Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 / Dragon 2 : SpX-DM1 : March 2, 2019: UPDATES (Read 182063 times)

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #140 on:** 02/28/2019 08:44 pm »

https://twitter.com/tgmetsfan98/status/1101235269649526785

For DM-2 they talked about heating lines and other changes to keep Draco’s within the environment they’re happy with. This will mean constraints on DM-1 operations should not apply to DM-2.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #141 on:** 02/28/2019 08:50 pm »

Hans: Cameras inside Dragon and will be live views. Should give impression of what it would be like to be in the capsule.

Also:

https://twitter.com/tgmetsfan98/status/1101237578139922439

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #142 on:** 02/28/2019 08:57 pm »

SpaceX in the LCC:

https://twitter.com/TGMetsFan98/status/1101239760952135680

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #143 on:** 02/28/2019 09:01 pm »

Briefing has concluded, Falcon and Dragon still horizontal, LOTS of time still.

https://twitter.com/TGMetsFan98/status/1101240823113572355

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #144 on:** 02/28/2019 09:04 pm »

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Published on 28 Feb 2019
Take a tour of the interior of SpaceX's Crew Dragon, targeted to launch on its first (uncrewed) demonstration flight on March 2, 2019. Crew Dragon is designed to transport up to four astronauts for NASA missions, along with critical cargo and supplies, to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

The Crew Dragon features solar arrays affixed to the side of the spacecraft’s trunk, a launch escape system that will allow crew members to escape an anomaly at any point during flight, a large hatch and windows and a redesigned outer mold line to enhance crew comfort. The first uncrewed flight is an important step in returning human launches on American rockets and spacecraft to the space station from U.S. soil since 2011.

John44 · « **Reply #145 on:** 02/28/2019 09:15 pm »

SpaceX Demo-1 Prelaunch Briefing
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6655

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #146 on:** 02/28/2019 10:08 pm »

Video SpaceX showed earlier today at briefings:

https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1101257584797872128

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #147 on:** 02/28/2019 10:08 pm »

https://twitter.com/spaceflightnow/status/1101255707066806275

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is being raised vertical at launch pad 39A in Florida in preparation for Saturday’s launch with the Crew Dragon spacecraft. spaceflightnow.com/2019/02/28/spa…

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #148 on:** 02/28/2019 10:12 pm »

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #149 on:** 02/28/2019 10:21 pm »

Going vertical:

https://twitter.com/NASA_Nerd/status/1101260756669161475

vaporcobra · « **Reply #150 on:** 02/28/2019 10:23 pm »

The DM-1 NASA Social briefing is now streaming on NASA TV (scrub about 20 minutes back). Several senior SpaceX engineers presented.

Rondaz · « **Reply #151 on:** 02/28/2019 10:57 pm »

Demo-1 Launch Information

Anna Heiney Posted on February 28, 2019

NASA and SpaceX are preparing for the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Demo-1 uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A is targeted for 2:49 a.m. EST on Saturday, March 2. This is the first launch of a space system designed for humans built and operated by a commercial company through a public-private partnership on a flight test to the International Space Station.

Follow the countdown on NASA TV and the Launch Blog on Saturday starting at 2 a.m.

More details about the mission and NASA’s commercial crew program can be found in the press kit online and by following the commercial crew blog, @commercial_crew and commercial crew on Facebook.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2019/02/28/demo-1-launch-information/

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #152 on:** 02/28/2019 11:19 pm »

Rocket fully vertical now!

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1101274955751268352

theinternetftw · « **Reply #153 on:** 03/01/2019 12:28 am »

DM-1 Pre-Launch Presser transcript:

https://gist.github.com/theinternetftw/52a258992b6729b25b7a843b32f42653

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #154 on:** 03/01/2019 03:03 am »

Photo from SpaceX website, plus images from NASA

Rondaz · « **Reply #155 on:** 03/01/2019 05:15 am »

Crew Dragon Ready for its Debut Flight

Anna Heiney Posted on February 28, 2019

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft—designed to fly astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil—is ready for its debut flight on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. It is a first-of-its-kind test mission of a commercially-built and operated American spacecraft and rocket designed for humans.

The Demo-1 uncrewed flight test, targeted to launch March 2, will demonstrate the company’s ability to safely launch crew to the space station and return them home.

“It’s time to fly the SpaceX Demo-1 mission,” said Steve Stich, NASA launch manager and deputy manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. “This mission is an important step in returning human spaceflight to American soil. SpaceX and NASA teams are working side-by-side on this mission from start to finish as we have throughout this process. This flight test will inform the system design, operations and drive any changes that need to be made ahead of crew flights. We are ready to learn by flying.”

NASA and SpaceX are working together as public-private partnerships to build on the success of American companies already delivering cargo to the space station. Demo-1 is a critical step for NASA and SpaceX to demonstrate the ability to safely fly missions with NASA astronauts to the orbital laboratory.

“Demo-1 is our end-to-end flight test to ensure the spacecraft and systems operate as designed before we put crew on board,” said Benji Reed, SpaceX director of crew mission management.

On launch day, SpaceX will command Crew Dragon and Falcon 9’s launch from Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Control Center Firing Room 4, which oversaw the countdown and liftoff of the final 15 space shuttle missions. Falcon 9 is targeted to lift off at 2:49 a.m. from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Pad A was the launch site for 11 Apollo Saturn V missions, including Apollo 11, the first Moon landing, and 82 space shuttle missions, including STS-1, the first shuttle launch, and STS-135, the final shuttle mission.

“Demo-1 is a demonstration of the Falcon 9 rocket, Crew Dragon spacecraft, ground systems and overall operations - basically just about everything that needs to be operating and operating well before we want to put our astronauts on-board,” said Mike Lee, NASA mission manager for SpaceX’s Demo-1 flight test. “Our main goals are to validate as many aspects of the spacecraft’s systems as we can without a crew on-board, monitor its approach and docking to the space station, and then monitor the undocking, deorbit, entry and splashdown.”

As Crew Dragon ascends into space, SpaceX will command Crew Dragon from its mission control center in Hawthorne, California. NASA teams will monitor operations throughout the flight from Mission Control, Houston at the agency’s Johnson Space Center.

SpaceX will test the spacecraft’s autonomous systems’ ability to maneuver and dock with the space station. During Crew Dragon’s approach, on-orbit demonstrations will include rendezvous activities from a distance of up to 2.5 miles (4 km), known as far field, and activities within one mile (1.6 km), known as near field. As the spacecraft approaches the space station, it will demonstrate its automated control and maneuvering capabilities by intentionally reversing course and backing away from the station before the final docking sequence. During this flight, Crew Dragon will dock to the station’s Harmony module forward, fitted with the new international docking adapter installed during an August 2016 spacewalk, port last used during the final shuttle mission in 2011.

The docking phase, as well as the return and recovery of Crew Dragon, include many new first-time events that cannot be totally modeled on the ground and thus are critically important to understand the design and systems ability to support crew flights. Previous cargo Dragon vehicles have been attached to the space station after capture by the station’s robotic arm. The Crew Dragon will fly in all the way to dock using new sensor systems, new propulsion systems and docking mechanism to attach to station.

For Demo-1, Crew Dragon will carry about 400 pounds of crew supplies and equipment to the space station and return some critical research samples to Earth. Teams in the space station Mission Control Center at Johnson will monitor station crew members’ opening of the spacecraft hatch, enter Crew Dragon and unpack the capsule. The spacecraft will remain docked to the space station for about two weeks. Ultimately, on future missions, Crew Dragon will be able to stay docked to station for up to 210 days during NASA crew rotation missions.

After undocking from station, Crew Dragon will begin its descent to Earth. Additional spacecraft mission objectives will include a safe departure from the station followed by a deorbit burn and parachute deployment to slow the spacecraft before splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida Space Coast. SpaceX’s recovery ship, Go Searcher, will retrieve Crew Dragon and transport it back to port.

NASA and SpaceX will use data from Demo-1 to further prepare for Demo-2, the crewed flight test that will carry NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station. NASA will validate the performance of SpaceX’s systems before putting crew on-board for the Demo-2 flight, currently targeted for July.

Commercial crew is working with both Boeing and SpaceX to design, build, test and operate safe, reliable and cost-effective human transportation systems to low-Earth orbit. Both companies are targeting to have flight tests with NASA astronauts in 2019, which will restore the nation’s human launch capability to and from the station.

NASA continues to work with Boeing as the company plans for the uncrewed flight test of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, known as the Orbital Flight Test, targeted for NET April 2019. Boeing’s Crew Flight Test is targeted for NET August 2019.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/crew-dragon-ready-for-first-launch

docmordrid · « **Reply #156 on:** 03/01/2019 05:45 am »

Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk
Ripley
1:37 AM - Mar 1, 2019

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1101370880486076416

jacqmans · « **Reply #157 on:** 03/01/2019 08:52 am »

03/01/2019 09:57

Roscosmos and NASA have worked out security protocols for docking an American ship

The Roscosmos State Corporation and NASA reached a consensus on ensuring the safety of the crew and the International Space Station itself (ISS) during the automatic docking of the Dragon 2 spacecraft to the US station segment. The specialists of the Mission Control Center and the operational control group of the Russian segment of the ISS will also monitor the docking process according to the protocol, in which it is established that if the proximity mode deviates from the standard one, the docking attempt will be terminated.

Experts of Roscosmos and NASA, studying possible abnormal situations when docking American commercial ships directly to the ISS (bypassing the manipulator in the American segment), came to the conclusion that the implementation of some docking scenarios increases the risk for the station and crew. As a result of painstaking work, the specialists of Roscosmos and NASA have developed options for action to reduce this risk and agreed to conduct this type of docking.

At the same time, the parties also worked out the algorithm of actions during the automatic docking. So, four hatches in the American segment where the American ship will be docked will be closed. In the event of an emergency, the crew will switch first to the Russian segment of the ISS, and then to the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/26155/

jacqmans · « **Reply #158 on:** 03/01/2019 11:00 am »

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen illuminated by spotlights on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Demo-1 mission, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-1 mission will be the first launch of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft and space system designed for humans as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for a 2:49am launch on March 2, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities.

Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #159 on:** 03/01/2019 01:34 pm »

Some confusion on the Russian stance per Dragon 2's DM-1 docking. On ISS Space to Ground - they are still NO GO for Dragon 2 DM-1 docking.

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