stars: " See those light clusters? (center sky left and right)They are Magellanic clouds, a duo of dwarf galaxies seen from the southern hemisphere".
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Working on packing Dragon

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti packing cargo for the the Dragon cargo ferry on the International Space Station.

The spacecraft brought fresh supplies and experiments to the weightless research laboratory. Samantha has been performing experiments as diverse as studying fruit flies, investigating small particles in liquids, looking at microscopic worms and growing plants.

Samantha published this image with the text: “Working on packing Dragon...”

Follow Samantha via http://samanthacristoforetti.esa.int/

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/05/Working_on_packing_Dragon

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Classic Star Wars death star rubbish dump recreation.

Ok, maybe not.
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Classic Star Wars death star rubbish dump recreation.

Ok, maybe not.

"I think there's something alive in here"

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Is the polygon out by the Marshall Islands the trunk debris hazard zone? How about the smaller white polygon?

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Is the polygon out by the Marshall Islands the trunk debris hazard zone? How about the smaller white polygon?

Perhaps the trunk breaks apart soon after entry interface, and the lower ballistic coefficient solar panel arrays (which are made of aluminum honeycomb carbon composite sandwich, IIRC) reenter uprange from the rest of the trunk. Either that or there's an alternative splashdown zone for a non-lifting, ballistic reentry (off nominal)
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SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule is seen here docked to the Earth facing port of the Harmony module. SpaceX's sixth commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station launched on April 14th and arrived three days later. It will depart with over 3,100 pounds of research samples and equipment and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on May 21.
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Alrighty! New thread for unberthing and EOM ops next.

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=37614.0
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