Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon CRS SpX-2 PROCESSING/Pre-LAUNCH UPDATES (Read 126795 times)

ugordan · « **Reply #140 on:** 02/28/2013 07:19 pm »

Quote from: Borklund on 02/28/2013 07:18 pm

Did I just hear Gwynne Shotwell say that CRS-3 would be the first flight for Falcon 9 v1.1? Like, first overall flight?

First *CRS* flight.

Jason1701 · « **Reply #141 on:** 02/28/2013 07:19 pm »

Quote from: Borklund on 02/28/2013 07:18 pm

Did I just hear Gwynne Shotwell say that CRS-3 would be the first flight for Falcon 9 v1.1? Like, first overall flight?

No, first Dragon flight on 1.1.

Finally some more information about the CRS-1 anomaly. There was a material problem in the jacket that went undetected, leading to the combustion chamber losing pressure.

"Late June" MDA flight.

2-3 GTO 1.1 flights from Cape before CRS-3.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #142 on:** 02/28/2013 07:20 pm »

Questions.

Late fall for CRS-3. Will be on the new F9.

No secondary payloads.

Engine 1 issue: Material flaw in the jacket on Engine 1, leading to a breach and a decompression of the engine, commanded shutdown. State Dept dealing with the detailed report, so can't say much due to ITAR. Isn't comfortable talking about it. Did a lot of NDE testing.

mr. mark · « **Reply #143 on:** 02/28/2013 07:23 pm »

Did I just hear right 5-6 flights this year?

Borklund · « **Reply #144 on:** 02/28/2013 07:24 pm »

Quote from: ugordan on 02/28/2013 07:19 pm

Quote from: Borklund on 02/28/2013 07:18 pm
Did I just hear Gwynne Shotwell say that CRS-3 would be the first flight for Falcon 9 v1.1? Like, first overall flight?

First *CRS* flight.

Quote from: Jason1701 on 02/28/2013 07:19 pm

No, first Dragon flight on 1.1.

Finally some more information about the CRS-1 anomaly. There was a material problem in the jacket that went undetected, leading to the combustion chamber losing pressure.

Right, yeah, I heard wrong.

Journo just asked the question I would've loved to ask re: first v1.1 flight and Gwynne said that the first v1.1 flight would probably be "end of first half of this year, late june" to be "followed by 2 GTO flights [..] before CRS-3" with the possibility of another one later this year (after CRS-3?). So... 5-6 flights this year?

ugordan · « **Reply #145 on:** 02/28/2013 07:24 pm »

Quote from: mr. mark on 02/28/2013 07:23 pm

Did I just here right 5-6 flights this year?

Yes, but remember this is Shotwell talking...

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #146 on:** 02/28/2013 07:28 pm »

If solar arrays fail they may have enough battery power to make one berthing attempt.

More CRS-1 engine 1 failure questions. NASA get to see all SpaceX's info, even if it's ITAR, Proprietary etc. Suff agrees with SpaceX's conclusions, resulting in a go to fly. They accept the risk.

Political stuff about cuts. Won't impact SpaceX's work, but "it's not up to me, it's up to my customer". Suff says they won't change their plans.

manboy · « **Reply #147 on:** 02/28/2013 07:28 pm »

Lots of good questions.

Payload for this mission may almost be the max for Falcon 9 v1.0.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #148 on:** 02/28/2013 07:34 pm »

Gwen doesn't really want to talk about the loss of one flight computer on CRS-1. Radiation tolerant, but can have faults. Doesn't want to say why they decided not to re-sync the computer.

Water intrusion caused an issue with a GLACIER. Samples were fine despite the temp loss of power.

Gwen now saying budget reductions would impact on their Commercial Crew milestones, such as launch abort reviews. Don't know until the funding is known.

Jason1701 · « **Reply #149 on:** 02/28/2013 07:34 pm »

F9 is visible horizontal at the pad on KSC cam AE 2.

http://countdown.ksc.nasa.gov/elv/

mms://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/ae%20video%20channel%202 in VLC - so you can change contrast

manboy · « **Reply #150 on:** 02/28/2013 07:35 pm »

Grapple fixtures are 273 kg.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #151 on:** 02/28/2013 07:35 pm »

Yay, it's Philip, for us!

Suff loves his question "That's an excellent question"

I kinda missed it the question due to personal excitement....we'll check back on the recording.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #152 on:** 02/28/2013 07:37 pm »

Suff says they will soon start flying rodents on Dragon.

Jason1701 · « **Reply #153 on:** 02/28/2013 07:38 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 02/28/2013 07:35 pm

Yay, it's Philip, for us!

Suff loves his question "That's an excellent question" I kinda missed it the question due to personal excitement....we'll check back on the recording.

He wanted to know where on the truss the grapple bars go.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #154 on:** 02/28/2013 07:43 pm »

Apparently Elon swore in joy at being awarded the COTS contract.

Question about how great SpaceX's launch vehicle record is......ok then

Suff pretty good with the answer, saying they have followed SpaceX closely, but if this was a NASA vehicle he can't say if they would be flying again right now, but he's happy.

Vandenberg might be ready within a month. Built the site very quickly.

Merlin 1D is not susceptible to the issue seen on CRS-1.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #155 on:** 02/28/2013 07:50 pm »

Upmass and downmass being mentioned again. Reminds us about how tiny it is compared to Shuttle.

Suff notes CDRA bed hardware is a critical element going up.

Twitter member asking of F9 can take up other stuff other than Dragon........and can F9 carry humans....................................

Guy pictured asked about engine config change between the upgrade to F9, which was a pretty good question.

Vandenberg is designed to cope with both F9 and FH. Not sure about the schedule for FH yet.

SpaceX are not in partnership with Tito's Mars Inspiration, but if he has the money, she'll be happy to if he gets the money.

Jason1701 · « **Reply #156 on:** 02/28/2013 07:50 pm »

Says SpaceX has fully powered up used Dragons and the electronics work perfectly.

manboy · « **Reply #157 on:** 02/28/2013 07:51 pm »

Won't say what the initial payload of Falcon Heavy will be.

Talks about re-using capsules.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #158 on:** 02/28/2013 07:54 pm »

New Dragon per NASA mission, but they are looking to sell used Dragon's to other customers. Have tested them when they've come back and they work fine.

A strange question about the engine 1 failure, no idea what Irene was asking, but it seems it was about restrictions on the issue.

Gwen says she needs to work with the State Dept. She doesn't want to go to jail

Lost no customers as a result of CRS-1 issue. Says they won all the contracts for customers in their class.. "BOOOM" (she did that!)

Presser over.

mr. mark · « **Reply #159 on:** 02/28/2013 07:56 pm »

Ok 5 flights this year and the possibility of Inspiration Mars. Wow, if they pull that off, it's gonna be a good year!