Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 / Dragon 2 : SpX-DM1 : March 2, 2019 : DISCUSSION  (Read 601810 times)

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I just thought I heard an alarm call out, anyone catch it?

[SMLI] Catastrophic failure [r something inaudible], brackets being uncertain.

"We just got the alarm enunciation  SMLI [electron?] catastrophic failure rs." "Copy that we'll talk to Moscow about that."
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No action, hard line re-config... Phew!
« Last Edit: 03/03/2019 10:57 am by Rocket Science »
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"No action on the enabled caution."

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https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1102174742537224192

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Roscosmos congratulates @NASA with the successful docking of the new ship and emphasizes that flight safety must be immaculate. The state corporation welcomes the development of relations in the field of space exploration and expresses confidence that cooperation will develop

Not only did they congratulate NASA, not SpaceX, but Roscosmos is saying SpaceX isn't safe, while they themselves blew up a rocket and drilled a hole in their own capsule. Fricking really?
« Last Edit: 03/03/2019 11:10 am by mlindner »
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Capsule is fine, she got me scared, for a second i imagined the Dragon being stuck up there.
Crew on lunch break, i probably need one too.

By the way i've yet to hear details about the little "ceremony".
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Funny that Roscosmos sent such a message about safety just as a "catastrophic failure" alarm went off on their side...   :o

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Interesting body language between the Roscosmos cosmonaut and the NASA Astronaut. Looks like they had some disagreement.
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Are there any livestreams that show dedicated internal ISS views, or do we just have to hope that they show those on the main NASA stream?

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The only catastrophic failure is NASA's decision to play 70s disco music to sooth our nerves. 

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One of the cameras seems to have quite a lot of dead pixels.

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Two pieces of FOD.

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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... :'(

I can guess...throws hands in the air in despair.

Is it me or is the outside camera view making Dragon looking a little stretched out and thinner than it actually is? Is that a fisheye effect?
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Mostly people trying to be ironically funny, accusing things like the astronauts' hands of being 'fake'.
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Mostly people trying to be ironically funny, accusing things like the astronauts' hands of being 'fake'.

Wouldn’t it better for no comments at all? Why does everything need commenting on these days?

Blimey I am sounding like an old codger today.

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I think the time line is interesting.

2010. First Dragon test launched on first F9

2012 Cargo deliveries start to be berthed at ISS

2019 First docking of crew rated Dragon to ISS

7 years from first arrival of a Dragon at ISS.

I'd love to know where most of that time went. Specifically who raised the lions share of the complaints, issues and questions.

My guess is either ASAP or the Russians, for different reasons.

ASAP couldn't believe an aerospace company that didn't exist during Mercury, Gemini, Apollo or Shuttle could be any good and the Russians because they know their era of charge-whatever-they-like is coming to an end.

TBH I doubted if NASA would give SX the first go at launching to the ISS, but they did.

Congratulations to all at SX for their perseverance.
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Mostly people trying to be ironically funny, accusing things like the astronauts' hands of being 'fake'.

Wouldn’t it better for no comments at all? Why does everything need commenting on these days?

Blimey I am sounding like an old codger today.

I mean, why are you on this forum? You want to be able to talk to other people about what you're talking about. It's the same thing. BTW in Asia they have comments literally scroll across their videos on top of the videos as on-screen text in China and Japan when you write a comment.
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Looked like a bit of a struggle  to get the cargo bag out from under the seat...in fact, did they have to remove the seat’s foot rest to get the bag out ??

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That may well be the procedure or to tilt the seat back, then take out the cargo bag.

Looked like a bit of a struggle  to get the cargo bag out from under the seat...in fact, did they have to remove the seat’s foot rest to get the bag out ??

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I think the time line is interesting.

2010. First Dragon test launched on first F9

2012 Cargo deliveries start to be berthed at ISS

2019 First docking of crew rated Dragon to ISS

7 years from first arrival of a Dragon at ISS.

I'd love to know where most of that time went. Specifically who raised the lions share of the complaints, issues and questions.

My guess is either ASAP or the Russians, for different reasons.

ASAP couldn't believe an aerospace company that didn't exist during Mercury, Gemini, Apollo or Shuttle could be any good and the Russians because they know their era of charge-whatever-they-like is coming to an end.

TBH I doubted if NASA would give SX the first go at launching to the ISS, but they did.

Congratulations to all at SX for their perseverance.

FWIW, I suspect that, as with most of the time-line delays that SpaceX have suffered, the real problem is that it has turned out to be harder to do certain things than they seemed on paper and in PowerPoint presentations. Falcon-9 has been through several permutations due to actual practical issues uncovered due to operational experience and I imagine that Crewed Dragon has too.

I have no problem believing that Roscosmos may have dragged their feet a little due to political pressures from their central government. However, I do not believe that they are the primary cause of the length of time that it has taken for us to get where we are today.
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Real-time commenting now disabled on the official NASA-TV YouTube channel! ::)
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