Cygnus OA-7 (CRS-7) - Atlas V - Canaveral SLC-41 - 18.04.2017 15:11 UTC

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pnetmon пишет:
смотря на лица - кажется они троллят человека на Т....

Похоже на то, в основном-гастарбайтеры. Американцы-без спецодежды .

[Salo]

Orbital ATK ‏@OrbitalATK  23 мин23 минуты назад
OA-7's #Cygnus service module has arrived at @NASAKennedy. Next Stop, @Space_Station! Launch targeted for NET 3/16 aboard @ulalaunch #AtlasV

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Mission Update - February 3, 2017
NASA, Orbital ATK and United Launch Alliance (ULA) have updated the launch of the OA-7 commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station to Sunday, March 19. This date takes into account space station operations, payload processing, and range availability. Orbital ATK will launch Cygnus atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for delivery of essential crew supplies, equipment and scientific experiments to astronauts aboard the station. The 30 minute launch window opens at approximately 10:56pm EDT.

In conjunction with @nasa & @ulalaunch, we have updated the #OA7 launch date to March 19

20 марта, 02:56 - 03:26 UTC

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 http://www.orbitalatk.com/news-room/feature-stories/OA7-Mission-Page/default.aspx?prid=92
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About the Mission
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Cygnus will carry the SAFFIRE-3 space combustion experiment from NASA's Glenn Research Center that will intentionally burn a single large sample of material to study flame development in space. Cygnus will also carry the Reentry Data Collection (RED-Data-2) flight recorder to provide crucial data about the extreme conditions a spacecraft encounters during atmospheric reentry.
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 https://twitter.com/OrbitalATK/status/827607057838796800
3 февр. 2017 г.
Preparations are underway at @NASAKennedy for the launch of our OA-7 mission with the integration of our #Cygnus service module with the PCM

В альбоме на https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/sets/72157677292731631 начали появлятся новые фото

[Salo]

Spaceflight Now ‏@SpaceflightNow 6 ч.6 часов назад
United Launch Alliance's navy has delivered Atlas 5 to Port Canaveral for resupply run to the space station in March http://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/05/ulas-navy-delivers-rocket-that-will-launch-supplies-to-the-space-station/ ...

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http://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/05/ulas-navy-delivers-rocket-that-will-launch-supplies-to-the-space-station/

ULA's navy delivers rocket that will launch supplies to the space station             
 February 5, 2017 Justin Ray

https://vimeo.com/197893895
 A recent Mariner arrival at Port Canaveral for Atlas 5. Credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now
 
PORT CANAVERAL — The ocean-sailing ship that transports rocket stages from United Launch Alliance's factory to U.S. launch sites completed its latest voyage overnight, pulling into port to deliver the Atlas 5 that will send a cargo freighter to the International Space Station in March.
The Mariner, owned and operated by the Foss Maritime company, made a week-long voyage from the ULA production facility in Decatur, Alabama to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Originally built to carry Delta 4 rockets for Boeing to the Cape and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the Mariner now also delivers Atlas 5 stages for ULA whenever circumstances permit.
The Atlas 5's original mode of transportation — the massive Antonov aircraft — continues to be used sparingly.
The custom-made, purpose-built cargo ship entered service in 2000. The 312-foot-long roll-on/roll-off vessel has a crew of 16, carries over 100,000 gallons of fuel and is powered by engines derived from a locomotive.
It features full living quarters, a kitchen and dining area, a fabrication shop below deck and even a helipad.
Construction of the Atlas was performed inside the sprawling Decatur factory, followed by full testing and being readied for transport to Florida.
The Mariner traversed 270 miles up the Tennessee River, 60 miles on the Ohio River and 646 miles down the Mississippi River. The trek then covered 815 miles through the Gulf of Mexico and around to Florida's east-central coast to Port Canaveral.
A trip's round-the-clock average speed is about 12 mph.
Now at the harbor in Port Canaveral, a semi-trucks will drive the 106.6-foot-long, 12.5-foot-diameter bronze-colored booster stage and 41.5-foot-long, 10-foot-diameter Centaur upper stage off the Mariner and up through Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Monday.
The first stage goes to the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center high bay for receiving checks and the Centaur will be processed at the Delta Operations Center and integrated with the interstage and boattail.
Later, the stages will be taken further up the road to the Vertical Integration Facility at Complex 41 for stacking aboard the mobile launch platform.
Once the first stage is erected, the interstage and Centaur will be hoisted and attached to complete the basic build up of the Atlas 5 rocket, designated AV-070.
Installation of the encapsulated payload will occur about one week before launch to top off the 194-foot-tall rocket.
 
An Atlas 5, configured in its 401 version, will launch Cygnus. Credit: United Launch Alliance
The mission, slated for March 19 at 10:56 p.m. EDT (0256 GMT), will launch the Orbital ATK OA-7 Cygnus spacecraft filled with 7,700 pounds of provisions and experiments for the International Space Station.

The Atlas 5 rocket's yaw-steering ability will enable a 30-minute launch window — extending 15 minutes before and after the instant when the station's orbital plane passes over the pad.
It will be Orbital ATK's seventh resupply mission to the station under NASA's commercial cargo-delivery program.
The pressurized cargo module for Cygnus arrived at Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility on Jan. 9. The craft's propulsion section arrived Feb. 1.
The two pieces will be mated together and initial cargo loading performed at the SSPF before the Cygnus is moved to the nearby Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility for propellant loading and the stowage of late-load cargo items.
Encapsulation of the ship in the Atlas 5 rocket's 14-foot-wide, 45-foot-long extra extended payload fairing (XEPF) will occur at the SSPF, too.
Previous Cygnus spacecraft have been given a ceremonial name for a former astronaut who has since passed away. The name for OA-7 has not yet been revealed.
 
A Cygnus arriving at the space station for capture by Canadarm2 and berthing to the Unity module. Credit: NASA

NASA requested that this Cygnus be launched aboard the Atlas 5 instead of Orbital ATK's revamped Antares rocket. The switch allows the craft to carry a greater amount of supplies and gives the space agency better schedule assurance.
The Atlas 5 successfully launched two Cygnus missions — in December 2015 and March 2016 — while the Antares fleet was grounded to upgrade its engines from stockpiled Soviet-era powerplants to modern-day Russian ones.

** CYGNUS FLIGHT HISTORY **
Demo — Antares — 1,299 pounds — Launched Sept. 18, 2013
 Orb 1 — Antares — 2,780 pounds — Launched Jan. 9, 2014
 Orb 2 — Antares — 3,293 pounds — Launched July 13, 2014
 Orb 3 — Antares — 4,883 pounds — Launched Oct. 28, 2014 *Failure
 OA-4 — Atlas 5 — 7,746 pounds — Launched Dec. 6, 2015
 OA-6 — Atlas 5 — 7,758 pounds — Launched March 22, 2016
 OA-5 — Antares — 5,163 pounds — Launched Oct. 17, 2016

Among the science projects being launched in this upcoming OA-7 Cygnus include an Advanced Plant Habitat as a stepping-stone to food production systems on long-duration exploration missions, new tests on cell cultures in space for biological research, a technology experiment into coatings applied to container walls that could benefit fuel storage tanks, a host of cubesats that will be launched from the station, the third spacecraft fire test to study flames in microgravity and another try at collecting data during atmospheric reentry at the mission's conclusion.

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 https://twitter.com/OrbitalATK/status/829352543985758208
Orbital ATK‏@OrbitalATK
8 февр. 2017 г
.@NASAglenn Saffire-III experiment, which will examine how fire spreads in space, is installed in the #OA7 #Cygnus Pressurized Cargo Module

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оригинал

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https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy/status/829807024733114375
No better sight than a gigantic rocket cruising down the road. Scheduled to launch March 19th with an @OrbitalATK #Cygnus spacecraft in tow.

Из альбома https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/albums/72157677292731631 

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И ещё вид

[tnt22]

Укладка грузов завершена

Orbital ATK ‏@OrbitalATK 17 мин. назад
 
Cargo load is complete and the hatch is closed! Now the #OA7 #Cygnus is being raised to a... https://www.instagram.com/p/BQgI5vwgwAd/

orbital_atkCargo load is complete and the hatch is closed! Now the #OA7 #Cygnus is being raised to a vertical position in preparation for integration with the service module, taking place at @nasakennedy today and tomorrow.

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Отсюда https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/sets/72157677292731631


и такой контраст с

ТГК "Прогресс МС-05". Укладка грузов
https://youtu.be/hsnb9Mh1Zwo https://youtu.be/hsnb9Mh1Zwo

количество народа, в разнобой - бахилы, шапочки, перчатки....

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Немного отсюда https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/sets/72157677292731631






там же в большем размере

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Spaceflight Now‏@SpaceflightNow 15 мин. назад
 
Commercial #Cygnus space cargo ship's ride to orbit -- the Atlas 5 -- assembled for March 19 launch of #OA7 http://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/23/commercial-space-cargo-ships-ride-to-orbit-assembled-for-march-19-launch/ ...
 

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в статье к фото приписка

File photos of the Atlas 5 stacking from OA-4. Credit: NASA-KSC

ULA пока пиарит другой свой запуск

 https://twitter.com/OrbitalATK/status/834783254930714624
#Cygnus is bagged & ready for transport to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at @NASAKennedy for final launch preparations #OA7

[zandr]

http://tass.ru/kosmos/4060345

NASA 19 марта отправит на МКС экспериментальный мини-спутник IceCube

© NASA
НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 1 марта. /Корр. ТАСС Алексей Качалин/. Центр космических полетов им. Годдарда в Гринбелте (штат Мэриленд) завершил подготовку экспериментального мини-спутника IceCube для отправки на Международную космическую станцию (МКС). Полет на МКС, который возложен на американскую компанию Orbital ATK, запланирован на 19 марта, старт состоится с американской базы ВВС на мысе Канаверал (штат Флорида), сообщило во вторник Национальное управление США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA).
"Технологии изготовления небольших спутников постоянно эволюционируют. Сейчас они позволяют снижать габариты и вес этих аппаратов без урона для их возможностей", - подчеркнул в этой связи руководитель проекта создания малых спутников в космическом центре в Мэриленде Том Джонсон. По его словам, IceCube весит чуть больше 4,5 кг и достигает 10 см в ширину, столько же в длину и 30 см в высоту. Несмотря на небольшой размер, спутник представляет собой полноценный космический аппарат с системой определения пространственного положения относительно трех осей координат, разворачивающимися панелями солнечных батарей и антенной связи.
После доставки спутника на МКС Джонсон и группа ученых с Земли будут в течение двух недель тестировать IceCube, прежде чем запустить его в самостоятельный полет. Главный рабочий инструмент аппарата - радиометр с диапазоном 883 ГГц, предназначенный для измерения уровня содержания воды в твердой форме (льда) в атмосфере на высотах от 15 до 5 км от Земли. Уровень технологической готовности таких приборов в данном сегменте измерений составляет шесть условных единиц, IceCube рассчитан на доведение этого параметра до девяти.
Как пояснили в NASA, на данный момент точность определения содержания частиц льда на упомянутых выше высотах оставляет желать лучшего. Этот параметр важен при разработке моделей изменения погодных условий и климата Земли.
Orbital ATK использует грузовой корабль Cygnus для снабжения МКС всем необходимым. Предстоящий запуск станет седьмым по счету для этой компании.

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Часть отсюда https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/sets/72157677292731631
Малая часть
Транспортировка

In the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians secure the Orbital ATK CYGNUS pressurized cargo module on the KAMAG transporter. The module will be transported to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility.

KAMAG transporter and the crane has been removed. Technicians have secured the protective covering around CYGNUS. The module will be transported to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility.

A KAMAG transporter with Orbital ATK's CYGNUS pressurized cargo module secured on top arrives at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. CYGNUS will be moved inside the facility for final propellant loading and late cargo stowage.

The Orbital ATK CRS-7 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on March 19, 2017. CYGNUS will deliver thousands of pounds of supplies, equipment and scientific research materials to the space station.

А что от вывода попуткой спутников отказались? Кажется они были при запуском Атласом.

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Да, действительно информация по спутникам куда-то спряталась.
И имя кораблю ещё не озвучили.
Ждём пресс-кит. или перенос.

[tnt22]

NASA Kennedy / KSC‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASAKennedy 34 мин. назад
 
The @OrbitalATK #Cygnus spacecraft enters the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. It is scheduled to launch at 10:56pm EST March 19th.

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Один из попутчиков Лебедя...
http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/solar-system/cxbn-2-cubesat-embark-important-x-ray-astronomy-mission/

CXBN-2 CubeSat to embark on an important X-ray astronomy mission
               
Tomasz Nowakowski                                                    March 5th, 2017

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CXBN-2 Integration Team in the Morehead State University Spacecraft Integration and Assembly Facility. Left to right: Yevgeniy Byleborodov, Dr. Ben Malphrus, Michael Glaser-Garbrick, and Nate Richard. Photo Credit: MSU

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A university-built small satellite known as the Cosmic X-Ray Background NanoSat-2 (CXBN-2) is being prepared for its upcoming ambitious science mission. The spacecraft – scheduled for launch into space on March 19 – is expected to deliver crucial data that could advance our knowledge of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB).
 

CXBN-2 Flight and Engineering Units in the Morehead State University Space Science Center Spacecraft Integration and Assembly Facility. (Click to enlarge) Photo Credit: MSU

 Led by Morehead State University (MSU), the CXBN-2 project addresses fundamental science questions regarding the structure, origin, and evolution of the universe. To answer these questions, the satellite will conduct high precision measurements of the CXB.

"The goal of the CXBN-2 mission is to increase the precision of measurements of the CXB in the 30 to 50 keV range to a precision of almost five percent, thereby constraining models that attempt to explain the relative contribution of proposed sources and lending insight into the underlying physics of the early universe," Benjamin Malphrus, CXBN-2 Principal Investigator at MSU told Astrowatch.net.
 

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The CXBN-2 CubeSat

CXBN-2 is a small two-unit CubeSat that will rely on its two Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors to achieve its scientific goals. Together with the satellite's improved array configuration, these instruments will be able to carry out high-precision measurements of the CXB.

"With the novel CZT detector aboard CXBN-2 and an improved array configuration, a new, high-precision measurement is possible," Malphrus noted.

The CZT detectors were developed by Redlen Technologies, a leading manufacturer of high-resolution semiconductor radiation detectors. The company has produced extremely uniform crystalline structure CZT material through the manufacturing process known as the Traveling Heater Method (THM). This allows uniformity in the semiconductor material so that charge is evenly distributed, allowing greater energy resolution and detection by bleeding off impurities.

The CZT detectors form the REDLEN M1770 CZT Array, an imaging module on board the CXBN-2 CubeSat. This module is a 256-pixel radiation detector that is configured in a 16×16 matrix with a 2.46 mm pixel pitch. It consists of a 2×2 array of 64-pixel CZT detectors with thicknesses of 5 mm and is bonded to a common cathode plate.

"Though originally intended for the detection of X-ray and gamma-ray photons while operating at room temperature and for applications in medical physics and security imaging, we found that the CZT detectors possessed the desired energy resolution and photon efficiency over the energy range of interest for the mission." Thomas Pannuti, CXBN-2 Science Principal Investigator at MSU, told Astrowatch.net.
 

CXBN-2 Integration Team at the Morehead State University Spacecraft Integration and Assembly Facility. L to R: Dr. Ben Malphrus, Jeremy Rice, Michael Glaser-Garbrick, Nate Richard, Yevgeniy Byleborodov, Sarah Wilczewski. Photo Credit: MSU

With a mass of about 5.7 pounds (2.6 kilograms), the CXBN-2 CubeSat has dimensions of 3.93 in × 3.93 in × 7.87 in (10 cm × 10 cm × 20 cm) and is fitted with four deployable solar arrays capable of generating up to 15 W of power. The satellite incorporates a power distribution and handling system known as PMD, a command and data handling system (C&DH) based on a Cortex Arm processor, and an innovative attitude determination and control system (ADACS) developed at MSU.

In comparison with the first CXBN mission, which was sent into space in September 2012, the CXBN-2 CubeSat has two 256 pixel arrays instead of one. Moreover, it features an innovative 3-D printed Tungsten collimator, a series of improvements to the spacecraft bus, and an innovative ConOps characterized by a free flying minimally spinning spacecraft.

In this configuration, the CXBN-2 satellite has the potential to advance our understanding of the diffuse X-ray background, in particular, and the temporal evolution of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies in general.

Malphrus and his colleagues are convinced that their CubeSat will provide measurements of the CXB with high precision, thus constraining models that address the relative contribution of the proposed dominant emitting source population (namely heavily absorbed active galactic nuclei).

"Such a high precision measurement of the CXB will provide insight into the underlying physics of the early universe and provide a window on the most energetic objects in the distant universe," Malphrus explained.
 
Launch preparations


CXBN-2 mission logo. Image Credit: MSU

CXBN-2 is currently in the final phase of preparations for its March 19 liftoff from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The last pre-launch activities include finalizing the ground support software and continuing characterization of the engineering model CZT arrays. The satellite's flight and engineering models were completed in the Fall of 2016 and passed flight-qualification testing. The flight unit was delivered to the launch integrator, Nanoracks, in December 2016 and was subsequently shipped to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The CXBN-2 CubeSat will be launched atop an Atlas V rocket, piggybacking on the seventh Cygnus spacecraft mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Besides Cygnus and CXBN-2, a fleet of other satellites, mainly technology demonstrators, will also be sent into orbit on this mission.
Although MSU has already sent five smallsats into space, the CXBN-2 CubeSat seems to be the university's most important science mission so far.

"We are entering a new era of significant science being supported by CubeSats and Morehead State is at the forefront of this enterprise. The opportunity to participate in astrophysics research facilitated by the CubeSat platform as well as to train our students in space systems engineering and observational astrophysics through live space missions like CXBN-2 is invaluable to our research program, our academic programs and to our students," Pannuti concluded.

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Add-ons
Mission Specs
"The Cosmic X-Ray Background NanoSat-2 (CXBN-2)"

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Без спрятанных картинок размер кажется другим -что кубосаты очень большие    

CXBN-2 Integration Team in the Morehead State University Spacecraft Integration and Assembly Facility. Left to right: Yevgeniy Byleborodov, Dr. Ben Malphrus, Michael Glaser-Garbrick, and Nate Richard. Photo Credit: MSU

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Ранее видно что другие на высоте без сбруи

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