Author Topic: LIVE: SpaceX Dragon CRS-2 (SpX-2) FD-2, FD-3 & Berthed Operations UPDATES (Read 183846 times)

Zed_Noir · « **Reply #340 on:** 03/06/2013 03:45 pm »

Quote from: InfraNut2 on 03/06/2013 03:21 pm

Josh Byers gave a more definitive and up-to-date time for the start of trunk payload removal just now on the daily ISS update hour:

1PM central (approx) today

He also comfirmed it will be ground-commanded (as expected). So it will be significantly slower than if the astros did it.

Yes, the trunk cargo retrieval will be slower, but saves valuable ISS crew man-hours for running experiments and doing station upkeep.

Space Pete · « **Reply #341 on:** 03/06/2013 03:45 pm »

While the real SSRMS is removing the HRSGFs from Dragon, why not try your hand at the CSA's newly released and genuinely awesome Canadarm2 simulator!

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/multimedia/games/canadarm2/default.asp

psloss · « **Reply #342 on:** 03/06/2013 04:58 pm »

Couple frames from a while back.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #343 on:** 03/06/2013 05:30 pm »

Great stuff, everyone keep an eye on this and capture what you can. Another milestone.

Lars_J · « **Reply #344 on:** 03/06/2013 05:42 pm »

The arm is slowly moving closer to the trunk now.

psloss · « **Reply #345 on:** 03/06/2013 05:44 pm »

Quote from: Lars_J on 03/06/2013 05:42 pm

The arm is slowly moving closer to the trunk now.

Lars_J · « **Reply #346 on:** 03/06/2013 05:58 pm »

The arm end is now inside the trunk.

Space Pete · « **Reply #347 on:** 03/06/2013 06:03 pm »

Lars_J · « **Reply #348 on:** 03/06/2013 06:29 pm »

New view into the trunk!

Lars_J · « **Reply #349 on:** 03/06/2013 06:49 pm »

They are back from LOS now, but for some reason the video is extremely noisy. Perhaps it is just the low-light mode of the camera.

psloss · « **Reply #350 on:** 03/06/2013 06:51 pm »

Quote from: Lars_J on 03/06/2013 06:49 pm

They are back from LOS now, but for some reason the video is extremely noisy.

Still on the night-side for a little longer. I can't easily do screencaps from that feed, so hopefully someone else can.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #351 on:** 03/06/2013 06:52 pm »

Yeah, it's not great quality at the moment.

psloss · « **Reply #352 on:** 03/06/2013 06:53 pm »

Sunrise on that feed (elbow camera, looks like on the UStream feed). (Well sunrise with whatever buffer delay I have here.)

InfraNut2 · « **Reply #353 on:** 03/06/2013 06:54 pm »

Quote from: Lars_J on 03/06/2013 06:49 pm

They are back from LOS now, but for some reason the video is extremely noisy. Perhaps it is just the low-light mode of the camera.

Digital video cameras are all like that in low-light conditions at the edge of what they can handle.

InfraNut2 · « **Reply #354 on:** 03/06/2013 06:56 pm »

Molly McCormick of spaceX tweeted that the payload have been released from the trunk:

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@Molliway : We just released the CRAP out of that cargo! High fives, all around! ...What do you mean, "Overfocusing on minutiae because I worked on it?"

(She's not a spokesperson for SpaceX, just an engineer. As should be obvious from the style of the tweet).

corrodedNut · « **Reply #355 on:** 03/06/2013 06:56 pm »

Here comes the sun

corrodedNut · « **Reply #356 on:** 03/06/2013 06:59 pm »

Quote from: InfraNut2 on 03/06/2013 06:56 pm

Molly McCormick of spaceX tweeted that the payload have been released from the trunk:

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@Molliway : We just released the CRAP out of that cargo! High fives, all around! ...What do you mean, "Overfocusing on minutiae because I worked on it?"

I was going to say that it looks like it is grappled/captured, I guess that confirms it.

Lars_J · « **Reply #357 on:** 03/06/2013 07:02 pm »

The payload is coming out now.

psloss · « **Reply #358 on:** 03/06/2013 07:04 pm »

View from the truss.

psloss · « **Reply #359 on:** 03/06/2013 07:08 pm »

Looks like they've temporarily or automatically switched the downlink feed they relay on the UStream channel...one manual cap before they went to the truss on D/L 1.