With Iridium slipping to Sat 3/31, let's preempt a few questions:1. Odds of this effecting CRS-14 = Almost no chance2. Station will take priority for Visiting Vehicle schedule3. 2 days btw 2 launches is totally doable.
M1382 CRS-14 Launch Hazard Areas visualization based on issued NOTMAR and NOTAMs.Green launch hazard area A doesn't include LZ-1 this time. Orange landing/splashdown area B is relatively far away compare to previous CRS missions.Despite the FCC application referring to LZ-1 recovery, this is apparently expendable mission for block4 B1039.2.
Even though SpaceX expends their boosters for a reason, I'm getting sick and tired of them doing "expendable" missions rather than landing the boosters.
I know it’s an optical illusion but it sure looked like vehicles were awfully close to the pad during the static fire
Quote from: ZachS09 on 03/29/2018 08:30 pmEven though SpaceX expends their boosters for a reason, I'm getting sick and tired of them doing "expendable" missions rather than landing the boosters.I feel that same. Isn't that amazing?
Quote from: mme on 03/29/2018 08:46 pmQuote from: ZachS09 on 03/29/2018 08:30 pmEven though SpaceX expends their boosters for a reason, I'm getting sick and tired of them doing "expendable" missions rather than landing the boosters.I feel that same. Isn't that amazing?It ain't amazing. It's more like redundant and annoying.
Iridium5 Falcon is vertical.
NRC Quest already reached northern part of appropriate hazard area "destination LZ 005" and is waiting in this "landing zone" for B1041.2 splashdown.High Speed Fairing Boat Mr.Steven is heading to southern part of area.
I should be precise, by "tomorrow" I meant Iridium 5 NEXT flight 5 : March 30, 2018Quote from: Raul on 03/29/2018 11:47 pmIridium5 Falcon is vertical.The picture shows the Grid fins and legs mounted. Sorry the picture did not come over with the quote.Quote from: Raul on 03/29/2018 08:18 pmNRC Quest already reached northern part of appropriate hazard area "destination LZ 005" and is waiting in this "landing zone" for B1041.2 splashdown.High Speed Fairing Boat Mr.Steven is heading to southern part of area.Also reports of NRC Quest on station.
There is a MISSE-FF overview in the CRS-13 thread if anyone isn't already familiar with it:https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42775.msg1707908#msg1707908
Quote from: gongora on 03/14/2018 06:14 pmThere is a MISSE-FF overview in the CRS-13 thread if anyone isn't already familiar with it:https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42775.msg1707908#msg1707908Alas none of this gives a mass for MISSE-FF. Total external cargo is 926 kg per the mission overgview.ASIM is 314 kg per their website. PFCS is 111 kg although it presumably has a FRAM as well, usually about45 kg I believe. That would leave 456 kg from MISSE-FF which seems on the high side.
Which suggests that the mass was about 435 kg (not sure if an empty passive FRAM was left in the trunk when it was dropped, so that mass may need to be further adjusted). But, they were planning to launch with a certain number of the sample carrier slots already filled (7 on SpX-13). So, if you're interested in strictly the Flight Facility and not including any of the sample carriers and samples' mass, it will be less. If you're just interested in the launching mass of the whole experiment in launch configuration then it's probably pretty good. Though it may be minorly different from the launch configuration mass on SpX-14 because the number of filled slots during launch will likely be different. The number of filled slots is determined by trunk packing geometry and separations to the other trunk cargo.
The MISSE-FF launches on a SpaceX Dragon Vehicle to the ISS, in the trunk area.The facility is removed from the Dragon trunk by the ISS robotic arm, and placed on ELC 2, Site 3 on the starboard truss.Five MSCs accompany the facility to orbit, and are robotically attached to the MISSE-FF shortly after arrival.The facility has 12 “slots” for the attachment of 12 MSCs when the facility is fully populated. However, typical operations only have 11 or fewer MSCs installed- leaving one “slot” as a temporary berthing position during operations to retrieve MSCs that have completed their duration on orbit. Those MSCs can be replaced with new ones that contain new experiments/samples.At the end of an experiment’s time on orbit, the MSC is retrieved by the ISS robotic arm and placed on the MISSE Transfer Tray (MTT) to be moved inside ISS through the Japanese Experiment Module’s (JEM) airlock.Approximately six months later, additional MSCs are flown to orbit and attached to the facility- beginning a rotation process and continue to be manifested approximately every six months thereafter.