Dragon SpX-10 (CRS10) - Falcon 9 v1.2 - Canaveral SLC-40 - 19.02.2017 14:38 UTC

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SpaceX ретвитнул(а) NASA ‏@NASA 5 ч. назад
 
.@SpaceX launch Saturday will be 1st from Pad 39A since shuttle & will deliver 5,500 lbs of cargo to @Space_Station: http://go.nasa.gov/2kNQC1y
 

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Spaceflight Now ‏@SpaceflightNow 6 мин. назад
 
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is being lifted vertical at launch pad 39A. Watch: http://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/10/pad-39a-mission-status-center/ ...
 

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Stephen C. Smith ‏@SpaceKSCBlog 3 мин. назад
 
The @SpaceX Falcon 9 #CRS10 is going vertical! Watch live on @SpaceflightNow at http://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/10/pad-39a-mission-status-center/ ....
 
 
 »Stephen C. Smith ретвитнул(а)
chip snyder ‏@chip_snyder 5 мин. назад @orbitalpodcast @NASA @DragonWindow @SpaceKSCBlog "that she blows"
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William Harwood ‏@cbs_spacenews 8 мин. назад
 
F9/CRS10: The Falcon 9 goes vertical at pad 39A; around 4:50pm EST
 

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http://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/10/pad-39a-mission-status-center/

02/17/2017 00:54
The Falcon 9 rocket is being lifted vertical now at launch pad 39A.

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ISS National Lab ‏@ISS_CASIS 22 мин. назад

TOMORROW: NASA TV will air "What's On Board" science briefing for @SpaceX CRS-10 mission at 8:30a ET. http://go.nasa.gov/2kDDMCa

[Georgea]

На сушу сажать будут только второй раз? Интересно, в трансляции посадка будет называться экспериментальной или нет...

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-air-prelaunch-briefing-launch-of-next-space-station-resupply-mission

Feb. 15, 2017
 MEDIA ADVISORY M17-020
 
 NASA to Air Prelaunch Briefing, Launch of Next Space Station Resupply Mission
 

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 On July 18, 2016, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40, in Florida, carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station for the company's ninth commercial resupply mission. SpaceX currently is targeting Saturday, Feb. 18, for its 10th resupply mission, this time launching from launch complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Credits: NASA/Tony Gray
 

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NASA provider SpaceX is scheduled to launch its 10th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station no earlier than 10:01 a.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 18. Live coverage of the launch will begin at 8:30 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website.

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will lift off on the company's Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying science research, crew supplies and hardware to the orbiting laboratory in support of the Expedition 50 and 51 crew members.

Media at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will have the opportunity to participate in special tours and briefings Feb. 16 and 17, as well as view the launch. The deadline for media to apply for accreditation for this launch has passed. For more information about media accreditation, contact Jennifer Horner at 321-867-6598 or jennifer.p.horner@nasa.gov.

About 10 minutes after launch, Dragon will reach its preliminary orbit, deploy its solar arrays and begin a carefully choreographed series of thruster firings to reach the space station. SpaceX also is planning to attempt to land its Falcon 9 first stage on land.

Astronauts Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will use the station's robotic arm to capture Dragon when it arrives at the space station after its two-day journey. The spacecraft will be berthed to the Earth-facing port on the Harmony module. The following day, the space station crew will pressurize the vestibule between the station and Dragon, then open the hatch that leads to the forward bulkhead of Dragon.

Live coverage of the rendezvous and capture will begin at 7:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 20, on NASA TV, with installation set to begin at 11:30 a.m. 

If the launch does not occur Saturday, Feb. 18, the next launch opportunity is 9:38 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 19, with NASA TV coverage starting at 8 a.m.

For about a month, crew members will unload the spacecraft and reload it with cargo to return to Earth. About five-and-a-half hours after it departs the station on March 21, it will splash down in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Baja California.

Science investigations launching on Dragon include commercial and academic research investigations that will enable researchers to advance their knowledge of the medical, psychological and biomedical challenges astronauts face during long-duration spaceflight.

One experiment will use the microgravity environment to grow stem cells that are of sufficient quality and quantity to use in the treatment of patients who have suffered a stroke. A Merck Research Labs investigation will test growth in microgravity of antibodies important for fighting a wide range of human diseases, including cancer.

In addition, NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment III mission and Lightning Imaging Sensor will provide continuity for key climate observations and data records.

For an updated schedule of prelaunch briefings, events and NASA TV coverage, visit:

 

https://www.nasa.gov/content/spacex-crs-10-briefings-and-events

For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, visit:

 

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For the latest information and countdown coverage, visit:

 

http://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex

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Tabatha Thompson
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100
tabatha.t.thompson@nasa.gov   

Stephanie Martin
 Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
 321-861-7450
stephanie.a.martin@nasa.gov
 
 
Last Updated: Feb. 16, 2017
Editor: Karen Northon

[Зловредный]

Я надеюсь, в этом запуске они не будут экспериментировать с улучшенным алгоритмом заправки, с усовершенствованными баллонами?..  (зловредный смех)

[Boris Mekler]

Georgea пишет:
На сушу сажать будут только второй раз? Интересно, в трансляции посадка будет называться экспериментальной или нет...

Третий. На сушу садились OG2 (первая успешная посадка) и CRS-9.

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Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 2 мин. назад

Daylight rocket launch & landing at the Cape this weekend. Will be the 1st SpaceX flight from the Apollo launch pad.

SpaceX Will Fly a Rocket Back to Earth in Broad Daylight This Weekend
SpaceX confirmed the ground landing—which will occur at Cape Canaveral Landing Zone 1—in an email to the Observer.

observer.com

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http://observer.com/2017/02/spacex-will-fly-a-rocket-back-to-earth-in-broad-daylight-this-weekend/

SpaceX Will Fly a Rocket Back to Earth in Broad Daylight This Weekend

By Robin Seemangal • 02/16/17 11:23am 

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX

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The Elon Musk-led spaceflight company and rocket provider SpaceX will attempt to recover one of its Falcon 9 rocket boosters following a launch of the firm's Dragon spacecraft with supplies, science experiments, and hardware to the International Space Station. Liftoff is scheduled for Saturday February 18th at 10:01AM ET fr om NASA's historic Kennedy Space Center. The rocket will blaze a fiery trail through the Florida sky and touch down minutes later.

SpaceX confirmed the ground landing—which will occur at Cape Canaveral Landing Zone 1—in an email to the Observer. The company has successfully landed two other Falcon 9 boosters at that site. The first occurred on December 21st, 2015 and was a historic event for the aerospace industry, marking the first recovery of a rocket that has flown to orbit.

More recently, during a previous Dragon mission to the space station in August of 2016, SpaceX performed a boost back maneuver following the separation of the Falcon 9's first-stage and smoothly navigated it for a vertical landing at Cape Canaveral. The Observer published a detailed account of that landing and the events at Kennedy Space Center leading up to it here.

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CEO Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with a vision for making space exploration sustainable and the company has worked throughout the years to improve the reusability of their rockets. Musk tells his employees to imagine a traditional rocket as 30 million dollars plummeting toward Earth and use it as motivation for recovering it. SpaceX has successfully recovered 7 rockets so far.

Musk has a grand vision for one day colonizing Mars and making humans a multiplanetary species. To do so, SpaceX must perfect reusability. The company intends to launch a previously recovered (what they are calling a "flight-proven") rocket very soon from Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX has also successfully recovered its Falcon 9 booster four times on its autonomous drone ship at sea, the Of Course I Still Love You, which is parked miles off of Florida's coastline. The company also recently recovered a Falcon 9 booster on its west coast droneship the Just Read The Instructions.

Saturday's mission will be historic for SpaceX. For the first time, they are using NASA's Launch Complex 39A, which they leased from the agency in 2014 and has since refurbished. It will also be the first launch of any kind from the Kennedy Space Center pad since 2011 when the space shuttle program was shuttered. When Musk unveiled his plan for launching the Interplanetary Transport System to Mars with humanity's first colonists, LC-39A was the site wh ere SpaceX envisions that mission taking off from.

Until then, SpaceX will continue to provide rockets for private companies and NASA-contracted missions to pay its bills and finance their mission to Mars. This weekend's launch is the 10th resupply service mission SpaceX is handling for NASA and will send its Dragon cargo vehicle to the International Space Station packed with supplies for the Expedition 50 and 51 crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory.

About 10 minutes after liftoff atop the Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, the Dragon spacecraft will reach a preliminary orbit and deploy its solar arrays. The capsule spacecraft will then maneuver its way toward the space station using its thrusters while the Falcon 9 booster will begin its journey back to Cape Canaveral for the landing attempt.

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The Observer will be on-site with NASA and SpaceX beginning Thursday morning to visit Launch Pad 39A, learn about the science heading to the space station, and to view the launch and landing. Follow the author of this article on twitter at @nova_road and Instagram at @nova_road for updates.

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Подняли. http://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/16/time-lapse-fully-assembed-falcon-9-rocket-lifted-atop-launch-pad-39a/

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http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-exploration-technologies/spacex-dragon-delivering-the-science-on-crs-10/

SpaceX Dragon delivering the science on CRS-10

Bart Leahy
February 16th, 2017


SpaceX has been working to ready Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets since 2014. Photo Credit: Sean Costello / SpaceFlight Insider

 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — For the first time since 2011, a rocket will be sending supplies and a collection of science experiments for the International Space Station (ISS) fr om Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A). However, the Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) 10 mission, scheduled for Feb. 18, 2017, is not being flown by a NASA launch vehicle, but SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

GETTING THE HARDWARE IN ORDER

SpaceX's launch fr om LC-39A also will be a major milestone for Elon Musk's rocket company. In addition to being the first flight from the former Apollo and Space Shuttle site, it will mark the company's first flight from Florida since the Sept. 1, 2016, loss of a Falcon 9 during a static fire test. The accident resulted in the loss of both the rocket and Amos-6 satellite on top and severely damaged Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX's other East Coast launch site, which is just south of LC-39A.

The last time SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo spacecraft to the ISS was on July 18, 2016.

On Feb. 10, 2017, the California-based company rolled its Falcon 9 and into a vertical position at LC-39A on its new transporter-erector. Two days later, the rocket underwent a static engine test.

DELIVERING SCIENCE

In addition to supplies for the station, CRS-10 will deliver several science experiments, including the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment () III instrument, the Microgravity Growth of Crystalline Monoclonal Antibodies for Pharmaceutical Applications experiment, and the Raven spacecraft navigation system, among others.
 

The Raven technology module. Photo Credit: Chris Gunn / NASA Goddard

 SAGE III is a NASA Langley Research Center instrument that will be mounted on the Earth-facing side of ISS to study ozone in the atmosphere. The experiment is a follow-on to several previous experiments.

The original SAGE was launched to follow the Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement, or SAM, flown on the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. SAGE II was a part of the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, or ERBS, which the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger deployed in 1984. SAGE III, designed for the ISS, is a near-duplicate of one launched aboard a Russian Meteor-3M satellite in 2001.

CRS-10 also will bring materials to continue supporting a CASIS experiment monitoring the growth of monoclonal antibodies in zero gravity. Monoclonal antibodies are molecules that attach to other specific molecules in the body to aid in fighting multiple human diseases, including cancer.

The CASIS experiment crystallizes a monoclonal antibody developed by Merck Research Labs. It will use microgravity to grow extremely high-quality crystals, which allow scientists to study the proteins' structure, improve drug delivery and manufacturing, and develop better methods for storing these molecules.

The Raven investigation studies a real-time spacecraft navigation system that provides the sensors and guidance to see a target and steer toward it safely.

Raven also will enable future exploration missions near Earth and beyond, including satellite servicing and repair, asteroid exploration and redirect missions, and the Orion program.

A previous, single-sensor version of the Raven technology flew as the Relative Navigation Sensor (RNS) Payload on STS-125, the fifth Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission.

The Raven visible camera is a repurposed flight unit from the STS-125 demonstration. It also reuses the flash lidar flown as part of the Sensor Test for RelNav Risk Mitigation (STORRM) demonstration on STS-134.

Over its two-year mission on the ISS, Raven will estimate the relative navigation state of the vehicles visiting the station each year in real time. As vehicles approach and depart from ISS, the instrument will monitor them in action and send the data to Earth.

NASA operators will then evaluate how Raven's technologies work as a system and make system adjustments to increase its tracking performance. The device is expected to monitor approximately 50 individual rendezvous or departure trajectories over the course of its mission.
 

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An artist's illustration of Raven monitoring an approaching spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA Goddard

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Other science missions Dragon will carry include the following:
 

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• The Mayo Clinic is leading a study to examine the growth of human stem cells in microgravity. The Microgravity Expanded Stem Cells experiment cultivates human stem cells aboard ISS for use in clinical trials to evaluate their use in treating disease. Results would also advance future studies on how to scale up the expansion of stem cells for treating stroke and other conditions.
  

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• The University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) is leading an investigation into the effects of microgravity on protein crystallization. Proteins are important biological molecules that can be crystallized to provide better views of their structure, which helps scientists understand how they work. Proteins crystallized in microgravity are often higher quality than those grown on Earth. The Effect of Macromolecular Transport on Microgravity Protein Crystallization (LMM Biophysics 1) experiment studies why this is the case, examining the movement of single protein molecules in microgravity.
• The Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) will test a charge injection device (CID) in space, attached to the exterior of ISS. A CID-based sensor can be used in astronomy experiments to directly image exoplanets and the distant stars they orbit. If proven successful, this sensor will offer a novel approach to differentiating objects in high-and-low contrast image collection scalable to large aperture space telescopes, airborne and undersea search and rescue, and NASA exploration.
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  An archive photo of a previous Dragon being attached to a Falcon 9 inside a horizontal integration hangar. Photo Credit: NASA
  

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• The Hauptman Woodard Medical Research Institute (HWI) is conducting the Growth Rate Dispersion as a Predictive Indicator for Biological Crystal Samples Wh ere Quality Can be Improved with Microgravity Growth (LMM-Biophysics-3) experiment. Growth rate dispersion is a phenomenon in which seemingly identical crystals, produced under the same conditions, grow at different rates. This effort will study ground-based predictions of which crystals benefit from crystallization in microgravity, wh ere Earth's gravity does not interfere with their formation.
  

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• The U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research (USACEHR) will be using rats to study the effect of microgravity on healing wounds. Previous studies suggest that microgravity impairs the wound healing process, and microgravity has been shown to have negative effects on skin health in astronauts. This project seeks to identify the molecular foundations of cutaneous (skin) wound healing that are vulnerable to spaceflight-induced stress, potentially revealing biologically relevant pathways for the next generation of wound healing therapies.
  

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• A student experiment from Morehead State University will evaluate smooth muscle cells to test theories about muscle contraction in the absence of gravity.
  

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• A Proof-of-Concept for Gene-RADAR Predictive Pathogen Mutation Study (Nanobiosym Genes) will evaluate the feasibility of a Nanobiosym device to identify and model bacterial mutations in space. The X Prize-winning device can accurately detect any disease that has a genetic fingerprint, in real time and at the point of care. Microgravity might accelerate the rate of bacterial mutations. This investigation will analyze the process in two bacterial strains aboard the International Space Station, which may provide insight into how deadly bacteria become drug-resistant. The data can help refine models of drug resistance and support development of better medicines to counter it.
  

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• NanoRacks, LLC, which manages the educational organization DreamUp, has developed commercial payloads for facilities inside and outside the station and has partnered with the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (sponsored by CASIS) to launch 21 separate MixStix experiments from 21 separate student groups across the country, engaging more than 13,000 students with projects sel ected fr om among 2,860 total proposals received.
  

CRS-10 is scheduled to lift off at 10:01 a.m. EST (15:01 GMT) Feb. 18. The weather outlook for the mission is iffy with a 40 percent chance of a violation of launch constraints. The primary concern a thick cloud layer.

Should a 24-hour delay occur, the weather improves slightly to a 30 percent chance of a weather violation. The primary concern for Feb. 19 is cumulus clouds and precipitation.

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Video courtesy of NASA Goddard

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Ночь. Улица. Фонарь... (C) М-да, навеяло - Дракон на столе

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Пресс-кит

http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/crs10presskitfinal.pdf

[Apollo13]

Mission Timeline (all times approximate)
COUNTDOWN
Hour/Min/Sec Events
- 01:18:00 Launch Conductor takes launch readiness poll
- 00:70:00 RP-1 (rocket grade kerosene) loading underway
- 00:45:00 LOX (liquid oxygen) loading underway
- 00:07:00 Falcon 9 begins engine chill prior to launch
- 00:02:00 Range Control Officer (USAF) verifies range is go for launch
- 00:01:30 SpaceX Launch Director verifies go for launch
- 00:01:00 Command flight computer to begin final prelaunch checks
- 00:01:00 Pressurize propellant tanks
- 00:00:03 Engine controller commands engine ignition sequence to start
 00:00:00 Falcon 9 liftoff


LAUNCH AND DRAGON DEPLOYMENT
Hour/Min/Sec Events
00:01:15 Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket)
00:02:21 1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO)
00:02:24 1st and 2nd stages separate
00:02:32 2nd stage engine starts
00:02:41 1st stage boostback burn begins
00:06:32 1st stage entry burn begins
00:07:33 1st stage landing burn begins
00:09:05 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO)
00:10:05 Dragon separates from 2nd stage
00:11:00 Dragon's solar arrays deploy
02:20:00 Dragon's Guidance, Navigation and Control bay door opens

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- 00:70:00 RP-1 (rocket grade kerosene) loading underway
- 00:45:00 LOX (liquid oxygen) loading underway

Такая же временная шкала как и на предыдущих Иридиумах.

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CRS-9 для сравнения

Mission Timeline (all times approximate)
COUNTDOWN
Hour/Min/Sec Events
- 00:38 Launch Conductor takes launch readiness poll
- 00:35 RP-1 (rocket grade kerosene) and liquid oxygen (LOX) loading underway
- 00:07 Falcon 9 begins engine chill prior to launch
- 00:07 Dragon to internal power
- 00:02 Range Control Officer (USAF) verifies range is go for launch
- 00:01:30 SpaceX Launch Director verifies go for launch
- 00:01 Command flight computer to begin final prelaunch checks
- 00:01 Pressurize propellant tanks
- 00:00:03 Engine controller commands engine ignition sequence to start
 00:00:00 Falcon 9 liftoff


LAUNCH AND DRAGON DEPLOYMENT (all times approximate)
Hour/Min/Sec Events
00:01:08 Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket)
00:02:21 1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO)
00:02:24 1st and 2nd stages separate
00:02:32 2nd stage engine starts
00:02:42 1st stage boostback burn begins
00:06:31 1st stage entry burn begins
00:07:38 1st stage landing burn begins
00:09:02 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO)
00:09:37 Dragon separates from 2nd stage
00:11 Dragon's solar arrays deploy
02:19 Dragon's Guidance, Navigation and Control bay door opens

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