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ЦитироватьThe Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1), first sel ected in 1998 for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), re-manifested in 2010 on the NOAA-NASA Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), then the NOAA Polar Free Flyer, is now scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in November 2017.

TSIS-1 will acquire measurements of total and spectral solar irradiance (TSI and SSI, respectively). TSI is required for establishing Earth's total energy input while SSI is needed to understand how the atmosphere responds to changes in the sun's output. Solar irradiance is one of the longest and most fundamental of all climate data records derived from space-based observations.

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TSIS-1 provides continuation of the Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) and the Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM), currently flying on the NASA Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE). Launched in 2003, SORCE is now more than six years beyond its prime-mission lifetime. The launch failure of the NASA Glory mission in 2011, coupled with diminished battery capacity on SORCE and delays in the launch of TSIS-1 have put the continuous 38-year TSI record at risk. In 2012, a plan to maintain continuity of the TSI calibration scale between SORCE and TSIS-1 was rapidly implemented through the USAF Space Test Program STPSat-3 that launched in late 2013. The shorter SSI record faces a likely gap between SORCE and TSIS-1.

Highly accurate, stable, and continuous observations of solar irradiance are critical to understanding the present climate epoch and for predicting future climate.

TSIS-1 is a dual-instrument package that will acquire solar irradiance measurements from the International Space Station over a nominal period of five years. TSIS-1 has been identified as providing critical data in determining the natural forcings of the climate system and will ensure the continuity of the solar irradiance Climate Data Record (CDR).

TSIS-1 is comprised of the Total Irradiance Monitor, or TIM, which measures the total solar irradiance (TSI) that is incident at the outer boundaries of the atmosphere; and the Spectral Irradiance Monitor, or SIM, which measures solar spectral irradiance (SSI) fr om 200 nm to 2400 nm (96 percent of the TSI). The TSIS-1 TIM and SIM are heritage instruments to those currently flying on the SORCE satellite. Both were selected as part of TSIS-1 because of their unprecedented measurement accuracy and stability, and because both measurements are essential to constraining the energy input to the climate system and interpreting the response of climate to external forcing. TSIS-1 is required in order to continue the 38-year record of TSI, extend the newer 14-year record of SSI, and insure the stewardship of the solar irradiance Climate Data Record into the future.

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Цитироватьche wi пишет:
Возможно для F9 будет использована летавшая ранее 1-я ступень.

ЦитироватьSpaceX adds mystery "Zuma" mission, Iridium-4 aims for Vandenberg landing
October 16, 2017 by Chris Gebhardt

In what has already been a busy year for SpaceX, the commercial launch provider is adding one more mission to its jammed-packed end-of-year schedule. A mysterious mission codenamed "Zuma" will launch No Earlier Than 10 November 2017 from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Meanwhile, CRS-13 is slipping at least one week per the Station's schedule, and the Iridium NEXT-4 mission from Vandenberg has received permission to debut RTLS landing of the Falcon 9 booster back at SLC-4W.

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While nothing is known of the payload, what is known is that Zuma will use Falcon 9 core B1043 – a brand new core that was originally (as understood by NASASpaceflight.com) intended for the CRS-13/Dragon mission (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42775.0).

However, a brand-new booster might not be needed for CRS-13.  With Falcon 9 first stage reuse proving highly successful in its first two flights by August, NASA – as confirmed in a press conference following the CRS-12 launch – was actively investigating and reviewing data toward approving a future CRS launch on a flight-proven Falcon 9.

According to information recently obtained by NASASpaceflight.com and available on L2, NASA has completed a technical review for reuse with successful results limited to the second flight of a booster that flew a LEO mission.

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This means that from NASA's technical review standpoint, all engineering considerations for Falcon 9 reuse meet the agency's strict safety standards and that nothing from a technical/engineering standpoint would stop a future CRS mission from launching on a once-flown Falcon 9 booster that lofted a payload to Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

The information adds that approvals are in management review but may not occur in time for SpX-13.

However, CRS-13 is understood to be slipping about one week from its NET 28 November date into early December per the International Space Station's schedule – affording additional time for NASA management to approve CRS-13's launch on a flight-proven Falcon 9.

A public decision on CRS-13's booster is expected from NASA by early November.

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ЦитироватьApollo13 (http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/user/16811/) пишет:
While the exact booster is not yet known, there is significant potential that Iridium NEXT-4 will use the Iridium NEXT-2 booster (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/06/spacex-falcon-9-iridium-next-2-launch/), which would make Iridium the first company to reuse the same booster for two of its missions. 
Iridium NEXT-2 launched on 25 June 2017. Its first stage, core B1036, then successfully executed a landing on the ASDS (Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship) Just Read The Instructions (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/?s=Just+Read+The+Instructions).

ЦитироватьIf NASA approves such use for CRS missions in time for CRS-13's flow, it has been confirmed by sources that the CRS-11 booster (B1035) will again be used to launch Dragon (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/?s=Dragon) to the ISS.

ЦитироватьOct. 26, 2017
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-126

NASA Invites Media to Upcoming Space Station Cargo Launch

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The Canadarm2 robotic arm grapples the SpaceX Dragon Commercial Resupply Services-6 cargo spacecraft before attaching it to the International Space Station. NASA is targeting no earlier than December for the company's 13th cargo mission to the space station, using the refurbished Dragon capsule from the CRS-6 mission.
Credits: NASA/Terry Virts

Media accreditation is open for launch of the next SpaceX commercial cargo resupply services mission to the International Space Station, currently targeted for no earlier than December.

The uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft, which was flown on SpaceX's sixth commercial resupply mission to station for NASA, will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch will be the first this year from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida.

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Media prelaunch and launch activities will take place at CCAFS and NASA's Kennedy Space Center, which is adjacent to CCAFS
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This is the 13th SpaceX mission under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract. In addition to supplies and equipment, Dragon will deliver several science investigations to the space station, including a NASA instrument called Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/tsis-1), or TSIS-1, which will measure the Sun's energy input to Earth, and a fiber optic payload (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2421.html). Also manifested on this flight is an investigation sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (https://www.iss-casis.org/) known as Biorasis – Glucose Biosensor (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2636.html), which seeks to improve the accuracy of a wireless medically implantable continuous glucose biosensor for day-to-day diabetes management.

The International Space Station is a convergence of science, technology and human innovation that demonstrates new technologies and makes research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. The space station has been occupied continuously since November 2000. In that time, more than 200 people and a variety of international and commercial spacecraft have visited the orbiting laboratory. The space station remains the springboard to NASA's next great leap in exploration, including future missions to Mars.
For launch countdown coverage, NASA's launch blog, and more information about the mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/spacex (http://www.nasa.gov/spacex)

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Cheryl Warner
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100
cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov (mailto:cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov)

 Tracy Young / Amanda Griffin
 Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
 321-867-2468
tracy.g.young@nasa.gov (mailto:tracy.g.young@nasa.gov) / amanda.griffin@nasa.gov (mailto:amanda.griffin@nasa.gov)

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Last Updated: Oct. 26, 2017
Editor: Sean Potter

ЦитироватьAccording to L2 coverage of extensive reviews (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36967.msg1738035#msg1738035), NASA has now cleared SpaceX to begin using flight-proven Falcon 9 vehicles to launch Dragon: CRS-13 will be the first mission to launch since this was confirmed, and will re-use the first stage of the rocket that carried CRS-11 to orbit earlier this year (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/06/spacex-falcon-9-crs-11-dragon-iss-100th-39a/).

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 46 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/925068825384669185)

A quick note to say NASA PAO remain in the stance of "not official" on the Falcon 9 reuse for CRS. We're confident they've approved it, but until Gerst says it, or there's a NASA media release.... Those are the rules, so noting it.

ЦитироватьNov. 1, 2017

Experience the Launch of the SpaceX CRS-13 Mission

Social media users are invited to register to attend the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. This launch, currently targeted for no earlier than December, will be the next commercial cargo resupply services mission to the International Space Station.
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Цитироватьsilentpom пишет:
то как назвать комплекс, который пережил взрыв? caboom proven?

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67521.jpg) Stephen Clark‏ @StephenClark1 (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1) 7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1/status/929026335640571907)

NASA's Dan Hartman: "Chances are" we'll agree with SpaceX to fly reused Falcon 9 booster on CRS-13 cargo flight to station in December. Still awaiting final readiness review and assessments.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 59 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/932709669986062337)

And there's NASA confirming the December 4 target for CRS-13. SLC-40 returns to action with the NET November 29 Static Fire. Brand new TEL will debut.
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ЦитироватьAnna Heiney (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/aheiney/)
Posted on November 20, 2017

SpaceX CRS-13 Launch Targeted No Earlier Than Dec. 4

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting its 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 2:53 p.m. EST Monday, Dec. 4. The Dragon spacecraft will spend about a month attached to the space station.

Цитировать13th SpaceX Commercial Resupply Mission Will Be Packed with Space Station Research
November 20, 2017

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL. (November 20, 2017) – The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle is slated to launch its 13th cargo resupply mission (CRS-13) to the International Space Station no earlier than December from historic Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will carry more than a dozen International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory payloads to conduct research across a variety of areas aimed at improving life on Earth. From plant biology, to technology demonstrations aimed at enhancing bone growth, and more efficient treatments for the diabetic community, this launch will bring new innovative concepts through microgravity research. This launch will culminate a robust year of research on the U.S. National Lab, as more experiments than ever before have reached the orbiting laboratory.

Below are highlights of sponsored U.S. National Lab investigations that are part of the SpaceX CRS-13 mission:

Assessing Osteoblast Response to Tetranite (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2398.html)™

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Nikolaos Tapinos, Launchpad Medical (http://www.launchpadmedical.com/) (Boston, MA)

The goal of this investigation is to explore the ability of Tetranite™, a synthetic bone material capable of adhering bone to metal within minutes to accelerate bone repair. It is well known that microgravity affects bone cell growth and healing, mimicking the symptoms observed in osteoporosis. The investigators seek to evaluate the response of osteoblasts (a bone cell subtype responsible for renewing bones) to Tetranite™. Understanding bone cell-Tetranite™ interactions could provide insight into the post-fracture bone healing response and assist in the development of more effective treatments for patients with osteoporosis. In addition, this cell culture project should provide the basis for follow-on studies of the bone healing response in small rodents.

Hardware Partner: BioServe Space Technologies (https://www.colorado.edu/engineering/BioServe/)

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Barley Germination and Malting in Microgravity

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Dr. Gary Hanning, Budweiser (Ft. Collins, CO)

This project will explore the effects of spaceflight on the germination of strains of an important food crop, barley (Hordeum vulgare), including proprietary strains under development. Observing changes in gene expression and germination after exposure to microgravity contributes to knowledge about how different cultivars (plants of the same species that possess genetic differences) that are better prepared to handle Earth-based stress, such as temperature extremes or water scarcity. An important ingredient for Budweiser, barley is also the 4th largest cereal grain grown in the world and is grown in diverse environments. Studying barley in microgravity may reveal new information regarding the germination process and identify key genes that enable some cultivars to survive in stressful environments.

Hardware Partner: Space Tango (http://www.spacetango.com/)

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Characterizing Arabidopsis Root Attractions-2 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2271.html)

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Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul, University of Florida (http://ufspaceplants.org/) (Gainesville, FL)

An extension to the CARA project to cover: 1) additional molecular analyses of the CARA samples, analyses that can significantly contribute to GeneLab and have been made possible by new advances in RNA isolation from small sample amounts, and 2) additional ISS imaging of plates (with no sample return) to extend data from the unique LMM imaging capabilities that were revealed by the initial CARA imaging.

Hardware Partner: Zin Technologies (https://www.zin-tech.com/), CASIS

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Implantable Glucose Biosensers (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2636.html)

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Michail Kastelloizios, Biorasis (http://bio-orasis.com/) (Storrs, CT)

This project seeks to improve the accuracy of a wireless, medically implantable continuous glucose biosensor (Glucowizzard™) for day-to-day diabetes management. Slow glucose transport within human tissue (through the capillary walls and surrounding tissue toward the sensing site of the biosensor) can create delays of up to 20 minutes in real-time monitoring of glucose levels. This delay can be detrimental in achieving tight glycemic control, which has been linked to serious secondary complications in patients with diabetes. The International Space Station provides a microgravity environment in which reduced fluid movement allows precise monitoring of the role of diffusion in glucose transport, thus improving the mathematical models that determine the accuracy of the Glucowizzard continuous glucose monitoring biosensor. The World Health Organization projects that the global diabetic population will reach 366 million by 2030. In order to prevent serious health problems, many people with diabetes currently use glucose biosensors that may inaccurately measure their glucose levels prior to self-administering insulin. Biorasis is addressing this critical need by studying fluid movement onboard the International Space Station in order to optimize the Glucowizzard™ continuous glucose monitoring biosensor.

Hardware Partner: Space Tango

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Implantable Nanochannel System for Delivery of Therapeutics for Muscle Atrophy (Rodent Research-6) (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2465.html)

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Dr. Alessandro Grattoni, Houston Methodist Research Institute (http://www.houstonmethodist.org/research/) (Houston, TX)

An implantable drug delivery system that circumvents the need for daily injections will be tested in a rodent model with microgravity-induced muscle atrophy. Specifically, the drug formoterol, used in the management of asthma and other medical conditions, will be administered by controlled release from a nanochannel implant to achieve a constant and reliable dosage. If successful, this system could serve as a more reliable and accurate technology for drug delivery. In collaboration with Novartis and NanoMedical Systems, this validated system may rapidly translate into a commercial product. Sarcopenia, or muscle wasting, is a condition that affects more than 50% of the geriatric population, however therapeutics used to treat this condition are limited to physical activity or generic hormones. The most commonly used pharmaceutical intervention for sarcopenia is formoterol, but administrating these drugs requires a daily injection, which can be inconvenient. This collaboration between The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Novartis, and NanoMedical Systems plans to develop an implantable device that will safely administer formoterol over a long period of time, without patients needing a daily injection, improving quality of life.

Hardware Partner: BioServe Space Technologies

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Optical Fiber Production in Microgravity (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2421.html)

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Michael Snyder, Made In Space (http://madeinspace.us/) (Mountain View, CA)

High-performance optical fiber is used extensively for the manufacture of efficient and compact ultraviolet, visible, and infrared fiber lasers due to its low intrinsic loss, wide transparency window, and small phonon energy. This technology enables advances in many different sectors, including medical devices such as laser scalpels and endoscopes, sensors for the aerospace and defense industry, and telecommunications applications. The optical fiber ZBLAN has the potential to far exceed the performance of other fibers in common use. Despite this, the terrestrially produced fiber suffers from physical impurities which contribute to light scattering and absorption loss, reducing performance. Microgravity has been shown to significantly reduce these imperfections, and production of fibers in space may enable not only improved materials but also new frontiers for manufacturing in space.

Hardware Partner: Made In Space

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SPHERES Tether Slosh (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2553.html)

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Dr. Hans-Juergen Zachrau, AIRBUS DS Space Systems (http://space.airbus.com/portfolio/) (Webster, TX)

This project will use existing SPHERES hardware to examine the active steering of a passive liquid-containing body in space. The Tether–Slosh experiment combines features of both the Tether–Demo and SPHERES–Slosh experiment into a single investigation utilizing hardware available on‐board International Space Station to conduct the experiment. By placing an acceleration sensor from Airbus DS into the Slosh tank and using an already certified WISENET sensor package, this experiment makes extensive use of resources already on International Space Station to generate data that will inform models for the automated steering of passive objects including disabled satellites. The small satellite market is projected to be valued at $5.32 billion by 2021; software that remotely enables the re-positioning of passive objects in LEO has the potential to expand small satellite use and accelerate satellite market development.

Hardware Partner: AIRBUS DS Space Systems

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Zaiput Flow Technologies – Galactic Grant (https://www.iss-casis.org/press-releases/governor-baker-massachusetts-life-sciences-center-and-casis-announce-winners-of-galactic-grant-competition/)

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Andrea Adamo, Zaiput Flow Technologies (http://www.zaiput.com/) (Boston, MA)

This experiment will explore the effects of microgravity on a device for the continuous separation of immiscible liquids as part of continuous flow chemistry approaches. Continuous flow chemistry, the process of performing chemical reactions in a tube or pipe, has many advantages over batch chemistry for some applications, including faster reaction times, separation of reactants from products, quick reaction optimization, easy scale-up, and the integration of typically separate processes. While common separation methods rely on liquid sedimentation, this system has the unique characteristic of relying on surface forces to accomplish liquid-liquid extraction. To serve the needs of chemical production, the device needs to be scaled-up, which requires understanding the effect that gravity and length scales have on the flow path as it relates to separation efficiency.

Hardware Partner: Space Tango

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"This launch culminates an impressive year of research onboard the International Space Station and the U.S. National Laboratory," said CASIS Director of Operations Ken Shields. "We thank our launch partners and NASA for the continued support as we look to many more fruitful years of International Space Station utilization and the mounting discoveries that will come from this incredible research facility."

To learn more about these investigations and other station research, visit www.spacestationresearch.com (http://www.spacestationresearch.com).

ЦитироватьPirat5 пишет:
б/у-шный Дракон, б/у-шная ступень.
.... и б/у-шная площадка

ЦитироватьBob Granath (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/rgranath/)
Posted on November 22, 2017

Dragon to Make Resupply Run to International Space Station

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The Canadarm 2 reaches out to grapple a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft and prepare it to be pulled into its port on the International Space Station. Dragon was installed on the Harmony module where remained for the next five weeks.
Photo credit: NASA

Next Commercial Resupply Services Mission: SpaceX CRS-13
Launch Time and Date: 2:53 p.m. EST, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017
Lift Off: Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida
Launch Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9, 230 feet-tall
Spacecraft: Dragon, 20 feet high, 12 feet-in diameter
Payload: Dragon will deliver cargo and material to support science investigations aboard the space station.
Return to Earth: After about one month attached to the space station, Dragon will return with results of earlier experiments, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.
Payloads on Board: https://go.nasa.gov/2mMUdSY

ЦитироватьNov. 21, 2017

NASA to Send Critical Science, Instruments to Space Station

​SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon spacecraft into orbit for its 13th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/overview.html) no earlier than Dec. 4 for NASA. Dragon will lift into orbit atop the Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying crew supplies, equipment and scientific research to crew members living and working aboard the station.

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This science-heavy flight will deliver investigations and facilities that study and/or measure solar irradiance, materials, orbital debris and more.

Here are some highlights of research that will be delivered to the station:

Testing Alternative Fibers

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Optical Fiber Production in Microgravity (Made in Space Fiber Optics (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2421.html)), a U.S. National Lab investigation sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS (http://www.iss-casis.org/)), demonstrates the benefits of manufacturing fiber optic filaments in a microgravity environment.

This investigation will attempt to pull fiber optic wire from ZBLAN, a heavy metal fluoride glass commonly used to make fiber optic glass. When ZBLAN is solidified on Earth, its atomic structure tends to form into crystals. Research indicates that ZBLAN fiber pulled in microgravity may not crystalize as much, giving it better optical qualities than the silica used in most fiber optic wire. Results from this investigation could lead to the production of higher-quality fiber optic products both in space and on Earth.

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Tracking Earth's Sunshine from Space

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NASA's Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor, or TSIS-1 (http://www.nasa.gov/tsis-1), will measure the sun's energy input to Earth. Various satellites have captured a continuous record of this solar energy input to Earth since 1978. TSIS-1 sensors advance previous measurements with three times the accuracy, enabling scientists to study the sun's natural influence on Earth's ozone layer, atmospheric circulation, clouds, and ecosystems. These observations are essential for a scientific understanding of the effects of solar variability on the Earth system.

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A close-up view of TSIS-1 as deployed on the space station ExPRESS logistics carrier (ELC)-3. The TSIS-1 Thermal Pointing System (TPS) is deployed above the ELC after installation in order to provide sufficient clearance to track the sun each orbit with a two-axis gimbal.
Credits: NASA/LASP

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Monitoring Orbital Debris

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The Space Debris Sensor (SDS (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2145.html)) will directly measure the orbital debris (https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/) environment around the space station for two to three years. Mounted on the exterior of the station, this one square meter sensor uses dual-layer thin films, an acoustic sensor system, a resistive grid sensor system and a sensored backstop to provide near-real-time impact detection and recording. Research from this investigation could help lower the risk to human life and critical hardware by orbital debris.

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Photographic documentation of a Micro Meteor Orbital Debris strike one of the window's within the space station's Cupola. The Space Debris Sensor will measure the orbital debris environment for 2-3 years to provide impact detection and recording.
Credits: NASA

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Mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station, the Space Debris Sensor (SDS) collects information on small orbital debris.
Credits: NASA

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Self-assembling and Self-replicating materials

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The Advanced Colloids Experiment- Temperature-7 (ACE-T-7 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1969.html)) investigation involves the design and assembly of 3-D structures from small particles suspended in a fluid medium, structures that are vital to the design of advanced optical materials and electronic devices. Future space exploration may use self-assembly and self-replication to make materials and devices that can repair themselves on long duration missions.

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Combatting muscular breakdown

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The Rodent Research-6 (RR-6 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2465.html)) investigation will examine a drug compound and drug delivery system designed to combat muscular breakdown in space or other times of disuse. The implanted drug delivery chip will administer a compound meant to maintain muscle in a variety of disuse conditions, including microgravity. The results from the RR-6 investigations will not only help researchers to understand how to better maintain a healthy body structure in the absence of gravity, but will also increase our understanding of muscle-related diseases, disorders and injuries.

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These investigations will join many other investigations currently happening aboard the space station.

Follow @ISS_Research (https://twitter.com/ISS_Research) for more information about the science happening on station.

Jenny Howard
International Space Station Program Science Office
Johnson Space Center (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/home/index.html)

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Last Updated: Nov. 22, 2017
Editor: Michael Johnson

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 21 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/933369117612093440)

SLC-40's comeback closing in. At least one visual sighting of the new TEL being rolled out and erected at the pad (likely for fit checks). Big test will be the Static Fire for CRS-13 next week. TEL certainly appears to be on track to support!

ЦитироватьАтяпа пишет:
А что, если использовать вместо "б/у-шный Дракон, б/у-шная ступень" определения "испытанный Дракон, испытанная ступень"?

ЦитироватьФактически сейчас получается, что принять грузовик можно только манипулятором, т.е. в лавке должен кто-то быть!

ЦитироватьBlackMokona пишет:

ЦитироватьФактически сейчас получается, что принять грузовик можно только манипулятором, т.е. в лавке должен кто-то быть!

Как будто манипулятором с кораблям управлять нельзя.

ЦитироватьBudweiser отправит пивоваренный ячмень на МКС
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/189065.jpg)
Весной на конференции SXSW компания AB InBev объявила, что собирается варить пиво на Марсе. Пока полёты на Красную планету остаются делом далёкого будущего, компания уже делает первый шаг к амбициозной цели.
Бренд Budweiser проведет эксперименты с пивоваренным ячменем совместно с Центром космической науки CASIS, который управляет американской лабораторией на Международной космической станции, и компанией Space Tango — экспертом по полезной нагрузке.
4 декабря с мыса Канаверал стартует грузовой корабль SpaceX, который, помимо прочего, доставит на МКС 20 зерен пивоваренного ячменя того сорта, который обычно используется для пива Budweiser. Зерна пробудут на орбите месяц — за это время астронавты прорастят их и отправят обратно на Землю. Это даст ученым информацию, которая может быть полезна не только для пивоварения на Марсе, но и для земного сельского хозяйства и соложения.

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NASA to Highlight Science on Next Resupply Mission to Space Station

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A SpaceX Dragon is seen berthed to the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station. The company is launching its 13th commercial resupply mission to station for NASA no earlier than Dec. 4 carrying thousands of pounds of cargo and research to the crew living and working aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Credits: NASA

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 29, to discuss a number of science investigations (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/resupply_critical_science_to_ISS) and instruments launching to the International Space Station on the next SpaceX (http://www.nasa.gov/spacex) commercial resupply mission.

SpaceX is targeting no earlier than Dec. 4 for the launch of its Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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Kirt Costello, deputy chief scientist for the International Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Mike Roberts, deputy chief scientist at the Center of Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), will kick off the call with an overview of the research and technology aboard Dragon. Also participating in the briefing will be:
 

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• Andrew Rush, president and chief executive officer, Made in Space, will discuss its Fiber Optics (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2421.html) payload, which will test manufacturing fiber optic filaments in a microgravity environment. This could lead to production of higher-quality fiber optic products both in space and on Earth.
• Brian Hess, chief executive officer, and Grayson Allen, chief financial officer, both of LaunchPad Medical, will discuss an investigation using synthetic bone material (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2398.html) to accelerate bone repair.
• Dong Wu, project scientist at the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Peter Pilewskie, lead scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will discuss NASA's Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/tsis-1) (TSIS), a new instrument launching to station that will measure the Sun's energy input to Earth.
• Joseph Hamilton, principal investigator, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, will discuss the Space Debris Sensor (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2145.html), an external tool which will measure the orbital debris environment around the space station.
• Yasaman Shirazi, mission scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, will discuss an investigation testing drug delivery systems for combatting muscle breakdown (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2465.html) in microgravity.
  

To participate in the teleconference, media must contract Cheryl Warner at 202-358-1100 or cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov (mailto:cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov) by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28, for dial-in information.
Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live online at:

https:// www.nasa.gov/live (https://www.nasa.gov/live)

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Cheryl Warner
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100
cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov (mailto:cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov)

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Last Updated: Nov. 22, 2017
Editor: Katherine Brown

Цитироватьsas пишет:
Учитывая опыт Аполлона, стыковаться пилотируемые будут руками, без всяких импортозамещенных "курсов"?

Цитироватьsas пишет:
у Аполло с Скйлабом же ничего не было для поиска-сближения?

ЦитироватьTSIS-1

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Опубликовано: 27 нояб. 2017 г.

TSIS-1 makes two key measurements: total solar irradiance, or TSI, the sun's total energy input into Earth, and solar spectral irradiance (SSI), the distribution of the sun's energy input across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths of light. TSI measurements are needed to quantify the solar variations in the total amount of energy input to the Earth. SSI measurements are also vital because different wavelengths of light are absorbed by different parts of the atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu6k7lPooQYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu6k7lPooQY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu6k7lPooQY) (0:22)

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Опубликовано: 27 нояб. 2017 г.

NASA's Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor, or TSIS-1, will measure the total amount of solar energy input to Earth as well as the distribution of The Sun's energy input across a wide range of wavelengths. In this animation we see how various wavelengths of light are partially reflected into space at different places in the column of atmosphere above the ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVUknr-Pfwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVUknr-Pfw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVUknr-Pfw) (0:14)

ЦитироватьДимитър пишет:
2:53 p.m. EST

ЦитироватьCtas пишет:

ЦитироватьДимитър пишет:
2:53 p.m. EST

А кто знает, какой номер у Фэлкона и у Дракона? Что-то не нагуглю никак...

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 53 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/935601917799038978)

From NASA: #CRS13 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS13?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) mission to @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) is confirmed as NET 8 Dec. at 13:20 EST. New launch date allows #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) time to finalize pad readiness. Backup of 9 Dec. at 12:57 EST available if needed.
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ЦитироватьSpace station cargo flight next on SpaceX's launch schedule
November 27, 2017 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/11/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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File photo of a Dragon cargo capsule being readied for launch. Credit: SpaceX

In a reshuffling of SpaceX's launch schedule, a Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff no earlier than Dec. 8 on a mission to deliver several tons of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station and return to service a Cape Canaveral launch pad damaged in a catastrophic rocket explosion last year.

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SpaceX will defer the deployment of a mysterious U.S. government payload named Zuma later in the company's jam-packed manifest after managers postponed the launch from Nov. 15 to resolve concerns raised during testing of a payload shroud for another mission.

Assuming the upcoming cargo launch remains set for Dec. 8, liftoff would occur at approximately 1:20 p.m. EST (1820 GMT), roughly the moment the space station's orbital path is positioned over Cape Canaveral. The Dragon capsule will reach the space station two days later.

The launch was scheduled for Dec. 4, but two sources confirmed Monday that the start of the mission has been pushed back at least four days for undisclosed reasons.

The cargo capsule will ferry food, clothes, provisions and experiments to the space station's six-person crew inside its pressurized cabin. Two NASA-sponsored instruments stowed inside Dragon's rear external cargo bay will be attached to fixtures outside the space station to study the amount of space junk in low Earth orbit and measure how much solar energy is driving Earth's changing climate.

The resupply flight will use a previously-flown Dragon spacecraft that carried supplies to the space station on SpaceX's sixth commercial cargo mission in April 2015, then returned to Earth with a parachute-assisted splashdown a month later. The upcoming cargo mission — SpaceX's 13th operational resupply launch — is expected to fly on a Falcon 9 rocket powered by a reused first stage, but a NASA spokesperson Monday said he could not confirm whether a final decision has been made.

The mission will take off from launch pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a facility knocked offline in September 2016 when a Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a pre-launch countdown rehearsal. The failure destroyed an Israeli-owned communications satellite awaiting launch, and significantly damaged SpaceX's launch infrastructure at pad 40.

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File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral's launch pad 40. Credit: SpaceX

All of SpaceX's launches from Florida since then have lifted off from pad 39A at neighboring Kennedy Space Center, while crews at pad 40 cleaned up debris and rebuilt the seaside complex. SpaceX's hangar at pad 40 survived unscathed, but construction workers fabricated a new strongback erector and umbilical structure to replace the one mangled in last year's mishap, among other repair tasks.
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67521.jpg) Stephen Clark‏ @StephenClark1 (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1) 1 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1/status/935910448821669888)

NASA's Bill Gerstenmaier confirms SpaceX has approved use of previously-flown booster (from June's CRS-13 cargo launch) for upcoming space station resupply launch set for Dec. 8.

1 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1/status/935911274164228096)

Correction to last tweet: Falcon 9 first stage planned for launch on CRS-13 cargo mission Dec. 8 is from the CRS-11 launch on June 3.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/935932542565445632)

At NASA Advisory Council meeting this morning, Bill Gerstenmaier (NASA Deputy Admin for Human Space Exploration) CONFIRMED that #CRS13 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS13?src=hash)/#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) is using a flight-proven booster - the CRS-11 booster from June. 1/2

2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/935932733720793089)

He also confirmed that each CRS mission will be assessed on a flight-by-flight basis going forward to determine use of flight-proven #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) boosters. 2/2

ЦитироватьPirat5 пишет:

Чего-то  испугались (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=44271.msg1753547#msg1753547) :
Static fire = TBD
Launch =  Dec 8

Цитироватьgongora пишет:
MISSE-FF wasn't ready in time.

ЦитироватьНа МКС изучат способы заживления переломов костей
НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 29 ноября. /ТАСС/. Грузовой корабль Dragon доставит в декабре на Международную космическую станцию (МКС) научную аппаратуру для проведения экспериментов в области материаловедения, биологических исследований и для наблюдения за Солнцем. Об этом сообщили в среду на брифинге в NASA представители американских компаний и исследовательских центров.
По словам руководителя компании Made In Space Эндрю Раша, на борту МКС будет проведен эксперимент по получению оптического волокна. "По нашим прогнозам, такое волокно будет в 100 раз лучше всех ныне существующих и обеспечит передачу очень больших объемов информации, - заявил он. - Со временем будет разработано полностью автоматизированное устройство, которое обеспечит проведение всего технологического процесса в космосе, а затем его можно будет возвращать на Землю".
На борту МКС будет также проведен эксперимент с клетками костной ткани в условиях микрогравитации, сообщил руководитель американской компании Launchpad Medical Брайан Хэсс. "Такой препарат позволит лечить переломы костей, - отметил он. - Кроме того, его можно было бы применять в ортопедии". По его оценкам, в случае успеха эксперимента запрос на клинические испытания препарата можно было бы подать через два-четыре года.
Грузовой корабль доставит на МКС аппаратуру для замеров излучения Солнца TSIS-1, сообщил представитель научного центра NASA в Гринбелте (штат Мэриленд) Дон Уилл. "Аппаратура даст возможность производить замеры того, сколько именно солнечной энергии попадает на Землю, - пояснил он. - Эти данные очень важны для изучения климата, океанов и атмосферы".

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 10 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/935987911404740608)

SpaceX's end of 2017 looks like this:

SLC-40: CRS-13 Static Fire with B1035.2 - NET Saturday.
SLC-40: CRS-13 Dragon Launch - NET December 8.
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Цитироватьzandr пишет:
http://tass.ru/kosmos/4770705

ЦитироватьНа МКС изучат способы заживления переломов костей
НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 29 ноября. /ТАСС/. Грузовой корабль Dragon доставит в декабре на Международную космическую станцию (МКС) научную аппаратуру для проведения экспериментов в области материаловедения, биологических исследований и для наблюдения за Солнцем. Об этом сообщили в среду на брифинге в NASA представители американских компаний и исследовательских центров.
По словам руководителя компании Made In Space Эндрю Раша, на борту МКС будет проведен эксперимент по получению оптического волокна. "По нашим прогнозам, такое волокно будет в 100 раз лучше всех ныне существующих и обеспечит передачу очень больших объемов информации, - заявил он. - Со временем будет разработано полностью автоматизированное устройство, которое обеспечит проведение всего технологического процесса в космосе, а затем его можно будет возвращать на Землю".
На борту МКС будет также проведен эксперимент с клетками костной ткани в условиях микрогравитации, сообщил руководитель американской компании Launchpad Medical Брайан Хэсс. "Такой препарат позволит лечить переломы костей, - отметил он. - Кроме того, его можно было бы применять в ортопедии". По его оценкам, в случае успеха эксперимента запрос на клинические испытания препарата можно было бы подать через два-четыре года.
Грузовой корабль доставит на МКС аппаратуру для замеров излучения Солнца TSIS-1, сообщил представитель научного центра NASA в Гринбелте (штат Мэриленд) Дон Уилл. "Аппаратура даст возможность производить замеры того, сколько именно солнечной энергии попадает на Землю, - пояснил он. - Эти данные очень важны для изучения климата, океанов и атмосферы".

ЦитироватьEarth's Energy Budget

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Опубликовано: 29 нояб. 2017 г.

Earth's energy budget is a metaphor for the delicate equilibrium between energy received from the Sun versus energy radiated back out in to space. Research into precise details of Earth's energy budget is vital for understanding how the planet's climate may be changing, as well as variabilities in solar energy output. Missions like NASA's TSIS will help scientists keep a close watch. NASA's Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor, or TSIS-1, is a mission to measure the sun's energy input to Earth. Various satellites have captured a continuous record of this solar energy input since 1978. TSIS-1 sensors advance previous measurements, enabling scientists to study the sun's natural influence on Earth's ozone layer, atmospheric circulation, clouds, and ecosystems. These observations are essential for a scientific understanding of the effects of solar variability on the Earth system. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center manages the project. The University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) built both instruments and provides mission operations. The International Space Station carries TSIS-1.

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09 DEC 19:54 2017. CREATED: 28 NOV 22:13 2017

ЦитироватьCatherine Williams (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/cewilli3/)
Posted on November 30, 2017

Next Crew in Russia as Station Preps for Cargo Missions

... the Expedition 53 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition53/index.html) crew is preparing for the departure and arrival of a pair of cargo ships next week.

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SpaceX (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/spacex.html) is getting ready to replenish the station with its Dragon cargo craft scheduled to deliver about 4,800 pounds of crew supplies and science gear. Dragon is targeted to launch Dec. 8 fr om Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket and take a two-day trip to the station. Vande Hei and Acaba are training to capture Dragon with the Canadarm2 when it reaches a point 10 meters from the station. Ground controllers will them remotely install Dragon to the Harmony module wh ere it will stay until Jan. 6.

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DRAGON RESUPPLY MISSION

SpaceX is targeting launch of the Commercial Resupply Services 13 (CRS-13) mission from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than 10:20 a.m. PST (1:20 p.m. EST) on Friday, Dec. 8, 2017.

Dragon will deliver about 4,800 pounds of cargo and material to support science investigations aboard the space station. After about one month attached to the space station, Dragon will return with results of earlier experiments, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.

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spacex.com/webcast (http://www.spacex.com/webcast)

youtube.com/watch?v=OPHbqY9LHCs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPHbqY9LHCs)
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/78085) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPHbqY9LHCs)

ЦитироватьNASA agrees to launch station supplies on reused SpaceX rocket
November 30, 2017 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/11/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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A Falcon 9 rocket's first stage booster returns to landing at at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on June 3 following launch of a Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX will launch a space station-bound cargo ship with nearly 2.5 tons of supplies and experiments next Friday, Dec. 8, with a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket booster after winning NASA approval for the reuse plan, agency officials said Wednesday.

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Managers confirmed reports in the last few weeks that the resupply mission would likely use a recycled Falcon 9 first stage.

Sam Scimemi, director of the International Space Station program at NASA Headquarters, told Spaceflight Now on Wednesday that agency officials received a final briefing on SpaceX's rocket reuse plan in the last few weeks. He said NASA made a final decision on the matter in the last few days.

NASA joins several of SpaceX's commercial customers — SES, Space Systems/Loral, Iridium and Israel's Spacecom Ltd. — in agreeing to fly their payloads on a reused booster.

Liftoff of SpaceX's 13th resupply flight to the space station is scheduled for 1:20 p.m. EST (1820 GMT) on Dec. 8 from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

The launch will mark the first liftoff from pad 40 since August 2016. A Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the pad on Sept. 1, 2016, during a pre-launch fueling test, knocking the facility offline. When the Falcon 9 returned to service early this year, SpaceX based all its East Coast launches from nearby pad 39A, an Apollo- and shuttle-era launch complex at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Scimemi said the Dec. 8 launch date remains tentative, and it depends on pad 40's readiness for the mission.

NASA engineers in Florida and at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston carefully studied SpaceX's refurbishment and test processes before approving SpaceX's proposal to launch the Dragon cargo craft on a previously-flown booster, according to Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator of NASA's human exploration and operations directorate.

"Some components are removed and some new components are added," Gerstenmaier said in a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council's human spaceflight committee in Florida on Wednesday. "There's a detailed list of what inspections need to be done. They did a detailed test program. They did a detailed plan."

The upcoming cargo launch, known as CRS-13 in NASA and SpaceX's manifest parlance, will use the same 15-story first stage as the CRS-11 resupply flight that lifted off from Florida's Space Coast on June 3. SpaceX will attempt to land the rocket again at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral following next week's liftoff.

It will be the fourth time SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket powered by a reused first stage. The Dragon capsule heading for the space station will also make its second flight, following a round-trip orbital mission that launched in April 2015.

"We reviewed their requirements, and we basically looked at it and (asked) do we get the equivalent reliability from the reused booster that we would expect from a new booster, and the answer to that was yes," Gerstenmaier said. "That's why we accepted it.

"In this case, we accepted it only on this particular flight. We did not accept it in a generic sense," Gerstenmaier said. "We'll look at each one on a case-by-case basis, look at the history of the booster, look at the reuse review process that SpaceX does to make sure that the hardware we're getting (is reliable)."

NASA's Commercial Resupply Services, or CRS, contract with SpaceX is structured differently than launch contracts for the agency's robotic science missions.

"For CRS, we don't actually purchase the launch vehicle," Scimemi said. "We're actually purchasing the service ... The requirements for station were (for cargo) delivery on orbit, and it had to meet station requirements, so there are no real launch requirements."

For most of NASA's science probes, and for commercial crew launches with astronauts on-board, the space agency levies standards for all phases of the mission.

According to a presentation by Scimemi, SpaceX prepared a new Falcon 9 booster for the CRS-13 launch in case NASA decided against flying on a reused rocket. The stage was test-fired at SpaceX's Central Texas test facility earlier this month, and the company will presumably use it on another future mission.

"SpaceX did a test program and did an analysis program to determine which seals or pieces should be replaced, and which should not be replaced," Gerstenmaier said of the rocket's refurbishment. "So it wasnt just pick these particular components. They did it based on analysis that they have. We reviewed that analysis and (those) tests, and determined that they were looking at the appropriate items and that they took the appropriate action to go change them out."

All three of SpaceX's launches using reused Falcon 9 booster airframes have been successful.
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/936663338737721344)

ARTICLE: SLC-40 comes back to life with CRS-13 static fire campaign - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/12/slc-40-comes-back-with-crs-13-static-fire/ ... (https://t.co/y65RKIh88Q)

By Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF))
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SLC-40 comes back to life with CRS-13 static fire campaign (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/12/slc-40-comes-back-with-crs-13-static-fire/)

December 1, 2017 by Chris Gebhardt

ЦитироватьDec. 1, 2017
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-142

NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Space Station Resupply Mission

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A SpaceX Dragon will deliver about 4,800 pounds of research, hardware and crew supplies to the International Space Station during the company's 13th commercial resupply services mission for NASA. Dragon will lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida no earlier than 1:20 p.m. EST, Dec. 8.
Credits: NASA

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting its 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 1:20 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 8.

Mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website (http://www.nasa.gov/live) Thursday, Dec. 7, with two news briefings.

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Packed with almost 4,800 pounds of research (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/resupply_critical_science_to_ISS), crew supplies and hardware, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

NASA TV mission coverage is as follows:

Thursday, Dec. 7

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• 11 a.m. – Prelaunch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program, SpaceX, and the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base
• 3:30 p.m. – "What's on Board" science briefing, highlighting research testing: fiber optic filaments (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2421.html), how plants (https://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/plant-gravity-perception-spacex-13) respond to microgravity, the accuracy of a biosensor used for diabetes management (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2636.html), a drug delivery system for combatting muscle atrophy (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2465.html) and instruments to measure the Sun's energy input (https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/tsis-1) to Earth and orbital debris (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2145.html).
  

Friday, Dec. 8

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• 12:45 p.m. – Launch commentary coverage begins
• 3 p.m. – Post-launch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX
  

Sunday, Dec. 10

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• 4:30 a.m. – Dragon rendezvous at the space station and capture
• 7:30 a.m. – Installation coverage
  

About 10 minutes after launch on Dec. 8, Dragon will reach its preliminary orbit and deploy its solar arrays. A carefully choreographed series of thruster firings are scheduled to bring the spacecraft to rendezvous with the space station. NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba will capture Dragon using the space station's robotic arm. Ground controllers will then send commands to robotically install the spacecraft on the station's Harmony module.

The Dragon spacecraft will spend approximately one month attached to the space station, returning to Earth Jan. 6, with results of previous experiments.

The deadline for media to apply for accreditation for this launch has passed, but more information about media accreditation is available by contacting Jennifer Horner at 321-867-6598 or jennifer.p.horner@nasa.gov (mailto:jennifer.p.horner@nasa.gov).

For the latest schedule of prelaunch briefings, events and NASA TV coverage, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/spacex-crs-13-briefings-and-events (https://www.nasa.gov/content/spacex-crs-13-briefings-and-events)

Learn more about the SpaceX CRS-13 mission at:

https://www.nasa.gov/spacex (https://www.nasa.gov/spacex)

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Cheryl Warner
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100
cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov (mailto:cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov)

Amanda Griffin
 Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
 321-867-2468
amanda.griffin@nasa.gov (mailto:amanda.griffin@nasa.gov)

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Last Updated: Dec. 1, 2017
Editor: Katherine Brown

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 2 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/936984413237399552)

And just to update so everyone's on the same page, static fire is now Monday. There is no change to the Friday launch date at this time. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #CRS13 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS13?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #SpaceStation (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceStation?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash) #SLC40 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SLC40?src=hash)

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 2 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/937110378928013312)

Still working on the new TEL at SLC-40 today. Back to vertical. Needs to be lowered to horizontal, rolled back and then the Falcon 9 booster is mated in the HIF. Rollout. Power On. Prop Load. Ignition. Still NET Monday for the Static Fire test for CRS-13. NSF Member photo.
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67649.jpg) Ken Kremer‏ @ken_kremer (https://twitter.com/ken_kremer) 9 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/937451581741633536)

The @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) TEL at #pad40 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/pad40?src=hash) now lowered, as of Sun 12/3 not visible. Hope this represents checkout prog & techs can roll it into HIF & attach booster for static fire test Mon & target liftoff on Fri Dec 8 to @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station). ...

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 12 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/937712174717423617)

SpaceX Falcon 9 (CRS-13) Static Fire now NET Tuesday. No change to the launch date at this time (but worth keeping an eye on as it's tight based on previous CRS flow timelines).

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185936.jpg) The FAA‏Подлинная учетная запись @FAANews (https://twitter.com/FAANews) 16 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/937727200895348736)

The @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) rocket launch on Dec. 8 at @45thSpaceWing (https://twitter.com/45thSpaceWing) is licensed by @FAANews (https://twitter.com/FAANews). #FAASpace (https://twitter.com/hashtag/FAASpace?src=hash). (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125513.png)
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ЦитироватьMark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted on December 4, 2017

Station Ramps Up for December Cargo and Crew Swaps

A pair of commercial resupply missions are coming and going this week at the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html). Meanwhile, a new crew has arrived at its launch site to prepare for a Dec. 17 liftoff to the orbital laboratory. All missions to and fr om the station this month will be televised live on NASA TV (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html).
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Just two days later on Friday, the SpaceX Dragon (https://www.nasa.gov/spacex) will launch at 1:20 p.m. from the Kennedy Space Center wh ere it will begin a two-day trip to the space station. Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Paolo_Nespoli) is cleaning up a pair of modules today to make way for the nearly 4,800 pounds of crew supplies and research gear (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/resupply_critical_science_to_ISS) Dragon is delivering to the station. Dragon is due to arrive Sunday at 6 a.m. when it will be captured by Vande Hei and Acaba once again operating the Canadarm2.
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ЦитироватьNET Dec. 9 • Falcon 9 • SpaceX CRS 13
 Launch time: Approx. 1757 GMT (12:57 p.m. EST)

ЦитироватьSpaceX-13 Payload Overview: Made In Space

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Опубликовано: 1 дек. 2017 г.

High-performance optical fiber is used extensively for the manufacture of efficient and compact ultraviolet, visible, and infrared fiber lasers due to its low intrinsic loss, wide transparency window, and small phonon energy. This technology enables advances in many different sectors, including medical devices such as laser scalpels and endoscopes, sensors for the aerospace and defense industry, and telecommunications applications. The optical fiber ZBLAN has the potential to far exceed the performance of other fibers in common use. Despite this, the terrestrially produced fiber suffers from physical impurities which contribute to light scattering and absorption loss, reducing performance. Microgravity has been shown to significantly reduce these imperfections, and production of fibers in space may enable not only improved materials but also new frontiers for manufacturing in space.

ЦитироватьSpaceX-13 Payload Overview: Budweiser

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Опубликовано: 1 дек. 2017 г.

Budweiser's innovation team selected barley, one of its core ingredients, to be the focus of the first two experiments in space. The spaceflight research on the International Space Station will unveil how the barley seeds react in a unique microgravity environment. One of the experiments will focus on barley seed exposure with the second testing barley germination. The research could provide valuable information on the production of barley and the larger agricultural community here on earth.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 9 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/938049319160172547)

Rollout of the CRS-13 booster. She's the CRS-11 booster and......she still has the soot from that landing. They've 'drawn' pinstripes in the soot. Asked SpaceX, comms people weren't sure, but the info was mentioned again by a local observation. Can't wait for photos!

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185659.jpg)  James Dean‏Подлинная учетная запись @flatoday_jdean (https://twitter.com/flatoday_jdean)
SpaceX, NASA now targeting next Tuesday, Dec. 12 for launch of F9/Dragon on CRS-13 cargo resupply mission to ISS; static fire potentially tomorrow (Dec. 6).

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185750.jpg) Alicia (SpaceGal)‏ @murphypak (https://twitter.com/murphypak) 2 ч назад (https://twitter.com/murphypak/status/938086038299402241)

Do we know a time for window on Static Fire

 (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight)  8:53 - 5 дек. 2017 г.  (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/938089066242957313)

В ответ @murphypak (https://twitter.com/murphypak)

No Earlier than 10am Wednesday.

ЦитироватьLinda Herridge (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/lherridg/)
Posted on December 5, 2017

SpaceX CRS-13 Launch Set For No Earlier Than Dec. 12

NASA and our commercial cargo provider SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Dec. 12 at 11:46 a.m. EST for their 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. This new launch date takes into account pad readiness, requirements for science payloads, space station crew availability, and orbital mechanics. Carrying about 4,800 pounds of cargo including critical science and research, the Dragon spacecraft will spend a month attached to the space station.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 19 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/938198863000809473)

Sooty (that's what I'm calling her now and you'll see when close ups are available) is vertical! 10 am Eastern is the opening of Wednesdays' Static Fire window.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67649.jpg) Ken Kremer‏ @ken_kremer (https://twitter.com/ken_kremer) 42 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/938193858084687878)

At last @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) looks to be just raised at #SLC40 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SLC40?src=hash)-as of 530 PM ET 12/5. My before and after views from today from same Titusville post. Post-Sunset view is grainy. Static fire slated for NET Dec 6. @NASA (https://twitter.com/NASA) reset #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #CRS13 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS13?src=hash) cargo launch to @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) to NET Dec 12
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ЦитироватьUpd ated: 12/06/2017 08:55

SpaceX has rolled out a reused Falcon 9 booster for a hold-down engine firing Wednesday at pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, making the first use of the launch complex since a rocket exploded there in September 2016.

Спойлер

The static fire test is a customary step in all SpaceX launch campaigns, providing a readiness check of the Falcon 9 rocket and ground systems and an exercise of the launch team. Wednesday's firing, expected to last several seconds, will be particularly important to ensure pad 40's re-built fueling system and strongback transporter are ready for launch day.

The Falcon 9 was raised vertical at pad 40 on Tuesday evening.

Unlike most other launch providers, SpaceX does not publicize progress on its launch campaigns, so the exact time of Wednesday's static fire test has not been released.

Super-chilled kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants, along with helium pressurant, will be loaded into the two-stage Falcon 9 beginning about one hour before the planned ignition time. In the final few minutes of the countdown, the rocket's Merlin engines will be configured for ignition, and the Falcon 9 will transfer to internal power and pressurize its propellant tanks.

The first stage's nine Merlin 1D engines will fire for several seconds, ramping up to full throttle to generate 1.7 million pounds of thrust as hold-down restraints keep the booster grounded.

Once the static fire is completed, SpaceX engineers will examine data to make sure the rocket performed as expected.

The Falcon 9 will be returned to SpaceX's hangar at pad 40 for attachment of a Dragon cargo capsule loaded with several tons of supplies and experiments heading to the International Space Station.

The fully-assembled launcher will return to pad 40 next week for liftoff, which is currently targeted for Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 11:46 a.m. EST (1646 GMT).

The launch slipped four days from its previous target to complete preparations on pad 40, among other concerns.

"This new launch date takes into account pad readiness, requirements for science payloads, space station crew availability, and orbital mechanics," NASA said in a statement.

SpaceX will have a backup day Dec. 13 to launch if the countdown Dec. 12 is scrubbed.

Mission managers will have to work in SpaceX's cargo launch around other space station traffic.

Space station commander Randy Bresnik and crewmates Sergey Ryazanskiy and Paolo Nespoli are scheduled to depart the station in their Soyuz MS-05 early Dec. 14. The trio will land in Kazakhstan several hours later to wrap up a 139-day flight, leaving behind new station commander Alexander Misurkin and astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba.

Three new crew members are se t for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 17, and will reach the orbiting research complex two days later.

NASA and its space station partners prohibit cargo and crew ships arriving and departing from the station on the same day, leaving limited launch opportunities for SpaceX's resupply mission in mid-December.

Assuming the Dragon cargo capsule launches Dec. 12, it will reach the space station Dec. 15 for a month-long stay.

The upcoming cargo launch is the 13th resupply mission mounted by SpaceX under contract to NASA, and the first in which the space agency has agreed to fly its equipment on a previously-used Falcon 9 first stage. The booster assigned to next week's mission first flew June 3 on another space station resupply launch.

The Dragon capsule's pressurized module is also reused. SpaceX refurbished the spacecraft after a round-trip flight to the station in April and May of 2015.
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg) William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 27 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/938422521967374338)

F9/CRS13: Standing by for Falcon 9/CRS-13 first stage static firing at LC-40/CCAFS; window expected to open at 10am EST
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Цитировать12/06/2017 19:36

The first signs of fueling have appeared at pad 40, with liquid oxygen vapors now visible near the Falcon 9 rocket, according to William Harwood of CBS News. The start of fueling typically means ignition is expected within an hour.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg) William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 8 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/938447366490861569)

F9/CRS13: Venting now visible at LC-40/CCAFS

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/938448275941875712)

Should be looking at 12:30 Eastern T-0 if all goes well.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg) William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 24 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/938461604798222337)

F9/CRS13: Have only seen two venting events at the pad so far; have not seen "the big one" that normally indicates the hot fire countdown is in its final stages; standing by...

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 19 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/938481857653628929)

Latest T-0 for Sooty's test firing is 3pm Eastern. T-0s can move a lot during Static Fire tests and they have a very long window lasting several hours. It is effectively a dress rehearsal for the rocket and teams ahead of launch day.

Extra element today is SLC-40's return.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg) William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/938492785505783813)

F9/CRS13: Major venting event visible at 2:37pm

Цитировать12/06/2017 22:42

Further venting is now visible at pad 40, indicating the static fire may be minutes away.

ЦитироватьНемецкие ученые отправят в космос нервные клетки человека
БЕРЛИН, 6 декабря. /ТАСС/. Исследователи из Гогенгеймского университета в Штутгарте отправляют на Международную космическую станцию (МКС) нервные клетки человека. В рамках проекта NEUROBOX ученые планируют провести анализ роста образцов в условиях космоса, сообщается в среду на официальном сайте учебного заведения.
"Мы хотим выяснить, протекает ли этот процесс в невесомости так же, как на Земле, - объясняет доктор Флориан Кон, исследующий физиологию мембраны клетки. - Если когда-нибудь человек родится в космосе, мы будем знать, что его нервная система будет нормально развиваться в невесомости".
Запуск образцов должен быть осуществлен с космодрома на мысе Канаверал во Флориде не позднее 17 декабря. Клетки находятся в специальных контейнерах и в течение двух недель будут расти в условиях невесомости, пока в капсуле не будут возвращены на Землю. Начиная с 6 декабря объекты и специалисты находятся в состоянии постоянной максимальной готовности.
Для своих экспериментов ученые используют клетки человека из клеточного штамма SH-SY5Y

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- из опухолевых клеток, взятых у четырехлетней девочки в 1973 году. С тех пор эти клетки разводят и используют для исследований. После несложных манипуляций клетки этого штамма могут развиваться в нервные клетки. Они также используются, например, при исследованиях болезни Альцгеймера.
Трехлетнее финансирование проекта осуществляется Министерством экономики и энергетики ФРГ за счет средств Германского центра авиации и космонавтики и превышает €500 тыс. Как прогнозируют эксперты, результаты исследования будут полезны не только для здоровья космонавтов, но и для лучшего понимания воздействия медикаментов на организмы на Земле. В 2011 и 2015 годах ученые так же посылали клетки человека в космос.

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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67530.jpg) Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) 36 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/938498436516761602)

A plume of rocket exhaust just appeared at the base of the Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral's pad 40, indicating today's static fire test has been completed in advance of launch next week.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/938498514207805440)

STATIC FIRE! CRS-13's Falcon 9 booster (B1035.2), returning SLC-40 back to life! As always, standby for SpaceX to tweet confirmation of a good test via the quick look review of the engine firing. Hopefully with a photo of our sooty friend.

 (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg) William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/938498649356754944)

F9/CRS13: Falcon 9 hot-fire test complete at 3pm; appeared to run normal duration; no obvious issues; will stand by for an update from SpaceX

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67530.jpg) Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) 28 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/938499965181100032)

Here's a view of the Falcon 9 rocket's hold-down firing at Cape Canaveral a few minutes ago. https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/05/spacex-crs-13-launch-preps/ ... (https://t.co/BUeQOmpUOA)
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg) William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 25 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/938500703470997504)

F9/CRS-13: A long-range shout shows the Falcon 9's exhaust plume being blown back behind the rocket after engine shutdown
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186095.jpg) Robin Seemangal‏Подлинная учетная запись @nova_road (https://twitter.com/nova_road) 10 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/nova_road/status/938505318786588676)

CCAFS Space Launch Complex 40 is officially operational again with today's flight-proven Falcon 9 static fire. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) CRS13 for NASA is slated to launch Tuesday, December 12th at 11:46AM ET.
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg) SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/938510889484828673)

Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete—targeting launch of CRS-13 on December 12 from Pad 40, followed by launch of Zuma from Pad 40 in early January.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67530.jpg) Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/938511429648384002)

Here's a video replay of today's Falcon 9 test-firing at Cape Canaveral:

Video (https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/938511429648384002) (0:11)

ЦитироватьMaking Fiber Optics in Space

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Опубликовано: 6 дек. 2017 г.

To demonstrate potential scientific and commercial merits of manufacturing exotic optical fibers in space, a private company is working with NASA on an investigation headed to the International Space Station on the next Dragon cargo ship. Matthew Napoli, vice president of In-Space Operations for Made In Space, explains how the Optical Fiber Production in Microgravity investigation could lead to the production of materials with better properties, setting the stage for large scale manufacturing of high-quality fiber in space. This investigation follows up on research conducted in the 1990s by scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

ЦитироватьTest-firing at repaired launch pad clears way for SpaceX cargo flight next week
December 6, 2017 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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The Falcon 9 rocket's previously-flown first stage fired its engines at pad 40 Wednesday. Credit: Steven Young/Spaceflight Now

SpaceX ignited a reused Falcon 9 first stage booster at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Wednesday ahead of a planned space station resupply launch Dec. 12, a major step in restoring the repaired facility to service after a catastrophic explosion interrupted operations there last year.

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Nine Merlin 1D engines on the Falcon 9's first stage ignited at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) Wednesday, sending a plume of exhaust out of the flame trench at pad 40. It was the first time a rocket has fired at pad 40, a former Titan rocket launch facility now operated by SpaceX, since a rocket exploded during fueling before a pre-flight static fire test Sept. 1, 2016.

SpaceX confirmed the completion of the customary pre-launch static fire test on Twitter.

The Falcon 9 will be returned to SpaceX's hangar at pad 40 for attachment of a Dragon cargo capsule loaded with several tons of supplies and experiments heading to the International Space Station.

The fully-assembled launcher will return to pad 40 next week for liftoff, which is currently targeted for Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 11:46 a.m. EST (1646 GMT).

The launch slipped four days fr om its previous target to complete preparations on pad 40, among other concerns.

"This new launch date takes into account pad readiness, requirements for science payloads, space station crew availability, and orbital mechanics," NASA said in a statement.

SpaceX will have a backup day Dec. 13 to launch if the countdown Dec. 12 is scrubbed.

Mission managers will have to work in SpaceX's cargo launch around other space station traffic.

Space station commander Randy Bresnik and crewmates Sergey Ryazanskiy and Paolo Nespoli are scheduled to depart the station in their Soyuz MS-05 early Dec. 14. The trio will land in Kazakhstan several hours later to wrap up a 139-day flight, leaving behind new station commander Alexander Misurkin and astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba.

Three new crew members are set for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 17, and will reach the orbiting research complex two days later.

NASA and its space station partners prohibit cargo and crew ships arriving and departing from the station on the same day, leaving limited launch opportunities for SpaceX's resupply mission in mid-December.

Assuming the Dragon cargo capsule launches Dec. 12, it will reach the space station Dec. 15 for a month-long stay.

The upcoming cargo launch is the 13th resupply mission mounted by SpaceX under contract to NASA, and the first in which the space agency has agreed to fly its equipment on a previously-used Falcon 9 first stage. The booster assigned to next week's mission first flew June 3 on another space station resupply launch.

The Dragon capsule's pressurized module is also reused. SpaceX refurbished the spacecraft after a round-trip flight to the station in April and May of 2015.

Pad 40's return to service frees up nearby pad 39A, wh ere SpaceX has based all its East Coast launches so far this year, for final upgrades and modifications to accommodate the maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket, a huge triple-body launcher made of up three Falcon 9 first stages mated together.

The Falcon Heavy's first test launch could occur next month, a few weeks after its own static fire test at pad 39A.

SpaceX also confirmed Wednesday the launch of a mysterious U.S. government payload named Zuma is slated to occur from pad 40 in early January, next in line after the Dec. 12 cargo launch. Zuma's launch was postponed from mid-November to study a technical concern with the Falcon 9's payload fairing, a structure that shields satellites during liftoff.

The Zuma mission was originally supposed to launch from pad 39A, but pad 40's reactivation allows SpaceX to move it there, clearing the former Apollo- and shuttle-era launch pad for the Falcon Heavy.

The Dragon cargo capsule does not use a fairing like other Falcon 9 payloads, allowing the resupply flight to go forward.

The last SpaceX launch of the year is scheduled for Dec. 22 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 Iridium voice and data relay satellites.

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Rocket and spacecraft for CRS-13 are flight-proven. Falcon 9's first stage previously launched SpaceX's eleventh resupply mission for @NASA (https://twitter.com/NASA), and Dragon flew to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) in support of our sixth cargo resupply mission.
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ЦитироватьDec. 6, 2017
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-145

NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Space Station Resupply Mission

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is now targeting its 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 11:46 a.m. EST Tuesday, Dec. 12.
Mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website (http://www.nasa.gov/live) Monday, Dec. 11 with two news briefings.

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Packed with almost 4,800 pounds of research (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/resupply_critical_science_to_ISS), crew supplies and hardware, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

NASA TV mission coverage is as follows:

Monday, Dec. 11
 

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• 11 a.m. – Prelaunch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program, SpaceX, and the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base
• 3:30 p.m. – "What's on Board" science briefing, highlighting research testing: fiber optic filaments (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2421.html), how plants (https://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/plant-gravity-perception-spacex-13) respond to microgravity, the accuracy of a biosensor used for diabetes management (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2636.html), a drug delivery system for combatting muscle atrophy (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2465.html) and instruments to measure the Sun's energy input (https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/tsis-1) to Earth and orbital debris (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2145.html).
  

Tuesday, Dec. 12
 

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• 11:15 a.m. – Launch commentary coverage begins
• 1:15 p.m. – Post-launch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX
  

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• 4:30 a.m. – Dragon rendezvous at the space station and capture
• 7 a.m. – Installation coverage
  

About 10 minutes after launch on Dec. 12, Dragon will reach its preliminary orbit and deploy its solar arrays. A carefully choreographed series of thruster firings are scheduled to bring the spacecraft to rendezvous with the space station. NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba will capture Dragon using the space station's robotic arm. Ground controllers will then send commands to robotically install the spacecraft on the station's Harmony module.

The Dragon spacecraft will spend approximately one month attached to the space station, returning to Earth on Jan. 13 with results of previous experiments.

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Last Updated: Dec. 7, 2017
Editor: Katherine Brown
 

ЦитироватьSpaceX - Pad 40 Returns to Life - CRS13 Static Fire Test 12-06-2017

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Опубликовано: 6 дек. 2017 г.

ЦитироватьSeeing the Sun in 1,000 different colors with NASA's TSIS-1

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Опубликовано: 6 дек. 2017 г.

The composition of that light that falls on Earth matters to understanding Earth's energy budget. In December 2017, NASA is launching a new instrument called the Total Solar and Spectral Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1) designed to study this question. NASA's TSIS-1 will measure the Sun's energy in 1,000 different wavelengths, including the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared, known as solar spectral irradiance. Find out more in this short narrated video.

ЦитироватьOleg пишет:
а прожигали то с полезной нагрузкой
и на площадке, где потеряли эту самую нагрузку во время прожига год назад.
ничего не боятся.

ЦитироватьOleg пишет:
а прожигали то с полезной нагрузкой

ЦитироватьYMMM

F3949/17 - ROCKET LAUNCH WILL TAKE PLACE
FLW RECEIVED FROM GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS WILL BE CONDUCTED SURFACE TO UNLIMITED FOR
ATMOSPHERIC RE-ENTRY AND SPLASHDOWN OF LAUNCH VEHICLE FALCON 9 AND
PARTICIPATING SUPPORT AIRCRAFT WITHIN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
FROM 5106S 15704E
 TO 4702S 12957E
 TO 4017S 11010E
 TO 1653S 08001E
 TO 1934S 07639E
 TO 3051S 08509E
 TO 4709S 11010E
 TO 5216S 13011E
 TO 5354S 15629E
 TO BEGINNING. SFC - UNL, 1712121719 TO 1712121843 1712131657 TO 1712131821
PRI 20171212 1719 TO 1843 BACKUP 20171213 1657 TO 1821, 12 DEC 17:19 2017 UNTIL
13 DEC 18:21 2017. CREATED: 06 DEC 20:06 2017

Цитироватьtnt22 пишет:
НАСА выпустила обзор миссии CRS-13

 spacex_crs-13_mision_overview_low_res8.pdf - 372988 B, 3 стр, 2017-12-03 20:30:07 UTC

 
 

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Цитироватьtnt22 пишет:
НАСА выпустила обзор миссии CRS-13

 spacex_crs-13_mision_overview_low_res8.pdf - 372988 B, 3 стр, 2017-12-03 20:30:07 UTC

 
 

Из чего следует, стартовый вес Дракона около - 7695 кг.

ЦитироватьPatron пишет: 
Для любителей статистики: масса Dragon (CRS - 8 после подстыковки к МКС около 10260 кг. Расход рабочего тела до стыковки около 300 кг (затраты Vx порядка 95-100 м/с без учета НШС). Итого: масса корабля на старте около 10600 кг. "Недостающий" до максимального значения Мст 13100 кг резерв (2500 кг) предназначен для пилотируемой модификации корабля: САС, СОЖ, новый СтА, четырехкупольная ПС, увеличение заправки до 1530 кг и.т.д. Сомневаюсь, что экипаж составит 4 человека...

ЦитироватьNew and improved Florida pad ready to resume Falcon 9 launches
by Jeff Foust (http://spacenews.com/author/jeff-foust/) — December 8, 2017

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SpaceX's Space Launch Complex 40 prior to the September 2016 pad explosion. SpaceX has rebuilt SLC-40 with improvements that will support higher launch rates. Credit: SpaceX

WASHINGTON — More than a year after suffering significant damage in a Falcon 9 explosion, a Florida launch pad is ready to return to service, incorporating improvements that will allow a higher flight rate.

The first launch fr om Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, since a September 2016 pad explosion is scheduled for Dec. 12, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 launches a Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. The rocket's first stage performed a successful static fire test there Dec. 6, the first major activity at the pad since the accident.

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SpaceX spent about $50 million rebuilding the launch pad after the accident, in the process incorporating improvements to the pad based on lessons learned from launches there and at two other launch pads in Florida in California that will support "many years" of Falcon 9 launches, a company official said.

"We really looked at this as an opportunity to not only rebuild the pad, but to make it better," said John Muratore, director of SLC-40 at SpaceX, in a call with reporters Dec. 8.

That work, he said, included taking steps to make hardware on the pad more robust and thus less likely to suffer damage during a launch. Much of the support equipment that was above ground and exposed to launches has been moved below ground, protected by concrete and steel and thus less likely to be damaged in a launch or even in the event of an explosion.

"That's critical to our rapid flight strategy," he said. "If you don't take damage on the pad then you can fly more often." It should be possible, he said, to turn the pad around between launches in a week or less.

Among the changes to the pad is a "really augmented" water system to protect the pad from damage to the launch, and improvements to the flame trench to lim it erosion of the concrete there. Those particular changes, he said, can allow for much longer static-fire tests there, which would enable the company to do things like testing a previously-flown first stage after replacing one of its engines.

Muratore said another change at SLC-40 was making the pad interfaces common with those at neighboring Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, as well as SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. "That is a really a big advantage for us since we can move people around as we hit normal surges of lots of activity, or gaps in activity," he said.

...

With SLC-40 in service, the company will have flexibility to schedule launches both there and at LC-39A. Some missions, such as Falcon Heavy launches and those of the Dragon v2 spacecraft, will only take place at 39A. SLC-40 will only host "single-stick" Falcon 9 missions, with no plans to add support for the Falcon Heavy.

"[Pad] 40 will be set to just run single-stick missions as fast as we can," he said.

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Цитировать12/10/2017 22:31

The official weather outlook for Tuesday's cargo launch to the International Space Station looks favorable, with a 90 percent probability conditions will be acceptable for liftoff at 11:46 a.m. EST (1646 GMT) from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad.

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The only slight concern is with liftoff winds, which are predicted to be gusty but under launch constraints.

"On Tuesday, a mid-level trough will sweep down over Central Florida and winds will again climb after noon," forecasters from the U.S. Air Force's 45th Weather Squadron wrote in this morning's outlook. "Winds will remain high from the northwest following passage of this feature but will slowly decline on Wednesday morning."

At launch time Tuesday, forecasters predict scattered clouds at 2,000 feet, westerly winds at 18 to 22 mph, good visibility and a temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit.

If the launch slips to Wednesday, similar conditions are in the forecast, with an 80 percent chance weather will permit liftoff.

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ЦитироватьSaturday, December 9, 2017

Dragon SpX-13 Cargo Overview

Dragon SpX-13 is the 13th operational mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract and the fourth Dragon mission in 2017 – marking the first time four Dragons have flown in a calendar year.

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Loaded with over two metric tons of cargo, Dragon will be ferrying supplies for the crew and plenty of science experiments as well as three external payloads to the Space Station to track the solar energy input to Earth, monitor the space debris population and test how different materials fare in the challenging space environment.

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File Image – Credit: Sergey Ryazanskiy

The Dragon SpX-13 mission is part of the CRS-1 contract extension that awarded an additional three flights to Orbital ATK's Cygnus and SpaceX will be flying under CRS-1 through CRS-20 to bridge a gap until transitioning to the second round of Commercial Resupply Services contracts that cover the Station's cargo needs through the first half of the 2020s. SpX-13 is the second time a Dragon spacecraft is re-used, employing Dragon C108 that spent 33 days in space as part of the SpX-6 mission in 2015.

The Dragon capsule is not the only re-use element of the SpX-13 mission since this launch will be the first under CRS to employ a previously used Falcon 9 first stage. Continuing on a path to making re-use missions routine, SpaceX began re-flying first stages in March 2017 and submitted proposals to NASA for extensive reviews of data fr om previously used stages and life-leader experimentation involving a stage firing up around ten times after completing a particularly challenging mission that left it with maximum damage. Engineering data provided by SpaceX persuaded NASA to opt for 'flight-proven' boosters at no to minimal additional risk to the success of the overall mission.

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Dragon C108 leaving the factory ahead of its first mission – Photo: SpaceX

NASA's engineering reviews cleared Dragon missions to fly on first stages with one prior Low Earth Orbit mission, excluding boosters with more than one mission under their belt and those returning from high-energy missions like Geotransfer deliveries. SpX-13 will use Falcon 9 Booster #1035 that first flew in June 2017 when it helped lift the Dragon SpX-11 spacecraft into orbit, marking the first re-flight of a Dragon capsule.

In total, Dragon SpX-13 is delivering 2,205 Kilograms of cargo to the International Space Station, primarily focused on science and utilization payloads. Dragon, given its capability of launching and returning experiments as well as its ability to launch external payloads, is usually tasked with science/utilization-heavy missions compared to Orbital ATK's Cygnus that does the heavy-lifting on the supplies side with the recent Cygnus OA-8 mission extending the Space Station's consumables to June 2018.

Packed into the Trunk Section of the SpX-13 Dragon are three new external facilities: TSIS, the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/tsis/), will be measuring the total solar irradiance and spectrally-separated irradiances arriving at Earth to continue a long-term record of what are considered critical climate variables to understand the total input of energy into the Earth/Atmosphere System.

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Dragon C108 in Orbit – Photo: NASA

SDS, the Space Debris Sensor (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/sds/), is one of the largest of its kind ever flown, using different detection methods to provide unprecedented data on the population of micro-debris in the Space Station's orbital regime and validate sensor designs for future missions exploring other orbital altitudes to help assess risks for satellite missions. MISSE-FF, the Materials on ISS Flight Facility (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/misse-ff/), will take up residence on the Station's truss to provide a state-of-the-art exposure facility, allowing different industries to deploy samples into the unique space environment to study their degradation under extreme thermal variations, radiation influx, ultraviolet radiation and micro-debris hits.

Loaded into the Dragon are a number of experiments from various fields of science and technology, looking into the production of ultra-high-quality optical fibers in the absence of gravity, studying a synthetic bone material that could accelerate bone repair, and looking at the assembly of three-dimensional structures suspended in fluid without the presence of gravity which is relevant for the production of advanced optical materials and electronic components.

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Falcon 9 Booster #1035 Lands after dispatching the Dragon SpX-6 mission toward orbit – Photo: SpaceX

Additionally, Dragon SpX-13 will be the next Rodent Research Flight, ferrying forty mice to the Space Station to participate in a study of a novel drug that could combat muscular breakdown in astronauts on long-duration missions and Earth-bound patients with muscle-related diseases and injuries. Twenty of the mice have a return ticket and will ride the SpX-13 Dragon to a parachute-assisted landing in the Pacific Ocean.

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• Total Cargo: 2,205 Kilograms
• Pressurized Cargo (with packaging): 1,560 Kilograms
• Science Investigations: 711 Kilograms
• Vehicle Hardware: 189 Kilograms
• Crew Supplies: 490 Kilograms
• Computer Resources: 5 Kilograms
• Spacewalk Equipment: 165 Kilograms
  

[/li][li]Unpressurized Cargo: 645 Kilograms

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• TSIS (Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor) (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/tsis/)
• SDS (Space Debris Sensor) (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/sds/)
• MISSE-FF (Materials on ISS Flight Facility) (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/misse-ff/)
  

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Plant Gravity Perception

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Image: NASA

The Plant Gravity Perception (PGP) experiment, also known as Gravity Perception Systems, joins a long line of biology studies using the unique microgravity environment aboard the Space Station to investigate how plants sense and respond to gravity. PGP uses the European Modular Cultivation System (EMCS) to grow normal and mutated forms of Thale cress, a model organism often used in space experiments, to study the plant's light and gravity perception to inform designers of future space-based plant growth facilities which crews on extended journeys will rely on for food.

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EMCS Facility – Image: NASA/Scot Wolverton

Gravity perception is important to plants because they need to send their roots downward into the soil for water and nutrients while the shoots have to be directed upwards towards light for photosynthesis. Previous research has shown that plants use statoliths to sense gravity – small packets filled with starch that settle at the bottom of specialized gravity-sensing cells. However, mutant plants without functional statoliths also show consistent responses to gravity, indicating there is at least one other path for sensing gravity.

This non-statolith gravity sensing system is the focus of PGP, using plants with statoliths and mutant plants that lack the ability to produce starch in microgravity and a simulated gravity environment of varying strength created by a centrifuge. PGP will attempt to test molecular components for contributions to gravity sensing without statolith sedimentation and determine how the multiple gravity sensory systems interact to control the growth response.

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Seed Cassette & Experiment Container – Image: NASA/Scot Wolverton

The PGP experiment hardware consists of five seedling growth cassettes in experimental containers. A total of 24 experimental containers are launched, containing dry seeds in 120 cassettes. Eight containers will be part of an experiment run, requiring three experiment runs of five days given the available slots within the EMCS.

Experiments are initiated from the ground with the hydration of seeds to start the germination of plants. The seedlings are initially subjected to a force of 1G which, combined with white LED illumination, will put the developing seedlings into a predictable orientation.

Rotor-mounted cameras are used to monitor plant development and growth at all stages of the experiment with the growth phase allowed to last 84 hours. After this time, the seedlings are exposed to microgravity and unilateral stimulation provided by blue LEDs which will cause the seedlings to re-orient their growth direction. Twelve hours after the start of the stimulation phase, the seedlings are exposed to a range of G-forces from 0.006 to 1 G in the dark while imagery is acquired under infrared illumination. Samples are returned to Earth frozen for detailed laboratory analysis.

Benefits of uncovering the different gravity sensing pathways of plants are directly applicable in space and on Earth. In space, plants will be a critical food and oxygen source for future missions to distant targets – requiring reliable and efficient plant growth facilities. On Earth, crop efficiency depends on the number of plants that can be grown in a given area or volume and thus depends on the shape in which a plant growths based on its gravity and light sensors.

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Thale Cress growth documented by EMCS – Image: NASA/Scot Wolverton

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Made In Space Fiber Optics

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The Optical Fiber Production in Microgravity experiment, conducted by Made In Space, will look into the merits of manufacturing fiber optic filaments in microgravity which is expected to yield higher optical qualities than Earth-bound production. ZBLAN, a family of heavy-metal fluoride glasses, will be the focus of this experiment. On Earth, when ZBLAN is solidified, its atomic structure tends to form into crystals – a process that is not expected to take place in space and so yield optical filaments with superior optical qualities than the silica used in most fiber optic wires.

Made In Space Fiber Optics is a locker sized payload that will operate for around 20 days to pull fiber optic wire from ZBLAN. The facility will return to Earth aboard Dragon for extensive evaluation of the optical properties of the microgravity-produced fibers. If proven feasible from a technological and economical standpoint, this experiment could lay the foundation for the large-scale manufacture of high-quality fiber optic fiber in orbit.

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Advanced Colloids Experiment-Temperature-7

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Advanced Colloids Experiment-Temperature-7 (ACE-T7) continues a long line of colloids experiments conducted aboard the International Space Station, leveraging the unique microgravity environment offered on ISS to perform long-term experimentation looking at the behavior of small particles suspended in fluids in the absence of gravity-induced effects (e.g. sedimentation) which typically mask a number of phenomena in experimentation on Earth.

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Colloid Experiments on ISS (File Pic) – Photo: NASA

The ACE-T7 study involves the design and assembly of complex three-dimensional structures from small particles suspended in a fluid medium. These self-assembled colloidal structures can be useful in a number of areas including advanced optical elements and electronic components. Without effects of gravity, the experiment will deliver insight into the relation between particle shape and interparticle interactions on the assembly structure and dynamics, answering fundamental questions in condensed matter science.

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Photo: NASA (File)

The creation of new functional materials is based on the self-organization of colloids into crystalline structures by means of entropic forces. ACE-T7 uses non-spherical colloids whose phases can be controlled by adding nano-size depletants to the mixture or modifying the temperature of the medium in a particular location to control the particle concentration; three-dimensional imaging will provide detailed insight into the dynamics of particle self-assembly based on the varying external factors.

For ACE-T7, the focus is on studying the crystallization behavior of micron-sized colloidal cubes which are expected to organize in a simple cubic symmetry with the size of the crystal depending on the size of the nano-size depletant. Understanding how crystals of a desired shape and size can be created through processes such as this could allow for new types of photonic crystals, advanced optical components, computing components without bandwidth limitation and other innovative solutions.

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Space Tango Payload Card Glucose Test 1 and 2

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"Deconvolution of Biosensor Glucose Diffusion Contributions in Microgravity" evaluates the accuracy of a wireless, medically implantable glucose biosensor to ease day-to-day diabetes management. Conducting this validation in microgravity allows the glucose diffusion factor to be isolated and monitored to improve the accuracy of the commercial sensors.

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TangoLab aboard ISS – Photo: NASA/SpaceTango

Slow glucose transport through human tissues can create delays of up to 20 minutes in real-time monitoring of glucose levels which can have serious secondary complications in patients requiring tight glycemic control. Taking advantage of the slow fluid movement in the microgravity environment, this experiment can provide valuable insight into the role of diffusion in glucose transport and so improve the mathematical models that determine the accuracy of the Glucowizzard measuring device.

The experiment hardware is contained inside a 2U CubeLab, compliant with the Tango Lab wh ere the hardware will operate autonomously to perform the experiment.

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Synthetic Bone

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The Synthetic Bone Experiment, going by the full name "Assessing Osteoblast Response to Tetranite™ in Microgravity Conditions to Induce Osteoporosis," examines the cellular response to a novel bone adhesive in the absence of gravity to evaluate the product for use on Earth to accelerate bone repair. Bone cells will be grown for 20 days in the presence of a commercial bone adhesive and the new product, called Tetranite™, before return to Earth for detailed laboratory analysis to evaluate the performance of the new product.

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Osteoblast and osteoclast cells, stained for actin – Image: NASA

The product evaluated by this study could fill the sweet spot of an effective yet biocompatible adhesive that can adhere to both metal and bone. Testing has shown TN to be biocompatible in animal experiments and could be useful in a number of areas to fix broken bones, stabilize metallic orthopedic implants and augment the structure of bone in Osteoporosis patients.

Previous spaceflight research has shown that the absence of gravitational forces causes an increase in bone resorption by osteoclasts and a decrease in the cellular integrity of osteoblasts, inducing a loss in bone mass seen in astronauts performing long-duration missions. This accelerated bone loss in space makes ISS an ideal environment for studies looking into bone repair and restructuring. The aim of this particular experiment is to look at the response of osteoblasts, bone-generating cells, to the novel TN agent.

Synthetic Bone tests Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Osteoblasts and uses various analytic tools to assess differentially expressed genes, Osteoblast differentiation and mineralization.

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Dragon SpX-13 Cargo Overview

Rodent Research 6

Спойлер

Rodent Research 6 is the seventh Rodent Research Flight to the International Space Station and dedicated to testing a drug delivery system for combating muscular breakdown in spaceflight and muscle-wasting diseases on Earth. The experiment uses forty mice flown to ISS and subjects maintained on Earth, selectively treated with a placebo or with a nanochannel drug delivery chip delivering agents meant to maintain muscle in low-gravity and/or disuse conditions.

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Rodent Habitat – Image: NASA

RR-6 follows up on a proof-of-concept mission on SpX-4 and rodent science missions on SpX-6, 8, and 10-12 that looked at various research topics such as space-induced rise in intracranial pressure, antibody response, and methods for prevention of skeletal muscle atrophy and osteoporosis.

The drug tested on RR-6 has the potential of slowing and/or reversing space-induced muscle atrophy. A two-pronged approach is taken to understand the mitigating effects of the drug to in-space muscle atrophy and potential improvements in rehabilitation to gravity brought on by the novel drug. In addition to its application in space, the drug may also have applications in ground-based ailments related to muscle atrophy due to prolonged muscular disuse, cancer and aging.

RR-6 involves forty female lab mice (C57BL/6) between 30 and 50 weeks of age that are either sham operated or implanted with vehicle or treatment filled nano delivery systems. Two Rodent Transporters will launch 20 mice each and the transfer to Rodent Habitats will be completed by the ISS crew. One group of mice will live on ISS for 30 days before being transferred back to the transporter for live return to Earth where studies will be performed looking into positive effects of the drug on the re-adaptation to gravity. The other group will continue their residence on ISS until Day 60 when euthanization takes place and samples are harvested and placed in cold stowage. Ground control animals are treated the same as those in orbit, but with a 5-day procedural offset.

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SPHERES Tether Slosh

Спойлер

SPHERES Tether Slosh is an extension of the original SPHERES Slosh Experiment and studies fluid dynamics with robotic capabilities aboard the International Space Station to investigate automated strategies for steering passive cargo that contains fluids. e.g. propellant or water. Sloshing of liquid fuels within a spacecraft's tank can be unpredictable which makes space maneuvers difficult with respect to knowledge of a spacecraft's precise center of mass at any given time.

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SPHERES – Photo: NASA

SPHERES stands for Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites and involves two satellites that are used inside the space station to provide a miniature testbed to study maneuvering capabilities and spacecraft measurement systems. These two small satellites are used to study maneuvers in space in miniature inside the ISS.

The SPHERES Tether Slosh experiment uses the two SPHERES robots tethered to an instrumented fluid container to test out strategies for safely steering spacecraft in a practical environment. Steering a passive body in space will be a requirement for moving dead satellites with fuel residuals in their tanks as well as maintaining long-term propellant depots in orbit. This will require detailed predictive knowledge on liquid disturbance and unbalance.

The Tether Slosh experiment employs the two SPHERES robots that pull a liquid-filled slosh tank via a Kevlar tether. The liquid behavior inside the tank is monitored via acceleration sensors and other instrumentation to refine a software algorithm built based on knowledge from previous testing. A number of resources already in place aboard the Space Station are used for the experiment including the two robots and the WISENET – a wireless network of sensor packages (temperature, pressure humidity) deployed in the Columbus module.

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ЦитироватьMark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted on December 10, 2017

NASA TV to Broadcast Briefings Before SpaceX Dragon Launch

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting its 13th commercial resupply services (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/index.html) mission to the International Space Station no earlier than 11:46 a.m. EST Tuesday, Dec. 12.

Спойлер

Mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website (http://www.nasa.gov/live) Monday, Dec. 11 with two news briefings.

Packed with about 4,800 pounds of research (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/resupply_critical_science_to_ISS), crew supplies and hardware, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

NASA TV Coverage Schedule:

Monday, Dec. 11
 

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• 11 a.m. – Prelaunch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program, SpaceX, and the 45th Space Wing
• 3:30 p.m. – "What's on Board" science briefing, highlighting research testing: fiber optic filaments (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2421.html), how plants (https://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/plant-gravity-perception-spacex-13) respond to microgravity, the accuracy of a biosensor used for diabetes management (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2636.html), a drug delivery system for combatting muscle atrophy (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2465.html) and instruments to measure the Sun's energy input (https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/tsis-1) to Earth and orbital debris (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2145.html).
  

Tuesday, Dec. 12

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• 11:15 a.m. – Launch commentary coverage begins
• 1:15 p.m. – Post-launch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX
  

L-2 Weather Update

Meteorologists with the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing are predicting 90 percent chance of favorable weather for liftoff on Tuesday. The primary weather concern is liftoff winds.

Join the conversation online by following @space_station and #askNASA. To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list, please email heo-pao@lists.nasa.gov (mailto:heo-pao@lists.nasa.gov).

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ЦитироватьAnna Heiney (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/aheiney/)
Posted on December 11, 2017

L-1 Day Briefings Scheduled for SpaceX CRS-13

Today marks "L-1" – launch minus one day – for tomorrow's scheduled launch of SpaceX's 13th commercial resupply to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft is planned for 11:46 a.m. EST Tuesday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Meteorologists with the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing are predicting a 90 percent chance of favorable weather at launch time, with liftoff winds the primary concern.

Спойлер

Mission coverage begins today with two news briefings. Both will be broadcast on NASA Television (http://www.nasa.gov/ntv).
 

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• 11 a.m. – Prelaunch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program, SpaceX, and the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base
• 3:30 p.m. – "What's on Board" science briefing, highlighting research testing: fiber optic filaments (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2421.html), how plants (https://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/plant-gravity-perception-spacex-13) respond to microgravity, the accuracy of a biosensor used for diabetes management (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2636.html), a drug delivery system for combatting muscle atrophy (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2465.html) and instruments to measure the Sun's energy input (https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/tsis-1) to Earth and orbital debris (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2145.html)
  

Live coverage from the countdown begins Tuesday morning at 11:15 a.m. here on NASA's Launch Blog and on NASA Television (http://www.nasa.gov/ntv).

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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg) Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 3 мин назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/940250877536931840)

NASA's Kirk Shireman is, I'm sure, talking eloquently about the upcoming mission, but his audio doesn't seem to be working...

2 мин назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/940251063415959553)

He's appearing from JSC, so I guess we can say, "Houston, you have a problem."

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg) Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/940254825165545472)

Shireman, on if he'll be more anxious about tomorrow's launch using a previously-flown Falcon 9 first stage: every time we launch a rocket I'm anxious.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg) Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 1 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/940256061470203904)

Both Shireman and SpaceX's Jessica Jensen emphasize that flying a previously-flown booster has "overall equivalent risk" versus a new booster; some risks higher, others lower.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg) Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/940256246598459397)

Jensen: expect to use refurbished Dragon capsules for the remainder of the current CRS cargo contract.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg) Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/940256671183630336)

Shireman: optimistic we can launch on 12th or 13th; have one more attempt on 15th before having to stand down until at least Dec. 25.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg) Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 15 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/940258455872516097)

Shireman: not unexpected Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew test dates slipped to the right; planning for those dates to slip further. No talks with Russia about buying additional Soyuz seats, though.

ЦитироватьMark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted on December 11, 2017

Dragon Prepares to Launch, Crew Prepares to Land This Week

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A near-full moon is seen Dec. 2, 2017, as the space station orbited above north Africa.

The SpaceX (https://www.nasa.gov/spacex) Dragon resupply ship is at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida counting down to its launch to the International Space Station Tuesday at 11:46 a.m. EST. Meanwhile, the six-member Expedition 53 crew (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition53/index.html) is preparing to split up this week.

Спойлер

Today, Dragon sits atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station filled with nearly 4,800 pounds of crew supplies, station hardware and new research gear. After liftoff Tuesday morning, it will take a near three-day trip to the space station.

Astronauts Mark Vande Hei (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/mark-t-vande-hei) and Joe Acaba (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/joseph-m-acaba) will be inside the cupola at the robotics controls Friday morning watching Dragon's approach and rendezvous. When Dragon reaches a point 10 meters away fr om the orbital lab, the duo will command the Canadarm2 to grapple Dragon at about 6 a.m. Afterward, ground controllers will take over Canadarm2 and install the commercial cargo craft to the Harmony module wh ere it will stay until Jan. 13. ...

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ЦитироватьSpace Debris Sensor

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/220651.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/user/ReelNASA) NASA Johnson (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmheCYT4HlbFi943lpH009Q)

Опубликовано: 11 дек. 2017 г.

Orbital debris poses a risk to all spacecraft in Earth orbit, so the International Space Station is getting a new debris impact sensor to provide information on the micrometeoroid orbital debris environment in low Earth orbit. The Space Debris Sensor, launching on the next SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle, will monitor impacts caused by small-scale orbital debris for a period of two to three years. That data will improve station safety by generating a more accurate estimate of the amount of small-scale debris that cannot be tracked from the ground and helping define better spacecraft shielding requirements.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186095.jpg) Robin Seemangal‏Подлинная учетная запись @nova_road (https://twitter.com/nova_road) 5 ч назад (https://twitter.com/nova_road/status/940296355653746688)

We're back at #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) SLC 40 at Cape Canaveral with the gently-used CRS13 Falcon 9! Aka Sooty McSooterson. Liftoff of the Dragon loaded with 4,800 pounds of hardware, research, and crew supplies is at 11:46 AM Eastern tomorrow!
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 1 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/940412811116728320)

Working to confirm, but consensus (and other tweets) indicate #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) is slipping #CRS13 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS13?src=hash) 24hrs to Dec. 13 at ~11:23 EST. #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg) SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 1 мин назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/940413416531025923)

Now targeting Dec. 13 for launch of CRS-13 from SLC-40 to allow for additional time for pre-launch ground systems checks.

Цитироватьhave one more attempt on 15th before having to stand down until at least Dec. 25.

ЦитироватьSpaceXDragon CRS-13 Prelaunch News Conference

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/220784.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAgovVideo) NASA Video (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_aP7p621ATY_yAa8jMqUVA)

Опубликовано: 11 дек. 2017 г.

On Dec. 11, NASA held a briefing at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide an overview of the next SpaceX mission to the International Space Station.

ЦитироватьSpaceX/Dragon CRS-13 What's on Board Science Briefing

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/220784.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAgovVideo) NASA Video (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_aP7p621ATY_yAa8jMqUVA)

Опубликовано: 11 дек. 2017 г.

On Dec 11, NASA held a briefing at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the science, research and technology payloads being transported to the International Space Station aboard the next SpaceX mission to the ISS.

ЦитироватьAnna Heiney (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/aheiney/)
Posted on December 12, 2017

Launch No Earlier Than Dec. 13

NASA and SpaceX are now targeting no earlier than 11:24 a.m. EST Wednesday, Dec. 13th, for the company's 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX requested additional time for prelaunch ground systems checks.

A Dragon spacecraft will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Dragon is now scheduled to arrive at the space station on Saturday, Dec. 16.

NASA Television coverage for launch is as follows:

Wednesday, Dec. 13
 

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• 10:45 a.m. – Launch commentary coverage begins
• 12:30 p.m. – Post-launch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX
  

Saturday, Dec. 16
 

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• 4:30 a.m. – Dragon rendezvous at the space station and capture
• 7:30 a.m. – Installation coverage
  

Join us here, on NASA Television or at www.nasa.gov/live (http://www.nasa.gov/live) for updates from the countdown.

Цитировать (https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/698664539873796096/Iw28Zwrx_bigger.jpg) Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist) 18 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/940620240475639809)

@NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) Sooty is still horizontal as of about an hour ago. We have remote reset in a few hours so I'm hoping to get a few more shots then.
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/940627486454534144)

Waiting on official confirmation, but multiple sources now saying #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #CRS13 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS13?src=hash) is slipping again to either Thursday or Friday. #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash)

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg) SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 34 мин назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/940736321097572352)

Taking additional time for the team to conduct full inspections and cleanings due to detection of particles in 2nd stage fuel system. Now targeting CRS-13 launch from SLC-40 on Dec. 15. Next launch opportunity would be no earlier than late December.

ЦитироватьAnna Heiney (https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/author/aheiney/)
Posted on December 12, 2017

SpaceX CRS-13 Update: Launch No Earlier Than Dec. 15

NASA and SpaceX are now targeting no earlier than 10:35 a.m. EST Friday, Dec. 15, for the company's 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX is taking additional time for the team to conduct full inspections and cleanings due to detection of particles in the second stage fuel system. The next launch opportunity would be no earlier than late December.

A Dragon spacecraft will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Dragon is now scheduled to arrive at the space station on Sunday, Dec. 17.

On Sunday, Scott Tingle of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are also scheduled to launch at 2:21 a.m. (1:21 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station.

NASA Television coverage for launch and arrival activities are as follows:

Friday, Dec. 15

 ● 10 a.m. – Launch commentary coverage begins
 ● 12 p.m. – Post-launch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX

Sunday, Dec. 17

 ● 1:15 a.m. – Soyuz MS-07 launch coverage begins
 ● 4:30 a.m. – Dragon rendezvous at the space station and capture coverage begins
 ● 7:30 a.m. – Installation coverage begins

Watch live on NASA Television and the agency's website: www.nasa.gov/live (http://www.nasa.gov/live).

ЦитироватьSpaceX cargo launch slips to Friday, allowing for additional rocket inspections
December 13, 2017 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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SpaceX's mission patch for the CRS-13 cargo mission. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX has delayed liftoff of its next cargo ship bound for the International Space Station until Friday, setting up a one-shot attempt to launch the commercial supply carrier from Cape Canaveral before a potential slip to late December due to high solar angles in orbit.

Спойлер

The company confirmed multiple reports that the flight would be pushed back until Friday in a tweet Tuesday evening, blaming the delay on the discovery of unexpected particles in the Falcon 9 rocket's second stage fuel system.

"Taking additional time for the team to conduct full inspections and cleanings due to detection of particles in 2nd stage fuel system," the company tweeted. "Now targeting CRS-13 launch from SLC-40 on Dec. 15. Next launch opportunity would be no earlier than late December."

SpaceX's 13th resupply launch to the International Space Station, known as CRS-13, is set to deliver 4,861 pounds (2,205 kilograms) of cargo and experiments to the research outpost, including biomedical investigations and scientific instruments to study the sun's total energy output and space junk in the space station's orbit.

Liftoff from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Friday is set for 10:35 a.m. EST (1535 GMT), roughly the moment Florida's Space Coast rotates under the space station's orbital plane.

The launch was set for Tuesday, but SpaceX announced a one-day delay Monday night to give workers additional time for pre-launch ground system checks.

SpaceX is readying for its first launch from pad 40 since August 2016.

A catastrophic rocket explosion at pad 40 on Sept. 1, 2016, left the launch complex unusable, and it took SpaceX more than a year to clean up, repair and upgrade the facility. Falcon 9 launches from Florida were based from nearby pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center once SpaceX cleared the rocket to resume flying early this year.

The Falcon 9 launcher awaiting liftoff from pad 40 will be powered by a reused first stage booster, on the first flight in which NASA has agreed to put its cargo on a recycled commercial rocket. The Dragon supply ship's pressurized module is also a spaceflight veteran, having flown to and from the space station on a cargo mission in 2015.

Assuming the robotic cargo mission takes off Friday, the Dragon capsule should arrive at the space station Sunday. Capture of the automated cargo carrier by the space station's Canadian-built robotic arm is expected at 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT), less than four hours after three new crew members heading for the outpost are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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If SpaceX is forced to delay the cargo launch again, the next chance to send the supply shipment to the space station will not come until late December. A period of constant sunlight in the space station's orbit, known as a high solar beta angle, will prevent the outpost from receiving the Dragon cargo craft.

"In a high solar beta, or a high solar angle regime, basically the ISS doesn't see a sunset or a sunrise," said Kirk Shireman, NASA's space station program manager, in a briefing with reporters Monday. "It's basically one long, long day, and it puts a lot of thermal constraints on the vehicle, so we try to avoid critical operations — dynamic operations — like spacewalks and vehicle dockings and undockings during this high solar beta."

Shireman said launch opportunities could open back up for SpaceX around Dec. 25, but it's not clear if SpaceX or NASA would attempt to launch the mission on Christmas Day.

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ЦитироватьЧебурашка пишет:
13-ый Драгон, 13-ого числа.

Почти как 13-ый Аполлон 13-ого числа


  8)

ЦитироватьMax Andriyahov пишет:
Что то они забили уже на перекраску ступени. Даже не отмыли толком от копоти. 

ЦитироватьЗловредный пишет:
А вы обратили внимание, почему запуск перенесли? В топливной системе второй ступени мусор!

ЦитироватьНеужели они смогут прочистить систему за несколько дней, а не несколько лет? Непредставимо!

ЦитироватьMax Andriyahov пишет:
Камера в баке, визуально? Эх, давненько картинку изнутри не показывают, как на первых запусках.

ЦитироватьС другой стороны, его что, кто то гонит... .

ЦитироватьMax Andriyahov пишет:

ЦитироватьС другой стороны, его что, кто то гонит... .

Союз его гонит, если завтра не пульнут -
 будут до конца месяца ждать.

Цитироватьm-s Gelezniak пишет:
И что?

ЦитироватьAstro Cat пишет:

Цитироватьm-s Gelezniak пишет:
И что?

И хеви уедет на февраль. Или вообше отменят.

ЦитироватьAstro Cat пишет:
Как же они обнаружили мусор на стартовом столе? А ранее почему не обнаружили? Странно как то все.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67530.jpg) Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) 1ч. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/941414138521292801)

Good weather is in the forecast for SpaceX's launch opportunity tomorrow at 10:36am EST (1536 GMT). A Falcon 9 rocket is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral with a cargo ship heading to the International Space Station. https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/11/spacex-crs-13-mission-status-center/ ... (https://t.co/0HHuJpe4Mz)
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 7 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/941323991834415104)

About 24 hours to the next opportunity.

Instantaneous window. No unplanned holds allowed during the business end of the count. Hold = Scrub due to that window.

Scrub and the next opportunity is.....Christmas Day! (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125475.png)

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185868.jpg) DigitalGlobe‏Подлинная учетная запись @DigitalGlobe (https://twitter.com/DigitalGlobe) 13 дек. (https://twitter.com/DigitalGlobe/status/941058951575212035)

Spotted yesterday: the @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) Falcon 9 that will be the first mission to fly a reused orbital rocket and spacecraft to resupply the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station). #GeoEye1 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GeoEye1?src=hash) was 800km east of Cape Canaveral, tilted 49 degrees off-nadir, when it captured this image at 95cm resolution.
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 38 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/941498659316920321)

FEATURE ARTICLE: Flight proven Falcon 9 to launch previously flown Dragon to ISS - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/12/flight-proven-falcon-9-launch-flown-dragon-iss/ ... (https://t.co/cAztfvTTJr)

 - By William Graham.

Additional photos by Brady Kenniston (@TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist)) for NSF.

#GoSooty (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoSooty?src=hash)!
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Flight proven Falcon 9 to launch previously flown Dragon to ISS (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/12/flight-proven-falcon-9-launch-flown-dragon-iss/)

December 14, 2017 by William Graham

Цитироватьm-s Gelezniak пишет:
с чего такой пессимизм?

ЦитироватьAstro Cat пишет:
А уж если Хеви СК развалит, то это вообще будет ж

ЦитироватьС того, что за очередной сдвиг пилотируемого Драгона НАСА взгреет Маска

ЦитироватьApollo13 пишет:
По мере того как SpaceX и Боинг реализуют требования НАСА оно постоянно выдвигает новые.

ЦитироватьЧебурашка пишет:

ЦитироватьApollo13 пишет:
По мере того как SpaceX и Боинг реализуют требования НАСА оно постоянно выдвигает новые.

Вопрос, зачем?

ЦитироватьЧебурашка пишет:
Я думаю НАСА специально тормизит ибо боится, что эти корабли перейдут дорогу Ориону и оставят насу с носом  ;)

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ЦитироватьЧебурашка пишет:
Я думаю НАСА специально тормизит ибо боится, что эти корабли перейдут дорогу Ориону и оставят насу с носом  ;)  

думаете что, Орион и Дракон это одна и та же категория?

Цитироватьpnetmon пишет:
Шутка: а вот не надо было Маску заявлять о полете Дракона с туристами к Луне  ;)

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185296.jpg) ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 (https://twitter.com/ISS101) 52 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/941652418802176000)

A flight-proven #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) rocket is counting down to liftoff from Cape Canaveral's SLC-40 at 15:36 UTC with the #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) SpX-13 cargo spacecraft headed to the International Space Station with 2,205 Kilograms of hardware and supplies. http://bit.ly/2B4fQUp  (https://t.co/M3WmKKMlM8)
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185296.jpg) ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 (https://twitter.com/ISS101) 30 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/941658200369229825)

SLC-40 received a new TEL that can support a rapid kickback at liftoff to move hardware out of the engine plume. Other upgrades include improved data systems, new hold-down clamps for #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash), and additional protection to reduce hardware damage and permit faster turnarounds.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 35 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/941658958250508289)

Our precise, instantaneous launch time today is 10:36:09 EST. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)

Цитировать12/15/2017 16:40

Good morning fr om the Kennedy Space Center. We're reporting from a few miles away from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad, wh ere a Falcon 9 rocket is standing vertical awaiting liftoff on a space station resupply flight at 10:36 a.m. EST (1536 GMT).

The Falcon 9 is flying with a previously-flown first stage booster, on the first flight in which NASA has put cargo on a recycled rocket.

The first stage is expected to return to touch down at Landing Zone 1 less than eight minutes after liftoff.

Here's a view of the Falcon 9 rocket at pad 40 a few minutes ago.

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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 8 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/941674647367639045)

Final fueling poll coming up. Air hazard area for LZ-1 is clear. SLC-40 air hazard area is being cleared. Blast Danger Area for SLC-40 is CLEAR for fueling. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/941676482455330816)

The launch loop is quiet -- a good indication that fueling picked up as expected at T-70mins. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)

ЦитироватьTimeline for SpaceX's next station cargo launch
December 14, 2017 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in 10 minutes Friday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying more than 4,800 pounds of supplies and experiments.

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Liftoff is set for 1536 GMT (10:36 a.m. EST) Friday from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad.

It will be the 45th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and SpaceX's 17th launch of the year. Working under contract to NASA, Friday's launch will be the 13th of least 26 SpaceX resupply missions to depart for the space station.

The illustrated timeline below outlines the launch sequence for the Falcon 9 flight with the Dragon spacecraft. It does not include times for the experimental descent and landing attempt of the first stage booster at Landing Zone 1, a former Atlas missile launch facility about 6 miles (9 kilometers) south of pad 40.

Three ignitions of the first stage engines after separation will steer the booster back toward Florida's Space Coast from the northeast. Here are key times for the landing maneuvers:
 

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• T+plus 2 minutes, 38 seconds: First stage boost-back burn begins
• T+plus 6 minutes, 7 seconds: First stage entry burn begins
• T+plus 7 minutes, 46 seconds: First stage landing
  

Touchdown at Landing Zone 1 should occur during a landing burn with only the first stage's center Merlin 1D engine firing.

T-0:00:00: Liftoff

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After the rocket's nine Merlin engines pass an automated health check, hold-down clamps will release the Falcon 9 booster for liftoff from pad 40.

T+0:01:10: Mach 1

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The Falcon 9 rocket reaches Mach 1, the speed of sound.

T+0:01:18: Max Q

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The Falcon 9 rocket reaches Max Q, the point of maximum aerodynamic pressure.
 
T+0:02:21: MECO

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The Falcon 9's nine Merlin 1D engines shut down.

T+0:02:25: Stage 1 Separation

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The Falcon 9's first stage separates from the second stage moments after MECO.

T+0:02:33: Second Stage Ignition

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The second stage Merlin 1D vacuum engine ignites for an approximately 7-minute burn to put the Dragon spacecraft into orbit.

T+0:09:00: SECO

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The second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket shuts down after reaching a target orbit with a low point of approximately 124 miles (200 kilometers), a high point of approximately 223 miles (360 kilometers) and an inclination of 51.6 degrees. The second stage will reignite for a de-orbit burn soon after deploying the Dragon spacecraft, aiming for a destructive re-entry over the Southern Ocean south of Australia.

T+0:10:00: Dragon Separation

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The Dragon spacecraft separates from the Falcon 9 rocket's second stage.

T+0:11:00: Solar Arrays Deployed

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The Dragon spacecraft's two solar array wings extend one-at-a-time to a span of 54 feet (16.5 meters).

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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 8 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/941678516155944963)

Under an hour away from launch now. Things are progressing as scheduled. The next major event is the start of LOX load at T-35mins, or 10:01a EST. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/941680923833196544)

LOX propellant transfer line chilldown from storage facility to the pad/rocket underway. So far so good. No issues. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185296.jpg) ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 (https://twitter.com/ISS101) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/941685324937351168)

NASA confirms all looking good for a #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) launch today, prop load events have been nominal so far. Weather 90% GO, Range is GREEN.

ЦитироватьKrusher99 пишет:
Очень красиво показали отделение первой ступени и ее разворот, прям как в блокбастере.

Цитировать (https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/698664539873796096/Iw28Zwrx_bigger.jpg) Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist) 32 мин назад (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/941706304153931781)

@NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) CRS-13 was absolutely beautiful! Go Falcon!
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ЦитироватьCRS-13 Hosted Webcast

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Трансляция началась 2 часа назад

ЦитироватьSpaceX CRS-13 Liftoff

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Опубликовано: 15 дек. 2017 г.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg) Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 8 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/941715873512992768)

SpaceX's Jessica Jensen, at post-launch press conference: got word that everything on rebuilt SLC-40 looked great after launch this morning.

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NASA's Ven Feng: use of previously-flown boosters will be on a case-by-case basis; considering it for future missions, but no decisions made yet.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185296.jpg) ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 (https://twitter.com/ISS101) 7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/941717079362818053)

#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) has been tracked in an orbit of 204 by 356 Kilometers, inclined 51.64°. #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) was right on the money. No second stage cataloged, indicates deorbit was successful.

ЦитироватьWhat's on Board the Next SpaceX Cargo Mission to the Space Station?

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Опубликовано: 15 дек. 2017 г.

Packed with almost 4,800 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware for the International Space Station, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

ЦитироватьU.S. Commercial Cargo Ship Sets Sail to the Space Station

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Опубликовано: 15 дек. 2017 г.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched fr om Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Dec. 15 to send the commercial Dragon cargo craft on its journey to deliver some three tons of experiments and supplies to the crew members aboard the International Space Station. Once it arrives at the complex, the Dragon will be captured by the station's Canadian-built robotic arm operated by Expedition 53 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA. Ground controllers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will then take over, sending commands to maneuver Dragon to the Earth-facing side of the Harmony module wh ere the spacecraft will be attached for a month-long stay.

ЦитироватьLinda Herridge (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/lherridg/)
Posted on December 15, 2017

Dragon to Rendezvous with Space Station on Sunday

Several thousand pounds of supplies, equipment and experiments are on their way to the crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory. Dragon reached its preliminary orbit and its solar arrays have been deployed. A series of thruster firings are scheduled to allow the Dragon spacecraft to rendezvous with the space station on Dec. 17. Installation coverage is set to begin at 7:30 a.m. Watch it live at www.nasa.gov/live (http://www.nasa.gov/live).

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba will capture the Dragon using the space station's robotic arm and then install it on the station's Harmony module. The Dragon spacecraft will spend about one month attached to the space station, returning to Earth in mid-January with results of previous experiments.

ЦитироватьLinda Herridge (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/lherridg/)
Posted on December 15, 2017

SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Heads for Space Station After Successful Launch

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft launched Dec. 15 at 10:36 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo credit: NASA

A 4,800-pound care package is on its way to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. The company's 13th commercial cargo mission to resupply the space station began at 10:36 a.m. EST with liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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After a successful climb into space, the Dragon spacecraft now is in orbit with its solar arrays deployed and drawing power. The rocket's first stage flew back for a successful landing at SpaceX's Landing Zone One at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

"This was a fantastic way to end the year for SpaceX east coast launches," said Jessica Jensen, director, Dragon Mission Management with SpaceX. "It was a great launch."

The Dragon spacecraft will deliver science, research, crew supplies and hardware to the orbiting laboratory. Science experiments include the Total and Spectral Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1) that will measure the Sun's energy input to Earth, the Space Debris Sensor (SDS) that will directly measure the orbital debris environment around the space station for two to three years, and the Advanced Colloids Experiment-Temperature 7 (ACE-T-7) investigation, which involves the design and assembly of 3-D structures from small particles suspended in a fluid medium, structures that are vital to the design of advanced optical materials and electronic devices. Read more at https://go.nasa.gov/2mMUdSY.

Live coverage of the rendezvous and capture of the Dragon spacecraft will begin at 4:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 17 on www.nasa.gov/live (http://www.nasa.gov/live), with installation coverage set to begin at 7:30 a.m. Astronauts aboard the station will capture the Dragon using the space station's robotic arm and then install it on the station's Harmony module. The Dragon spacecraft will spend about one month attached to the space station, returning to Earth in mid-January with results of previous experiments.

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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185396.jpg) Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 5 ч назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/941726160995659786)

Achievement unlocked. Take that, triskadeckaphobfa
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Цитировать (https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/698664539873796096/Iw28Zwrx_bigger.jpg) Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist) 4 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/941739373523062784)

@NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) My remote cameras caught some amazing images of Sooty! Thanks again for the amazing opportunity!
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg) Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 3 ч назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/941749401806163968)

Dragon CRS-13 cataloged as 43060, in a 203 x 355 km x 51.6 deg orbit. Two solar array covers are 43061/62. Second stage deorbit burn sometime around 1610 UTC for impact SW of Australia around 1630 UTC

ЦитироватьPhotos: Falcon 9 Soars Off from Re-Built SLC-40
December 15, 2017 (http://spaceflight101.com/photos-falcon-9-soars-off-from-re-built-slc-40/)

On Friday, for the first time, SpaceX launched a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket and a previously used Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on the company's fourth ISS resupply mission in 2017. The December 14 liftoff also marked the return of Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after 15 months of downtime following the 2016 explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff occurred at 15:36 UTC and Falcon 9 needed ten minutes to dispatch Dragon into orbit for a two-day rendezvous with the International Space Station while the first stage booster only needed eight minutes for its round trip, landing at the Cape's Landing Zone 1 to become the first Falcon 9 to manage two land-based recoveries.

>>Read our Launch Recap (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/falcon-9-launches-dragon-spx-13/)

All Photos: NASA

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Цитировать"Sooty" Falcon 9 Lifts Flight-Proven Dragon into Orbit, 1st Stage Aces 2nd Land-Based Return
December 15, 2017 (http://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-launches-dragon-spx-13/)

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Sporting a sooty attire fr om a previous voyage, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully lifted the fourth Dragon mission of 2017 into orbit on Friday to deliver science gear, systems hardware, crew supplies and two external payloads to the Space Station that will study the population of micro-sized debris in Low Earth Orbit and measure a critical climate parameter to continue a decades-long data record of total solar energy input to Earth.

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Friday's Falcon 9 launch was the first to use a flight-proven first stage and previously used Dragon cargo spacecraft as SpaceX continues its drive toward making re-use of rockets and space vehicles routine. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station occurred at 15:36 UTC and Falcon 9 needed ten minutes to dispatch Dragon into orbit for a two-day rendezvous with the International Space Station while the first stage booster only needed eight minutes for its round trip, landing at the Cape's Landing Zone 1 to become the first Falcon 9 to manage two land-based recoveries.

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Friday's launch marked the 17th successful flight by the Falcon 9 rocket in 2017 including four re-use mission, making Falcon 9 the most-flown launch vehicle with more missions than the Russian Soyuz and China's Long March family. The successful return of the first stage extended SpaceX's streak of uninterrupted recovery successes to 16.

Dragon SpX-13 – using the C108 Dragon that spent 37 days in orbit on the SpX-6 mission in 2015 – sets a new record for most Dragon flights in a calendar year, adding to a year that already saw SpaceX shatter its previous record for the number of Falcon 9 missions. Booked for a month-long stay at the orbiting laboratory, Dragon is delivering 2,205 Kilograms of cargo, including 1,560kg of pressurized cargo and 645kg of external hardware rid

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In Dragon's Trunk are two high-profile payloads: TSIS, the Total and Spectral Irradiance Sensor (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/tsis/), will take up residence on ISS to measure the total energy input from the sun to extend a vital climate record of what is considered one of the most critical climate variables that has been continuously tracked since 1978.

The Space Debris Sensor (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/sds/), set for installation outside the Columbus laboratory, is a large-area debris tracker combining different detection methods to provide various properties of micro-debris strikes in Low Earth Orbit to help assess a debris population that can not be measured from Earth.

The third Trunk Payload manifested for SpX-13 was the MISSE-FF, Materials on ISS Flight Facility that builds on and expands earlier MISSE materials science experiments that exposed various samples to the unique space environment to inform designers of satellites on how different materials fare in orbit. MISSE-FF could not be readied in time for the SpX-13 and has therefore been de-manifested and will have to queue up for a future flight opportunity.

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The pressurized cargo riding on Dragon SpX-13 is also mostly utilization-related, comprising 711kg of science gear, 490kg of crew supplies, 189kg of maintenance hardware and 165kg of EVA hardware in the form of a refurbished space suit as ISS gears up for a series of EVAs in the January/February time frame.

Science riding on Dragon includes the seventh Rodent Research mission, involving forty mice aboard two Rodent Transporter units for a study of a nanochannel drug delivery system for combating muscle atrophy in astronauts on long-duration missions as well as Earth-bound patients.

Dragon is also carrying a plant study attempting to reveal previously unknown pathways for gravity sensing, a novel technology demonstration for the production of optical fibers in microgravity with superior optical qualities than those produced at 1G, a 'Synthetic Bone' study evaluates a new bone adhesive that could aid bone repair and augment bone structure in Osteoporosis patients, and new hardware is flying up for the Station's small-sized SPHERES robots to use them as a test bed for developing algorithms needed when maneuvering defunct satellites as part of future space debris clean-up efforts.

>> Dragon SpX-13 Cargo Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/cargo-overview/)

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As had been the case with the three previous Dragon missions reaching ISS this year, the SpX-13 mission is heavy on the utilization side as NASA's makes use of the unique capabilities of its two Commercial Resupply Vehicles.

Cygnus (http://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/cygnus/) has been used for the heavy-lifting in the supplies department this year, delivering over three metric tons of cargo on each of its missions due to its larger internal volume than Dragon that also allow the craft to serve as a temporary extension to the Station's laboratory modules and take out plenty of trash when departing.

Dragon's (http://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/dragon/) unique capabilities come in handy for utilization payloads – late cargo loading just 24 hours before launch allows time-critical payloads to be flown, including biology samples in double cold bags and rodents while the return capability of Dragon is readily utilized to fly experiments back to Earth for detailed laboratory analysis.

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Satellite Image of Falcon 9 Horizontal at SLC-40 – Credit: Digital Globe

Friday's launch marked the grand re-opening of Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40 after fifteen months of downtime following the September 1st, 2016 explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket when counting down to its Static Fire Test – caused by a complex failure mechanism (http://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-amos-6/spacex-completes-falcon-9-amos-6-failure-investigation/) that led one of the rocket's Helium pressure vessels to burst.

SLC-40, SpaceX's first Falcon 9 launch complex, suffered extensive damage to its above-ground systems in the explosion and ensuing fire. SpaceX began re-build efforts in February after Launch Complex 39A could be activated for service to handle Falcon 9 east coast launch operations while SLC-40 was down.

A new Transporter, Erector, Launcher (TEL) was built and the pad received a number of upgrades as part of the re-build effort including improved automation systems and data handling architecture, a new hold-down system, and additional reinforcements designed to reduce the wear and tear suffered by the pad in order to reduce the turnaround time between launches.

The final push toward returning SLC-40 to service was not without trouble – as one could expect given the majority of cross-country propellant lines, data systems, ground computers and the entire TEL were brand new components. To that end, SpaceX had to slip the Static Fire Test from December 2 to the sixth to provide sufficient time to iron out teething issues of the pad, also causing the launch to slip from an original target of December 4th.

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No issues were immediately apparent in data collected at the Static Fire and Falcon 9 returned to the pad on Monday in preparation for launch on Tuesday; however, liftoff was initially delayed to Wednesday and then to Friday when foreign objects were discovered on the rocket's second stage. Clean-up work was put in motion and analysis began wh ere the particles were introduced since any foreign objects on a space launch vehicle are a potentially fatal problem when occurring in flight.

It had been uncertain whether Friday's launch could take place until the early morning hours, local time, and press photo opportunities after midnight were canceled since Falcon 9 had not yet gone into its vertical position. To protect the launch opportunity, Dragon had received its late cargo load items by Thursday evening, including forty mousetronauts, powered laboratory freezers, cold stowage samples and, possibly, Christmas presents for the ISS crew.

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With Dragon fully loaded and work on Falcon 9 complete just in the nick of time, SpaceX was able to raise the 65-meter tall launcher to its vertical position Friday morning and initiate power-up ops as the first step in the countdown.

A clean bill of health was awarded to Falcon 9 after several hours of checkouts and weather was looking good for the day's instantaneous launch opportunity – allowing Launch Controllers at the Cape to proceed into the Automated Countdown Sequence at T-70 minutes with Rocket Propellant 1 load, feeding some 155 metric tons of chilled fuel to the two-stage rocket. Liquid Oxygen loading picked up at T-35 minutes on the first stage and 15 minutes later on the second stage as Falcon 9 received around 360 metric tons of the sub-cooled oxidizer.

Propellant load was still in full swing when the final countdown sequence kicked off with the conditioning of the Merlin 1D turbomachinery at T-7 minutes followed by a fast-paced set of operations to transition Falcon 9 to internal power, align the flight control system, put engine actuators and valves through final hydraulic tests and priming the Strongback structure for rapid retract at T-0 – a new feature for SLC-40.

>> Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle (http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/falcon-9-ft/)

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The Autonomous Flight Termination System was armed and final propellant loading milestones were called out inside T-3 minutes when the first and second stage reached flight levels. Falcon 9 assumed control of the count at the one-minute mark, a final GO was voiced by the Launch Director and both stages headed into full pressurization.

Flames erupted from the base of the rocket at T-3 seconds when the nine Merlin 1D engines fired up to soar to a collective launch thrust of nearly 700-metric-ton-force to lift the 550t vehicle off the ground. Liftoff was marked at precisely 15:36:09 UTC, marking the first Falcon 9 blasting off from SLC-40 after 488 days.

Falcon 9 climbed vertically for 15 seconds before pitching over onto a departure path to the north east to boost Dragon into the orbital plane of the International Space Station, burning 2,500 Kilograms of propellant per second to push the vehicle skyward. The ascending rocket passed the speed of sound just over a minute into flight followed by Maximum Dynamic Pressure at T+78 seconds with the engines throttling back briefly to reduce stress before ramping up again for another minute of full throttle.

MECO – Main Engine Cutoff – occurred two minutes and 22 seconds into the flight after Booster #1035 accelerated the vehicle to 1,658 meters per second. Four seconds later, Falcon 9 had reached 65 Kilometers in altitude and four pneumatic pushers sent the two stages on their separate ways with no time wasted on the first stage for its rocket-powered U-turn and the second stage immediately heading into start-up mode.

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The 95,000-Kilogram-force MVac engine ignited two minutes and 33 seconds into the flight on a burn of six minutes and 27 seconds to inject the Dragon, weighing over ten metric tons, into Low Earth Orbit. Just over three minutes into the mission, when climbing through 110 Kilometers in altitude, Dragon jettisoned its protective Nose Cover as aerodynamic forces were no-longer a danger to the delicate Common Berthing Mechanism on its top side.

For Booster #1035, the return trip to Cape Canaveral began split seconds after stage separation when it fired the cold gas thrusters on the interstage to pitch up and swing the business end around into a tail-first orientation. The center engine re-ignited two minutes and 38 seconds into the mission to assist in finishing the turn and two outer engines joined in four seconds later when the booster was flying level, pointing its thrust toward the velocity vector. The 54-second boost back successfully reversed the first stage and accelerated it back toward Cape Canaveral, passing its high point around 120 Kilometers in altitude and re-orienting again to prepare for re-entry.

Falling back to Earth at hypersonic speed, the booster re-lit at T+6 minutes and 7 seconds, again firing up its center and outer engines in staggered fashion. The 18-second entry burn slowed the vehicle by over 300 meters per second. After shutdown of the engines, it was up to the four actuated grid fins to keep the booster stable and modify its angle of attack to fly toward Landing Zone 1 just around eight Kilometers south of Falcon's CCAFS launch pad.

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The 47-meter tall booster made its way through the sound barrier in reverse direction and lit up its center Merlin 1D seven minutes and ten seconds into the flight for the final landing burn. Falcon 9 entered a vertical descent toward its concrete landing pad and the four landing legs deployed seconds before the booster made contact with the ground and shut down its engine after a round-trip time of seven minutes and 47 seconds.

This marked SpaceX's first time landing a Falcon 9 booster on land twice, following B1035's successful LZ-1 landing back in June. Overall, SpaceX now stands at 20 successful landings out of 25 tries, recovering 16 different boosters (four have launched & landed twice). For land-based recoveries, SpaceX has a perfect 8-of-8 record.

The future for B1035 is not entirely clear, but it would be the best candidate yet for a third flight given its first two missions involved Low Earth Orbit deliveries with relatively benign re-entry environments.

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While the first stage aced SpaceX's 14th recovery of the year, Stage 2 was in the final minute of its burn, continuing to travel north east over the Atlantic and aiming for an orbit around 200 by 355 Kilometers, inclined 51.6°. Shutdown of the MVac engine was confirmed right at the T+9-minute mark and flight controllers noted a nominal orbit was achieved.

Dragon was sent off on its journey exactly ten minutes after taking flight, stabilizing its orientation with its Draco thrusters and jettisoning it its two solar array fairings to initiate the deployment of the power-generating solar arrays. Several hours of functional checks and the deployment of the GNC bay door 140 minutes into flight are the next milestones for Dragon before the spacecraft can begin the process of raising its orbit to link up with ISS for a Sunday capture by the Station's robotic arm, planned at 11 UTC.

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ЦитироватьSpaceX/Dragon CRS-13 Post Launch Briefing

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Опубликовано: 15 дек. 2017 г.

A news briefing was held following the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the company's Dragon cargo craft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Dragon is delivering some three tons of experiments and supplies to the crew members aboard the International Space Station.

Цитироватьtnt22 пишет:
NASA's Ven Feng: use of previously-flown boosters will be on a case-by-case basis; considering it for future missions, but no decisions made yet.

ЦитироватьЗловредный пишет:
Я так понимаю, теперь все повторно запускаемые ступени будут в саже?

ЦитироватьЗловредный пишет:
Я так понимаю, теперь все повторно запускаемые ступени будут в саже?

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185868.jpg) DigitalGlobe‏Подлинная учетная запись @DigitalGlobe (https://twitter.com/DigitalGlobe) 10 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/DigitalGlobe/status/941814212686311424)
 
Congrats to @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) on their successful launch today! Great shot of the Falcon 9 booster being hosed down afterward by #WV4 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/WV4?src=hash)
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ЦитироватьSpaceX's 50th Falcon rocket launch kicks off station resupply mission
December 15, 2017 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

A cache of cargo bound for the International Space Station lifted off on a commercial SpaceX launcher Friday, thundering into mostly clear skies over Florida's Space Coast aboard a reused booster that made a bullseye landing back at Cape Canaveral accompanied by a crackling sonic boom.

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral Friday. Credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Sandra Joseph

Riding a column of brilliant flame from nine Merlin 1D main engines, the Falcon 9 rocket climbed away from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad at 10:36:09 a.m. EST (1536:09 GMT) Friday, turning northeast over the Atlantic Ocean to align with the space station's orbital track.

The launcher arced downrange from Florida's East Coast on 1.7 million pounds of thrust before its first stage booster — a re-flown stage recovered after a space station cargo launch June 3 — shut down and detached to begin a controlled descent back to Cape Canaveral.

Meanwhile, a Merlin engine on the rocket's expendable upper stage fired to propel a SpaceX-owned Dragon supply ship into orbit, commencing a two-day pursuit of the space station more than 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth.

The Dragon capsule, also reused from a previous mission, deployed from the Falcon 9's upper stage around 10 minutes after liftoff. Live video from a forward-facing camera on the rocket showed the supply ship receding into space, and SpaceX officials said the capsule began pre-programmed activations, steps which included the extension of its power-generating solar panels and priming of its thrusters.

Dragon's separation from the upper stage — the primary objective of Friday's launch — came two minutes after the Falcon 9's 14-story first stage booster made a pinpoint touchdown at Landing Zone 1, a concrete target around 6 miles (9 kilometers) down the coast from the rocket's point of origin at pad 40.

Double sonic booms heralded the rocket's return as the stage's center engine fired to put the brakes on its free fall. Four landing legs unfurled from the base of the booster as it settled on the landing pad a few hundred feet from the beach.

"What a spectacular launch," said Ven Feng, manager of the ISS transportation integration office. "As a matter of fact, a spectacular launch and landing on this great morning here in Florida.

"I must admit I had a little bit of deja vu as we sat here six months ago and watched a launch and landing very similar on this very same booster, so it was quite an achievement," Feng told reporters after the launch Friday.

The unpiloted cargo mission departed Cape Canaveral a couple of weeks later than officials hoped. SpaceX attributed much of the delay to ensuring pad 40 was ready for the launch, which was the first to take off from the seaside launch complex since a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the pad in September 2016.

The rocket left mangled debris and toxic wreckage strewn across the pad. Once SpaceX identified the cause of the catastrophic explosion — a rupture in the Falcon 9's upper stage helium pressurization system — launches resumed from pad 39A at the nearby Kennedy Space Center while crews rebuilt pad 40.

Read more about the upgrades and repairs SpaceX made at pad 40 in our earlier story. (https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/11/spacex-to-restore-upgraded-launch-pad-to-service-with-tuesday-cargo-flight/)

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 first stage descends back to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Credit: James Murati

SpaceX pushed back the launch from Wednesday to flush out contaminants found in the Falcon 9's second stage fuel tank. Technicians inspected the rocket's other propellant tanks to make sure they contained no unexpected debris before proceeding with Friday's countdown.

Friday's rocket flight marked the 50th orbital launch attempt in SpaceX's 15-year history, a figure that counts the company's now-retired Falcon 1 booster. It was the 45th launch by a Falcon 9 rocket, and the 17th this year, a record for the commercial space company founded by billionaire Elon Musk.

Forty-four of the 45 Falcon 9 flights have delivered their primary payloads into orbit, a record that does not count the on-pad accident last year.

SpaceX has made major strides in its rocket reusability program this year, re-flying four recovered Falcon 9 first stages. The company's final planned flight of the year, scheduled for Dec. 22, will blast off from Vandenberg Air Force Base powered by another reused booster.

With the Falcon 9's first stage landing Friday, SpaceX has retrieved one of its boosters intact 20 times on offshore platforms and on land.

The launch Friday was the first time NASA agreed to put cargo on a re-flown Falcon 9. Agency engineers spent months reviewing how SpaceX prepares a previously-flown booster for another mission, and three successful re-flights of different Falcon 9 rockets earlier this year gave officials added confidence in the plan.

NASA officials said they will review the possibility of flying future space station cargo missions on reused rockets on a case-by-case basis. The agreement reached between NASA and SpaceX applied only to Friday's launch — the 13th Dragon resupply flight to head for the space station.

SpaceX has two multibillion-dollar cargo delivery contracts with NASA for at least 26 logistics missions through 2024.

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SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft flies away from the upper stage of its Falcon 9 rocket after arriving in orbit, kicking off a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX

The commercial resupply run launched Friday carries 4,861 pounds (2,205 kilograms) of supplies and experiments inside the Dragon capsule, divided between an aft-mounted external cargo bay and a pressurized module, which itself was refurbished following a round-trip flight to the space station in April and May 2015.

The cargo craft is scheduled to arrive at the station Sunday after a laser-guided final approach to the research outpost. Astronaut Mark Vande Hei will unlimber the station's Canadian-built robotic arm to capture the Dragon spacecraft around 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT) Sunday, and the ship will be attached to research lab's Harmony module for unloading.

The cargo load includes two NASA-sponsored experiments to monitor the sun's energy output, a key driver of Earth's climate, and measure the density and distribution of space junk in the space station's orbit. Both experiment packages will be mounted outside the station with the robot arm.

Also on-board: A habitat containing 40 mice to be used as research subjects for scientists investigating the efficacy of a drug delivery system for patients on Earth with muscle atrophy, a miniature blood glucose monitor that could be used by people with diabetes, and two commercial investigations from Budweiser that will study how the microgravity environment on the space station affects barley.

And the astronauts can expect a few treats, and perhaps some holiday gifts. But that's a surprise for the crew.

"I cannot confirm or deny the presence of Christmas presents on-board Dragon," said Kirk Shireman, NASA's space station program manager.

The commercial cargo craft is scheduled to depart the station in mid-January and splash down in the Pacific Ocean with research specimens for analysis by scientists around the world.

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ЦитироватьAstro Cat пишет:
Обтекатель ловили?

ЦитироватьАтяпа пишет:

ЦитироватьAstro Cat пишет:
Обтекатель ловили?

Какой обтекатель? Это же Дракон!

Цитироватьm-s Gelezniak пишет:

ЦитироватьАтяпа пишет:

ЦитироватьAstro Cat пишет:
Обтекатель ловили?

Какой обтекатель? Это же Дракон!

Носовой кок там есть, как и "капоты" СБ. На счёт "ловили" ничего сказать не могу.  :)

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg) SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 55 мин назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/942096432567345152)

More photos of Falcon 9's launch of Dragon to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station), and first stage landing →

http://flickr.com/spacex  (https://t.co/095WHWMtKp)

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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 4 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/942166671346798593)

FEATURE ARTICLE: CRS-13 Dragon arriving at Station filled with science experiments -

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/12/crs-13-dragon-station-filled-science/ ... (https://t.co/9YajjjDFZk)

 - By Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)) and with L2 Dragon renders by Nathan Koga (@kogavfx (https://twitter.com/kogavfx))

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Цитировать

CRS-13 Dragon arriving at Station filled with science experiments (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/12/crs-13-dragon-station-filled-science/)

December 16, 2017 by Chris Gebhardt

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185296.jpg) ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 (https://twitter.com/ISS101) 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/942310518479622144)

#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) just completed its Approach Initiation maneuver, marking the start of the close rendezvous phase. The AI places the spacecraft on a path to intercept the R-bar at a point 350m directly below the Space Station.

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#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) is now ~1,000 meters from ISS, marking the start of crew approach monitoring. The craft will acquire the R-bar at 350 meters, starting a straight-up approach to the Station.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg) William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/942317932566269952)

F9/CRS-13: Station crew has Dragon in sight

Цитировать12/17/2017 12:36

The Dragon spacecraft is running about 10 minutes behind scheduled, according to mission control. The capsule is currently in a pre-planned hold point around 250 meters, or 820 feet, below the International Space Station.

The pause in Dragon's approach gives controllers time to evaluate the capsule's performance before giving approval for it to enter the so-called keep-out sphere, an imaginary circle around the space station in which traffic is tightly controlled for safety reasons.

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SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft is less than 1,000 feet from the International Space Station as it closes in for capture. Watch live: https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/11/spacex-crs-13-mission-status-center/ ... (https://t.co/0HHuJpe4Mz)
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#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) has entered the 200-meter Keep Out Sphere around ISS, continuing its straight-up approach to the next hold point at 30 meters, now relying on its Proximity Navigation System.

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The @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) is closing in on the station as it passes the 150 meter mark.

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#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) now inside 100 meters, sticking to the center of its pyramidal approach corridor. http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx13/live-dragon-mission-coverage/ ... (https://t.co/kdk0tsao40)
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Цитировать12/17/2017 13:08

Range is now about 50 meters, or 164 feet

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#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) now holding at 30 meters. This hold is dedicated to the reconfiguration of the craft's LIDAR for final approach and capture prep by the crew, configuring cameras and conducting a final procedure review.
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Цитировать[ (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/942338246285066240)

This is the actual view from the RWS (Robotic Work Station) screen on the ISS (they have a camera facing towards it). The crew use it alongside visual observations from the Cupola Module.
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/942339166330851328)

The Strait of Gibraltar from 250 miles.
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Цитировать12/17/2017 13:20

Here's a view of Dragon from the space station's robotic arm as the vehicles soared over Morocco's Atlantic coastline a few moments ago.
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Final Approach - #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) has resumed its approach, now covering the last 20 meters to reach the Capture Point.
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Цитировать12/17/2017 13:38

Range is now 23 meters, or 75 feet.
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 46 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/942345520072323073)

HS Cam via of the SSRMS sneaking up on Dragon!
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GO for Capture Sequence. ISS has entered Attitude Hold mode and #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) will be commanded to free drift once the arm begins motion.

Цитировать12/17/2017 13:59

Capture confirmed! The robotic arm grappled Dragon as the space station flew between Australia and Papua New Guinea at an altitude of 252 miles.

Цитировать12/17/2017 14:00

Capture occurred at 5:57 a.m. EST (1057 GMT)

Цитировать12/17/2017 14:05

The next step this morning will be to move Dragon to an Earth-facing berthing port on the space station's Harmony module in the next few hours. Control of the robot arm will be handed over to engineers on the ground for the placement of the capsule to its attachment port.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 39 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/942348288963080192)

CAPTURE CONFIRMED! SSRMS has grabbed on to the CRS-13 Dragon.

ARTICLE: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/12/crs-13-dragon-station-filled-science/ ... (https://t.co/9YajjjDFZk) - by Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF))
 
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CRS-13 Dragon arrives at Station filled with science experiments (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/12/crs-13-dragon-station-filled-science/)

December 17, 2017 by Chris Gebhardt

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Dragon's teeth.
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Both stunning views from the Station's cameras. One is HD....can you work out which is which? (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125539.png)(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125479.png)
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SpaceX CRS-13 Dragon RTL (Ready To Latch). Followed by First and Second Stage Capture via 16 bolts. And that's complete! Dragon is officially part of the ISS on Node 2.
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg) Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 26 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/942386087187632128)

Dragon now berthed ('second stage capture') on the Harmony nadir port, at 1326 UTC, completing its arrival at the station. Meanwhile Cygnus OA-8 remains in orbit after its departure and Soyuz MS-07 is on its way towards arrival.

ЦитироватьMark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted on December 17, 2017

Dragon Attached to Station for Month of Cargo Transfers

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Dec. 17, 2017: International Space Station Configuration. Four spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon space freighter, the Progress 67 and 68 resupply ships and the Soyuz MS-06 crew ship.
 
The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was installed on the Harmony module of the International Space Station at 8:26 a.m. EST.

The 13th contracted commercial resupply mission from SpaceX (CRS-13) delivered more than 4,800 pounds of supplies and payloads (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/resupply_critical_science_to_ISS) to the station. Among the research materials flying inside Dragon's pressurized area, one investigation will demonstrate the benefits of manufacturing fiber optic filaments (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2421.html) in a microgravity environment. Designed by the company Made in Space, and sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS (http://www.iss-casis.org/)), the investigation will attempt to pull fiber optic wire from ZBLAN, a heavy metal fluoride glass commonly used to make fiber optic glass. Results from this investigation could lead to the production of higher-quality fiber optic products for use in space and on Earth.

Dragon is scheduled to depart the station in January 2018 and return to Earth with more than 3,600 pounds of research, hardware and crew supplies. ...

ЦитироватьU.S. Commercial Cargo Ship Arrives at the Space Station

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Опубликовано: 17 дек. 2017 г.

ЦитироватьTimelapse of SpaceX Dragon CRS-13 Arriving at Space Station

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Опубликовано: 17 дек. 2017 г.

ЦитироватьВАШИНГТОН, 13 янв – РИА Новости. Космический грузовой корабль Dragon компании SpaceX в субботу покинет Международную космическую стацию (МКС) и привезет на Землю результаты научных экспериментов, в том числе живых мышей, сообщила пресс-служба НАСА.
Аппарат, прибывший на МКС 17 декабря, доставит на Землю около 1,9 тонны груза, как отработанные материалы, так и результаты научных экспериментов. Корабль, по информации НАСА, отстыкуется от орбитальной станции ориентировочно в 13 мск и через пять часов приводнится у побережья Калифорнии в Тихом океане.
Как сообщили в агентстве, на борту грузового корабля с орбиты вернутся 20 лабораторных мышей, на которых ученые изучают эффективность новой технологии дозированного ввода через наночип препаратов для минимизации влияния гравитации на мышечные ткани. На Землю также вернутся образцы растений, выращенных на орбите для их последующего изучения.

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Dragon's drogue chutes have been deployed nominally.

ЦитироватьSpaceX‏ @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) · 2m (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/952201956906344448)

Dragon's main parachutes have been deployed.

ЦитироватьSpaceX‏ @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) · 1m (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/952203503916630016)

Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing the second resupply mission to and from the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) with a flight-proven commercial spacecraft.

ЦитироватьSpaceX's CRS-13 Dragon returns home
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SpaceX's CRS-13 Dragon unberthed from the ISS ahead of a return to a Pacific Ocean splashdown on Saturday, concluding the spacecraft's latest resupply mission. Dragon returned with 4,100 pounds of cargo, highlighting her unique downmass capability for NASA. Splashdown occurred around 10:36 Eastern Time (07:36 local time on the West Coast).

ЦитироватьКорабль Dragon c почти двумя тоннами груза с МКС приводнился в Тихом океане
НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 13 января. /ТАСС/. Космический грузовой корабль Dragon американской компании SpaceX вернулся в субботу на Землю с Международной космической станции (МКС), доставив с орбитального комплекса 1,86 тонны грузов. Как сообщила SpaceX, корабль успешно приводнился в Тихом океане.
"Успешное приводнение Dragon подтверждено", - отметила компания в своем Twitter (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/952203503916630016). Dragon приводнился к западу от полуострова Калифорния. Далее его должны транспортировать в порт города Лонг-Бич (штат Калифорния). Готовить корабль к очередному возвращению на МКС будут в одном из центров SpaceX в Техасе.
Использованный в этот раз Dragon в апреле 2015 года уже совершал полет к МКС. Это была 13-я миссия по доставке запасов и материалов на МКС с помощью Dragon.
Космический грузовик доставил на Землю материалы ряда экспериментов, в том числе образцы изготовленного в условиях невесомости оптоволокна, разработанного компанией Made in Space.
Dragon был запущен к МКС 15 декабря прошлого года с помощью ракеты Falcon 9 с базы ВВС США на мысе Канаверал (штат Флорида). На его борту тогда было более двух тонн грузов, включая продовольствие и материалы и приборы для экспериментов в области материаловедения, биологических исследований, а также для наблюдения за Солнцем.

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Robot Arm Finishes Swapping Experiments Outside Dragon

January 4, 2018 (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/01/04/robot-arm-finishes-swapping-experiments-outside-dragon/)
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Over the holidays, the ground robotics teams remotely operated the Canadarm2 to remove a pair of new external experiments from Dragon and install them on the station. The teams also finished installing an older experiment back inside the cargo craft's trunk in time for its departure.
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The successful RapidScat (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1067.html) experiment was installed back in Dragon's trunk after being delivered in September 23, 2014 (https://www.nasa.gov/content/fourth-dragon-for-commercial-resupply-services-arrives-at-station), on the SpaceX CRS-4 mission. RapidScat observed wind patterns on the ocean's surface providing agencies better data for weather forecasting before ending its mission in August of 2016 (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-iss-rapidscat-earth-science-mission-ends).

RapidScat will be destroyed inside Dragon's trunk when it separates from the Dragon resupply ship to burn up over the Pacific Ocean. Dragon itself will safely parachute to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of California.