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

[psloss]

HA2 burn TIG looks like 07:58:30 GMT; a little less than 45 minutes from now.

CE2 burn would be 45 minutes after HA2, or 08:43:30 GMT.

[sojourner]

narrator mentioned a couple "challenges" that were worked through.  Wonder if we will get details?

[Ronsmytheiii]

Holly Ridings polling go/no go for HA2

[Ronsmytheiii]

Per PAO, polling finnished

GO for HA2 !

[peter-b]

Per PAO, polling finnished

ISS GO for HA2.

[Ronsmytheiii]

[Jorge]

HA2 burn TIG looks like 07:58:30 GMT; a little less than 45 minutes from now.

CE2 burn would be 45 minutes after HA2, or 08:43:30 GMT.

The astute have no doubt already noticed that HA/CE burns always come in pairs, with the CE burn half an orbit after the HA burn. The one exception being the HA4 burn during the C3 demo, which is followed by Rbar approach.

[docmordrid]

SpaceX a GO

[Ronsmytheiii]

MCC-X letting NASA know that they are going to do the burn, Megan letting crew know that the flyby will be an hour later

[Kaputnik]

According to google sat track, less than 100km now...

[Ronsmytheiii]

Can open Cupola window shutters as necessary for flyby

[Rex Chan]

NTV/ISS: burns 1 hr behind. Dragon 110 km behind, 9.5km below.

H: pull forward?

ISS: focus on Dragon

H: camera zoom does not work. SMPCS disconnected, hard reboot? ANdre logged into Outlook, mail sync

ISS: thought he closed it...

H: Audit CBC

ISS: no changes

H: hand over to Moscow

Edit: Mail sync'd!

[Ronsmytheiii]

Entering orbital sunrise

[Jorge]

H: camera zoom does not work.

To clarify, that was specifically for the lower inboard camera on the P1 truss (P1LOIB). The other cameras should be zoomable.

[Hungry4info3]

According to google sat track, less than 100km now...

Wow, mine has said "Less than 50 km" for the past half hour. Must need to be refreshed periodically to account for some kind of drift.

[Ronsmytheiii]

Inorbital day above me, but too many clouds to go out and see

[Lars_J]

According to google sat track, less than 100km now...

Wow, mine has said "Less than 50 km" for the past half hour. Must need to be refreshed periodically to account for some kind of drift.

With the # of burns coming up, I doubt any of the 'public' satellite trackers will have up-to-date info on Dragons location.

[Jorge]

According to google sat track, less than 100km now...

Wow, mine has said "Less than 50 km" for the past half hour. Must need to be refreshed periodically to account for some kind of drift.

You're really gonna love it after the HA2 burn. I'm guessing Google Sat Track is only getting periodic vectors. They will likely show an "overshoot" post-HA2 until they get a new vector to re-anchor their Dragon ephemeris.

[Chris Bergin]

Josh noting the tradition of wearing red (Ms Ridings) when working a mission in the FCR (didn't know that!).

[psloss]