LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD4 UPDATES

[Chris Bergin]

Keep out sphere showed at MCC-H!

Article overviewing status and events:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/05/spacexs-dragon-historic-attempt-berth-with-iss/

Excellent article! Really helps overview this all.

Thanks Paul, appreciate it!

[Ronsmytheiii]

275 meters

[Ronsmytheiii]

[psloss]

At the 250m hold point.

[Ronsmytheiii]

at 250 meter hold point

[Ronsmytheiii]

vehicle slightly ahead of outline, about one length

[brodo]

small offsets of where dragon is compared to where it should be is within expectations

[Ronsmytheiii]

ground says that at this range the offsets are not a big deal, so happy with it

[Ronsmytheiii]

polling go/no go for demonstrations

[Ronsmytheiii]

passing LA

[psloss]

[Ronsmytheiii]

sunrise

[Ronsmytheiii]

[Ben the Space Brit]

Very clear near-continuous thruster activity.

[Ronsmytheiii]

[Chris Bergin]

Excellent view from the SSRMS.

[psloss]

[Ronsmytheiii]

Dragon showing its white trunk

[Ronsmytheiii]

ku handover time

[Mike_1179]

Very clear near-continuous thruster activity.

It takes active thrusting to maintain a position on the R-bar.  I believe I read that's one reason they use an R-bar approach - if there's a problem with the arriving spacecraft, it will simply drift away from the station