Author Topic: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD2 and FD3 UPDATES (Read 202994 times)

Rex Chan · « **Reply #40 on:** 05/23/2012 02:09 pm »

More NASA Houston/ISS convo (from my handwritten notes)

Remaining priority's for the day:

H: take a look @ schedule (to free up time for Dragon). Drop 3 PPC Joe/Andre/Don

ISS: complete OBT as scripted. Joe to hang with Dragon until capture (first time on orbit or something), then onto nominal timeline (conference)

H: PAO options - just Joe/Oleg or all 4

ISS: Try PAO as planned. Thinks they'll be done with OBT in the nick of time

H: something about ~~Malfy (spelling??)~~ MELFI foam box security. Geoflow - clean + stow. Imak unstow. Give ICB some resolution. The rest of the schedule can be worked around. Joe - when done with Dragon, can reprogram schedule. Dragon rendezvous raining.

ISS: pickup CP hold at 10m.

Arm is "catching" simDragon...

rdale · « **Reply #41 on:** 05/23/2012 02:12 pm »

...and a good spot to remind people that those audio archives are at http://issaudio.servehttp.com/

Rex Chan · « **Reply #42 on:** 05/23/2012 02:16 pm »

Quote from: rdale on 05/23/2012 02:12 pm

...and a good spot to remind people that those audio archives are at http://issaudio.servehttp.com/

Awesome! Obviously, did not know about that.

Are the videos recorded for public viewing later as well?

Edit: just listened to some - very fast turnaround for those files, and great quality!

paycom · « **Reply #43 on:** 05/23/2012 02:17 pm »

Quote from: Rex Chan on 05/23/2012 02:09 pm

H: something aboyt Malfy (spelling??) foam box security.

Talking about MELFI (Minus Eighty Degrees Laboratory Freezer for ISS).

dcporter · « **Reply #44 on:** 05/23/2012 02:23 pm »

Quote from: Rex Chan on 05/23/2012 02:16 pm

Awesome! Obviously, did not know about that. Are the videos recorded for public viewing later as well?

(I for one would enjoy continued Rexpdates.)

Rex Chan · « **Reply #45 on:** 05/23/2012 02:25 pm »

ISS: ROBoT stuck at 10% for a while. How far should we log/back out?

H: log out of ROBoT

Mod: feel free to remove photos if taking too much space (I've never seen these before, but I figured you veterans here would have seen it 1000x times).

Edit: Where did simDragon go?

baldusi · « **Reply #46 on:** 05/23/2012 02:45 pm »

Awesome Rex, please continue doing it!

rcoppola · « **Reply #47 on:** 05/23/2012 02:45 pm »

Just catching back up on C2+.
Do we have any actual NASA/SpaceX confirmation of Free Drift and Pulse burns etc? I am hoping to see a news conference at the official close of C2 as we head to C3 objectives.

d3jf · « **Reply #48 on:** 05/23/2012 02:47 pm »

Quote from: Rex Chan on 05/23/2012 02:25 pm

Mod: feel free to remove photos if taking too much space (I've never seen these before, but I figured you veterans here would have seen it 1000x times).

Only if you could post jpg instead of png, as png's are much larger and the quality difference is not that significant.

Other than that, your updates are awesome! Many people don't have time to listen in and your updates help get up to speed. Thanks for them!

rdale · « **Reply #49 on:** 05/23/2012 02:49 pm »

Quote from: Rex Chan on 05/23/2012 02:16 pm

Awesome! Obviously, did not know about that. Are the videos recorded for public viewing later as well?

No. NASA just has to set a simple record switch on UStream but I've yet to be able to convince them.

Quote

Edit: just listened to some - very fast turnaround for those files, and great quality!

Thanks. I appreciate your updates - but for those moments when you drift off to sleep in boredom listening

you can go back and review. They upload about :03 after each hour.

Rex Chan · « **Reply #50 on:** 05/23/2012 03:01 pm »

Seems like the ISS/ROBoT thing is back in business.

Going in for a 2nd capture.

Edit: I think they're just doing captures over & over - going in for the 3rd one I've seen tonight. Probably trying out different scenarios??

Edit 2:

~~SFN~~ NASA TV (Public?) has the same feed as NASA TV/ISS, with (knowledgeable) commentary.

ISS: 5th Auto selection before restart again... something I missed... then debreif

H: Understood.

ehb · « **Reply #51 on:** 05/23/2012 03:02 pm »

Quote from: rcoppola on 05/23/2012 02:45 pm

I am hoping to see a news conference at the official close of C2 as we head to C3 objectives.

Next scheduled MSB 10am Eastern Thursday 24 May as
referenced here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html

& Another thank you to Rex.

-ehb

mr. mark · « **Reply #52 on:** 05/23/2012 03:03 pm »

I'm just hearing news from the NASA TV feed that SpaceX's Dragon has passed all objects and are moving on..... They said there would be a news conference.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #53 on:** 05/23/2012 03:05 pm »

Quote from: mr. mark on 05/23/2012 03:03 pm

I'm hearing news from the SFN NASA TV feed that SpaceX's Dragon has passed all objects and are moving on.....

You mean NASA TV.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

It doesn't become NSF NASA TV if we embed it here.

ChrisC · « **Reply #54 on:** 05/23/2012 03:07 pm »

On topic:

Quote from: mr. mark on 05/23/2012 03:03 pm

I'm just hearing news from the NASA TV feed that SpaceX's Dragon has passed all objects and are moving on..... They said there would be a news conference.

That would be new news. There's nothing about it on the schedule. Maybe a SpaceX-only presser that won't be on NASA TV?

Off topic:

Quote from: Rex Chan on 05/23/2012 02:16 pm

Awesome! Obviously, did not know about that. Are the videos recorded for public viewing later as well?

Quote from: rdale on 05/23/2012 02:49 pm

No. NASA just has to set a simple record switch on UStream but I've yet to be able to convince them.

Huh? They DO have a rolling archive on Ustream. Go to http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv , scroll down to "Recent Videos" and click "view all", or go straight to http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv/videos . There you will find 2 hour chunks of whatever was on NASA Public. As I type this the latest they have is the 7:24-9:24am ET chunk. I used this Tuesday morning to review the launch coverage before John44 et al had had a chance to get their uploads done.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #55 on:** 05/23/2012 03:08 pm »

The PAO notes they are coming to the end of the training, after they had extended the session to cover the "entire script". I don't think anyone will be surprised by their motivation!

rdale · « **Reply #56 on:** 05/23/2012 03:11 pm »

Quote from: ChrisC on 05/23/2012 03:07 pm

Sorry for the off-topic ... but huh? They DO have a rolling archive on Ustream. Go to http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv , scroll down to "Recent Videos" and click "view all", or go straight to http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv/videos . There you will find 2 hour chunks of whatever was on NASA Public.

Yep - but last I checked the NASA Public archive isn't showing ISS video 24/7

Sorry for the confusion but we are referring to the ISS channel. All they have to do is set auto-record to on and it will do the same 2 hour chunks of ISS activity.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #57 on:** 05/23/2012 03:12 pm »

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
Dragon fly by of Space Station planned for 12:47 am California time. All systems green. #dragonlaunch

corrodedNut · « **Reply #58 on:** 05/23/2012 03:18 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 05/23/2012 03:12 pm

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
Dragon fly by of Space Station planned for 12:47 am California time. All systems green. #dragonlaunch

So he's referring to the CE2-flyby burn scheduled for the beginning of FD3?

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #59 on:** 05/23/2012 03:21 pm »

NTV has Dr Ruttley on speaking about how students will be "super, super thrilled" about having experiments on the Dragon nanoranks.

David has the overview of this on here:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19519.msg901974#msg901974