Author Topic: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD4 UPDATES (Read 293982 times)

psloss · « **on:** 05/25/2012 06:06 am »

LIVE UPDATES FOR DRAGON'S FLIGHT FD4 - Berthing Attempt

NSF Resources:

LAUNCH DAY ARTICLE - by William Graham:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/05/spacex-falcon-9-send-dragon-to-iss/

POST LAUNCH/FD1+ ARTICLE:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/05/spacexs-dragon-achieving-milestones-falcon-9-ride/

FLYUNDER TEST ARTICLE:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/05/dragon-completes-iss-comm-test-ahead-berthing-opportunity/

BERTHING ARTICLE:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/05/spacexs-dragon-historic-attempt-berth-with-iss/

SCRUBBED ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28918.0

LAUNCH and FD1 LIVE UPDATES:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28942.0

FD2-3 UPDATES:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28952.0

SpaceX Forum Section:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=45.0 - please use this for general questions, non updates.

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/

Recent COTS C2+ Specific articles:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/Dragon/

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L2 SpaceX Dragon C2/C3 Mission Special (NEW - Exclusively acquired pre-launch and Mission Coverage, Presentations, Graphics, Videos, Updates, NASA/Space industry member comments):
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=54.0

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This a LIVE UPDATE THREAD. All posts need to be as such. Other posts will be removed.

current position of ISS and Dragon.

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #1 on:** 05/25/2012 06:08 am »

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It's official, Dragon is the first commercial vehicle to get the GO to approach the International Space Station!

https://twitter.com/#!/SpaceX

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #2 on:** 05/25/2012 06:09 am »

psloss · « **Reply #3 on:** 05/25/2012 06:09 am »

The lead Orbit 1 flight control team is on-shift; flight director is Holly Ridings and CapCom is Megan Behnken.

And once again, PAO for this lead shift is Josh Byerly who is providing commentary for NASA TV's coverage.

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #4 on:** 05/25/2012 06:11 am »

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #5 on:** 05/25/2012 06:13 am »

psloss · « **Reply #6 on:** 05/25/2012 06:15 am »

Both the HA2 and CE2 burns were completed in the last 75 minutes or so; the HA3 burn TIG right now looks like 07:05:00 GMT, in about 50 minutes.

(Very close to the timeline published/posted several days ago.)

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #7 on:** 05/25/2012 06:15 am »

current video downlinks:

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #8 on:** 05/25/2012 06:17 am »

psloss · « **Reply #9 on:** 05/25/2012 06:17 am »

Video on NASA TV is replay from yesterday. Currently Station and Dragon are on a pass that looks like it will go right over the launch site.

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #10 on:** 05/25/2012 06:18 am »

video replay of Dragon's close approach yesterday

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #11 on:** 05/25/2012 06:20 am »

Interesting world map:

tehwkd · « **Reply #12 on:** 05/25/2012 06:22 am »

Quote from: Ronsmytheiii on 05/25/2012 06:20 am

Interesting world map:

a larger screengrab

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #13 on:** 05/25/2012 06:24 am »

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #14 on:** 05/25/2012 06:32 am »

View in MCC-X as verifying TDRSS lock

Good feedback

Rex Chan · « **Reply #15 on:** 05/25/2012 06:35 am »

Andre set up in cupola. Go for step 3.

CCP function test complete.

Pretty cool pic from ISS.

psloss · « **Reply #16 on:** 05/25/2012 06:36 am »

Quote from: Ronsmytheiii on 05/25/2012 06:32 am

View in MCC-X as verifying TDRSS lock

Good feedback

Sounds like we're getting some audio from MCC-X (Dragon is on TDRS-S049 currently)...hearing ISS crew (Andre) call down for first time this morning...

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #17 on:** 05/25/2012 06:36 am »

Hard to tell, but think this is the P1 Lower inboard camera

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #18 on:** 05/25/2012 06:37 am »

Orbital sunrise

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #19 on:** 05/25/2012 06:38 am »

per PAO, 27 minutes to HA3 burn, go/no go poll in a few minutes