Author Topic: SpaceX F9 / Crew Dragon : Crew-1 - LAUNCH - RNDZ - DOCKING: Nov. 15/17 - UPDATES (Read 161659 times)

Targeteer · « **Reply #260 on:** 11/16/2020 07:19 am »

Final calls between the crew and Hawthorne. The crew has manual temperature and lighting control.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #261 on:** 11/16/2020 08:26 am »

A selection of more launch photos from various NASA flickr accounts

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #262 on:** 11/16/2020 08:42 am »

New part for ongoing SpaceX / NASA webcast

OneSpeed · « **Reply #263 on:** 11/16/2020 09:45 am »

Here is a comparison of the launch telemetry from the DM-2 and Crew-1 missions.

1. The Crew-1 telemetry has improved the resolution of the altitude in kilometres to two decimal places for the entire launch phase.
2. The Crew-1 telemetry has reduced the data update rate from 25 times per second to 3 times per second. As a result, there are several spikes in the plot of the acceleration for Crew-1.

Despite the spikes, some differences between the launch profiles are still apparent:

1. The Crew-1 S1 throttle back at the 141s mark is deeper than for DM-2, but Crew-1 burns for 5 seconds longer, with MECO at a higher velocity and altitude.
2. At the 280s mark, Crew-1 is flying about 4km higher than DM-2, so with slightly more loft.

Apart from the differences in loft generated by each S1 burn, the S2 burns are very similar, with SECO and coast insertion at 7,503m/s and 197km altitude for both missions.

Edit: grammar

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #264 on:** 11/16/2020 10:27 am »

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #265 on:** 11/16/2020 01:53 pm »

Quick phase burn just completed.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #266 on:** 11/16/2020 02:16 pm »

https://twitter.com/tylerg1998/status/1328342813914886145

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#Crew1 update: the astronauts are still asleep in their seats, with wake-up time set for around noon EST.

Meanwhile, the boost burn (one of 5 major burns to put Resilience on course for ISS docking) should take place in 3 hours. No issues are being worked on #CrewDragon. 👍

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #267 on:** 11/16/2020 02:24 pm »

https://twitter.com/superclusterhq/status/1328350950285844486

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SpaceX's mighty Merlin engines powered the historic flight of the Crew-1 Falcon 9, carrying Resilience Dragon with four astronauts bound for the ISS.

Remote shots by @johnkrausphotos for Supercluster.

#LaunchAmerica

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #268 on:** 11/16/2020 03:06 pm »

Upcoming times:

11:28 AM eastern time- boost burn
12:02 PM eastern time- close coelliptic burn
12:10 PM eastern time- crew wake up

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #269 on:** 11/16/2020 03:32 pm »

Boost burn should be underway right now.

Edit: happened earlier than the time I posted, boost burn is successfully complete!

yg1968 · « **Reply #270 on:** 11/16/2020 03:57 pm »

Timeline:

https://twitter.com/Cmnt8r/status/1328375545608880140

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #271 on:** 11/16/2020 04:01 pm »

The close coelliptic burn is starting right now.

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #272 on:** 11/16/2020 04:12 pm »

Crew should be waking up right now. Close coelliptic burn should be complete now.

Edit: burn has been confirmed to be complete and nominal.

Edit 2: the CORE is now talking to Hopkins, confirming the crew is awake, something about docking.

Hopkins: it was a very nice night aboard crew dragon

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #273 on:** 11/16/2020 04:45 pm »

Crew wake up song was “in the air tonight” by Phil Collins.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #274 on:** 11/16/2020 04:45 pm »

https://twitter.com/joroulette/status/1328393336147881984

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The Crew Dragon Resilience crew awoke at noon from their eight-hour sleep period to "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins. “It was a very nice night onboard Resilience,” Mike Hopkins told SpaceX HQ.

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #275 on:** 11/16/2020 05:43 pm »

CORE: we noticed baby yoda got into some of your snacks

Hopkins: yeah, he got hungry

(Cams have been reconfigured internally)

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #276 on:** 11/16/2020 06:19 pm »

Broadcast event from inside resilience coming up soon!l

Live view!

Hopkins: wish you all could be with us right now, but we know you are in spirit.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #277 on:** 11/16/2020 06:30 pm »

Booster recovery update:

twitter.com/spacexfleet/status/1328411055010308096

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Recovery teams are still working to secure and prepare the Crew-1 booster for the voyage back to Port Canaveral aboard Just Read the Instructions Droneship.

They have not left the LZ yet. These ops do not take place at night so they will have had to wait until dawn to start.

https://twitter.com/spacexfleet/status/1328413301697605637

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To be clear, this is all totally normal. I only mention it because this was a high profile launch and people are asking for an update!

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #278 on:** 11/16/2020 06:37 pm »

1:38 pm pacific time for broadcast event with the crew members!

(4:38 pm eastern, 3:38 pm central)

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #279 on:** 11/16/2020 07:02 pm »

New SpaceX stream