Author Topic: SpaceX CRS-14 Dragon - RNDZ, ISS Ops, EOM - UPDATES (Read 70969 times)

ZachS09 · « **Reply #181 on:** 05/05/2018 01:02 pm »

Orbit 2 Team on console.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #182 on:** 05/05/2018 01:03 pm »

SpaceX Control Center in Hawthorne.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #183 on:** 05/05/2018 01:03 pm »

Recapping the early days of the SpX-14 mission, from launch to capture and berthing.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #184 on:** 05/05/2018 01:04 pm »

ISS flying below the southern tip of South Africa.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #185 on:** 05/05/2018 01:06 pm »

Planned release time will be at 13:24 UTC.

Dragon will conduct three departure burns following release.

centaurinasa · « **Reply #186 on:** 05/05/2018 01:07 pm »

ZachS09 · « **Reply #187 on:** 05/05/2018 01:07 pm »

At 18:06 UTC, Dragon's Draco thrusters will fire for 13 minutes and 25 seconds as part of a deorbit burn.

Following that, the trunk will be jettisoned and the capsule will reenter the atmosphere and parachute to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Baja California.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #188 on:** 05/05/2018 01:08 pm »

Over 1,814 kilograms of cargo will be returned to Earth.

centaurinasa · « **Reply #189 on:** 05/05/2018 01:09 pm »

ZachS09 · « **Reply #190 on:** 05/05/2018 01:09 pm »

Return cargo manifest.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #191 on:** 05/05/2018 01:10 pm »

The SpaceX Control Center is GO for release following an earlier poll.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #192 on:** 05/05/2018 01:12 pm »

Flight Engineer Scott Tingle in the Cupola module, monitoring the release of Dragon.

centaurinasa · « **Reply #193 on:** 05/05/2018 01:12 pm »

Release command by ROBO, Scott Tingler is as a backup, in a cupola...

ZachS09 · « **Reply #194 on:** 05/05/2018 01:12 pm »

Good strobe light on Dragon. LED status nominal.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #195 on:** 05/05/2018 01:13 pm »

About ten minutes away from the opening of the release window.

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #196 on:** 05/05/2018 01:14 pm »

Final poll for Dragon release underway.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #197 on:** 05/05/2018 01:14 pm »

Reacquiring visual downlink momentarily.

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #198 on:** 05/05/2018 01:15 pm »

6 mins to Dragon departure window open.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #199 on:** 05/05/2018 01:16 pm »

Next resupply mission to the international outpost is the Cygnus CRS OA-9 mission, which will launch atop an Antares 230 rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility.