SpaceX moved the first astronaut-ready Crew Dragon spacecraft Friday night from a fueling facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where teams will join the capsule with a Falcon 9 rocket for launch May 27. spaceflightnow.com/2020/05/16/cre…
https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/1262161843407085568QuoteSpaceX's next launch will have crew onboard. The Starlink launch is in fact now postponed until after Demo-2 due to not enough time to turnaround OCISLY.JRTI still has several weeks of trials ahead of it before it will be ready.
SpaceX's next launch will have crew onboard. The Starlink launch is in fact now postponed until after Demo-2 due to not enough time to turnaround OCISLY.JRTI still has several weeks of trials ahead of it before it will be ready.
Crew Dragon Spacecraft Arrives at Launch Complex for NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2The pace of prelaunch activities continues to pick up at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as teams prepare for the upcoming launch of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission — the first launch of astronauts from America’s premier multi-user spaceport in nearly a decade.On the Demo-2 flight test, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launched by a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A is scheduled for Wednesday, May 27, at 4:33 p.m. EDT.Late Friday night, May 15, the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived at Launch Complex 39A after making the trek from its processing facility at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.This Wednesday, Behnken and Hurley will fly from their home base at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to the Florida spaceport. The agency Flight Readiness Review begins at Kennedy the following day.Demo-2 will serve as an end-to-end flight test to validate the SpaceX crew transportation system, and is the final flight test for the system to be certified for regular crew flights to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. This will be the first launch of American astronauts on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station since the final flight of the space shuttle in 2011.Author Anna HeineyPosted on May 18, 2020
Dragon recovery ship GO Searcher is now departing Cape Canaveral for Pensacola, Florida Offshore near Pensacola is an alternate Crew Dragon landing location. I *believe* GO Searcher would be stationed in case of the need to abort to an alternate landing site.📸 @NASAKennedy
From a recovery fleet perspective, DM-2 operations have started.
NASA-provided b-roll of SpaceX's Crew Dragon arriving at pad 39A last Friday. Transported from processing facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
For DM-2, SpaceX droneship 'Of Course I Still Love You' will be positioned ~510km downrange to recover Falcon 9.For perspective, OCISLY was positioned 490km downrange for DM-1 and is normally positioned ~629km downrange for Starlink launches.
https://twitter.com/mikeljohns/status/1262559723058053120Quote Taken today
Taken today
Take note that the next attempt if the launch is scrubbed is May 30th. #SpaceX #DM2 #NASA #NASASocial #SpaceCoast
Here’s your NOTAM (air restriction) for #DM2. In short, no one is allowed in the air within 30 nautical miles of LC-39A. That’s the same distance as Melbourne to the south, Oviedo to the west, and New Smyrna to the north. It’s basically the same as it was for Shuttle flights.
With Loverro out, Steve Jurczyk, NASA's associate administrator, will chair Thursday's Flight Readiness Review ahead of the first launch of NASA astronauts from US soil in nearly a decade. The timing of all this is just .... wow.
...They’re expected to arrive at the Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy at approximately 4 p.m. EDT (May 20)...
Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief are back because the next starlink mission was delayed until DM-2. #SpaceXFleet #SpaceX
Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief are the first to return to Port Canaveral. @SpaceXFleet
The finalized #SpaceX #CrewDragon launch weather commit criteria for next week. #Demo2 #Falonc9 #NASA
Wx commit for launch is dependant not just on wx at launch site but in 50 pre-determined abort zones in the Atlantic stretch[ing] up US east coast, off Canadian Maritime Provinces, & across the ocean to just off the western coast of Ireland. #SpaceX #Demo2 #Flacon9 #CrewDragon #NASA
OCISLY is almost back because of the delay to the next starlink mission until after DM-2. #SpaceXFleet #SpaceX
OCISLY has finished berthing. #SpaceXFleet #SpaceX
Up Next ➡️ NASA astronauts @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug are scheduled arrive at @NASAKennedy on Wednesday, May 20.Liftoff from Kennedy's historic Launch Pad 39A is targeted for May 27 at 4:33 p.m. EDT. 🚀🇺🇸 #LaunchAmerica
We're on our way!
