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

EspenU · « **Reply #920 on:** 03/03/2019 08:23 am »

Quote from: mlindner on 03/03/2019 08:17 am

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.

mlindner · « **Reply #921 on:** 03/03/2019 08:24 am »

Quote from: EspenU on 03/03/2019 08:23 am

Quote from: mlindner on 03/03/2019 08:17 am
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.

theinternetftw · « **Reply #922 on:** 03/03/2019 08:26 am »

Quote from: mlindner on 03/03/2019 08:17 am

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)

Star One · « **Reply #923 on:** 03/03/2019 08:40 am »

Quote from: mlindner on 03/03/2019 07:58 am

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.

Alexphysics · « **Reply #924 on:** 03/03/2019 08:41 am »

Quote from: mlindner on 03/03/2019 08:07 am

Quote from: Targeteer on 03/03/2019 08:05 am
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

hektor · « **Reply #925 on:** 03/03/2019 08:47 am »

ATV did it too

mlindner · « **Reply #926 on:** 03/03/2019 09:08 am »

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.

laika_fr · « **Reply #927 on:** 03/03/2019 09:26 am »

theinternetftw · « **Reply #928 on:** 03/03/2019 09:37 am »

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

MATTBLAK · « **Reply #929 on:** 03/03/2019 09:39 am »

Quote from: theinternetftw on 03/03/2019 09:37 am

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...

mlindner · « **Reply #930 on:** 03/03/2019 09:42 am »

Quote from: MATTBLAK on 03/03/2019 09:39 am

Quote from: theinternetftw on 03/03/2019 09:37 am
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.

MATTBLAK · « **Reply #931 on:** 03/03/2019 09:46 am »

Looks like they (NASA) heeded my warnings. I also advised them to disable comments during Apollo 11 celebrations later in the year. Space.com and similar sites are dominated by Flat Earthers and Hoaxtards. Thank God this website is a peaceful sanctuary for the sane and the adult. Thank you, Chris and all the moderators.

clongton · « **Reply #932 on:** 03/03/2019 09:56 am »

Soft Capture confirmed.

Rocket Science · « **Reply #933 on:** 03/03/2019 10:03 am »

Hard capture, ladies and gentlemen that is how we do that!

clongton · « **Reply #934 on:** 03/03/2019 10:03 am »

Hard Capture confirmed.
Dragon is docked to the ISS.

mlindner · « **Reply #935 on:** 03/03/2019 10:04 am »

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.

Ben the Space Brit · « **Reply #936 on:** 03/03/2019 10:06 am »

Quote from: EspenU on 03/03/2019 08:22 am

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 03/03/2019 08:18 am
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

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.

JDTractorGuy · « **Reply #937 on:** 03/03/2019 10:12 am »

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?

Stevenzop · « **Reply #938 on:** 03/03/2019 10:15 am »

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

saturnapollo · « **Reply #939 on:** 03/03/2019 10:16 am »

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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