Author Topic: SpaceX F9 / Dragon 2 : CRS2 SpX-24 : KSC LC-39A : 21 December 2021 (10:06 UTC) (Read 129549 times)

Jansen · « **on:** 11/24/2020 05:49 pm »

CRS-24 Discussion thread. Fourth flight of the cargo variant of Dragon 2. Fourth SpaceX flight under the CRS-2 contract.

Launch targeting December 21, 2021 at 1006 UTC (5:06 am EST) on Falcon 9 (booster 1069-1) from KSC LC-39A. ASDS landing is expected. The Dragon capsule was previously used for SpX-22.

NSF Threads for CRS-24 : Discussion
NSF articles for CRS-24 : TBA

NSF Articles for SpaceX CRS : https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/?s=CRS%2BSpaceX
NSF Articles for CRS missions : https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/?s=CRS

External cargo: STP-H7, STP-H8

Other SpaceX resources on NASASpaceflight:
SpaceX News Articles (Recent) / SpaceX News Articles from 2006 (Including numerous exclusive Elon interviews)
SpaceX Dragon Articles / SpaceX Missions Section (with Launch Manifest and info on past and future missions)
L2 SpaceX Section

Jansen · « **Reply #1 on:** 11/24/2020 05:53 pm »

Experiments:

ELaNa 37: Twelve CubeSats are planned for deployment on this mission:

CapSat-1 - The Weiss School, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
D3 - University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
GWSat - George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
JAGSAT - University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
LEOPARDSat-1 - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
MARIO - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
NACHOS - Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, New Mexico
OreSat - Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
PATCOOL - NASA KSC, Kennedy Space Center, Florida and the University of Florida
petitSat - NASA GSFC, Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland
REALOP - University of California - Davis, Davis, California
SPORT - NASA MSFC, Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama

Jansen · « **Reply #2 on:** 12/19/2020 08:14 pm »

Launch targeting 15 November 2021 per NASA LSP Waterfall dated 05 Nov 2020.

PM3 · « **Reply #3 on:** 12/21/2020 03:57 pm »

Quote from: Jansen on 12/19/2020 08:14 pm

Launch targeting 15 November 2021 per NASA LSP Waterfall dated 05 Nov 2020.

I suspect this means "mid November 2021, but our spreadsheet date cell does not accept 'mid'". Uncertainty for long-run ISS schedule is +/- months.

PM3 · « **Reply #4 on:** 01/20/2021 09:36 pm »

As expected, the working date for this mission has started slipping, now December 2021.

https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/iss-research/microgravity-research-flights/

Jansen · « **Reply #5 on:** 03/19/2021 12:14 pm »

Launch targeting 02 December 2021 per NASA LSP Waterfall project documentation Feb 2021.
edit/gongora: source is March 16, 2021 SMSR schedule

Jansen · « **Reply #6 on:** 04/13/2021 06:36 pm »

https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

SpaceFlight Now is reporting a target launch date of Dec 4.

Jansen · « **Reply #7 on:** 06/09/2021 08:22 pm »

Latest SMSR confirms SFN’s date

SORR 11 Nov 2021

zubenelgenubi · « **Reply #8 on:** 08/30/2021 07:39 pm »

Re: DoD's Space Test Program Cargo Dragon external payloads, SpX-24.

SFN, SpaceX ends launch hiatus with Cargo Dragon mission, Jeff Foust, dated August 29:
STP-H7 (was scheduled aboard SpX-23)
STP-H8 (originally scheduled aboard this flight)

Source: Jennifer Scott Williams, manager of the applications support office for the ISS NASA program.

Will any other potential payloads fit in the trunk, or is this all?
🐉

SPKirsch · « **Reply #9 on:** 09/16/2021 02:55 am »

Cross-post:

Quote from: realnouns on 09/15/2021 08:34 pm

Georgia Tech Space Systems Design Laboratory stating launch date of 12/4 for CRS-24
https://twitter.com/GTssdl/status/1436316814343090183

crandles57 · « **Reply #10 on:** 09/16/2021 03:14 pm »

Same Dec 4th date as has been on
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
since April 12.

(unless that is 12 April)

gongora · « **Reply #11 on:** 09/22/2021 03:13 am »

This flight now has ELaNa 38 with 9 cubesats

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #12 on:** 09/22/2021 06:36 am »

Quote from: gongora on 09/22/2021 03:13 am

This flight now has ELaNa 38 with 9 cubesats

Unfortunately, the person maintaining the ELaNa launch page is asleep at the throttle (and there is no way a member of the public can wake them up, as NASA's phone book is not publicly available).

Any source for your information? Do you know which cubesats are flying?

Yiosie · « **Reply #13 on:** 09/22/2021 07:30 am »

Quote from: Steven Pietrobon on 09/22/2021 06:36 am

Quote from: gongora on 09/22/2021 03:13 am
This flight now has ELaNa 38 with 9 cubesats

Unfortunately, the person maintaining the ELaNa launch page is asleep at the throttle (and there is no way a member of the public can wake them up, as NASA's phone book is not publicly available).

Any source for your information? Do you know which cubesats are flying?

Source is here, p.3: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/15.higginbotham_nasa_town_hall_2021_smallsat-csli.pdf

No list of cubesats, unfortunately, but it is a comprehensive chart of all assigned ELaNa missions and # of cubesats for the next year as of August.

Josh_from_Canada · « **Reply #14 on:** 09/30/2021 08:05 am »

This mission will be the second flight of C209.

gongora · « **Reply #15 on:** 10/06/2021 05:51 pm »

From Crew-3 briefing, this flight will be in the last couple weeks of December.

StraumliBlight · « **Reply #16 on:** 10/06/2021 06:17 pm »

LaunchPhotography updated: [dated October 6]

Quote

And a Falcon 9 from pad 39A will launch the CRS-24 Dragon resupply mission to the ISS in late December, in the middle of the night EST.

crandles57 · « **Reply #17 on:** 10/15/2021 03:50 pm »

https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
Change dated 14 October 2021

Dec. 21
Time TBD

StraumliBlight · « **Reply #18 on:** 10/16/2021 09:11 am »

Quote from: crandles57 on 10/15/2021 03:50 pm

https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
Change dated 14 October 2021

Dec. 21
Time TBD

Launch Photography reports a launch time of "around 4am EST".
[dated October 16]

zubenelgenubi · « **Reply #19 on:** 11/03/2021 01:56 pm »

SFN Launch Schedule, dated November 1; Dragon SpX-24 launch time on December 21: 10:06 UTC
= 5:06 am EST