LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES

[Avron]

waiting for Dragon to appear:

see it .. need a image update

bright spot just after sundown on Iss video, alas I was not set up to capture

[ChefPat]

[cro-magnon gramps]

Tweet from Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk

The President just called to say congrats. Caller ID was blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer

[Captain Kirk]

GoogleSatTrack shows Dragon a mere 162 miles from ISS.



Edit:  previous image too large as per forum rules. Resized to comply.

[Captain Kirk]

Tweet from Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk

The President just called to say congrats. Caller ID was blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer

That is funny!    SpaceX has to be very proud of this mission and hopefully it will silence the critics of the new commercial space.

[beancounter]

Tweet from Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk

The President just called to say congrats. Caller ID was blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer

That is funny!    SpaceX has to be very proud of this mission and hopefully it will silence the critics of the new commercial space.

Hopeful, yes.  Likely, no!!  Besides, the mission's not successful as yet.  Only once, berthed, unloaded, loaded, and intact return and recovery.  Then it's successful overall.

[Hungry4info3]

Hopeful, yes.  Likely, no!!  Besides, the mission's not successful as yet.  Only once, berthed, unloaded, loaded, and intact return and recovery.  Then it's successful overall.

Respectfully, I do not believe that is the case. Last I knew, only the COTS-2 objectives were needed to be completed for a mission success. These do not include berthing and cargo transfer.

[Lars_J]

Hopeful, yes.  Likely, no!!  Besides, the mission's not successful as yet.  Only once, berthed, unloaded, loaded, and intact return and recovery.  Then it's successful overall.

Respectfully, I do not believe that is the case. Last I knew, only the COTS-2 objectives were needed to be completed for a mission success. These do not include berthing and cargo transfer.

That is/was pre-flight spin control. And I say that as a strong SpaceX 'fan'. While it may be technically true, it will be a disappointment if the Dragon spacecraft will not be able to complete most of the C3 objectives.

I'm very excited to see the first pictures from ISS in a few hours.

[mr. mark]

And now back to the test flight....Looking forward to the flyby coverage in roughly 2 1/2 hours. 

[Rex Chan]

Hey guys! I'm back.

Got this screen cap off NTV/ISS about 2 hrs ago. Is this a cam on the robotic arm?

Edit: sorry, I couldn't find the rules on image size??

[Captain Kirk]

Less than 100 miles to go!

Go Dragon!  Go SpaceX!

[Lars_J]

Dragon in sight??? The ISS video feed is now showing a distant dot in the darkness.

EDIT: Now it is gone... It may have passed into earths shadow.

[edkyle99]

I think they're seeing Dragon now, or were until ISS entered shadow a few minutes ago.  I captured this image from the ISS stream at about 00:25 CDT (05:25 UTC).

 - Ed Kyle

[Ronsmytheiii]

I think they're seeing Dragon now, or were until ISS entered shadow a few minutes ago.  I captured this image from the ISS stream at about 12:25 CDT.

 - Ed Kyle

Just like on the ground, Dragon has been visible on station as the ISS is in the Earth's shadow but Dragon is still in sun light after reviewing the timelapse video I left going, the camera for Station feed has shifted now though so we wont see it again

[Lars_J]

ISS is approaching sunrise now, but the camera appears to be pointing in the opposite direction (forward).

If only they turned it around - Dragon should be visible now, as a distant dot.

[Hungry4info3]

Is this a cam on the robotic arm?

Yes. The module in the centre left is Node 2, Columbus is on top, and PMA-2 being the dark thing sticking out to the right.

[Ronsmytheiii]

Checking ISS live feed for downlink video:

1) S1 Lower Outboard
2) P1 Lower Inboard
3) P1 Lower Outboard
4) P1 Upper Inboard

Right now all downlinks are active through Ku

[Hungry4info3]

[Hungry4info3]

Just dipped below 100 km between the two.

[Ronsmytheiii]

maybe some one from MCC could explain this:

UHF SPace to Space Station
          Radio 1 Power OFF
          Radio 2 Power Off

UHF Sync Lock : frame Synch unlocked

IAC1 Power Active
IAC2 Power Backup

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