Dragon SpX-15(CRS-15), ECOSTRESS, LEE (Ground Spare)- Falcon 9 (B1045.2)- Canaveral SLC-40 -29.06.18

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ЦитироватьAlexander Gerst‏Подлинная учетная запись @Astro_Alex 23 мин. назад

Beautiful trail of @SpaceX #Dragon 15's launch this morning over Cape Canaveral. The unmanned cargo vehicle carries lots of @iss_research experiments for us up here on @Space_Station, incl. several European and German ones. And maybe also a few letters from my family. #Horizons


tnt22

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Появился набор элементов на 1-й объект запуска
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1 43522U 18055A   18180.47790568 -.00003513  11105-4  00000+0 0  9993
2 43522  51.6352 317.9412 0119429  52.1513  25.5794 15.88341598    15  

tnt22

Появились наборы элементов ещё двух объектов запуска
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1 43523U 18055B   18180.60620803 -.00003546  11210-4  00000+0 0  9996
2 43523  51.6435 317.3070 0103135  47.4939  46.3974 15.93057847    27

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 43524U 18055C   18180.60606640 -.00003552  11228-4  00000+0 0  9996
2 43524  51.6321 317.2751 0100926  47.4552  46.1014 15.93789823    22

tnt22

https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/06/29/spacex-launches-ai-enabled-robot-companion-vegetation-monitor-to-space-station/
ЦитироватьSpaceX launches AI-enabled robot companion, vegetation monitor to space station
June 29, 2018 Stephen Clark


SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket takes off at 5:42 a.m. EDT (0942 GMT) Friday fr om Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: SpaceX

A commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule packed with a robot assistant for the International Space Station's crew, pouches of extra strong coffee, and a NASA science instrument designed to track the health of plants on Earth left Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Friday on a three-day pursuit of the orbiting research lab.

Riding a plume of orange rocket exhaust, the Falcon 9 launcher climbed into a clear pre-sunrise sky after liftoff from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad at 5:42:42 a.m. EDT (0942:42 GMT), roughly the moment Earth's rotation carried the spaceport under the International Space Station's orbital track.
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The Falcon 9's first stage, launching for the second time after boosting a NASA science satellite to orbit in April, pivoted its engines to steer the rocket northeast from Cape Canaveral with 1.7 million pounds of thrust.

The rocket dropped the first stage booster to fall into the Atlantic Ocean — it was not planned to be recovered — as the Falcon 9's second stage ignited for a five-and-a-half-minute firing to give the Dragon cargo craft enough speed to achieve orbit around Earth.

The launcher soared into sunlight as it reached the rarefied upper atmosphere, creating a twilight effect as the Falcon 9's expanding exhaust cloud caught the first rays of the morning sun.

Imagery of the Falcon 9's ascent into space showed the exhaust plume illuminated, appearing as a growing nebula-like feature and putting on a memorable light show for spectators across Florida.

The rocket's second stage shut down around eight-and-a-half minutes into the flight, then deployed the Dragon supply ship around 90 seconds later. Two power-generating solar panels unfurled to a span of around 54 feet (16.5 meters), and the ship's rocket jets were primed for the three-day chase of the space station.

Meanwhile, the second stage was programmed to continue orbiting Earth for a long-duration coast demonstration, collecting data to verify the rocket can operate in space for up to six hours, allowing future Falcon 9 rocket missions to send payloads into higher, harder-to-reach orbits.

Friday's launch marked the 57th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and SpaceX's 12th launch of the year. It was the 14th time SpaceX has launched a reused first stage booster, and the fourth flight of a previously-used Dragon capsule.

The first stage launched Friday was the final one manufactured by SpaceX using the company's discontinued "Block 4" configuration. SpaceX debuted the upgraded "Block 5" version of the Falcon 9 rocket May 11, and Friday's flight employed a second stage containing Block 5 improvements.

The Falcon 9 Block 5 design is optimized for reusability of the first stage, and SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk said the upgraded Block 5 boosters could be launched, landed and flown again in as few as 24 hours, eventually requiring little more than the cost of new propellants and processing costs.

The Block 4 configuration was not capable of such rapid re-flights, requiring disassembly of its landing legs, inspections, refurbishment and the installation of new heat shield material and grid fins used on descent. The work took time and cost millions of dollars, but SpaceX officials said the expense of refurbishing Block 4 boosters was less than the cost of manufacturing an all-new vehicle.

Friday's mission was the final launch of a Block 4 first stage, said Jessica Jensen, SpaceX's director of Dragon mission management.



paceX's 15th space station cargo mission, part of a commercial resupply contract with NASA valued at more than $3 billion, is set to reach its destination around 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) Monday.

Space station crew members will take command of the Canadian-built robotic arm to grapple the free-floating Dragon capsule. The robot arm will berth the spacecraft on the station's Harmony module a couple of hours later, beginning a one-month stay.

Astronauts will manually unpack the contents of Dragon's pressurized cargo module, which SpaceX is reusing from a previous resupply mission that launched in July 2016.

The mission is slated to deliver 5,946 pounds (2,697 kilograms) of equipment, experiments and provisions to the orbiting research laboratory. About 3,774 pounds (1,712 kilograms) of that tally are carried inside Dragon's internal cabin, including:
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  • 2,718 pounds (1,233 kilograms) of scientific investigations
  • 452 pounds (205 kilograms) of crew supplies
  • 392 pounds (178 kilograms) of vehicle hardware
  • 139 pounds (63 kilograms) of spacewalk equipment
  • 46 pounds (21 kilograms) of computer resources
  • 27 pounds (12 kilograms) of Russian hardware
The cargo loaded inside Dragon include mice to be examined by scientists upon return to Earth. Researchers will study the effects of microgravity on microorganisms in the animals' gastrointestinal tracts.

There is also an experiment aboard the Dragon cargo capsule which will help scientists study how algae grows in space. Algae could provide basic nutrition and help absorb carbon dioxide on future space missions, and algae oils could reduce the adverse effects of cosmic radiation on humans.

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, who launched earlier this month to begin a half-year on the space station, is also getting a talking assistant enabled by artificial intelligence.

Known as CIMON — short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion — the robot will help Gerst complete tasks, conduct experiments, and repair and upgrade components inside the space station.

"CIMON a free-floating artificial intelligence, and when he will be activated, this is kind of a historical moment," said Christian Karrasch, CIMON's project lead at DLR, the German Aerospace Center. "We are very happy that CIMON will be the first artifical intelligence in space.

"For us, this is a piece of the future of human spaceflight. If you go out to the moon or to Mars, you cannot take all (of) mankind and engineers with you, but with an artifical intelligence, you have, instantly, all the knowledge of mankind," Karrasch said.

Developed in partnership between DLR, Airbus Defense and Space, and IBM, CIMON is a spherical device about the size of a medicine ball. The entire structure of CIMON, primarily metal and plastic, was 3D-printed, according to Airbus.

Robots like CIMON could help space crews do their work more efficiently, improve safety, minimize crew stress, and help the public better understand spaceflight, according to project officials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6KZgutwruA

CIMON's "neural" AI network and ability to learn, along with human-like characteristics such as a face and voice, will make it more of a companion than just an experiment to Gerst and other station crew members, officials said.

The AI-enabled helper was paired with Gerst, a German-born astronaut, using voice samples before his flight. That means CIMON will best communicate with him, but officials said anyone could work with the robot.

"If Alexander Gerst has certain questions to the experiment he's working on, CIMON has quite keep knowledge on that experiment, so he can really get inside the experiment, and he can ask questions that are beyond the procedure," said Philipp Schulien, an engineer on CIMON from Airbus.

CIMON learns with the help of IBM Watson AI technology.

"During the times when there is connectivity, all the communications go back through the cloud," said Bret Greenstein, IBM's global vice president of Watson and Internet of Things offerings. "So all the AI work is being processed at the cloud, actual language, all the training and the tailoring we did, happens in the cloud, which also means we can enhance it from the Earth anytime, and make it smarter constantly to help Alexander and the team to use it."

Kirk Shireman, NASA's space station program manager, said astronaut crews traveling deeper into the solar system will need to be more autonomous due to the communications delays inherent in such journeys.

"You can think of all of human knowledge, you might need to access parts of that," Shireman said. "So having AI, and having that knowledge base and the ability to tap into it in a way that's useful for the task that you're doing, is really critical for having humans farther and farther away from the planet."

In sum, the cargo mission will help enable 27 scientific experiments on the space station, according to David Brady, the International Space Station's assistant program scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Fresh food, including crab, lobster and maale-smoked salmon, pouches of strong coffee from Death Wish Coffee, an iPad Air, and spacesuit gloves are also among the items stowed inside the Dragon spacecraft.


SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft is carrying a spare latching end effector (top) and NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument to the space station inside the vehicle's trunk. Credit: SpaceX

The equipment launched to the space station inside the Dragon's trunk included a spare Canadian-built latching end effector for the research lab's robotic arm, plus a 1,213-pound (550-kilogram) instrument developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be mounted outside the station's Japanese Kibo lab module to measure the temperature of plants from space.

The spare latching end effector, or hand, for the robotic arm will be stored outside the space station, ready to replace one of the arm's two end effectors with the help of spacewalking astronauts, if needed.

Astronauts replaced both hands of the robotic arm in a series of spacewalks late last year and earlier this year. Both latching end effectors showed signs of aging and wear-and-tear after nearly 17 years on the space station, and the replacements left the station without a spare hand for the arm, also known as Canadarm 2.

"It's a critical system," said Ken Podwalski, the Canadian Space Agency's space station program manager. "We always want to be able to protect for a failure."

The robotic arm is vital for the space station to receive cargo deliveries by SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo carrier, and Japan's HTV supply ship. It is also used to move astronauts around the space station on spacewalks, and for transferring experiments and other equipment around the exterior of the nearly million-pound science outpost.

Canadarm 2 is Canada's primary contribution to the space station. It uses the latching end effectors to inchworm between multiple host adapters outside space station module and on the station's truss backbone, and the arm's hands are capable of routing data, video and electrical power.

"Overall, I would dare say that we've gotten exceptional performance out of our space robotics, just because 17 years into the game for a system that was designed for a 10-year operational life — and 15 years on orbit — with the very few issues that we've had," Podwalski said.

"I think our biggest problems have really been about cameras. We've changed a number of cameras. We've got new cameras in the works, and those are actually very nice because we can actually change them out robotically," he said. "So that's a case wh ere we're using our own robots to fix our own robots. It's kind of the ideal scenario."

The Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station, or ECOSTRESS, will measure heat energy coming off Earth's surface. The temperature measurements will tell scientists about the health of the plants, how much water they are using, and the resiliency of crops to extreme conditions like heat waves and droughts.

"When a plant is so stressed that it turns brown, it's often too late for it to recover," said Simon Hook, ECOSTRESS principal investigator at JPL. "But measuring the temperature of the plant lets you see that a plant is stressed before it reaches that point."

Developed under a cost cap of $30 million, the ECOSTRESS instrument is a pathfinder for future missions, and it will collect data from its mounting fixture outside the space station for about one year.

"ECOSTRESS will allow us to monitor rapid changes in crop stress at the field level, enabling earlier and more accurate estimates of how yields will be impacted," said Martha Anderson, an ECOSTRESS science team member with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland. "Even short-term moisture stress, if it occurs during a critical stage of crop growth, can significantly impact productivity."

The thermal sensitivity of ECOSTRESS will also make it useful for detecting and studying hotspots, such as wildfires and volcanoes.

The Dragon spacecraft will depart the space station Aug. 2 and return to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with nearly two tons of equipment, cargo and research specimens for analysis by engineers and scientists on the ground.
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axxenm

Какова общая масса ПН в этом запуске? 
4200+1712+985=6897 kg?
Почему не садили первую ступень если масса ПН так мала?.
Видимо выгоды от "многоразовости" нет?
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ФХ бесперспективная связка дров.
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snek

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Цитироватьaxxenm пишет:
Почему не садили первую ступень если масса ПН так мала?.
Рукалицо. Уже несколько раз говорилось, что они расстреливают оставшиеся блок 4, чтобы не возиться с двумя разными версиями. В трансляции, кстати, говорилось, что это последний пуск 4-го блока (хотя, вроде, я где-то слышал, что драгон демо будет тоже на нем).

axxenm

Цитироватьsnek пишет:
Цитироватьaxxenm пишет:
Почему не садили первую ступень если масса ПН так мала?.
Рукалицо. Уже несколько раз говорилось, что они расстреливают оставшиеся блок 4, чтобы не возиться с двумя разными версиями. В трансляции, кстати, говорилось, что это последний пуск 4-го блока (хотя, вроде, я где-то слышал, что драгон демо будет тоже на нем).
рукалицо..
Большего верноподданнического проявления к главе секты и придумать трудно.
---
таксопарк выбрасывает на помойку незатюнингованые автомобили(при одинаковых эксплуатационных характеристиках с затюнинговаными) что б не возиться с 2 разными(минимально) версиями.
роскосмос - сборище ворюг и бюрократов
одноразовый Ф9 - лучшая в мире ракета для вывода на ГПО.
ФХ бесперспективная связка дров.
КК Союз - лучший на долгие годы вперед.
Бочки стс-100,крю дрэгон,педерация,орион -
убогие бюрократические выкидыши

Spacetourist

Цитироватьsnek пишет:
В трансляции, кстати, говорилось, что это последний пуск 4-го блока (хотя, вроде, я где-то слышал, что драгон демо будет тоже на нем)
Самый последний Блок 4 будет использован для демонстрации прерывания взлета пилотируемого Дракона. То есть запуск будет суборбитальным.

Apollo13

ЦитироватьCtas пишет:
Цитироватьsnek пишет:
В трансляции, кстати, говорилось, что это последний пуск 4-го блока (хотя, вроде, я где-то слышал, что драгон демо будет тоже на нем)
Самый последний Блок 4 будет использован для демонстрации прерывания взлета пилотируемого Дракона. То есть запуск будет суборбитальным.
Не будет. Для Inflight abort test планируют использовать дважды летавшую ступень блок 5.

К.А.

Цитироватьaxxenm пишет:
Какова общая масса ПН в этом запуске?
4200+1712+985=6897 kg?
Почему не садили первую ступень если масса ПН так мала?.
 Видимо выгоды от "многоразовости" нет?
С массой все очень просто, надо прибавить топливо в баках маневрирования Дракона, судя по всему его там 1278 кг.

tnt22

ЦитироватьDr Marco Langbroek‏ @Marco_Langbroek 21 ч. назад

About an hour from now, @SpaceX will deorbit the Falcon 9 upper stage from today's DRAGON CRS-15 launch over the northern Atlantic Ocean, 4 orbital revolutions after launch. It is an experiment to demonstrate its coasting ability (i.e. an engine restart after several revolutions)


Apollo13

ЦитироватьК.А. пишет:
С массой все очень просто, надо прибавить топливо в баках маневрирования Дракона, судя по всему его там 1278 кг.
Этот вопрос уже много раз обсуждали в самых разных темах.

http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum10/topic14743/message1497464/#message1497464
http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum10/topic9647/message1719952/#message1719952
http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum10/topic14210/message1677768/#message1677768

Масса 4200 кг вероятно появилась из этого "документа" 2008 года и с тех пор кочует по разным сайтам.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120320032815/http://www.spacex.com/SpaceX_Brochure_V7_All.pdf

axxenm

ЦитироватьК.А. пишет:
Цитироватьaxxenm пишет:
Какова общая масса ПН в этом запуске?
4200+1712+985=6897 kg?
Почему не садили первую ступень если масса ПН так мала?.
 Видимо выгоды от "многоразовости" нет?
С массой все очень просто, надо прибавить топливо в баках маневрирования Дракона, судя по всему его там 1278 кг.
Допустим 1278 кг топливо , тогда общая масса будет < 8500 kg...
Да пусть даже 11 тонн( я добрый и щедрый) ..
... все равно тратить на запуск одноразовую ракету 
с хвастливой максимальной (ни разу не запущенной) ПН 22,8 тонн, 
подтверждает мой первоначальный тезис  -
- финансовой выгоды от "многоразовости" нет - 
-только возможность привлечь внимание миллионов обывателей(ничего против них не  имею) к своей космической программе , 
а через это расширить базу потенциальных инвесторов 
и приобрести  инструмент давления на политиков и  бюрократов.
роскосмос - сборище ворюг и бюрократов
одноразовый Ф9 - лучшая в мире ракета для вывода на ГПО.
ФХ бесперспективная связка дров.
КК Союз - лучший на долгие годы вперед.
Бочки стс-100,крю дрэгон,педерация,орион -
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axxenm

Но в любом случае интересно узнать точную массу  ПН фэлкона именно в этом запуске
роскосмос - сборище ворюг и бюрократов
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Бочки стс-100,крю дрэгон,педерация,орион -
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tnt22

Запись трансляции НАСА (от Канадского космического агентства)

ЦитироватьLIVE – SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship launches to the ISS with an important Canadian cargo

Canadian Space Agency

Прямой эфир: 29 июн. 2018 г.

2018-06-29 - The Dragon resupply ship launches to the International Space Station! It's carrying Canadian cargo, including food for David Saint-Jacques' mission and a new "hand" for Canadarm2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBiYm_uVqohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBiYm_uVqo (46:33)

tnt22

НОРАД частично определился с тремя объектами запуска

Александр Репной

Во сколько завтра стыковка CRS-15 с МКС ожидается?
ЛА с 2003 года.
"Я рос с мыслью о том, что круче работы астронавта ничего не бывает..."© Дэйв Браун, астронавт NASA, миссия STS-107.

tnt22

ЦитироватьАлександр Репной пишет:
Во сколько завтра стыковка CRS-15 с МКС ожидается?
ЦитироватьIntl. Space Station‏Подлинная учетная запись @Space_Station 2 ч. назад

The @SpaceX #Dragon arrives at the station Monday at 7am ET with over 5,900 pounds of science gear and crew supplies. Live @NASA TV coverage of its approach and capture begins at 5:30am We'll also answer your #AskNASA questions... https://www.nasa.gov/live 

Трансляция НАСА ТВ начнётся в 09:30 UTC, захват манипулятором запланирован на 11:00 UTC, пришвартовка - около 13:00 UTC

tnt22

ЦитироватьJonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 2 ч. назад

The CRS-15 launch second stage was meant to do an extended 4-orbit coast but then it should have been cataloged by @SpaceTrackOrg @Skitt0608 and was not. Can @SpaceX please comment if the extended coast test happened or not? Journalist friends?

2 ч. назад

Currently object B is CRS-15, objects A and C are the solar array covers I think. However the first TLE set for object A could be the second stage perhaps, with only the later ones being the cover?

2 ч. назад

We believe the plan was for stage 2 to reenter over the N Atlantic at about 1615 UTC. The deorbit burn was likely somethign between 100m/s W of Hawaii at 1545 UTC and 300m/s off Vancouver 15 min at 1600UTC - in any case 3 full orbits and most of a 4th completed

2 ч. назад

This, if it did happen per plan, would normally result in the stage getting a catalog number.

2 ч. назад

Here are the orbit heights for object A (blue), B (red), C (blue) from the TLE data so far. B is clearly Dragon, heading up to ISS. Later data points for A and C are consistent with the array covers. 1st data point for A is anomalous.



2 ч. назад

Oops - x-axis on previous plot was off by 12 hours (MJD vs JD origin issue). Here it is again, corrected, with the launch and stage 2 deorbit times as vertical cyan bars.



2 ч. назад

I believe that the stage 2 coast did occur as planned, the first TLE set of object A is stage 2, and after it was deorbited Space-Track used the same catalog number for one of the array covers.