CST-100 Starliner (Orbital Flight Test) - Atlas V N22 (AV-080) - CCAFS SLC-41 - 20.12.2019, 11:36 UTC.

[Виктор Левашов]

Я вот всё думаю: у "СтарЛайнера" такой массивный ПАО - зрительно, по сравнению с ВА - это для чего-ж они так делают?

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Александр Репной написал:
Ну что мужики, сегодня летит Старлайнер? Стыковка его с МКС как я понял завтра днём через сутки? А посадка ожидается 28 декабря. В этот же день будет и расстыковка с МКС?

Стыковка на автомате - 16:27:00 ДМВ (трансляция в 13:00:00 ДМВ)
Расстыковка 28-го в 08:44:00 ДМВ (трансляция в 07:45:00 ДМВ)
Приземление - 13:47:00 ДМВ (трансляция в 12:30:00 ДМВ)

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Dec 20 10:28

Launch Weather Officer Jessica Williams in her latest briefing indicates conditions are acceptable with no threat of lightning for the Blue Team's entrance into the launch pad and for the next few hours of work.

The forecast for launch time continues to reflect scattered low clouds, easterly winds of 20 gusting to 24 knots and a temperature of 67 degrees F. The forecast continues to be 80 percent GO.

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Dec 20 10:32
Countdown holding

T-minus 4 minutes (L-4 hours, 4 minutes) and holding. The countdown has entered the planned four-hour built-in hold. With the rocket in a quiescent state following fueling, this hold is when astronauts will board Starliner for flight. Today's Orbital Flight Test will simulate crew ingress procedures by the Blue Team at the pad. Liftoff time remains 6:36:43 a.m. EST (1136:43 UTC), at T-minus 4 minutes and holding, this is Atlas Launch Control.

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Dec 20 10:35

The launch team has been polled and given the "go" for the Blue Team to enter Space Launch Complex-41 to perform final tasks on the Starliner and rehearse astronaut loading activities.

Console operators voiced that various systems are safe for pad entry.

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Dec 20 10:36

All three cryogenic tanks on the rocket have been topped off to flight level. That gives us a fully-fueled, 979,223-pound rocket to launch Starliner this morning.

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Dec 20 11:01

ULA members of the Blue Team have completed their tasks to verify the White Room integrity and set up equipment. That has resulted in the "go" to the Boeing members of the team to proceed with opening of the Starliner hatch.


Dec 20 11:12

The Starliner hatch has been opened.

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Dec 20 12:26

Approval to close the Starliner hatch for flight has been radioed to the pad.

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 Boeing Space‏ @BoeingSpace 2 мин. назад

Today's #Starliner #AtlasV launch is an instantaneous launch - that means the rocket has a precise moment when it has to launch in order to get on the path to catch the @Space_Station in orbit.

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Dec 20 12:36
L-2 hours

We are coming up on two hours until liftoff. Out at the launch pad, the Blue Team continues to progress through its timeline. We are tracking no issues in the countdown that would preclude a liftoff at 6:36:43 a.m. EST (1136:43 UTC).

Orchestrating the countdown is ULA Chief Launch Conductor Doug Lebo from his position in the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center's Launch Control Center (LCC). Among the two dozen console positions in the LCC, he is joined by Assistant Launch Conductor Scott Barney, who operates the countdown clock and interfaces with Anomaly Chief David McFarland, leader of the problem-resolution process.

Situated in the Mission Director's Center (MDC) above the LCC is ULA Launch Director Bill Cullen, the person with the overall responsibility of launch operations and gives the final approval to launch. He is seated between Assistant Launch Director Lou Mangieri and LeRoy Cain, Boeing's spacecraft mission director, who relays Starliner's readiness status to Cullen.

In the adjacent Engineering Support Area (ESA), key personnel included Tyler Reeser, the vehicle systems engineer, who leads the Denver technical team in the evaluation of rocket data and systems performance, and Rick Mingee, the HAL, who provides an interface between the anomaly-resolution team and Starliner team.

Also, Flight Director Richard Jones is in Houston overseeing his aspects in the countdown and launch as the person in charge of final spacecraft configuration for liftoff and managing all operations during ascent. You may remember that Jones led the ascent team of flight controllers during the final shuttle launch in 2011.

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Dec 20 12:38

Hatch closure is complete. Boeing's lead representative on the Blue Team, Pad Team Leader Melanie Weber, reports readiness to begin cabin leak checks.

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 Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 5 мин. назад

Reminder about suborbital #AtlasV injection of #Starliner. It's on purpose. Atlas could bring Starliner all the way to orbit, but #Boeing wanted suborbital so they can burn off unused launch abort propellent to lighten Starliner after launch.

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Александр Репной написал:
Ну что мужики, сегодня летит Старлайнер? Стыковка его с МКС как я понял завтра днём через сутки? А посадка ожидается 28 декабря. В этот же день будет и расстыковка с МКС?

Стыковка на автомате - 16:27:00 ДМВ (трансляция в 13:00:00 ДМВ)
Расстыковка 28-го в 08:44:00 ДМВ (трансляция в 07:45:00 ДМВ)
Приземление - 13:47:00 ДМВ (трансляция в 12:30:00 ДМВ)

Не совсем понял. Пуск сегодня в 14:36:43 ДМВ, а стыковка в 16:27:00 ДМВ тоже сегодня? Не верю. Наверное завтра?

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Александр Репной  написал:
Ну что мужики, сегодня летит Старлайнер? Стыковка его с МКС как я понял завтра днём через сутки? А посадка ожидается 28 декабря. В этот же день будет и расстыковка с МКС?

Не совсем понял. Пуск сегодня в 14:36:43 ДМВ, а стыковка в 16:27:00 ДМВ тоже сегодня? Не верю. Наверное завтра?

Из контекста вопроса - ес-сно, завтра, шоб клаву не топтать

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Dec 20 13:10

Crew cabin leak checks are proceeding with the Starliner spacecraft.

For this Orbital Flight Test, the command module features two seats and an instrumented Anthropometric Test Device (ATD), named Rosie, to measure the effects of the ride for future astronauts.

Sitting in the Starliner commander's seat, she is equipped with hundreds of sensors that will return critical data to the mission team ahead of the first crewed flight. They will be especially interested in the forces she experiences through launch, ascent re-entry and landing.

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