Author Topic: The CRS-2/SpX-2 "Junk in the Trunk" Party Thread (Read 159478 times)

Thunderbird5 · « **Reply #400 on:** 03/03/2013 11:09 am »

Quote from: ap12 on 03/03/2013 11:05 am

Quote from: rickl on 03/03/2013 10:52 am
NASA TV isn't working for me right now. I just get a black screen.

It's being covered on the NASA Media Channel.

Watching using the NASA Android app, working fine.

guckyfan · « **Reply #401 on:** 03/03/2013 11:14 am »

Appreciate the updates. I too had problems occasionally to have video streaming.

Question: Have there ever been any problems with the berthing mechanism? I think it is very unlikely anything would get wrong now with berthing.

AnalogMan · « **Reply #402 on:** 03/03/2013 11:22 am »

Quote from: Norm38 on 03/03/2013 10:58 am

What is that TV Antenna looking mast structure next to Dragon? Don't remember seeing that before.

Those are UHF antennas, part of the Space-to-Space Communications System. They operate at around 415 MHz from memory.

[UHF - Ultra High Frequency]

Thunderbird5 · « **Reply #403 on:** 03/03/2013 11:25 am »

Quote from: guckyfan on 03/03/2013 11:14 am

Appreciate the updates. I too had problems occasionally to have video streaming.

Question: Have there ever been any problems with the berthing mechanism? I think it is very unlikely anything would get wrong now with berthing.

They're switching shifts at the NASA mission control at the moment so I imagine they'd want to get properly settled in before resuming.

R7 · « **Reply #404 on:** 03/03/2013 11:54 am »

Dragon flying over CUCU's nest!

rickl · « **Reply #405 on:** 03/03/2013 11:55 am »

They certainly seem to be taking their time with this.

Last time, it seemed like they were in a hurry to get it berthed.

ugordan · « **Reply #406 on:** 03/03/2013 11:56 am »

Add one more to the list of propellants used by SpaceX:

R7 · « **Reply #407 on:** 03/03/2013 11:59 am »

Quote from: ugordan on 03/03/2013 11:56 am

Add one more to the list of propellants used by SpaceX:

Uh oh, mix-up at GSE filled some coffee beans into the He tank?

ugordan · « **Reply #408 on:** 03/03/2013 12:00 pm »

Cannot be excluded, but more analysis is needed.

Tass · « **Reply #409 on:** 03/03/2013 12:00 pm »

Quote from: ugordan on 03/03/2013 11:56 am

Add one more to the list of propellants used by SpaceX:

Is kool-aid on the list?

kch · « **Reply #410 on:** 03/03/2013 12:01 pm »

Quote from: ugordan on 03/03/2013 11:56 am

Add one more to the list of propellants used by SpaceX:

Ah, coffee -- the universal propellant!

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #411 on:** 03/03/2013 12:14 pm »

I was looking at the NASA TV social stream and saw that many Japanese on Twitter are calling the Dragon "Gonta-kun" ("Little (Dra)Gon" if I understand correctly) - turns out that it refers to a character in a long running children TV show on the Japanese NHK channels.......

rickl · « **Reply #412 on:** 03/03/2013 12:32 pm »

I don't know why the berthing is taking so long.

Last time, in October, it was like "slam, bang, let's get this done!"

Davp99 · « **Reply #413 on:** 03/03/2013 01:02 pm »

Still can't believe this happened..From Gloom & Doom..to Capture only 24 hrs later GO SPACE X

rickl · « **Reply #414 on:** 03/03/2013 01:05 pm »

Yes, I agree, Less than 48 hours ago it looked like the whole mission might be lost, and there was even concern about whether Dragon could be recovered at all. Wow!

robertross · « **Reply #415 on:** 03/03/2013 01:08 pm »

And Dragon is berthed.

Woot!

Way to go to the teams. They pulled this one out.

R7 · « **Reply #416 on:** 03/03/2013 01:11 pm »

Quote from: Tass on 03/03/2013 12:00 pm

Is kool-aid on the list?

Oh yeaahh, on the exports list.

But hey good work with the Dragon!

Stephan · « **Reply #417 on:** 03/03/2013 01:15 pm »

Quote from: rickl on 03/03/2013 12:32 pm

I don't know why the berthing is taking so long.

Last time, in October, it was like "slam, bang, let's get this done!"

It was done by ground crew (a first).

rickl · « **Reply #418 on:** 03/03/2013 01:17 pm »

I still like the phrase "the plucky little Dragon". That needs to be worked into an article somehow.

Davp99 · « **Reply #419 on:** 03/03/2013 01:48 pm »

OT but,

MCConsoles "Lighted Name Plate" Thingamigs ?

Are they New ?

How Fancy Wow.....