SpaceX F9/Dragon 2 : CRS2 SpX-30 : CCSFS SLC-40 : 21 March 2024 (20:55 UTC)

• #180 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:06

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• #181 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:08
• GO/NO GO poll for waypoint 2.

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• #182 by theonlyspace on 23 Mar, 2024 10:09
• Nose cap open  Good view of Dragon  Final approach
• #183 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:10
• Dragon configured for docking, Soft capture ring extension.
• #184 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:11
• 80 meters, Go for docking

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• #185 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:13
• Handover satellite.

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• #186 by eeergo on 23 Mar, 2024 10:13
• Quote from: Targeteer on 23 Mar, 2024 08:46

  I'll ask this question for maybe the tenth time.  Why are the approach ellipsoid and keep out sphere never mentioned during Russian spacecraft operations?
  

  
  You have an uncanny memory for remembering you asked this many times before, yet a remarkably forgetful one for remembering you were answered back as many times:
  
  https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56815.msg2528370#msg2528370
  
  

  Quote from: eeergo on 01 Oct, 2023 22:21

  Quote from: Targeteer on 27 Sep, 2023 04:21

  I'll ask again.  Why aren't the keep out sphere and approach ellipsoid discussed during Russian vehicle arrivals and departures?
  

  
  Unsure why you keep bringing this up when it was already answered, to you personally, and with just a quick document search, a while back:
  
  

  Quote from: Targeteer on 30 Mar, 2019 04:46

  Quote from: eeergo on 29 Mar, 2019 11:40

  Quote from: Targeteer on 28 Mar, 2019 19:35

  Once again, taking bets on how many times the terms "keep out sphere" and "approach ellipsoid" are used during the docking...
  

  
  I'm quite bemused you keep bringing this up after SpaceX's redenzvous (even when the exact same terminology has been used for ATV, HTV, Cygnus and Dragon-1s for years). Especially when you keep track of ISS comms so thoroughly (thanks for that, by the way).
  
  ISS VVs entering service after 2000 need to comply with the SSP 50808 Intercept Definition Document, where the Regions Around ISS are defined (KOS, AE and comms disk). The publicly-accessible summary explicitly states these divisions and nomenclature do NOT apply to then-legacy systems such as STS, Soyuz, Progress, or (self-propelled) modules. See Section 1.1 (Scope) in the attached doc.
  

  
  Thanks for the answer.  That's all I really wanted. My statement got me, and others who were wondering the same thing, clarification.
  
• #187 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:14
• 30 meters.

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• #188 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:14

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• #189 by FutureSpaceTourist on 23 Mar, 2024 10:16
• https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1771495383866188214
  
  

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  Dragon approaches the @Space_Station

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• #190 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:16
• Final approach.

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• #191 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:17
• 11 meters.
• #192 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:18
• 5 meters.
• #193 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:20
• Contact and Soft capture !

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• #194 by theonlyspace on 23 Mar, 2024 10:20
• Soft Capture 619 central time
• #195 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:22

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• #196 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:23
• Ring retraction.

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• #197 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:24
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  CRS-30: CONTACT AND CAPTURE at 7:19am EDT (1119 UTC) as the two spacecraft were passing 262 miles above the southern Atlantic Ocean

  
  https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1771497066872655971
• #198 by centaurinasa on 23 Mar, 2024 10:26
• First 6 of 12 Hook drive in progress.
• #199 by catdlr on 23 Mar, 2024 10:29