Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 / Dragon 2 : SpX-DM1 : March 2, 2019 : DISCUSSION  (Read 601779 times)

Offline EspenU

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Sounds like SpaceX lets its people talk over the NASA loop audio as well. They also can't mute music properly when astronauts are talking.
Agreed. I like the SpaceX wait music, but they are NOT good at muting it when people are talking on the loop.

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Sounds like SpaceX lets its people talk over the NASA loop audio as well. They also can't mute music properly when astronauts are talking.
Agreed. I like the SpaceX wait music, but they are NOT good at muting it when people are talking on the loop.

It's incredibly unfortunate. They're such space nerds there but they don't want to let everyone else outside of SpaceX be space nerds as well by actually letting the content through unfiltered.
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Sounds like SpaceX lets its people talk over the NASA loop audio as well. They also can't mute music properly when astronauts are talking.

https://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream is an option for loop audio (it also currently has SpaceX coverage vox audio sans music, so it basically sounds like exactly what you want them to do)
« Last Edit: 03/03/2019 08:27 am by theinternetftw »

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One thing I don't like about the SpaceX coverage is that they feel the need to always be talking and never have silence. (Or have music playing.)

That’s the youth of today for you. Don’t seem to appreciate the value of silence.

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why isn't the keep out sphere mentioned during Soyuz and Progress approaches?

Another case of the commercial crew groups being held to higher standards than Shuttle or Roscosmos ever were?

No, Soyuz and Progress also have to perform a flyover maneuver before entering the KOS and they also have the same process of following a series of imaginary gateways in space and they also have a lot of stops and goes during the process. It would be great to see at least one docking of Soyuz and/or Progress before stating this  ;)

Edit: Adding to this, what would you expect from the first ever autonomous docking of a US spacecraft with the ISS? How many years have the russians been doing that? lol
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ATV did it too

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NASA having problems with camera focusing? Are these hand cameras or station cameras?

Looks like SpaceX is compensating on the stream by doing optical zoom on the video stream.
« Last Edit: 03/03/2019 09:12 am by mlindner »
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a shrubbery on Mars

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With extreme HD, hard shadows, and a bit of h.264 de-noising, these views look literally unbelievable.  Everybody expected CG to slowly approach real life video.  I didn't get the memo that real life video was also going to slowly approach CG :)
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With extreme HD, hard shadows, and a bit of h.264 de-noising, these views look literally unbelievable.  Everybody expected CG to slowly approach real life video.  I didn't get the memo that real life video was also going to slowly approach CG :)
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With extreme HD, hard shadows, and a bit of h.264 de-noising, these views look literally unbelievable.  Everybody expected CG to slowly approach real life video.  I didn't get the memo that real life video was also going to slowly approach CG :)
Whatever you do: do not read the 'chat' on live YouTube feeds... :'(

The NASA streams all have chat disabled though.
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Soft Capture confirmed.
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Hard capture, ladies and gentlemen that is how we do that! 8)
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Hard Capture confirmed.
Dragon is docked to the ISS. :)
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NASA commentator telling the SpaceX commentator to stop talking. :-)

I've noticed by body signals that there's an audio delay between when we hear the NASA audio loop and when the commentators hear the audio loop. It causes them to keep talking on top of the NASA audio loop.
« Last Edit: 03/03/2019 10:05 am by mlindner »
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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Dragon 2 HUD view - first time we've seen this. Heading to the KOS (Keep Out Sphere), but that screen. This is what the astros will use. Very nice layout.

Like taken right out of a sci-fi movie. Makes the view from Soyuz look a little dated ;D

Doubtless due to the fact that most of the design team at SpaceX are likely video games fanatics and generally geeks like their boss. So, everything would look that bit more sci-fi.

IMO, Dragon-2's HUD layout is reminiscent of that of the Star League Gunstar in The Last Starfighter. I do not believe that this is coincidental, when you consider the story of that film. :D
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Watching the stream and just saw them open the hatch to PMA2.  Is that hatch normally open or is that one of the first times they've opened it since the shuttle?

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Incredible to watch live, huge congratulations to the Spacex and Nasa teams, this feels like the future!

While i'm here I guess here is the best place to post this?  After a very unpleasant alarm clock at 5am UK time, I headed out into the typical Scottish gale force winds and managed to capture a reasonably bright ISS pass.

It's pretty low on the horizon from up here in Aberdeen, but the ISS can be seen as the bright streak from right to left, and Dragon 2 the very faint streak just below and slightly behind the station.

The second photo is a different crop with a bit more processing to try to bring out the Dragon, and also features a photobomb from a polar orbiting sat!

Taken approx 05:20 UTC 2019-03-03

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NASA having problems with camera focusing? Are these hand cameras or station cameras?

These will be station cameras, either controlled by the crew (probably too busy) or ground controllers. Auto focussing and exposure sometimes has difficuilty with blooming with small brightly lit objects against a lot of black, so focus might be off until someone overrides it with manual focus/exposure (which you saw happening when Dragon was quite far out), or the spacecraft against the black takes up more of the picture.

Can't imagine SpaceX being alowed to override NASA TV.

Keith
« Last Edit: 03/03/2019 10:34 am by saturnapollo »

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