LIVE: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo (C2+) FD5+ (DOCKED OPS) UPDATES

[Rex Chan]

Don: List is different in a good way. Simplicity, following it all the way through for pack/unpack. One-stop. Joke about Long Shore Union. Cargo ops completed.

ANdre: samples in cold bag. LAst minute stowed. Nothing else planned.

[Chris Bergin]

Don: List is different in a good way. Simplicity, following it all the way through for pack/unpack. One-stop. Joke about Long Shore Union. Cargo ops completed.

ANdre: samples in cold bag. LAst minute stowed. Nothing else planned.

They flew through that! Only last min stows to go already is great.

[Bugfix]

Don Petit just had another close look. (Still looking for the secret cargo?)

[FinalFrontier]

OH! MCC-H say that was everything!

"That was the only list, that's it!"

Must be all downmass next.

What about the stuff they took out prior to utilising the Dragon On-Orbit Manually-Induced Force-Augmented Compactation Cargo Stowage Methodology?

You mean OMI-FACCS


By the way, whats the current date and time planned for un-berth and flyout (and re-entry?)?

[jabe]

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ISS Departure: May 31, 2012 @ 1000 GMT (6 a.m. EDT)
Splashdown: May 31, 2012 @ 1542 GMT (11:42 a.m. EDT)
jb

[Space Pete]

From @spaceguy87 (an ISS Flight Controller) via Twitter:

"SSRMS did a survey of Dragon on my shift. Here's a view into the empty "trunk". http://pic.twitter.com/f1pcaBV5"

https://twitter.com/spaceguy87

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Edit: Better version attached.

[Jason1701]

We can finally lay all that speculation about the camera view to rest!

[Halidon]

I'm a little disappointed, I was expecting a note taped back there with a clever message.

[Thunderbird5]

I am wondering what part of Dragon / ISS operations the baseball bat is used for though   

[Space Pete]

I am wondering what part of Dragon / ISS operations the baseball bat is used for though   

It's an ISS Flight Controller joke - the person who took & posted that image is an ADCO (Attitude Determination and Control Officer), and thus the bat is an "attitude control device".

[JimO]

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ISS Departure: May 31, 2012 @ 1000 GMT (6 a.m. EDT)
Splashdown: May 31, 2012 @ 1542 GMT (11:42 a.m. EDT)
jb

What's the landing ground track? Any proximity to any land, or airliner routes, during the fireball phase?

[jabe]

What's the landing ground track? Any proximity to any land, or airliner routes, during the fireball phase?

I was hoping someone would know that two..any takers?
jb

[Lars_J]

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ISS Departure: May 31, 2012 @ 1000 GMT (6 a.m. EDT)
Splashdown: May 31, 2012 @ 1542 GMT (11:42 a.m. EDT)
jb

What's the landing ground track? Any proximity to any land, or airliner routes, during the fireball phase?

It will be similar to the C1 flight - re-entering the atmosphere south of Hawaii, and landing a couple hundred miles off-shore from Southern california. Only this time the inclination is higher, so the re-entry should be even further south.

[DigitalMan]

I'm a little disappointed, I was expecting a note taped back there with a clever message.

"Open from other end"

?

[stockman]

current view from ISS channel

[stockman]

lit up from the front now

[jcm]

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ISS Departure: May 31, 2012 @ 1000 GMT (6 a.m. EDT)
Splashdown: May 31, 2012 @ 1542 GMT (11:42 a.m. EDT)
jb

What's the landing ground track? Any proximity to any land, or airliner routes, during the fireball phase?

It will be similar to the C1 flight - re-entering the atmosphere south of Hawaii, and landing a couple hundred miles off-shore from Southern california. Only this time the inclination is higher, so the re-entry should be even further south.

Do we have a NOTAM or anything to pin down the lat/lon of the C1 splashdown point?

[DeanG1967]

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ISS Departure: May 31, 2012 @ 1000 GMT (6 a.m. EDT)
Splashdown: May 31, 2012 @ 1542 GMT (11:42 a.m. EDT)
jb

What's the landing ground track? Any proximity to any land, or airliner routes, during the fireball phase?

It will be similar to the C1 flight - re-entering the atmosphere south of Hawaii, and landing a couple hundred miles off-shore from Southern california. Only this time the inclination is higher, so the re-entry should be even further south.

Do we have a NOTAM or anything to pin down the lat/lon of the C1 splashdown point?

05/110 (A1374/12) - AIRSPACE DCC SPACE X DRAGON REENTRY STATIONARY
RESERVATION WITHIN AN AREA BNDD BY 2445N/12000W 2518N/12048W
2719N/12250W 2911N/12439W 3025N/12546W 3105N/12619W 3140N/12601W
3155N/12518W 3128N/12428W 3028N/12300W 2843N/12053W 2740N/12000W
SFC-UNL. 31 MAY 15:05 2012 UNTIL 31 MAY 16:15 2012. CREATED: 28 MAY 15:09 2012

[jcm]

from spaceflight now sidebar
ISS Departure: May 31, 2012 @ 1000 GMT (6 a.m. EDT)
Splashdown: May 31, 2012 @ 1542 GMT (11:42 a.m. EDT)
jb

What's the landing ground track? Any proximity to any land, or airliner routes, during the fireball phase?

It will be similar to the C1 flight - re-entering the atmosphere south of Hawaii, and landing a couple hundred miles off-shore from Southern california. Only this time the inclination is higher, so the re-entry should be even further south.

Do we have a NOTAM or anything to pin down the lat/lon of the C1 splashdown point?

05/110 (A1374/12) - AIRSPACE DCC SPACE X DRAGON REENTRY STATIONARY
RESERVATION WITHIN AN AREA BNDD BY 2445N/12000W 2518N/12048W
2719N/12250W 2911N/12439W 3025N/12546W 3105N/12619W 3140N/12601W
3155N/12518W 3128N/12428W 3028N/12300W 2843N/12053W 2740N/12000W
SFC-UNL. 31 MAY 15:05 2012 UNTIL 31 MAY 16:15 2012. CREATED: 28 MAY 15:09 2012

Thanks - that's the forthcoming C2 splash point though, I meant C1 from Dec 2010 (which was not in the same place)

[Sesquipedalian]

I'm a little disappointed, I was expecting a note taped back there with a clever message.

"Open from other end"

?

LOL!  That would have been hilarious.