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ЦитироватьMarch 5, 2018

Experience the Launch of the SpaceX CRS-14 Cargo 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 April, will be the next commercial cargo resupply services mission to the International Space Station.

If your passion is to communicate and engage the world via social media, then this is the event for you! Seize the opportunity to be on the front line to blog, tweet or Instagram everything about SpaceX's 14th mission to the space station. In addition to supplies and equipment, the Dragon spacecraft will deliver several science investigations to the station.

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Last Updated: March 6, 2018
Editor: Emily Furfaro

ЦитироватьCRS-14 is scheduled to launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's SLC-40 pad on NET 2 April at 16:30 EDT (20:30 UTC).  The resupply mission will use a previously flown Dragon capsule and is expected to make use of a flight-proven Falcon 9 booster that has flown only one prior mission on a low-energy LEO (Low Earth Orbit) flight.
Given CRS-13's use of the flight-proven CRS-11 booster, it is likely that CRS-14 will use the CRS-12 booster; however, given the once-flown low-energy LEO parameter, there are three Falcon 9 boosters available for CRS-14, including:

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• B1039 – CRS-12 (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/?s=CRS-12) in August 2017
• B1040 – OTV-5 (X-37B) (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/09/spacex-first-x-37b-launch-falcon-9/) in September 2017
• B1043 – Zuma (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/?s=Zuma) in January 2018
  

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186218.jpg)ASIM‏ @ASIM_Payload (https://twitter.com/ASIM_Payload) 15 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/ASIM_Payload/status/972927879196508160)

@ASIM_Payload (https://twitter.com/ASIM_Payload) is in the #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) Dragon Trunk. Secured and continuity on the heater connectors. Thanks @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX). Great work. We are go for launch (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125382.png)

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ЦитироватьNASA Invites Media to Upcoming Events Prior to SpaceX CRS-14

Bob Granath (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/rgranath/)
Posted Mar 16, 2018 at 2:32 pm

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Preparations continue for the launch of the next SpaceX delivery of supplies and equipment, including science investigations, to the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html). Launch currently is targeted for no earlier than 4:30 p.m. EDT April 2 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

A Dragon cargo spacecraft, previously flown on SpaceX's eighth commercial resupply mission to the space station, will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket and includes the first stage booster previously flown on the company's 12th resupply mission. This is the second SpaceX resupply mission for NASA using both a reused spacecraft and booster.

NASA will host a media teleconference (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-highlight-science-launching-on-next-resupply-mission-to-space-station) at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, March 19, to discuss a number of science investigations and instruments included in the 5,800 pounds the Dragon will deliver to the orbiting laboratory. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on NASA's website (https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive).
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For launch countdown coverage and more information about the mission, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/spacex (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/spacex.html)

Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Sandra Joseph

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185659.jpg)James Dean‏Подлинная учетная запись @flatoday_jdean (https://twitter.com/flatoday_jdean) 1 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/flatoday_jdean/status/974719813162602496)

NASA's upcoming CRS-14 ISS resupply mission will re-fly SpaceX Falcon 9 booster flown on CRS-12. Dragon previously flew CRS-8.

ЦитироватьMarch 14, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY M18-043

NASA to Highlight Science Launching on Next Resupply Mission to Space Station

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, March 19, to discuss a number of science investigations and instruments launching in April to the International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/station) on the next SpaceX commercial resupply mission. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on NASA's website (https://www.nasa.gov/live).

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Pete Hasbrook, associate program scientist for the International Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center, and Michael Roberts, deputy chief scientist at the Center for Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), will kick off the call with an overview of the research and technology aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.

Also participating in the briefing will be:

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• Torsten Neubert, National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark – Neubert, principal investigator for the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1822) (ASIM), will discuss how this Earth observatory will study severe thunderstorms and their role in the Earth's atmosphere and climate. In addition to space applications, ASIM will help improve current atmospheric models that guide long- and short-term climate predictions.
• Stephanie Murphy and Mark Gittleman, Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance – Murphy, founder of Alpha Space, and Gittleman, the company's president and chief executive officer, will discuss Alpha Space's Materials International Space Station Experiment (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=7515) flight facility (MISSE-FF). MISSE will be permanently installed on the exterior of the orbiting laboratory and provide the ability to test materials, coatings, and components in the harsh environment of space, with flight opportunities for experimenters approximately every six months. Testing on MISSE may benefit a variety of industries, including advanced manufacturing of products ranging from protective clothing for astronauts to solar cells.
• Kim de Groh, NASA's Glenn Research Center – De Groh, a senior materials research engineer, will talk about how exposing 138 polymer and composite samples to the space environment, via MISSE-FF, will provide critical data to improve predictions of materials durability for spacecraft and component lifetimes in low-Earth orbit.
• Elaine Horn-Ranney, Tympanogen, Inc. – Principal investigator for research about wound healing (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7749), Horn-Ranney will discuss this investigation into improving the process of antibiotic release from gels that can cover large wounds, a medical advancement that could be used to treat military combat wounds and reduce the occurrence and severity of systemic infection and inflammation.
• Randall German, San Diego State University – German will discuss the Gravitational Effects on Distortion in Sintering (of Metal Powders) (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1762) experiment delivered in the NASA Sample Cartridge Assembly that seeks to better understand how the lack of gravity affects a process used to produce high-performance products from metal powders. This research could lead to improved manufacturing techniques and has potential as a way to perform in-space fabrication and repair.
• Dr. Guy Trudel, University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario – Trudel, a physician and principal investigator for the MARROW study (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1673), will discuss an investigation that looks at the effect of microgravity on bone marrow, blood cells produced in marrow, recovery after space missions, and the application of this data to future space explorers as well as healthcare providers on Earth.
  

SpaceX (http://www.nasa.gov/spacex) is targeting no earlier than 4:30 p.m. April 2 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.

Find out more about NASA's commercial resupply services at:

https://go.nasa.gov/2FPdagj (https://go.nasa.gov/2FPdagj)

Learn more about research aboard the International Space Station at:

https://www.nasa.gov/station/research

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Stephanie Schierholz
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100
stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov (mailto:stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov)

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Last Updated: March 14, 2018
Editor: Karen Northon

ЦитироватьCrew Ready for Launch as Station Preps for Spacewalk and Dragon Mission

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Mar 20, 2018 at 2:02 pm

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SpaceX (https://www.nasa.gov/spacex) is ramping for a launch no earlier than April 2 (https://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule) of its Dragon commercial cargo craft to resupply the Expedition 55 crew with new science gear (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/SpX-14_research_launch_feature) and crew supplies. The crew onboard the station has been configuring the orbital lab to enable the new research such as the Wound Healing (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7749) and Metabolic Tracking (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7517) experiments.

ЦитироватьASIM-обсерватория, которая будет установлена на европейском модуле Columbus Международной космической станции (МКС). АСИМ будет использоваться для изучения высокогорных электрических разрядов в стратосфере и мезосфере над сильными грозами, так называемыми красными спрайтами, голубыми струями, гало и эльфами, а также для мониторинга рентгеновских и гамма-вспышек. Знания, которые могут быть использованы для определения климатических процессов в атмосфере и улучшения климатических моделей для Земли.
ASIM-это международный проект в рамках ESA.Проект возглавляет Дания, а Terma - технический главный подрядчик и DTU Space-руководитель научной части. Кроме того, в проекте принимают участие учреждения и компании из ряда других стран.
Нагрузка в Dragon хранится в двух соединенных между собой модулях, частично в грузовом пространстве, которое находится под давлением и используется для поставок, которые должны находиться внутри МКС, частично в открытой грузовой зоне, которая не находится под давлением. Здесь находятся более крупное оборудование и приборы, расположенные до установки за пределами МКС. В настоящее время АСИМ находится в открытой грузовой зоне вместе с двумя другими экспериментами, которые будут запущены на МКС.
"АСИМ на самом деле является крупнейшим космическим инструментом, который когда-либо был построен в этой стране. На реализацию этой удивительной идеи ушло более десяти лет, и сейчас мы почти достигли цели. В проекте приняли участие более 100 специалистов из Дании, Норвегии, Польши, Испании, Италии, Нидерландов, Канады и Соединенных Штатов.

ЦитироватьMarch 15, 2018

NASA Science Heading to Space Ranges from the Upper Atmosphere to Microbes

A Dragon spacecraft scheduled to launch into orbit no earlier than April 2, carries the 14th SpaceX commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/overview.html) for NASA. Lifted into orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Dragon takes supplies, equipment and scientific research to crew members living and working aboard the station.

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This flight delivers scientific investigations looking at severe thunderstorms on Earth, the effects of microgravity on production of high-performance products from metal powders, and growing food in space. Dragon also carries cargo for research in the National Laboratory, operated by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS (https://www.iss-casis.org/)), including testing the effects of the harsh space environment on materials, coatings and components; identifying potential pathogens aboard the station; and investigating an antibiotic-releasing wound patch.

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From left, Matthew Romeyn and Dr. Ye Zhang, project scientists, place Arabidopsis seeds in Veggie Passive Orbital Nutrient Delivery System (PONDS) units inside a laboratory at the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Credits: NASA/Daniel Casper

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Highlights of research to be delivered to the station include:

Capturing Sprites and Elves

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The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1822)) surveys severe thunderstorms in Earth's atmosphere and upper-atmospheric lightning, or transient luminous events, from its perch on the exterior of the European Space Agency (ESA) Columbus module. These include sprites, flashes caused by electrical break-down in the mesosphere; the blue jet, a discharge from cloud tops upward into the stratosphere; and ELVES, concentric rings of emissions caused by an electromagnetic pulse in the ionosphere.

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A view of ASIM being prepared for launch.
Credits: NASA

ASIM advances understanding of the effect of thunderstorms on Earth's atmosphere, helping to improve atmospheric models and meteorological and climatological predictions. It also contributes to understanding the effect of dust storms, urban pollutants, forest fires, and volcanoes on cloud formation, as well as electrification and intensification of hurricanes and their relation to eye-wall lightning activity.

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This illustration shows the variety of upper atmospheric phenomena powered by thunderstorms. Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (TGFs) are burst of gamma-rays from thunderstorms accompanied by energetic electrons and positrons. Transient Luminous Emissions (TLEs) are electrical discharges that include the blue glimpses at the top of thunderstorms, the blue jet, gigantic jet and the red sprite. TLEs also include elves, the rapidly expanding rings of emissions at the bottom ionosphere, and the haloes.
Credits: DTU Space; TGF: NASA

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Metal Powder Fabrication

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The NASA Sample Cartridge Assembly (MSL SCA-GEDS-German (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1762)) experiment determines underlying scientific principles for a fabrication process known as liquid phase sintering, in microgravity and Earth-gravity conditions.

On earth, liquid phase sintering works like building a sandcastle with just-wet-enough sand; heating a powder forms interparticle bonds and formation of a liquid phase accelerates this solidification, creating a rigid structure. But in microgravity, settling of powder grains does not occur and larger pores form, creating more porous and distorted samples than Earth-based sintering. Sintering has diverse applications on Earth, including in metal cutting tools, automotive engine connecting rods, and self-lubricating bearings. It has potential as a way to perform in-space fabrication and repair, such as building structures on the moon or creating replacement parts during extraterrestrial exploration.

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Testing Materials in Space

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The Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility (MISSE-FF (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=7515)) provides a unique platform for testing how materials, coatings, and components react in the harsh environment of space, which includes exposure to ultraviolet and ionizing radiation, atomic oxygen, charged particles, thermal cycles, electromagnetic radiation, and micro-meteoroids.

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The Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility (MISSE-FF) with MISSE Sample Carriers (MSCs) in the fully open position exposing samples/experiments to the harsh environment of space in low-Earth Orbit (LEO). Image courtesy of Alpha Space.
Credits: Alpha Space

A continuation of previous MISSE payloads, MISSE-FF's new design eliminates the need for Extravehicular Activities (EVA) for these investigations. The platform will be extracted from Dragon's trunk and installed on the EXPRESS Logistics Carrier ELC2 by the Canadarm2 robotic arm. MISSE-FF's new technology includes power and data collection options and the ability to take pictures of each sample on a monthly basis, or more often if required, allowing scientists to monitor sample status throughout flight. The testing benefits a variety of industries, including automotive, aeronautics, energy, space, and transportation.

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Patching up Wounds

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NanoRacks Module 74 Wound Healing (Wound Healing (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7749)) tests a patch containing an antimicrobial hydrogel that promotes healing of a wound while acting as a scaffold for regenerating tissue. Reduced fluid motion in microgravity allows more precise analysis of the hydrogel behavior and controlled release of the antibiotic from the patch.

This novel patch could serve as a non-surgical treatment for military combat wounds and reduce sepsis, or systemic inflammation, usually caused by contamination of an open wound. Currently, no wound dressing can sustain release of antibiotics or other agents directly to the wound site while simultaneously maintaining the structural integrity necessary for successful wound healing.

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Drug Development in Space

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Comparative Real-time Metabolic Activity Tracking for Improved Therapeutic Assessment Screening Panels (Metabolic Tracking (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7517)) examines effects of microgravity on the metabolic impact of five different therapeutic compounds, evaluating the use of autobioluminescent human tissue culture for continuous tracking of metabolic activity without destroying the sample. This investigation determines the feasibility of developing improved pharmaceuticals in microgravity using a new method to test the metabolic impacts of drug compounds. This could lead to more effective, less expensive drugs.

These investigations are just a sample of the new science to be conducted aboard the orbiting microgravity laboratory. Follow @ISS_Research (https://twitter.com/ISS_Research) for more information about science happening on station.

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Melissa Gaskill

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

Last Updated: March 19, 2018
Editor: Michael Johnson

ЦитироватьYMMM
 
F0835/18 - ROCKET LAUNCH WILL TAKE PLACE
FLW RECEIVED FROM GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
HAZARDOUS OPS WILL BE CONDUCTED FOR ATMOSPHERIC RE-ENTRY AND
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186219.jpg)Surrey Nanosats‏ @SurreyNanosats (https://twitter.com/SurreyNanosats) 22 мар. (https://twitter.com/SurreyNanosats/status/976812204564582400)

We're happy to say that the Remove Debris spacecraft is now on board SpaceX's dragon awaiting launch NET 2nd April. Stay tuned... https://www.surrey.ac.uk/surrey-space-centre/missions/removedebris ... (https://t.co/Vra3f4SDQK)

ЦитироватьDragon Set to Deliver Supplies to International Space Station

Bob Granath (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/rgranath/)
Posted Mar 26, 2018 at 8:17 am

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SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft is seen during final approach to the International Space Station on Feb. 23, 2017. The commercial spacecraft carried about 5,500 pounds of experiments and supplies to the orbiting laboratory. Space station crew members used the station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, to capture Dragon.
Photo credit: NASA

Next Commercial Resupply Services Mission: SpaceX CRS-14
Launch Time and Date: 4:30 p.m., Monday, April 2, 2018
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 International 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/2Isu6rt

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29242.jpg)DutchSpace‏ @DutchSpace (https://twitter.com/DutchSpace) 3 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/DutchSpace/status/978609642652733442)

Nice shot of @esaspaceflight (https://twitter.com/esaspaceflight) #ASIM (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ASIM?src=hash) (Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor) inside the @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) trunk for CRS-14, once on-orbit it will be installed on @esa (https://twitter.com/esa) #Columbus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Columbus?src=hash) module, images via ESA/SpaceX more: https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Research/Atmosphere_Space_Interactions_Monitor ... (https://t.co/Nkn2GQkLUZ)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29242.jpg)DutchSpace‏ @DutchSpace (https://twitter.com/DutchSpace) 2 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/DutchSpace/status/978615741116231686)

Another shot of @esaspaceflight (https://twitter.com/esaspaceflight) #ASIM (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ASIM?src=hash) space storm hunter being installed in the @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) Trunk, image via @Terma_Global (https://twitter.com/Terma_Global) #ESA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESA?src=hash) more: https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Research/Atmosphere_Space_Interactions_Monitor ... (https://t.co/Nkn2GQkLUZ)
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ЦитироватьMarch 26, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY M18-053

NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Space Station Resupply Mission

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX now is targeting its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 4:30 p.m. EDT Monday, April 2. Live coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website  (https://www.nasa.gov/live)Sunday, April 1, with pre-launch events.

Packed with almost 5,800 pounds of research (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/SpX-14_research_launch_feature), 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. About 10 minutes after launch, Dragon will reach its preliminary orbit, at which point it will deploys its solar arrays and begins a carefully choreographed series of thruster firings to reach the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/station).

Grapple and berthing to the space station is targeted for April 4. Expedition 55 Flight Engineers Norishege Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, backed up by NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/scott-d-tingle), will supervise the operation of the Canadarm2 robotic arm for Dragon's capture. After Dragon capture, ground commands will be sent from mission control in Houston for the station's arm to rotate and install it on the bottom of the station's Harmony module.

Full mission coverage is as follows:

Sunday, April 1

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• 2:30 p.m. – What's on Board science briefing, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This briefing will highlight the following research:
• Dan Close, chief scientific officer at 490 BioTech, will discuss the company's Metabolic Tracking (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7517) investigation to evaluate the use of a new method to test, in microgravity, the metabolic impacts of pharmaceutical drugs. This could lead to more effective, less expensive medicines on Earth.
• Torsten Neubert of the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark, and principal investigator for the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1822), will discuss how this Earth observatory will study severe thunderstorms and their role in the Earth's atmosphere and climate.
• The Multi-use Variable-g Platform (MVP) (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=1777), developed, owned and operated by Techshot Inc., will serve as a new test bed aboard the space station, able to host 12 separate experiment modules with samples such as plants, cells, protein crystals and fruit flies. Rich Boling, vice president for corporate advancement at Techshot, will discuss the platform, and Sharmila Bhattacharya, a senior scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, will talk about the value of the research that will be conducted on it.
• Howard Levine, chief scientist in the Utilization and Life Science Office at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, will discuss continuing research on growing food in space, as the Veggie Passive Orbital Nutrient Delivery System (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7581) experiment tests a new way to deliver nutrients to plants.
  

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Monday, April 2

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• 4 p.m. – Launch coverage begins for the 4:30 p.m. launch
• 6:30 p.m. – Postlaunch news conference at Kennedy with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX.
  

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Wednesday, April 4

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• 5:30 a.m. – Dragon rendezvous and capture. Capture is scheduled for 7 a.m.
• 8:30 a.m. – Dragon installation to the nadir port of the Harmony module of the station
  

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The Dragon spacecraft will spend approximately one month attached to the space station, returning to Earth in May with results of completed experiments.

Last Updated: March 27, 2018
Editor: Katherine Brown

ЦитироватьSpaceX CRS-14 Briefings and Events

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is now targeting its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 4:30 p.m. EDT Monday, April 2. Live coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website  (https://www.nasa.gov/live)Sunday, April 1, with pre-launch events.

Packed with 5,800 pounds of research (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/SpX-14_research_launch_feature), crew supplies and hardware, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which was previously flown on SpaceX's eighth commercial resupply mission, will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida.

About 10 minutes after launch, Dragon will reach its preliminary orbit, at which point it will deploy its solar arrays and begin a carefully choreographed series of thruster firings to reach the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/station).

Grapple and berthing to the nadir port of the Harmony module is targeted for April 4. Expedition 55 Flight Engineers Norishege Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, backed up by NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/scott-d-tingle), will supervise the operation of the Canadarm2 robotic arm for Dragon's capture. After Dragon capture, ground commands will be sent from mission control in Houston for the station's arm to rotate and install it on the bottom of the station's Harmony module.

Live coverage of the Dragon rendezvous and capture coverage is set to begin at 5:30 a.m., with capture scheduled at 7 a.m. Installation coverage will start at 8:30 a.m.

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

L-1 Day (Sunday, April 1)

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News Media Schedule

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• 2:30 p.m. – "What's on Board" science briefing, highlighting the following research
• The Metabolic Tracking (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7517) investigation by 490 BioTech will evaluate using a new method in microgravity to test the metabolic impacts of pharmaceutical drugs. This could lead to more effective, less expensive medicines on Earth.
• The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1822), an Earth observatory that will study severe thunderstorms and their role in the Earth's atmosphere and climate.
• The Multi-use Variable-g Platform (MVP) (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=1777), developed, owned and operated by Techshot Inc., will serve as a new test bed aboard the space station, able to host 12 separate experiment modules with samples such as plants, cells, protein crystals and fruit flies. Rich Boling, vice president for corporate advancement at Techshot, will discuss the platform, and Sharmila Bhattacharya, a senior scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, will talk about the value of the research that will be conducted on it
• Howard Levine, chief scientist in the Utilization and Life Science Office at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, will discuss continuing research on growing food in space, as the Veggie Passive Orbital Nutrient Delivery System (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7581) experiment tests a new way to deliver nutrients to plants.
  

[/li][li]4 p.m. – Prelaunch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program, SpaceX, and the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base
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L-0 Day (Monday, April 2)

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News Media Schedule

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• 4 p.m. – Launch Broadcast Begins
• 4:30 p.m. – CRS-14 Launch
• 6:30 p.m. – Post-Launch News Conference
  

Post-Launch News Conference
A post-launch news conference will be conducted around 6:30 p.m. in Kennedy's Press Site TV Auditorium and air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

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NASA TV Launch Coverage

NASA TV live coverage will begin at 4 p.m. For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, visit http://www.nasa.gov/ntv. (http://www.nasa.gov/ntv)

NASA Web Prelaunch and Launch Coverage

Prelaunch and launch day coverage of the SpaceX CRS-14 flight will be available on the NASA website. Coverage will include live streaming and blog updates beginning at 4 p.m. as the countdown milestones occur. ... You can follow countdown coverage on our launch blog at http://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex. (http://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex)

Post-Launch News Conference on NASA TV

A post-launch news conference will occur at about 6:30 p.m. in Kennedy's Press Site TV Auditorium and air live on NASA Television and the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 15 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/978705043011534848)

Today is "post and then delete your tweet" day. So while we wait for an Iridium NEXT-5 update that sticks, another Falcon 9 will conduct a Static Fire test on the East Coast ahead of the CRS-14 mission to the ISS.

@TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist) Photo. He'll be there for CRS-14 too.
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/174872.jpg)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 23 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/978997993255964673)

As we head toward a realigned #Iridium5 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iridium5?src=hash) launch date on Friday, the flight-proven #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) for #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)'s #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) mission on Monday is set to static fire on SLC-40 today in a test window that opens at 11:00 EDT (15:00 UTC). #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash)

ЦитироватьNAVAREA IV 257/2018 (11,26)

WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   022022Z TO 022108Z APR, ALTERNATE
   032000Z TO 032046Z APR IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 28-35N 080-37W, 28-53N 080-21W,
   29-09N 080-01W, 29-07N 079-59W,
   29-05N 079-59W, 28-47N 080-13W,
   28-34N 080-23W, 28-31N 080-35W.
   B. 32-08N 076-42W, 33-37N 075-00W,
   33-18N 074-42W, 31-50N 076-23W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 032146Z APR 18.

( 280858Z MAR 2018 )

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/979050902517702657)

And now we wait for SpaceX's tweet confirmation.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186279.jpg)Thomas McConnon‏ @mcconnot2 (https://twitter.com/mcconnot2) 12 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/mcconnot2/status/979048895627087872)

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

Just seen a large cloud from the roof of the port canaveral exploration tower!!! In the direction of LC-40!!! (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125483.png)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/979053735195193344)

Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete—targeting April 2 launch from Pad 40 in Florida for Dragon's fourteenth mission to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station).

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/979054386566565888)

And there's the confirmation!

ЦитироватьSpaceXПодлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/979053735195193344)

Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete—targeting April 2 launch from Pad 40 in Florida for Dragon's fourteenth mission to the @Space_Station.

ARTICLE:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/03/falcon-9-crs-14-mission-static-fire-testing/ ... (https://t.co/4Xn1VScbqe)

And well done to @mcconnot2 (https://twitter.com/mcconnot2) for being in the right place at the right time per the visual sighting. (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125484.png)

ЦитироватьSpaceX - CRS14 - Static Fire Test 03-28-2018

USLaunchReport (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5hWqb0u1eKgYmVryCEyJYA)

Опубликовано: 28 мар. 2018 г.

Fuel loading began at 11AM. Test went off at 1:15 PM Eastern.

ЦитироватьFalcon 9 Completes Static Fire Test Ahead of Monday Liftoff on Next ISS Resupply Mission
March 28, 2018 (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/falcon-9-spx-14-static-fire-test/)

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/152394.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/wp-content/uploads/sites/217/2018/03/24214520767_38b5d6e53b_o2.jpg)
Photo: NASA (File Image)

A previously used Falcon 9 booster came to life at Florida's Space Coast on Wednesday in preparation for the launch of the first U.S. Space Station resupply mission of the year, set for a Monday afternoon liftoff ahead of a two-day chase of the orbiting laboratory by the flight-proven Dragon spacecraft.

SpaceX's fourteenth operational ISS supply run is ferrying 2,647 Kilograms of cargo to the Station, including dozens of experiments, hardware & supplies, an innovative satellite exploring space debris removal technology, and three external payloads comprising two new research facilities and a spare pump for the Station's cooling system.

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Stepping up the pace again after a three-week gap in launches, SpaceX performed a Static Fire test on the West Coast on Sunday in preparation for the company's fifth flight in support of the Iridium-NEXT constellation, now targeting launch on Friday (http://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-iridium-next-flight-5/) after a spacecraft-related delay. Dragon SpX-14 – the second mission involving a used booster and 'flight-proven' spacecraft – is targeting launch on Monday at 20:30 UTC, 4:30 p.m. local time and will be inbound for a robotic capture on Wednesday to kick off a planned stay of around three weeks, sending the ISS crew into a sprint to unload the spacecraft and complete a number of experiments it carries.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/152409.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/wp-content/uploads/sites/217/2018/03/CfsH2SiWsAEjFsr.jpg-orig.jpg)
Dragon C110 on its first voyage – Photo: NASA

This latest Commercial Resupply Services mission will again involve previously used hardware after NASA green-lit the use of flight-proven Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 first stages last year. SpX-14 will employ Booster 1039 that first flew in August of 2017 on the Dragon SpX-12 (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx12/) mission and performed a smooth return to Cape Canaveral for refurbishment and re-launch; the Dragon C110 spacecraft spent 33 days off the planet in 2016 when supporting the Dragon SpX-8 (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx12/) mission that delivered over three metric tons to ISS including the expandable BEAM module.

Refurbished and fitted with a new Trunk Section, the Dragon is now tasked with lifting 1,721 Kilograms of cargo in its pressurized section while the three trunk payloads weigh in at 926 Kilograms and will be removed robotically to take their positions on the exterior of the International Space Station. As is typical for Dragon flights, SpX-14 is heavy on the utilization side – delivering 1,071 kg of science/utilization hardware and "only" 344 kg of crew supplies, 148 kg of vehicle hardware and 99 kg of spacewalk gear.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/152412.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/wp-content/uploads/sites/217/2018/03/DXSuqgRX0AA3mFl.jpg)
Mixed Crops inside Veggie – Photo: NASA

While Dragon handles the delivery of primarily utilization-related cargo, Orbital ATK Cygnus missions are used for the bulk of crew supplies and maintenance hardware heading to the U.S. Segment of ISS. This division of labor across the two CRS-1 contractors arises fr om Dragon's ability to return cargo fr om ISS – allowing experiments to launch on Dragon, be completed by the ISS crew and then ride back to Earth aboard the same spacecraft to undergo post-flight analysis. To that end, Dragon typically hosts a number of laboratory freezers carrying samples to and from the Station and the crew has their hands full with cargo and experiment operations while Dragon is docked.

Among the pressurized cargo of the SpX-14 mission is new hardware for the Station's Veggie facility designed to increase harvests of lettuce and other plants grown on ISS through an improved water and nutrient delivery system. Other studies riding up on Dragon look into the fundamental mechanics of sintering as a process to create hardened materials, a new variable G centrifuge will boost the Station's capacity for commercial biology and biochemistry studies and a wound healing investigation will look into a new type of wound dressing that could reliably prevent sepsis and act as scaffolding for tissue regeneration – a potential game-changer for combat medicine and future space travel to distant targets.

>> Dragon SpX-14 Cargo Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/cargo-overview/)

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Dragon SpX-14 Trunk Configuration – Photo: SpaceX / ESA

Bolted into the Trunk Section of the Dragon is ASIM – the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor taking up residence outside the Columbus Module, the MISSE Flight Facility offering a new materials science and exposure platform for space-exposure studies, and a spare Pump Flow Control Subassembly for the Space Station's photovoltaic cooling system.

ASIM (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/asim/) is an ESA-sponsored instrument developed by the Danish National Space Center to study the chemical and physical processes occurring wh ere Earth's dense atmosphere and the charged particle environment of near-Earth space interact.

The 314-Kilogram package hosts a series of UV/VIS/IR imaging cameras, high-speed radiometers covering the same wavelengths and an X- and Gamma-Ray monitor to capture the signature of energetic phenomena like blue jets, elves and red sprites occurring over terrestrial thunderstorms. These Transient Luminous Events, although known since the late 80s, have only been observed sporadically and ASIM hopes to learn about the interaction of the atmosphere and space by capturing detailed spectral records of these events from the orbital vantage point of ISS.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/152423.gif) (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/wp-content/uploads/sites/217/2018/03/misse-ff.gif)
MISSE-FF – Image: AlphaSpace

MISSE-FF (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/misse-ff/), a product of AlphaSpace, is a commercial exposure facility that takes the original concept of NASA's Materials on ISS Experiment (MISSE) as a basis and adds a number of new capabilities like the ability of hosting powered payloads that actively collect data to go beyond the scope of variable-duration exposure studies. Two MISSE-FF units are headed to ISS this year, each offering 14 slots for exchangeable sample modules that can be exposed to the space environment between six months and three years to gather data on how different samples fare in the challenging space environment to inform the designers of future spacecraft.

The third trunk payload, unlike its two companions, is a potentially critical spare part for the Space Station's future – a Pump Flow Control Subassembly (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/pfcs/) that builds the central part of the Photovoltaic Thermal Control System tasked with radiating heat from the power-generation equipment on ISS into space by flowing ammonia through thermal regulation loops. Although ISS currently has eight functioning power channels, the PFCS has been a known failure point in the past and so Station managers decided to pre-stage a pristine spare outside ISS in addition to one previously used but still functional PFCS and one spare that has been sitting idle since 2000.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/152413.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/wp-content/uploads/sites/217/2018/03/DZS9He6WsAEAynK.jpg)
Trunk Integration – Photo: SpaceX / ESA

Preparations for the Dragon SpX-14 mission have been smooth: its launch date has been sticking since the beginning of the year and processing on the spacecraft and launcher side has been uneventful. Gearing up for the mission, SpaceX rolled the two-stage Falcon 9 – still missing its payload – to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 40 by Wednesday morning in advance of a multi-hour test window for the Static Fire Test.

The brief ignition of Falcon's nine Merlin 1D engines was preceded by a full tanking sequence involving both stages of the launch vehicle to put all systems through a pressure and thermal cycle including a full tank pressurization in the tail end of the automated countdown sequence. Ignition occurred around 17:30 UTC and Falcon 9 was expected to fire for seven seconds – the typical duration of a Static Fire for a used booster.

For new boosters, SpaceX deems a 3.5-second fire duration sufficient to collect performance data on the start-up of the nine Merlin Engines after each booster already underwent a full-duration acceptance test in the weeks leading up to launch. Flight-proven boosters do not complete another McGregor test firing and are evaluated via extending the Static Fire to collect steady-state performance data with the engines at operational thrust levels.

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Late Load Configuration – Photo: SpaceX

SpaceX confirmed the successful completion of the Static Fire on Twitter, indicating the burn met its planned duration and all desired performance parameters needed for in-depth reviews were obtained. Next, the Falcon 9 will return to its pad-side hangar wh ere it will meet its payload over the coming days before returning to the Launch Pad on Sunday for late cargo loading on the Dragon – involving time-critical science payload headed to ISS.

Taking its vertical launch position by Monday morning, Falcon 9 will be counting down to an instantaneous launch opportunity at 20:30 UTC. SpX-14 is the first of three planned Dragon missions of 2018, to be joined by two Cygnus and one HTV flight – resupplying the U.S. Segment and its four crew members to support a packed science program with 80 to 100 crew hours of science activities completed per week across a wide swath of scientific disciplines.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 10 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/979336687183646720)

More precision! The targeted instantaneous time for Monday's #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) launch of #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) w/ #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) to @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) is 16:30:41 EDT (20:30:41 UTC). This to-the-second time always shifts by a few seconds by the time we get to launch day. But that's the plan right now. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 10 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/979742811015835649)

The next #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) launch is just days away! #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) launches Monday, April 2nd at 4:30 PM EDT from SLC-40 at CCAFS. Once again, the #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) first stage will not be recovered as SpaceX transitions to Block V boosters.

ЦитироватьNASA TV to Air Events Supporting Next Space Station Resupply Mission

Bob Granath (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/rgranath/)
Posted Mar 30, 2018 at 3:47 pm

NASA and SpaceX are preparing for the company's 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station scheduled for liftoff at 4:30 p.m. EDT, Monday, April 2.

Packed with almost 5,800 pounds of research material, 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.

The official weather forecast from the U.S. Air Force's 45th weather squadron at Patrick Air Force Base calls for an 80 percent chance for favorable conditions for launch. The primary launch weather concerns are flight through precipitation and cumulus clouds with the showers.

You may follow the prelaunch briefings and the countdown taking place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on NASA Television at: https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Sunday, April 1
2:30 p.m. EDT – What's on Board science briefing
4 p.m. EDT – Prelaunch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program, SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing.

Monday, April 2
4 p.m. EDT – Launch coverage begins for liftoff scheduled for 4:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m. EDT – Post launch news conference at Kennedy with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX.

For the latest schedule of prelaunch briefings, events and NASA TV coverage, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/spacex-crs-14-briefings-and-events/

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/979929825124155392)

#SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) recovery support vessel GO Quest is currently heading out to sea. Her trajectory appears to match the #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) flight path. This would indicate another water landing test of the #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) first stage on Monday during the expendable mission.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185527.jpg)NASA Kennedy / KSC‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASAKennedy (https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy) сейчас1 минуту назад (https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy/status/980163573958799361)


Tune in with @NASAKennedy (https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy) tomorrow from 4pm to 5pm ET to watch the CRS-14 pre-launch news conference with representatives from @NASA (https://twitter.com/NASA), @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station), @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) and @45thSpaceWing (https://twitter.com/45thSpaceWing).

Цитироватьtnt22 пишет:
НАСА выпустила описание миссии CRS-14
     spacex_crs-14_mision_overview_high_res.pdf      - 327.2 KB, 3 стр, 2018-03-22 21:28:55 UTC

Цитироватьtnt22 пишет:
#26 (//forum/messages/forum10/topic16325/message1754086/#message1754086)

Цитировать https://www.nasa.gov/feature/slpsra-spacex-14-experiments-and-payloads

March 30, 2018

Space Life and Physical Sciences Research and Applications SpaceX-14 Experiments and Payloads

ЦитироватьHuman Research Facility (HRF) Centrifuge
NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) will launch a new Human Research Facility (HRF) Centrifuge onboard the 14th SpaceX commercial resupply mission to replace the existing, outdated refrigerated centrifuge. This upgraded unit will hold 24 blood tubes – six more than the existing model. It features an intuitive touchscreen interface and a swing-bucket rotor, which is superior to fixed angle rotors for separating blood. Additionally, the new hardware increases efficiency by eliminating the need for different adapters for various types of blood draws. The HRF Centrifuge's modular design will also allow for easier on-orbit repairs.

The centrifuge's available range of speed is 1,000-4,300 rpm for 1-99 minute durations with braking from 0-9 available. The unit will launch in an HRF Payload Drawer and will be installed in the //HRF%202rack on the International Space Station (ISS). This drawer also features a pullout utility tray, a USB charging port and an AC outlet, all of which are available for use for aisle deployed payloads or other equipment.

Micro-11: Spaceflight-Altered Motility Activation & Fertility-Dependent Responses in Mammalian Sperm
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Fruit Fly Lab – 03: Does Spaceflight Alter the Virulence of a Natural Parasite of Drosophila?
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APEX-06: Investigating Monocot Plant Adaptation to Spaceflight
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APEX-06: Veggie 03-G: PONDS Technical Demo

Barrios Protein Crystal Growth Experiment (Barrios PCG) 
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BioServe Protein Crystallography Experiment  1 (BPC-1) 
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Gravitational Effects on Distortion in Sintering (GEDS) Experiment

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Цитироватьpnetmon пишет:
что-то одна страница пропала, то ли изменили

Цитироватьtnt22 пишет:
НАСА выпустила описание миссии CRS-14

spacex_crs-14_mision_overview_high_res.pdf (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-14_mision_overview_high_res.pdf) - 327.2 KB, 3 стр, 2018-03-22 21:28:55 UTC

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Цитироватьна канале НАСА

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

или

на сайте SpaceX

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

или

на ТыТрубе

youtube.com/watch?v=BPQHG-LevZM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPQHG-LevZM)

Цитировать[TH]Mission[/TH][TH]Max Q[/TH][TH]MECO[/TH]

CRS-13 (http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/crs13presskit12_11.pdf)	01:18	02:21
CRS-14 (http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/crs-14presskit2018.pdf)	01:08	02:41

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185527.jpg)NASA Kennedy / KSC‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASAKennedy (https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy) 39 мин.39 минут назад (https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy/status/980425049235746821)


Good morning from Kennedy Space Center! We are L-1 day until the launch of @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX)'s #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station). Launch is scheduled to lift-off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:30 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

ЦитироватьUpcoming Events (All Times Eastern)

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• 2:30 p.m., Sunday, April 1 - CRS-14 "What's On Board" Briefing (all channels)
• 4 p.m., Sunday, April 1 - CRS-14 Prelaunch News Conference (all channels)
  

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 1 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980515079715254273)

Robonaut (launched on STS-133/Discovery) is COMING HOME when this Dragon returns next month. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/980518235350224897)

Yay! @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) and @TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist) at the CRS-14 briefing for NSF. (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125484.png)Winning screenshot!
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980518676024758272)

#Robonaut (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Robonaut?src=hash) stopped powering up. Crew troubleshooted. Electrical fault present. Coming back on CRS-14 next month for repair. Should be relaunched in about a year to go back to ISS. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980519779709702144)

Bioluminescence experiment going up to ISS, too. Light is used to judge health of cell. Important because on Earth this can reduce the cost of therapeutic compounds from pharmaceutical companies. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980536576991260672)

Monday, April 1 launch time: 16:30:38 EDT Backup on Tuesday 4/3 at 16:08:03 EDT.

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Yes, I clearly meant Monday, April 2nd.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 14 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980537101191139329)

SpaceX notes this is 14th of 20 CRS-1 contract flights. CRS-2 contract flights #1 and #2 have now been approved by NASA.

ЦитироватьJeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) сейчас53 секунды назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/980537131809628161)


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SpaceX's Jessica Jensen at CRS-14 prelaunch briefing: booster previously flew on CRS-12 mission, and Dragon on CRS-8 mission. Reusability is "becoming the norm."

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980540844070535168)

Pretty much everything inside this Dragon is being reused. New water sealing (on CRS-8 ) did it's job. Trunk, heat shield, and parachutes all new.

ЦитироватьJeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) сейчас6 секунд назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/980541144659628037)


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Jensen: starting with CRS-8 (first mission this Dragon flew) we installed additional water sealing, which paid off. Only a handful of items from previous mission not being reused here.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg)Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 15 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/980542359070040064)

Jensen confirms that there will be video coverage from the launch as well as solar array deployment after separation. "No restrictions" versus Iridium-5 launch Friday.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 26 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980541097309958144)

These Dragon-1 capsules are certified to fly 3 times. None have yet, but chance they will in the future. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash)

23 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980541968748109824)

This booster is expendable to test landing procedures/practices that push the bounds. This booster has already flown. Trade between landing or doing a demonstration. This booster will fly trajectory toward the limits to collect data for the future. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash)

ЦитироватьSpaceX доставит на МКС приборы для изучения бурь на Земле и патогенов на борту станции
НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 2 апреля. /ТАСС/. Американская компания SpaceX доставит на Международную космическую станцию (МКС) груз массой 2,63 тонны, в том числе приборы для изучения бурь на Земле и выявления болезнетворных организмов на борту МКС. Об этом сообщило (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-to-air-launch-of-next-space-station-resupply-mission-3) в воскресенье Национальное управление США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA).
Ракета-носитель Falcon 9 с космическим грузовым кораблем Dragon стартует в понедельник с пускового комплекса 40 базы ВВС на космодроме на мысе Канаверал (штат Флорида). Взлет намечен на 16:30 по времени Восточного побережья США (23:30 мск).
Как уточнило NASA, через 10 минут после старта ракета достигнет заданной орбиты, развернет панели солнечных батарей и начнет движение к точке встречи с МКС. Ракета должна достигнуть станции 4 апреля.
Стыковка поручена астронавту Японского агентства аэрокосмических исследований Норисигэ Канаи, страховать которого будет американец Скотт Тингл. Им предстоит с помощью руки-манипулятора Canadarm2 провести захват Dragon и подвести его к шлюзовому люку модуля Harmony. Помимо Канаи и Тингла, вахту на МКС несут американцы Эндрю Фойстел и Ричард Арнольд, россияне Олег Артемьев и Антон Шкаплеров.
Американский корабль везет на орбиту более двух тонн груза, включая питьевую воду, продовольствие и материалы для проведения научных экспериментов. Среди них приборы, предназначенные для изучения экстремальных явлений в земной атмосфере, влияния состояния невесомости на изделия с высокими эксплуатационными свойствами, а также для выращивания пригодных для питания культур на станции. Dragon доставит на МКС и оборудование для экспериментов, призванных опробовать воздействие космического пространства на материалы, оболочки и компоненты, а также испытать экспериментальный пластырь с антибиотиком для ран.

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SpaceX завершила предыдущий рейс на МКС и обратно в середине января. Это была 13-я по счету миссия по доставке запасов и материалов на орбитальный комплекс 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. Также на борту грузовика на Землю вернулись растения и живые мыши, над которыми ставили опыты.

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ЦитироватьNASA TV to Air Events Supporting Next Space Station Resupply Mission

Linda Herridge (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/lherridg/)
Posted Apr 1, 2018 at 2:29 pm

Preparations continue as NASA's commercial cargo provider, SpaceX, is getting ready to launch its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. EDT Monday, April 2.

Weather forecasters with the U.S. Air Force's 45th weather squadron at Patrick Air Force Base call for a 80 percent chance for favorable conditions for launch. The primary launch weather concerns are flight through precipitation and cumulus clouds with the showers.

Packed with almost 5,800 pounds of research material, 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.

You may follow ... the countdown taking place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on NASA Television at:
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

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Monday, April 2
4 p.m. – Launch coverage begins for liftoff scheduled for 4:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m. – Post launch news conference at Kennedy with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX.

For the latest schedule of prelaunch briefings, events and NASA TV coverage, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/spacex-crs-14-briefings-and-events/

ЦитироватьEliminating space junk could take step toward reality with station cargo launch
April 1, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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Artist's illustration of the RemoveDebris satellite de-orbiting at the end of its mission with the assistance of a dragsail. Credit: SSTL

European engineers who developed a small satellite hitching a ride to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX supply ship Monday are gearing up for a first-of-a-kind experiment to examine ways to snare a chunk of space junk and tug it back to Earth.

Developed in a public-private partnership, the RemoveDebris mission will test the utility of nets and harpoons to capture tumbling objects in orbit, repurposing devices commonly used in fishing to pluck debris out of orbit and bring them into Earth's atmosphere to burn up.

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Guglielmo Aglietti, principal investigator for the RemoveDebris mission, calls the project a "proof-of-concept."

They crux of the mission, Aglietti said in an interview, is to prove that cleaning up space junk can be relatively inexpensive — something that could be affordable by commercial companies, or governments operating under budget limitations.

"We want to learn as much as possible," said Aglietti, who is also director of the Surrey Space Center, a research institute affiliated with the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., a British manufacturer of small satellites. "Even if some experiment doesn't go exactly as planned, provided we get all the data, it's still a positive outcome."

The RemoveDebris satellite will launch in a container inside a SpaceX Dragon cargo craft set for launch at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT) Monday fr om Cape Canaveral. The commercial supply ship is carrying more than 5,800 pounds (2.6 metric tons) of food, provisions and experiments to the space station's six-person crew.

RemoveDebris accounts around 220 pounds, or 100 kilograms, of the Dragon's cargo load.

But the small spacecraft, developed by SSTL in the United Kingdom, punches above its weight. The RemoveDebris mothership contains two CubeSats, a net and a harpoon, a laser ranging instrument, and a "dragsail" designed to unfurl behind the main satellite and hasten its fall back into Earth's atmosphere using aerodynamic resistance.

Assuming the Dragon resupply mission takes off Monday, the cargo capsule is due to reach the space station early Wednesday. Astronauts will unpack the RemoveDebris satellite, along with tons of other equipment, in the following weeks.

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The RemoveDebris spacecraft during final assembly at SSTL. Credit: SSTL/Max Alexander

Some time this spring, the crew will take the one-meter cube-shaped spacecraft fr om its shipping container, remove shields used to protect it during launch, then place it on a sliding tray inside the Japanese Kibo lab module airlock.

Fixed to a NanoRacks carrier, the spacecraft will transfer through the airlock to the Japanese lab's outside science deck, where the Kibo module's robotic arm will grab it and move to a predetermined position for release.

Aglietti said RemoveDebris is currently slated for deployment fr om the space station in late May, but the schedule is not yet confirmed.

"The mission will really start once we are deployed out of the space station, hopefully at the end of May or the beginning of June," he said.

RemoveDebris will be the biggest satellite launched fr om the space station. That has placed the mission under extra scrutiny from NASA managers, who want to ensure the satellite poses no hazard to the orbiting outpost or its crew.

The launch of RemoveDebris was supposed to happen last year, but officials bumped it to a later SpaceX cargo flight.

"It took a little bit longer to make sure that all the right boxes were ticked," Aglietti said.

The demo craft's high-flying experiments will not begin until the satellite is well away from the space station, Aglietti said. In fact, the satellite will remain in a dormant mode for around a half-hour after its release, before switching on to begin checkout procedures.

Ground controllers at SSTL's campus in Guildford, England, will put the spacecraft through four primary experiments.

"Basically, it has a net, a harpoon and a dragsail on-board," said Jason Forshaw, the RemoveDebris mission's project manager at SSTL. "The concept is it's going to go up there, and it's going to eject small little satellites that will be used as artificial space junk."

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File photo of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft arriving at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

One of the CubeSats, about the size of a loaf of bread, will inflate a balloon to mimic the dimensions of a bigger piece of tumbling space junk. Flying a short distance away, RemoveDebris will release a net to envelop the CubeSat — named DebrisSat 1 — which will be cut loose to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

"The net, as a way to capture debris, is a very flexible option because even if the debris is spinning, or has got an irregular shape, to capture it with a net is relatively low-risk compared to ... going with a robotic arm, because if the debris is spinning very fast, and you try to capture it with a robotic arm, then clearly there is a problem," Aglietti said. "In addition, if you are to capture the debris with a robotic arm or a gripper, you need somewh ere you can grab hold of your piece of debris without breaking off just a chunk of it."

Another CubeSat, named DebrisSat 2, will separate from the RemoveDebris mothership to test out tracking and ranging lasers and algorithms. The RemoveDebris satellite will use DebrisSat 2 to test out close-up navigation technology needed for an orbiting garbage collector to approach an out-of-control piece of space junk.

The LIDAR instrument "can observe debris, and figure out all the parameters of what this debris is doing in order to plan your capture," Aglietti said. "We have a normal camera, and then a LIDAR, which uses lasers to illuminate the object and figure out what the object is doing, and try to quantify the parameters, not just looking and seeing it, but also trying to see the spin rate, for example."

The third RemoveDebris experiment will test the functionality of a harpoon, which would be used to fire at a dead satellite and spear it, allowing the junk to be maneuvered out of orbit for a fiery re-entry.

But RemoveDebris will not test the harpoon on an actual satellite. The technology is still untried in space, and there are legal concerns about using it to lasso someone else's spacecraft without permission.

"Maybe it's a bit more risky because you have to hit your debris in a place that is suitable to be captured by the harpoon," Aglietti said. "Clearly, you have to avoid any fuel tanks ... That would produce some undesired effects."

Instead, RemoveDebris will extend an arm with a target for the harpoon on the end, then fire the projectile on a tether.

"We have harpoons, we have nets," Forshaw said in a TEDx talk last year. "These all seem like simple concepts, and they are. They've been used for thousands of years underwater to capture things such as sea creatures. However, taking technologies that are mature on Earth, in the oceans, and actually bringing them up there into space and seeing (if) these concepts work for the first time — nobody has ever used a net or a harpoon for these purposes in space before."

Finally, RemoveDebris will open up an expandable sail to act like an airbrake or spoiler, generating drag from collisions with air molecules in the rarefied outer atmosphere. At the space station's altitude of around 250 miles (400 kilometers), the dragsail will bring the RemoveDebris satellite back into the denser layers of the atmosphere, wh ere it will burn up.

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"All the elements of the mission should be de-orbited very quickly," Aglietti said. "Clearly, for a mission like ours, we don't to further contribute to the problem of space debris. We want to make sure that all the pieces we are putting up there are going to come down pretty quickly. For us, a launch from the International Space Station is particularly good because it's in such a low orbit, that in any case, even if some of the experiments do not work out as planned, it doesn't matter because everything is going to come down and burn up in the atmosphere."

Budgeted at 15.2 million euros — $18.7 million at today's currency exchange rates — the RemoveDebris mission was partially funded by the European Commission. The rest of the project was paid by the 10 companies involved in the demonstration, including SSTL, Airbus Defense and Space, and Ariane Group.

"Since the beginning of the space era, orbital debris has progressively been building up and there are now almost 7,000 tons of it around the Earth," said Martin Sweeting, SSTL's executive chairman. "It is now time for the international space community to begin to mitigate, lim it and control space junk, and I am very pleased that the RemoveDebris consortium is leading the way with an innovative ADR (Active Debris Removal) mission which I hope will be a precursor to future operational ADR missions."

In-space collisions have happened before.

In 2009, a commercial Iridium communications satellite collided with a deactivated Russian military craft, destroying both objects and creating thousands more pieces of space junk.

"Satellites that get old also have residual fuels on them," Forshaw said. "Sometimes these fuels mix, so satellites are remarkably good at exploding by themselves."

"One of the core questions is who is responsible for all of this," Forshaw said. "Who is responsible for keeping space tidy? There, space law is complicated. Every single item in space, whether it be a full satellite or a piece of glass, is actually owned by somebody. You can't take away their property without their permission. Besides, if a tiny little fragment hit your satellite, you wouldn't even know who did it."

As companies like OneWeb, SpaceX and others build out planned "mega-constellations" of hundreds and thousands of communications satellites, the space debris problem will remain top of mind for many in the industry.

OneWeb and SpaceX say they will steer their planned broadband communications satellites back into Earth's atmosphere once their missions are complete, but some of the spacecraft could become stranded if they suffer unexpected failures.

"There are really two solutions: Either we ensure things launched into space have the ability to come back down themselves, and/or we launch missions up there to actually capture some of this space junk and bring it back down to Earth, wh ere it will burn up in the Earth's atmosphere," Forshaw said.

"Once the whole campaign is finished, and the (RemoveDebris) satellite is de-orbited, it would be great if companies offered this as a service, and there will be bigger missions when they will go and capture a real piece of debris using some of the technologies we have demonstrated," Aglietti said.

One company established to remove space debris out of orbit is Astroscale, headquartered in Singapore. Astroscale is developing a commercial space debris capture experiment in partnership with SSTL.

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Artist's concept of ESA's e.Deorbit mission capturing the defunct Envisage Earth observation satellite with a net. Credit: ESA–David Ducros, 2016

The European Space Agency also has a mission concept called e.Deorbit, which would launch in 2024 to rendezvous with Envisat, a defunct Earth observation satellite that failed suddenly in 2012. Envisat is the size of a double-decker bus, and experts anticipate it will remain in space for up to 150 years, posing a hazard to other satellites in the same region of space nearly 500 miles (800 kilometers) above Earth.

The e.Deorbit mission, if approved by ESA member states, would bring Envisat down in a controlled manner. The RemoveDebris mission will check to see if some of the fundamental parts of such an endeavor will work.

"At the end of the day, everything boils down to funding," Aglietti said. "We all agree, in the space sector, that it is a good idea to start to remove larger pieces of debris, which are the ones that cause the major threat. The problem is just financial.

"That was why we're testing cost-effective technologies," he said. "In my opinion, the stumbling block is the cost ... If the cost to do it is exorbitant, then people will prefer to take the risk that their new satellite is going to be hit by a piece of debris. If we manage to lower the cost of the missions, then this is much more likely to happen."

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ЦитироватьLive coverage: SpaceX readies reused rocket and capsule for launch
April 2, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

04/02/2018 08:28 Stephen Clark

SpaceX is counting down to its second launch in fewer than four days Monday, when a reused Falcon 9 booster and a previously-flown Dragon cargo capsule are set to blast off from Cape Canaveral to resupply the International Space Station.

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Packed with more than 5,800 pounds (2,600 kilograms) of experiment hardware, food and other supplies, the Dragon spaceship is set for liftoff at 4:30:38 p.m. EDT (2030:38 GMT) Monday from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad.

The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket has an instantaneous launch opportunity Monday in order to rendezvous with the space station Wednesday. A backup launch opportunity is available Tuesday.

It will be the 14th resupply launch to the space station by SpaceX since 2012 under a multibillion-dollar contract with NASA, and the company's seventh rocket flight overall so far this year.

Forecasters from the U.S. Air Force's 45th Weather Squadron predict an 80 percent chance of acceptable conditions at launch time.

"Cloudiness associated with the decaying frontal boundary has diminished over Central Florida, allowing temperatures to climb into the 80s with a few very isolated rain showers," the Air Force weather team wrote in a forecast issued Sunday morning. "On Monday, the boundary will continue to dissipate along the Space Coast with partly cloudy conditions, but showers remain a risk. The primary weather concerns are flight through precipitation and cumulus clouds with the showers. Maximum upper-level winds will be from the northwest at 95 knots near 40,000 feet."

Forecasters expect mostly cloudy conditions at launch time, with isolated rain showers possible in the area. Winds should be from the southeast at 10 to 15 mph, and the temperature is expected to be around 77 degrees Fahrenheit.

Similar weather conditions are in the forecast for Tuesday with an 80 percent probability of favorable weather, albeit with a decreased threat of rain.

Monday's launch will come a little more than three days after SpaceX's last Falcon 9 mission, which took off Friday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. That launch lofted 10 commercial Iridium communications satellites.

But the quick turnaround between SpaceX's launch bases in California and Florida is not a record. SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 missions from Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg barely two days apart in June 2017.

Monday's launch sports reused booster and capsule hardware.

The Falcon 9's first stage previously flew on SpaceX's 12 logistics mission to the space station in August 2017, then landed back at Cape Canaveral for inspections, refurbishment and reuse. The Dragon cargo ship delivered several tons of equipment to the space station in April 2016 on SpaceX's eighth commercial resupply mission, then splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.

SpaceX does not intend to retrieve the Falcon 9's first stage booster on Monday's launch. Instead, engineers will put the stage through experimental descent maneuvers more stressing than usual to try new rocket landing techniques that could be employed on future flights.

The first stage is expected to splash down in the Atlantic Ocean, and will not be recovered.

Assuming the Falcon 9 rocket takes off as scheduled Monday, the Dragon supply ship is set to arrive at the space station around 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT), when the research lab's Canadian-built robotic arm will grapple the approaching cargo capsule to begin a month-long stay.

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ЦитироватьLaunch Day Arrives for SpaceX CRS-14

Bob Granath (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/rgranath/)
Posted Apr 2, 2018 at 9:01 am

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A Dragon spacecraft is poised for liftoff atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. The launch vehicle will boost the resupply capsule on its 14th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX's Dragon will deliver supplies and equipment supporting numerous science investigations for the crew working aboard the orbiting laboratory. Liftoff is scheduled for today at 4:30 p.m. EDT.

Be sure to join us here at 3:55 p.m. EDT to follow this live blog-cast during the last stages of the countdown and early portions of flight. You also may follow the countdown on NASA Television (https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive) beginning at 4 p.m. EDT for updates.

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Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for today's resupply mission to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) are both flight-proven.
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ЦитироватьEliminating space junk could take step toward reality with station cargo launch
 April 1, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 13 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980833144659218432)

Launch day weather forecast: Completely unchanged. Everything the same. 80% chance of acceptable conditions at the instantaneous launch time of 16:30:38 EDT (20:30:38 UTC). #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)

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Планируется в этом запуске?

ЦитироватьWe're happy to say that the Remove Debris spacecraft is now on board SpaceX's dragon awaiting launch NET 2nd April

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"The mission will really start once we are deployed out of the space station, hopefully at the end of May or the beginning of June,"

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31566.jpg)Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist) 18 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/980835019810918400)

Dragon's launch today is looking on track for 4:30pm! Here are a few photos from remote camera setup.
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ЦитироватьSpaceX's CRS-14 Mission to the Space Station: What's On Board?

NASA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ)

Опубликовано: 2 апр. 2018 г.

Over 5,800 pounds of NASA science, crew supplies and hardware will launch to the International Space Station on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. It's scheduled to launch April 2, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. EDT, and you can watch live on NASA Television. This will be SpaceX's 14th cargo mission to the station.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 20 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980847018137587712)

The countdown clocks have started here at Kennedy. No change to precise launch time. Clocks counting to 16:30:38 EDT (20:30:38 UTC).

ЦитироватьWhat's Onboard the SpaceX CRS-14 Dragon Spacecraft

Space Videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdF5d0UwSJJunRcRVzP1uDg)

Опубликовано: 1 апр. 2018 г.

Mission scientists discuss with the media what experiments the unmanned SpaceX Dragon CRS-14 spacecraft is bringing up to the International Space Station when it launches tomorrow at 20:30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp3AxjvHbFw&t=1230s) UTC, April 2nd 2018 on a Falcon 9 rocket.

ЦитироватьPre-launch News Conference for SpaceX CRS-14 Dragon Mission

Space Videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdF5d0UwSJJunRcRVzP1uDg)

Опубликовано: 1 апр. 2018 г.

Mission managers discuss tomorrow's SpaceX CRS-14 Dragon launch. Liftoff is set for 20:30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLxV_teb62g&t=1230s) UTC, April 2nd 2018.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185296.jpg)ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 (https://twitter.com/ISS101) 30 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/980859799343632384)

#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) SpX-14 is carrying a total cargo upmass of 2,647 Kilograms - 1,721 kg are riding up in the craft's pressurized compartment and three payloads installed in the Trunk Section weigh in at 926 kg. Detailed Dragon Cargo Overview: http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/cargo-overview/ ... (https://t.co/0ENIWTYZwo)
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30 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/980859808160145409)

Packed into the #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) is the largest satellite to be deployed from ISS. #RemoveDebris (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RemoveDebris?src=hash) will test out innovative technologies for active space debris removal including a net capture system, a harpoon and vision navigation for uncooperative rendezvous: http://bit.ly/2GKk46P  (https://t.co/AlcM8u4cxA)
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30 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/980859811976892416)

ESA's ASIM, the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, combines UV/VIS/IR imagers & radiometers + X/Gamma-Ray detectors to capture the high-speed signatures of transient luminous events and help understand the processes between the atmosphere & space: http://bit.ly/2H0sVix  (https://t.co/C50giOs4Bw)
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30 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/980859818121547776)

The MISSE Flight Facility offers a new state-of-the-art platform for commercial materials science outside ISS. It has 14 slots for exchangeable sample modules & can support powered & actively data-gathering payloads over exposure durations up to 3 years: http://bit.ly/2EeMSPS  (https://t.co/Dese08GTyQ)
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30 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/980859821502156800)

The third element riding in the trunk is not a utilization payload but a potentially critical spare part for ISS: a Pump Flow Control Subassembly tasked with regulating the temperature of the photovoltaic power generation components. Details: http://bit.ly/2pUdCAS  (https://t.co/FhKM3Qbamt)
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30 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/980860491537973249)

Packed into the Dragon are samples for various experiments, including live specimens, a new water delivery system for the Veggie facility, additions to the TangoLab, NanoRacks Microscopes, & a Variable G-Platform. Dragon also carries a German time capsule & a new printer for ISS.
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ЦитироватьTimeline for SpaceX's next station cargo launch
April 2, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/) | 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 Monday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying more than 5,800 pounds of supplies and experiments.

Liftoff is set for 2030 GMT (4:30 p.m. EDT) Monday from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad.

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It will be the 52nd flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and SpaceX's eighth launch of the year. Working under contract to NASA, Monday's launch will be the 14th of least 26 SpaceX resupply missions to depart for the space station.

SpaceX does not intend to recover the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage on Monday's mission. The booster is already a veteran of one launch in August 2017, when it propelled a previous SpaceX Dragon resupply mission toward the space station.

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+0:01:00: Mach 1

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

T+0:01:08: Max Q

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The Falcon 9 rocket reaches Max Q, the point of maximum aerodynamic pressure.

T+0:02:41: MECO

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

T+0:02:45: Stage 1 Separation

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

T+0:02:52: Second Stage Ignition

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The second stage Merlin 1D vacuum engine ignites for an approximately 6-minute burn to put the Dragon spacecraft into orbit.

T+0:09:03: 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+0:10:03: 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/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 8 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980879550828765185)

At T-1hr 43mins, the launch team is beginning AFTS (Automated Flight Termination System) checks.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980882719004651521)

T-1hr 30mins. All is proceeding nominal. There are no issues right now. In 17mins, the team will be polled "go/no go" for fuel loading. Fueling will then begin, if all is well, 3 minutes later at T-1hr 10mins.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 36 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980887762982309889)

Countdown auto-sequence has started. Fueling of Stage 1 with RP-1 rocket-grade kerosene has started!

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 21 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980888971298340865)

Showers are developing to the west, but they have stayed stationary for well over an hour now. Remember, 1 of our weather concerns is a pop-up shower that violates our "no flight through precip" rule. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 27 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980896570030940161)

T-35mins. Loading of Liquid Oxygen (LOX) for the Falcon 9 first stage has begun!

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 27 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980896835370930177)

Dragon's terminal count sequence has started.

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/980551473317793792/fhOSyeIc_bigger.jpg)  (https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann)

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/980551473317793792/fhOSyeIc_bigger.jpg) Trevor Mahlmann‏ @TrevorMahlmann (https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann) 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann/status/980896935208013826)

Tracking a @WaywardBoat (https://twitter.com/WaywardBoat) in the #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) hazard area. Here's a pic from the VAB roof. All hail the @45thSpaceWing (https://twitter.com/45thSpaceWing). Clearing ranges of boats and planes for 50+ years. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67530.jpg)Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/980899114324983809)

The launch team is watching anvil clouds near the launch pad, but conditions are currently "go" for launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket at 4:30pm EDT (2030 GMT) from Cape Canaveral. Watch live: https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/02/falcon-9-dragon-crs-14-mission-status-center/ ... (https://t.co/eJdqZ7kC4P)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg)Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 44 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/980902989161525249)

T-10 minutes, tracking no issues at the moment (but keeping an eye on the weather).

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31566.jpg)Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist) 43 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/980909355116695555)

Liftoff of #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash)! @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)
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Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/909858754513928193/2hkA7hrh_bigger.jpg)Rome Strach‏ @romn8tr (https://twitter.com/romn8tr) 57 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/romn8tr/status/980906606622732288)

Dragon nosecone falls away.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31566.jpg)Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist) 8 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/980920097903652867)

This was a luck filled launch @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight), even #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) made a clover in the sky!
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DRAGON RESUPPLY MISSION (CRS-14)

On Monday, April 2 at 4:30 p.m. EDT, SpaceX had a successful liftoff of its fourteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-14) to the International Space Station. Dragon separated from Falcon 9's second stage about 10 minutes after liftoff and will attach to the space station on Wednesday, April 4.

Both Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft for the CRS-14 mission are flight-proven. Falcon 9's first stage previously supported the CRS-12 mission in August 2017 and Dragon previously supported the CRS-8 mission in April 2016. SpaceX did not attempt to recover Falcon 9's first stage after launch.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185296.jpg)ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 (https://twitter.com/ISS101) 1 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ISS101/status/980922865196453888)

And already tracked in orbit! Showing #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) in a nominal insertion orbit, accompanied by its two solar array covers:
2018-032A: 204 x 357 km, 51.64°
2018-032B: 204 x 359 km, 51.65°
2018-032C: 203 x 354 km, 51.63°

ЦитироватьCRS-14 Mission

SpaceX (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtI0Hodo5o5dUb67FeUjDeA)

Трансляция началась 2 часа назад

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 5 мин.5 мину назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980926209549881346)

Achievement unlocked! #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)
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ЦитироватьScience-Laden Dragon Lifted to Orbit by 5th Expendable Falcon 9 in a Row
 April 2, 2018 (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/falcon-9-launches-dragon-crs-14-mission/)

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Still covered in soot fr om a previous supply run to the International Space Station, a SpaceX Falcon 9 took to the skies over Florida's Cape Canaveral Monday afternoon – lifting a flight-proven Dragon spacecraft into orbit for a critical delivery of science gear, supplies and maintenance hardware to the orbiting laboratory as the first of at least six cargo ships inbound to the U.S. Segment of ISS this year.

The fourteenth operational Dragon is packed with over two and a half metric tons of cargo, including equipment for over 50 scientific studies and two new science facilities for the Station's exterior, studying the energetic processes ongoing where Earth's atmosphere meets space and offering a new state-of-the-art exposure facility for commercial materials science. Dragon is also carrying the largest satellite to be deployed from ISS to date, setting sail on an innovative demonstration of active space debris removal technology.

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The 65-meter tall Falcon 9 rose from its sea-side launch pad at 20:30 UTC, 4:30 p.m. local time and swung to the north east under the power of its nine Merlin 1D engines, propelling the rocket to a speed of over two Kilometers per second when the first stage dropped away. SpaceX decided against recovering the booster and instead used it for experimenting with extreme flight envelopes to help fine-tune future recoveries of flight-worthy stages.

As the first stage used its remaining life for a data-gathering exercise, it was up to Falcon's factory-new second stage to boost Dragon into orbit via a six-minute engine burn. The once-flown Dragon was set free a second time ten minutes after blastoff and successfully spread its wings by deploying its power-generating solar arrays. Dragon is expected to begin breathing fire around five hours after launch for a major orbit-raising maneuver on its climb up to the Space Station, en-route to a robotic capture on Wednesday to kick off a month-long stay.

Monday's launch was SpaceX's seventh mission of the year, the sixth with Falcon 9 and the fourth to ride into orbit on used hardware – a major step toward the routine re-use of rocket parts that SpaceX envisions will slash launch prices. Another re-use element involved in this mission is the Dragon capsule itself, having spent 33 days in orbit back in 2016 when it supported the Dragon SpX-8 mission that delivered the BEAM expandable module to ISS.

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Photo: Erik Kuna, erikkuna.com (http://erikkuna.com/)

Only a year ago, on March 30, 2017, did SpaceX re-fly its first Falcon 9 booster on the SES-10 mission. Now, seven of the last ten Falcon 9 missions relied on first stages with one prior flight – an impressive demonstration of re-use finding its way into regular spaceflight operations at SpaceX, so far with a spotless success record.

The company's spacecraft branch is also enjoying the early successes of re-use as Dragon C110 is the third Dragon cargo vehicle to make a second trip into orbit, following up on the SpX-11 and 13 missions of 2017 that also flew used capsules. SpaceX and NASA plan to fly out the remaining six missions under the extended Commercial Resupply Services-1 contract with flight-proven Dragons, allowing SpaceX to focus all resources on ramping up production of Dragon 2 vehicles that will handle crew and cargo missions in the future.

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Dragon SpX-14 Trunk Configuration – Photo: SpaceX / ESA

Monday's launch marked the first of at least three cargo Dragons headed to the ISS this year, to be joined by two Cygnus, three Progress and one HTV mission to keep up a steady chain of supplies for the six crew members living and working off the planet. Additional traffic is expected to arrive in the form of the uncrewed test flights of SpaceX's Dragon 2 and Boeing's Starliner which will also ferry some cargo items before the two spacecraft upgrade to crewed transport either late this year or early 2019.

The 14th operational Dragon mission is carrying a total cargo upmass of 2,647 Kilograms, including 1,721 kg of pressurized cargo packed into the Dragon and 926 Kilograms between the three eternal payloads bolted into the Trunk Section of the craft. Cargo items loaded into Dragon range from the seemingly mundane like everyday-life supplies for the crew and a new printer for the Station to state-of-the art experiment facilities, a German time capsule, numerous human research and materials science experiments, as well as live specimens like cell cultures and a group of Japanese lab mice.

>> Dragon SpX-14 Cargo Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/cargo-overview/)

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One of the first high-resolved images of a Blue Jet emanating from a thunderstorm cell – Credit: ESA

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Image: Alpha Space

The three trunk payloads comprise a pair of external research facilities and a potentially critical spare part for the Station's thermal control system.

ASIM, the Atmosphere and Space Interactions Monitor (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/asim/), is a 314-Kilogram package taking up residence on the exterior of ESA's Columbus module to employ a series of cameras, high-speed radiometers and specialized X- and Gamma-ray sensors to capture the ultra-fast signatures of Transient Luminous Events like Blue Jets shooting up from thunderstorms or Red Sprites flashing up in the ionosphere. Data from the Danish-led experiment is hoped to provide insights into the energy exchange processes between the dense gaseous atmosphere and the Mesosphere/Thermosphere wh ere charged particles roam.

MISSE-FF, (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/misse-ff/) the second utilization payload riding in the Trunk, will open new possibilities for Materials Science outside the Space Station. A product of Alpha Space, the MISSE Flight Facility takes the original MISSE concept as a basis which had a successful run of over a decade starting in 2001 and exposed over 1,500 samples to the space environment.

While the original MISSE required spacewalking astronauts to deploy & remove the samples, MISSE-FF re-packages the experiment onto a central module hosting up to 14 exchangeable sample carries that can be transferred robotically, no-longer taking up precious crew time. Additionally, MISSE-FF can support powered payloads and offers regular image collection of deployed samples to permit an in-detail study of how different materials degrade in the challenging space environment.

The third Trunk Payload is a spare Pump Flow Control Subassembly (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/pfcs/) to be pre-staged outside ISS in case one of the Station's eight operating PFCS units encounters a failure and requires replacement. These units are tasked with circulating ammonia coolant through the photovoltaic power-generation system and build an integral part of the Station's functionality as a world-class laboratory.

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Mixed Crops inside Veggie – Photo: NASA

While the Station's external robots will be dealing with moving the trunk payloads, the four U.S. Segment crew members will enter a busy sprint to empty out the Dragon, perform dozens of experiments, and then re-pack the craft with items for return to Earth – penciled in for May 2nd if all goes according to plan.

Research heading up on this mission includes a study exploring how gravity affects the process of hardening materials through heat treatment, how prolonged exposure to microgravity changes bone marrow production in humans, and whether luminous cells can be used as a tracer for tracking metabolic activity for future drug development studies.

Also riding up on the Dragon is new equipment for the Station's Veggie facility to test out new watering and nutrient delivery hardware in a bid to increase the harvests of lettuce and other vegetables grown on ISS for crew consumption and a learning curve for future missions actively relying on plant growth as a food source.

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RemoveDebris – Photo: SSTL

Taking up a large portion of Dragon's internal volume is the RemoveDebris satellite, (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/removedebris/) the largest and heaviest to be deployed from ISS via the Japanese Airlock. After deployment some weeks after arriving on ISS, the SSTL-built satellite will be setting out on a mission testing tools for active space debris removal including a net capture demonstration, a harpoon mechanism and a vision-based navigation system for approaching uncooperative targets in space.

Getting this precious cargo on the way toward ISS fell to a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket, employing Booster 1039 that first flew in August 2017 on the SpX-12 mission and was paired with a factory-new Block 4 second stage. Processing the sooty booster after its successful Return-to-launch-site landing half a year ago was smooth and the second stage was shipped to Cape Canaveral on March 1st to begin the build-up for the mission.

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Photo: Erik Kuna, erikkuna.com (http://erikkuna.com/)

Falcon 9 completed its Static Fire Test on Wednesday and received its payload on Friday and Saturday before returning to the launch pad for the customary late cargo load – a feature of Dragon that permits time-critical items to be loaded inside 24 hours to launch. Late-load items for the SpX-14 mission included one JAXA Rodent Module, a pair on InVitroBone modules and various time-critical experiment samples riding to ISS in a Polar freezer or double cold bags.

Taking its vertical position atop SLC-40 before dawn, Falcon 9 started its countdown with a multi-hour checkout campaign before computers took over at the T-70-minute mark to load over 500 metric tons of sub-cooled Liquid Oxygen and chilled Rocket Propellant 1 into the two-stage rocket. Operations continued like clockwork as Falcon 9 headed into the tail-end of the count, comprising the fast-paced sequence of chilling down the nine Merlin 1D engines, exercising actuators and engine valves one last time, switching the rocket to internal power and closing out the process of loading propellant and pressurization gas onto the vehicle inside T-120 seconds to liftoff.

>> Falcon 9 FT Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/falcon-9-ft/)

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Falcon 9 came to life at the T-3-second mark when its redundant engine controllers commanded the nine powerplants to fire up and throttle to a collective launch thrust near 700 metric-ton-force. Hold-down systems released the vehicle at precisely 20:30:38 UTC and Falcon 9 thundered away from its Atlantic-side launch pad, balancing in a vertical posture before pitching to the north-east to deliver Dragon into the orbital plane of the Space Station.

Burning 2,500 Kilograms of propellant per second, Falcon 9 accelerated beyond the speed of sound in less than 66 seconds and encountered Maximum Dynamic Pressure only moments later, placing the used airframe of the core stage through peak stress on the way out of the atmosphere.

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The nine Merlins revved back up to full thrust after passing MaxQ and continued pushing Falcon 9 until T+2 minutes and 41 seconds – employing a slightly altered thrust profile that throttled back toward the end of the burn (likely in an effort to set the proper separation mass of the 1st stage to create the desired starting conditions for its descent test).

MECO, Main Engine Cutoff, occurred after the seasoned booster accelerated the vehicle to a speed of 2,191 meters per second followed four seconds later by the separation of the stages at an altitude of 78 Kilometers. Four pneumatic pushers sent the two stages on separate ways with B1039.2 headed into a data-gathering exercise toward a mock landing target in the Atlantic while Stage 2 was tasked with lifting Dragon into orbit.

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Monday's mission was SpaceX's fifth Falcon 9 launch in a row that flew the first stage in throw-away mode. Of those, four were by choice while one was by necessity due to rough seas preventing a Drone Ship Recovery attempt on the Hispasat mission. This recent streak of expendable missions is due to SpaceX shifting gears toward the inauguration of the finalized Falcon 9 Block 5 version later this month – allowing Block 3 and 4 first stage that are deemed unsuitable for a third mission to be expended to clear storage room for what is expected to be a flood of recovered boosters once Block 5 gets going at full speed.

Opting for a string of expendable missions with leftover performance also afforded SpaceX some opportunities for data collection not possible on operational recovery missions. Going through the motions of a mimicked sea-based return, the boosters of recent Falcon 9 missions were flown in different profiles – testing out alterations to the boost-back and entry burn profiles, though particular focus was on the atmospheric leg of the booster's return.

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Stage Separation – Photo: SpaceX Webcast

Flight dynamics assessments looked at different angle-of-attack profiles that may allow for additional reduction of fuel needed for the final deceleration maneuver toward landing.

According to SpaceX, Booster 1039 was to continue exploring the bounds of what will be considered acceptable angle-of-attack profiles during atmospheric descent and collect data on the more-aggressive landing burns needed for fuel-constrained drone ship landings. Signals from the first stage were lost around eight minutes into the mission and SpaceX is not expected to comment on the of the planned data collection.

While the booster found its watery grave, Falcon's second stage was tasked with earning the money – firing up its 95,000-Kilogram-force MVac engine two minutes and 53 seconds into the flight on a planned burn of six minutes and 11 seconds to lift Dragon into orbit. The protective nose cone separated at T+3:25 when the vehicle had crossed 115 Kilometers in altitude, continuing to push toward an injection speed of 7.7 Kilometers per second.

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Propulsive flight ended at T+9 minutes and ten seconds and SpaceX confirmed a good orbit was achieved by the Falcon 9 rocket. The Dragon was released on its chase of the Space Station at the T+10:12-mark and successfully primed its propulsion system shortly after separation followed by the deployment of the power-generating solar arrays.

Embarking on a 25-orbit, 38-hour rendezvous with the Space Station, Dragon will be tasked with its first and largest orbit-raising maneuver around five and a half hours after launch. Another pair of engine burns around mid-day on Tuesday (UTC) will place the Dragon in a position to slowly catch up with ISS from behind and below before initiating its rendezvous in the overnight hours to Wednesday.

If all goes well, Dragon will arrive in the Station's vicinity at 9 UTC for a straight-up approach to the planned capture point just ten meters from ISS. JAXA Astronaut Norishige Kanai will be at the controls of the Station's robotic arm for the planned 11 UTC capture on Wednesday to mark the start of Dragon's month-long stay.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980937443519225856)

#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) has hundreds TO thousands of thruster firings to adjust altitude and attitude before it reaches Station. But just a few major burns to adjust altitude/trajectory to get to Station. #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/980938023809572864)

#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) is in a good orbit. Power systems functioning perfectly. Propulsion system is active. Next major step is to open the navigation bay door. #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 8 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/980937660893220864)

Jensen on the first stage: It was a hard landing in the ocean. We were mostly focused on the reentry data. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash)

ЦитироватьSpaceX CRS-14: Falcon 9 launches CRS-14 Dragon spacecraft

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Опубликовано: 2 апр. 2018 г.

ЦитироватьFalcon 9 launches CRS-14 & Dragon spacecraft solar array deployment

SciNews (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjU6ZwoTQtKWfz1urL7XcbA)
Опубликовано: 2 апр. 2018 г.

ЦитироватьSuccessful Liftoff Begins SpaceX Dragon Mission to Space Station

Bob Granath (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/author/rgranath/)
Posted Apr 2, 2018 at 6:22 pm

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The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station.
Photo credit: NASA

A care package with more than 5,800 pounds of supplies from Earth is on its way to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. The company's 14th commercial cargo mission to resupply the space station began at 4:30 p.m. EDT with liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The Dragon spacecraft now is in orbit with its solar arrays deployed and providing power.

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With the countdown clock in the foreground, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launching a Dragon spacecraft with supplies for the International Space Station.
Photo Credit: NASA/Dan Casper

During a prelaunch news conference, Pete Hasbrook, NASA's associate program scientist for International Space Station Program Science Office at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, praised the work of Commercial Resupply Services companies.

"The International Space Station is a world-class and multi- disciplinary laboratory in space," he said. "Our commercial providers help in bringing our sciences forward and keep it going on space station and bringing benefits back to Earth."

The Dragon spacecraft will deliver science, research, crew supplies and hardware to the orbiting laboratory. Read more about science experiments on board at:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/2018/04/02/whats-on-board-dragon-for-spacex-crs-14/

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Project scientists Matthew Romeyn, left, and Dr. Ye Zhang place seeds in Veggie Passive Orbital Nutrient Delivery System (PONDS) units inside a laboratory at the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper

Live NASA TV coverage of the rendezvous and capture will begin at 5:30 a.m. EDT on April 4 on http://www.nasa.gov/live

Expedition 55 Flight Engineers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, backed up by NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, will supervise the operation of the Canadarm2 robotic arm for Dragon's capture. After Dragon capture, ground commands will be sent from mission control in Houston for the station's arm to rotate and install it on the bottom of the station's Harmony module.

The Dragon spacecraft will spend approximately one month attached to the space station. Unberthing and release of the Dragon from the space station is targeted for May 2. About five hours after Dragon leaves the station, it will conduct its deorbit burn, which lasts up to 10 minutes. It takes about 30 minutes for Dragon to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 1 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/980930517003657216)

Dragon CRS-14 has been cataloged as 43267, and is being tracked in a 204 x 357 km x 51.6 deg orbit. The two solar array covers are being tracked in similar orbits.

ЦитироватьSpaceX CRS-14: Solar Arrays Deploy

NASAKennedy (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjJtr2fFcUp6yljzJOzpHUg)

Опубликовано: 2 апр. 2018 г.

ЦитироватьHrono пишет:
Интересно, уже второй раз первая ступень не спасается, а опоры установлены, может быть их тайно сажают на секретный правительственный корабль?  ;)  

ЦитироватьOlegIn пишет:
Dragon как имел полную массу около 7-8 тонн

ЦитироватьOlegIn пишет:
Получается РН работает в холостую.

ЦитироватьOlegIn пишет:
Интересно, Falcon-FT может выводить на НОО почти 23 тонны в режиме без посадки и более 15 тонн с посадкой.

ЦитироватьOlegIn пишет:
Получается РН работает в холостую.

ЦитироватьOlegIn пишет:
Я так понимаю что ее недозаправляют?

ЦитироватьСтарый пишет:
Интересно, никто ещё не додумался выводить в одном запуске два Дракона?

ЦитироватьРуслан Т пишет:
С этим грузовым кораблём на орбиту отправились семена боярышника.

ЦитироватьЗловредный пишет:
Я думаю, ноги им нужны, чтобы поведение ступени в ходе эксперимента было таким же, как у их будущих ступеней, которые они собираются спасать (и для которых они эксперименты эти и проводят).

ЦитироватьСтарый пишет:
Интересно, никто ещё не додумался выводить в одном запуске два Дракона?

ЦитироватьЧебурашка пишет:
А это идея. Сверху с экипажем, а снизу с барахлом.

ЦитироватьApollo13 пишет:
РН работает почти на максимуме своих возможностей (во всяком случае возможностей Фалкон-9 1.2 Блок 1) с возвратом первой ступени к месту старта.

ЦитироватьOlegIn пишет:

ЦитироватьApollo13 пишет:
РН работает почти на максимуме своих возможностей (во всяком случае возможностей Фалкон-9 1.2 Блок 1) с возвратом первой ступени к месту старта.

Но в этом (да и в нескольких прошлых драконов) запусках уже используется именно Falcon-FT, а не 1.2. И в этом запуске Falcon-FT запускалась без возврата первой ступени. Тут скорее всего не стали параллельно с развитием РН развивать и дракона, возможно из за сложностей с большой бюрократической машиной НАСА.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 11 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/981002026460073984)

More photos from today's Falcon 9 launch → http://flickr.com/spacex  (https://t.co/095WHWMtKp)

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31566.jpg)Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist) 2 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/981156881375944704)

Falcon 9 liftoffs at 4:30pm from SLC-40 seen from NASA's beach house.
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ЦитироватьSpaceX supply ship departs Cape Canaveral for space station
April 2, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Monday fr om Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: SpaceX

Hauling nearly three tons of supplies, hardware and experiments, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket shot into orbit Monday fr om Cape Canaveral, with a previously-flown Dragon cargo carrier riding a reused first stage booster to kick off a nearly two-day journey to the International Space Station.

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The commercial cargo delivery flight departed Cape Canaveral with a roar from the Falcon 9's Merlin 1D main engines, producing 1.7 million pounds of thrust to dispatch the 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket toward the northeast over the Atlantic Ocean.

The Falcon 9's on-board guidance computer pivoted the rocket on a trajectory to align with the space station's orbital track, and the slender kerosene-fueled launcher climbed through wispy high-level clouds, broke the sound barrier, and arced away from Florida's Space Coast trailing a flickering tongue of orange exhaust.

Nine minutes later, the Falcon 9's upper stage delivered the Dragon supply ship into orbit, followed by deployment of the SpaceX-owned cargo capsule. The Dragon spacecraft extended its solar arrays to begin generating electricity a few minutes later.

"Dragon is in a good orbit, solar arrays have deployed, and the propulsion system is operating nominally," said Jessica Jensen, director of Dragon mission management at SpaceX.

The robotic supply ship will fine-tune its approach to the space station Tuesday, setting up for a laser-guided rendezvous Wednesday that will culminate in the Dragon's capture by the lab's Canadian-built robotic arm around 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).

The supply haul is the 14th cargo mission to the space station launched by SpaceX under a contract with NASA valued at more than $2 billion, covering 20 logistics deliveries through 2019. SpaceX also has a follow-on contract, along with competitors Orbital ATK and Sierra Nevada Corp., for additional resupply missions through 2024.

Monday's launch was the second time SpaceX has flown a reused rocket booster and a reused cargo capsule on the same mission. In sum, SpaceX has launched previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket stages 11 times, all successfully, including two modified boosters on the maiden flight of the company Falcon Heavy rocket.

And all of SpaceX's upcoming resupply missions to the space station, at least for this year and 2019, will employ reused Dragon capsules plucked from the sea and refurbished for future flights.

"What's really neat about this is it's becoming the norm," Jensen said in a pre-launch press conference. "And we like that.

"Reusability is really important for the future of spaceflight," she said, echoing the ethos of SpaceX founder Elon Musk. "It's the only way we're going to get thousands of people to space, to explore the stars, the moon, Mars and to make life multi-planetary. Otherwise, it's just going to be a cost-prohibitive dream."

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket climbs into space after liftoff Monday. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket launched Monday first flew in August 2017 on SpaceX's 12th space station resupply mission, then returned to a landing at Cape Canaveral a few minutes later. The Dragon capsule made a round-trip journey to the space station and back to Earth in April and May of 2016, and the craft was the first to debut improved sealing to prevent sea water from infiltrating critical internal components after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

The water sealing upgrade "really paid off," Jensen said. "We were able to ... reuse many more components on this vehicle compared to previous Dragons. On this vehicle that's flying ... there are only a handful of things that we are not reusing. Obviously, the trunk is all new, and we still have to have a new heat shield, as well as new parachutes, but almost everything on the interior of the capsule we were able to reuse."

SpaceX did not try to land the first stage on Monday's mission, electing to use the rocket for experimental maneuvers downrange from Cape Canaveral over the Atlantic Ocean.

"We are looking forward to reuse in the long term, and it's always good for us if we can get data that is sort of pushing the bounds," Jensen said before the launch. "In this case, we have a booster that has already flown. We were looking at the service lifetime of that and trading should we bring it back to land or the drone ship, or should we do a demonstration mission.

"This one seemed like a really good opportunity to fly a trajectory a little bit out more toward the limits, and that way our engineers can collect additional data not only during re-entry, but for the landing, that will be useful for the future."

The rocket was expected to make a hard splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean, Jensen said.

Monday's blastoff was the second by a Falcon 9 rocket in three days.

A Falcon 9 rocket, also powered by a previously-flown first stage booster, launched Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, with 10 commercial Iridium communications satellites. The quick turnarounds from coast-to-coast are nothing new for SpaceX, which conducted Falcon 9 flights from Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg as close as two days apart last year.

SpaceX's next rocket launch is scheduled for April 16, when a newly-manufactured booster will hurl NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite into an orbit that eventually will each the beyond the moon. The science probe will try to find planets orbiting bright, relatively nearby stars, worlds that might be ripe for follow-up by bigger observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope.

Engineers at SpaceX's headquarters at Hawthorne, California, will keep busy in the coming days with the Dragon mission.

After its arrival at the space station Wednesday, the Dragon will be maneuvered to a parking port on the Harmony module for a month-long stay. Astronauts will open hatches leading to the cargo freighter, then begin unpacking the approximately 3,794 pounds (1,721 kilograms) of equipment and provisions inside Dragon's pressurized compartment.

Cargo loaded inside Dragon's internal cabin includes food, clothing, care packages, and more than a ton supplies related to scientific investigations.

The experiments carried in Dragon's pressurized module include a robotic testbed satellite that will be released from the space station in the next few months to study the effectiveness of techniques to capture a chunk of space junk and move it out of Earth orbit.

Developed in a public-private partnership between the European Commission and European industry, the RemoveDebris mission will test the utility of nets and harpoons to capture tumbling objects in space, repurposing devices commonly used in fishing to pluck debris out of orbit and bring them into Earth's atmosphere to burn up.

Guglielmo Aglietti, principal investigator for the RemoveDebris mission, calls the project a "proof-of-concept."

Scientists also developed experiments to look at the effects of microgravity on bone marrow and wound healing. Lessons from those studies could help researchers develop ways to counteract negative health effects of long-duration spaceflight or bedrest, and investigate treatments for wounds soldiers suffer in combat.

There is also an experiment in sintering that could help engineers fabricate or repair tools and spacecraft components on future missions.

New high-definition cameras and a custom HP printer for station astronauts also launched inside the Dragon capsule Monday.

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A view inside the Dragon spacecraft's trunk, housing (clockwise from upper left) the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, the Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility — a materials exposure experiment platform — and the Pump and Flow Control Subassembly. Credit: SpaceX

While astronauts transfer cargo delivered inside the Dragon module, mission control will command the station's robotic arm to pull three payload packages out of the spaceship's unpressurized trunk section.

One of the payloads is the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, or ASIM, an instrument funded by the European Space Agency and led by Danish scientists to study lightning from the space station.

The instrument's optical, X-ray and gamma ray sensors will observe electrical discharges high above thunderstorms — with names like blue jets, red sprites and elves — that extend up to the edge of space.

Scientists know little about how the discharges are triggered, said Torsten Neubert, ASIM science team coordinator at the Technical University of Denmark.

Lightning processes are slowed at high altitude, Neubert said, making it a good laboratory for studying how electrical discharges emanate through the atmosphere.

"They are really lightning, except they are lightning processes in the upper atmosphere," Neubert said of sprites and jets. "So they look a little bit different, but if we understand them, we'll also understand normal lightning much better."

Once mounted outside the European Columbus module, the lightning monitor may help scientists pinpoint the sources of flashes of gamma rays detected coming from Earth's atmosphere by some astronomical instruments in space. Scientists also hope to study lightning's effects on ozone and other gases in the atmosphere during the instrument's two-year observing campaign.

Also inside the trunk: A platform to expose materials like polymers, coatings, fabrics, computer chips, and solar cells to the harsh environment of space, helping engineers design future spacecraft. The Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility, or MISSE-FF, was developed by Alpha Space, a Houston-based company that wants to offer the platform to companies seeking to test the resilience of materials to extreme temperatures, ionizing radiation, space junk and other hazards of spaceflight.

NASA is also sending up a refurbished coolant pump for staging outside the space station as a spare for the orbiting lab's huge power truss segments.

The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to remain at the space station until May 2, when the robotic arm will detach the capsule and release it for a re-entry back into Earth's atmosphere. Parachutes will slow the ship's descent into the Pacific Ocean, wh ere SpaceX recovery crews will stand by to retrieve Dragon and its contents.

The Dragon spacecraft will return to Earth with more than 4,000 pounds of equipment and experiment specimens, including a humanoid robot named Robonaut that has been on the space station since 2011. Engineers want to bring Robonaut back home for repairs.

"Robonaut has had some issues with being able to power up on-orbit ... and after a lot of troubleshooting on-orbit and a lot of analysis on the ground, they've concluded pretty conclusively that there's a short of some sort on one of the circuitboards, and they need to bring it home in order to repair that," said Pete Hasbrook, NASA's associate space station program scientist.

Developed as a testbed to see whether robots could help astronauts clean and maintain the space station, Robonaut launched aboard the final flight of the space shuttle Discovery in 2011. A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule delivered legs for Robonaut in 2014.

Robonaut could be re-launched on a future mission after the repairs are finished.

"The plan is to bring this one down, understand why it failed, and then make the decision of wh ere we want to go in the future," said Joel Montalbano, NASA's deputy space station program manager.

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ЦитироватьResupply Ship Midway to Station Amid Maintenance and Science Work

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Apr 3, 2018 at 11:38 am

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The "Horn of Africa" is seen through one of the seven windows that make up the Cupola, a dome-shaped module on the International Space Station. The space station crew will be inside the Cupola Wednesday morning operating a robotics workstation to capture the upcoming SpaceX Dragon.

The SpaceX Dragon (https://www.nasa.gov/spacex) space freighter is midway on its trip to the resupply the International Space Station's Expedition 55 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition55/index.html) crew. Waiting to capture Dragon Wednesday morning are Flight Engineers Norishige Kanai (http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/astro/biographies/kanai/index.html) and Scott Tingle (http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/scott-d-tingle).

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The two astronauts have been reviewing procedures and training on a computer for Dragon's capture for a few weeks now. Kanai will command the Canadarm2 robotic arm to reach out and grapple Dragon about 7 a.m. EDT Wednesday when it reaches a point about 10 meters away from the station. Tingle is backing up Kanai and will monitor Dragon's approach and rendezvous from inside the Cupola. Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/richard-r-arnold) will be assisting the duo by overseeing approach telemetry from a communications unit on the space station. NASA TV (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html) will begin its live mission coverage starting at 5:30 a.m.

Dragon is carrying a variety of cargo including new science experiments (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/new-research-heading-to-space-station-aboard-14th-spacex-resupply-mission)researching the human body, plants and how materials react when exposed to space. The Marrow (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1673) study will explore bone marrow and the blood cells it produces. PONDS (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/tupperware-takes-to-space-to-help-improve-astronaut-diets) will explore ways to achieve uniform plant growth as astronauts supplement their diets with fresh space-grown greens. The Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/Alpha_Space_Small_Business_Makes_Big_Strides), or MISSE-FF, will observe what happens to materials exposed to outer space phenomena such as ultraviolet radiation, charged particles and micro-meteoroids.
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... Kanai readied mouse habitat gear for a rodent study (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7423) being delivered on Dragon. Kanai and Tingle later ended the day with more Dragon robotics practice.

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ЦитироватьPhotos: Recycled Falcon 9 – Dragon Combination Blasts Off from Florida
 April 3, 2018 (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-crs-14-falcon-9-launch-photos/) 

A flight-proven Falcon 9 – the ninth of its kind to take flight – lifted off from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 20:30:38 UTC on April 2nd, 2018 with the Dragon SpX-14 spacecraft, a previously-flown Dragon with 33 days of spaceflight experience. Falcon 9 successfully lifted Dragon into Low Earth Orbit via a 162-second first stage and six-minute second stage burn, sending it off on a 25-orbit rendezvous with the International Space Station to deliver 2,647 Kilograms of cargo, including three external payloads and an innovative debris removal satellite. SpaceX did not recover the first stage and used its descent toward a soft splashdown landing to collect data on borderline flight environments.

All Photos: Erik Kuna, erikkuna.com (http://erikkuna.com/)

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29242.jpg)DutchSpace‏ @DutchSpace (https://twitter.com/DutchSpace) 40 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/DutchSpace/status/981223888683175936)

The @spacex (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) with #ESA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESA?src=hash) @esaspaceflight (https://twitter.com/esaspaceflight) #ASIM (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ASIM?src=hash) @ASIM_Payload (https://twitter.com/ASIM_Payload) is currently ~20 minutes ahead of the #ISS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISS?src=hash) and closing in on a Western European pass
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Dragon SpX-14 Cargo Overview

Dragon SpX-14 is the fourteenth operational mission of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract. It is the first of at least three Dragon cargo missions planned in 2018.

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Loaded with more than two and a half metric tons of cargo, Dragon will be delivering the typical mix of utilization hardware, maintenance gear and cew supplies to the Space Station to keep up its capability of serving as a world-class laboratory in Low Earth Orbit. The 14th regular Dragon flight will carry three external payloads to the Space Station: the MISSE Flight Facility as a new state-of-the-art exposure facility for materials science outside the Space Station, the ASIM instrument to study interactions where Earth's atmosphere meets space, and a spare pump assembly for the Station's photovoltaic power-generation system.

The Dragon SpX-14 mission is part of the CRS-1 contact extension awarded by NASA to bridge a gap to the second round of Commercial Resupply Services contracts that cover the Space Station's cargo requirements for the first half of the 2020s. Under the CRS-1 extension, SpaceX will keep flying Dragon 1 spacecraft through CRS-20 while Orbital ATK received an order of three additional missions.

Dragon SpX-14 is the third SpaceX cargo mission to fly a re-used spacecraft and the second to employ a "flight-proven" Falcon 9 first stage as part of the company's re-use business model that has taken major steps toward becoming routine over the past year. The SpX-14 mission is re-using the Dragon C110 spacecraft that spent 33 days in orbit in April/May 2016 supporting the Dragon SpX-8 mission (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx8/), delivering 3,136 Kilograms of cargo to the Space Station including the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module. The Falcon 9 launching this mission will employ Booster #1039 fr om the SpX-12 mission of August 2017.

NASA completed extensive reviews of data on the condition of previously flown Falcon 9 first stages and life-leader experimentation as well as SpaceX's successful re-use missions in 2017 to conclude that the use of flight-proven first stages comes with no to minimal additional risk to the success of the overall CRS mission. Engineering reviews cleared Dragon missions to fly on first stages with no more than one prior Low Earth Orbit mission, excluding first stages that have gone through more rigorous re-entry environments when flying higher energy missions like GTO deliveries. Dragon SpX-13 in late 2017 was the first NASA CRS mission to fly on a previously used Falcon 9.

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All in all, Dragon SpX-14 is delivering 2,647 Kilograms of cargo to the International Space Station, primarily focused on utilization hardware and dozens of science experiments – some of which are to be completed while Dragon is attached to ISS in order to ride back to Earth on the spacecraft. Also aboard the Dragon is the largest satellite to be deployed fr om the Space Station to date.

Dragon takes a unique spot on the Space Station's cargo vehicle roster, given its ability of returning meaningful quantities of cargo to the ground – allowing for the return to performed experiments for laboratory analysis and the return of failed hardware for inspections and/or refurbishment. To that end, Dragon SpX-14 will be tasked with ferrying nearly two metric tons of cargo back to Earth, primarily consisting of science hardware and experiment samples riding back to the ground in laboratory freezers and double cold bags.

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• Total Cargo: 2,647 Kilograms
• Pressurized Cargo (with packaging): 1,721 Kilograms
• Science Investigations: 1,070 Kilograms
• Satellites: Remove Debris (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/removedebris/), Overview 1A (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/overview-1a/) (?)
  

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[/li][/LIST][/li][li]Unpressurized Cargo: 926 Kilograms

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• MISSE-FF – Materials on ISS Experiment – Flight Facility (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/misse-ff/)
• ASIM – Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/asim/)
• PFCS – Pump Flow Control Subassembly (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/pfcs/)
  

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RemoveDebris Satellite

>> RemoveDebris Satellite Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/removedebris/)

MISSE Flight Facility

>> Detailed MISSE-FF Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/misse-ff/)

ASIM – Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor

>> ASIM Instrument Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/asim/)

PFCS Spare

>> PFCS Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx14/pfcs/)

NASA Sample Cartridge Assembly

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Liquid phase sintered tungsten alloy – Image: San Diego State University

The MSL SCA-GEDS-German experiment will be run in the Materials Science Laboratory aboard ESA's Columbus module to look into the underlying mechanisms of sintering processes and their ability of creating hardened materials. The Physical Sciences experiment was developed at San Diego State University under Principal Investigator Randall German.

Sintering is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by heat or pressure, typically with the goal of creating a hardened piece of material. Typically, sintering occurs without melting the material to the point of liquefecation, though liquid-phase sintering has been a method used for the fabrication of net-shaped composite materials.

Although sintering has been used for centuries and is a critical element in a large number of industrial branches today, the underlying scientific principles are only poorly understood. The goal of this experiment is to determine the mechanisms driving the density, size, shape, and properties for liquid phase sintered bodies in Earth-gravity and microgravity conditions with special focus on the causes of distortion in the material that appears to be alleviated by the presence of a gravitational force.

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During low-temperature sintering, powders can gain strength through interparticle bonding – typically through solid-state surface diffusion, followed by further strengthening at high temperatures driven by densification of the powder material. However, a secondary process occurring at high temperatures causes a softening of the material due to a distortion phenomenon. While conducive for the formation of net-shaped composites it is counterproductive if only densification is desired. Working out the interplay between the various processes may allow for a sintering method to be developed that can accomplish densification without distortion.

Previous studies have shown surprising results as gravity may be playing a beneficial role in reducing distortion – in contrast to a very large number of physical processes wh ere gravity has been identified as a disturbing force. Microgravity liquid-phase sintering experiments performed to date have shown a lesser degree of densification and higher distortion, raising questions on the underlying mechanisms to fully understand the role of gravity to work out routes for minimized distortion.

It has been found that when a liquid phase forms, densification can be accelerated via solid transport within the liquid, capillary forces and liquid lubrication. This, however, only works to a certain degree as long as there are solid bonds or open pores in the sintering body. If the degree of liquefecation outweighs the solid material, substantial weakness is introduced.

Scientists have likened this process to building a sand castle which works poorly when one only has dry sand with no strength and no ability to hold shape or when sand is saturated with water. It works best with an intermediate mix wh ere the liquid pulls the sand grains into contact and gives the greatest strength.

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The MSL SCA-GEDS-German experiment observes phase changes and product formation within solid mixtures undergoing spontaneous reaction in the absence of gravity to find out what causes lower performance, an inability to eliminate pores, and higher distortion. Cartridges with different sample materials will be delivered to ISS by Dragon SpX-14 and fully processed within the Materials Science Laboratory (MSL) Low Gradient Furnace (LGF) followed by return to Earth for sample analysis with the added context of temperature profiles and other sensor data from the furnace.

Knowledge gained by this experiment will be beneficial for sintering processes on Earth as information on the underlying mechanisms of distortion will lead to better protocols to increase densification. For the spacefarers of the future, knowledge on sintering in zero- or reduced gravity environments is of importance as extraterrestrial repair and construction based on freeform fabrication from powders will be a key element of settlements on the Moon, Mars and beyond.

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Nano Racks Microscopes Facility

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The NanoRacks Microscope Facility hosts three Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) microscopes for use on the International Space Station to study in-situ samples in a simplified architecture using plug-and-play USB interfaces to allow the microscopes to be used from any laptop. "The NanoRacks Microscopes are ideally suited for examining specimen slides of yeasts and molds, cultures, plant and animal parts, fibers, bacteria, etc"

The first of the three Microscopes offers objectives for 5x, 10x and 20x magnification, Microscope-2 has the same video head but adds a lighting system and offers 20x to 40x, and 200x digital power magnification as well as a 20x eyepiece for viewing with 4x to 8x, and 50x power. Microscope-3 is a handheld microscope with a 5-megapixel imager, adjustable polarization to set the proper light level and reduce glare, eight LEDs for sample illumination, and 10x to 240x zoom magnification.

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Multi-Use Variable-G Platform

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The Multi-Use Variable-G Platform, MVG, is a product of Techshot to expand the Space Station's scientific repertoire by adding a new centrifuge facility capable of producing anything between microgravity and 2 G of artificial gravity. This will open up possibilities for a large number of studies, including commercial exploitation of the novel environment found on the International Space Station. MVG is suitable for a number of sample types, including fruit flies, flatworms, plants, fish, cells, protein crystals and many others.

MVP is a commercially developed, manufactured, owned and operated platform, offering a pair of 39-centimeter carousels that can produce up to 2G of artificial gravity with six experiment modules on each carousel. The facility is designed to allow for easy exchange of sample modules, permitting a large number of experiments to be completed with little crew time requirements. Real-time video and still imagery, including microscopy, can be provided for each sample module per the specific needs of every experiment and the facility provides additional environmental control with a temperature range of 14 to 40 °C and a humidity between 50 ad 80% while data logging is provided for Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide.

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Veggie PONDS

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Veggie Facility – Photo: NASA

Veggie PONDS uses the existing Veggie plant-growth hardware present on the International Space Station as well as knowledge gained through the initial experiment runs to develop a passive nutrient delivery system that could build the basis for the reliable plant production facilities on future long-duration space missions. PONDS, the Passive Orbital Nutrient Delivery System, addresses some of the deficiencies found with the standard plant pillow system employed by the initial Veggie runs and will also expand the facility's envelope by supporting larger leafy vegetables and fruit crops like tomatoes which will be grown as part of the Veg-05 experiment.

The PONDS system is designed to mitigate microgravity effects on water distribution, increase oxygen exchange and provide sufficient room for root zone growth. The initial PONDS experiment has the goal of validating whether improved water and nutrient delivery can produce a more uniform plant growth and increase crop yields.

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Lettuce Plants growing inside Veggie Facility – Photo: NASA

The experiment will use 'Outredgeous' red romaine lettuce and mizuna mustard plants, the former has been used for studies Veg-01 through Veg-03 and will allow for comparisons between plant pillows and PONDS. Another aspect will be studying the microbial load of plants grown during the initial Veggie runs and those provided with PONDS technology.

The PONDS architecture was designed at the Kennedy Space Center and involves contributions by TechShot, and commercial partner Tupperware. PONDS retains the arcillite, a calcined clay type, as growth medium which has been sel ected through comparative studies in the earlier Veggie runs and PONDS continues as single-use hardware, only employed for one growth run to manage microbial contamination. Like previous runs, PONDS will use the cut-and-come again harvest technique with four planned harvests or more if plant growth allows.

The crew will be cleared to consume any lettuce that is not needed for analysis on the ground.

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Veg-01 ran in 2014 and provided valuable data in the form of returned water samples and root pads, imagery acquired in orbit of the growth process, and plant samples that were brought back to Earth. This data helped investigators assess the two different growth media with respect to water and root distribution within the different sized particles to chose media for future Veggie missions.

Although the overall Veg-01 experiment was a success, a number of deficiencies with regard to the plant pillows and the water delivery systems were identified leading to modifications made to the pillows and watering procedures that will be tested by Veg-03, also introducing a different crop with different water requirements. In 2015, the Space Station crew got their first taste of home-grown lettuce harvested from the Veggie Plant Growth Unit. Another 2015 study provided the crew with a touch of color when the first flowers grown on ISS were harvested by Astronaut Scott Kelly.

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Space-Grown Zinnia Flowers in Veggie Facility – Photo: NASA

Veg-03 A-C tested different crop harvest techniques, showing that cut-and-come again repetitive harvest could be used to double the amount harvested with the same set of starting materials; Veg-03 B and C tested a new crop, Tokyo bekana. The Veg-03 D-F experiments looked into mixed growth of different leafy greens and different harvest schedules.

The Veggie experiment facility provides lighting and nutrient supply and is capable of supporting a variety of plant species that can be cultivated for educational outreach, fresh food and even recreation for crewmembers on long-duration missions. Thermal control is provided fr om ISS in-cabin systems and the carbon dioxide source is the ambient air aboard ISS.

Plants grown in the Veg-03 facility will be observed to determine how plants sense gravity and how they respond to microgravity. Serving as a pathfinder, the plants grown as part of VEGGIE will be harvested and studied before being cleared for consumption by crew members in orbit. The VEGGIE facility is the largest volume available aboard ISS for plant growth, which will allow the study of larger plants that could not be grown in previous experiments.

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Veggie uses a plant growth chamber using planting pillows and an LED bank to provide lighting. Ground testing of the pillow planting concept led to the selection of growth media and fertilizers, plant species, materials, and protocols. The facility weighs 7.2 Kilograms and measures 53 by 40 centimeters and permits a maximum growth height of 45 centimeters. The root mat has a growing area of 0.16m² with a 2-liter fluid reservoir.

The system draws 115W of peak power and its LED banks can support adjustable wavelengths, light levels and day and night cycles to match the biological needs of the plants. A transparent teflon cover allows viewing of the plants. The plants will be photographed regularly to assess plant growth rates and health. Tissue samples will provide information on possible growth anomalies when being compared to ground controls. Environmental data will be provided by a data logger that measures temperature, humidity and pCO2.

The first studies performed with VEGGIE will also provide microbial samples of the plants and pillows to assess the level of microbial contamination and implement corrective measures if needed. For most species, microbial contamination levels will be well within limits and pose no threat to the crew. Other species that naturally have higher levels of microorganisms may need a sanitation method which must be developed and tested as part of the experiment. Growing plants in space provides crewmembers with fresh foods to supplement their diets, as well as a positive effect on morale and well-being.

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 SpaceX did not recover the first stage and used its descent toward a soft splashdown landing to collect data on borderline flight environments.

ЦитироватьАлександр Репной пишет:
Во сколько по времени сегодня стыковка дракоши с МКС?

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/981399324155437056)

The @spacex (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) Dragon CRS-14 cargo ship has manoeuvred to a 400 x 403 km x 51.6 deg orbit on approach to the ISS. Meanwhile, the two ejected solar array covers are in decaying 202 x 335 km orbits.

Цитировать04/04/2018 11:24 Stephen Clark

Closing in on the International Space Station a day-and-a-half after lifting off fr om Cape Canaveral, SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule is set to arrive at the orbiting research complex at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) Wednesday, when Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai will capture the supply ship with the station's robotic arm.

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The unpiloted Dragon supply ship carries more than 5,800 pounds (2,600 kilograms) of hardware, crew provisions and experiments, including a habitat with 12 rodents for a Japanese research investigation, a Danish-developed instrument to study high-altitude electrical discharges from thunderstorms, and a European smallsat aimed at testing technologies that could eliminate space junk.

Kanai will be assisted by NASA flight engineer Scott Tingle during Dragon's approach and capture operations. Astronaut Ricky Arnold will be monitoring communications between the space station and Dragon. The crew will be on standby to manually issue hold or retreat commands to the Dragon spacecraft, which will be flying on autopilot.

Laser navigation sensors and thermal cameras aboard the Dragon capsule will collect data on the range, closure rate and orientation between the supply ship and the space station.

The Dragon capsule lifted off at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT) Monday from Cape Canaveral.

Since liftoff, the cargo craft has completed several orbit adjustments using its rocket thrusters to boost itself to the space station's altitude more than 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth.

The Dragon will arrive at a hold point 350 meters -- or 1,150 feet -- below the space station around two hours before its scheduled capture by the robotic arm. The spacecraft will conduct a 180-degree yaw maneuver to align its grapple fixture with the position of the station's robotic arm before continuing the approach.

Soon after beginning its final approach sequence, the Dragon spacecraft will halt again at a hold position 250 meters, or 820 feet, below the space station. This brief hold allows ground controllers to assess the status of the rendezvous and issue a "go" for the Dragon 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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The Dragon spacecraft should depart the 250-meter hold point around 5:30 a.m. EDT (0930 GMT), heading for a 30-meter hold position before pressing on to a final point about 10 meters, or 33 feet, beneath the space station for capture by the robot arm.

Once in the grasp of the robot arm, Dragon will be maneuvered to a berthing port on the space station's Harmony module, wh ere it will stay until May 2. The supply ship will head back to Earth for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with around two tons of research specimens and other equipment requiring analysis and refurbishment.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/981471262672375809)

Dragon is early. 20 mins ahead of schedule. She's been to the ISS before, so that may explain a few things. (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125479.png) #KnowsTheRoad (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KnowsTheRoad?src=hash)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/981472591650152449)

While Dragon waits for the GO to proceed from 30 meters, this is the office for Norishige Kanai and Scott Tingle this morning for Dragon berthing operations. The Cupola Module RWS. #BetterThanYourOffice (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BetterThanYourOffice?src=hash)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/981473877426655233)

10:40 UTC now the capture time is the target. 20 minutes ahead of schedule. Dragon about to head to the capture point.
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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/981475143880003584)

Dragon and the ISS about to head into an orbital sunrise. Also, dawn for the East coast of the USA. Good morning, Americans.(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125286.png)(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125382.png)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 1 мин.1 минуту назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/981476395271491584)

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125344.png)Here comes the sun. Capture window now open.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/981476742677303297)

Again, congrats to the SpaceXer who said "We should put the logo here, because when she's captured....."
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 1 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/981480002708422657)

Dragon is ~10 meters from the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station). Capture sequence starting shortly → http://nasa.gov/ntv  (https://t.co/rdhLIxXhnI)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/981483323573788678)

Capture confirmed! Dragon is now attached to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) robotic arm.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 23 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/981481761510215681)

CAPTURE CONFIRMED for SpaceX CRS-14 Dragon:

FEATURE ARTICLE:
CRS-14 Dragon arrives at Space Station with science bonanza: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/04/crs-14-dragon-space-station-science-bonanza/ ... (https://t.co/2EF0JIT9aD)

- by Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF))

Berthed Ops Coverage:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45401.0 ... (https://t.co/H6EsaLWWmi)
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ЦитироватьUpcoming Events (All Times Eastern)

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Цитировать04/04/2018 13:45 Stephen Clark

Capture occurred at 6:40 a.m. EDT (1040 GMT).

04/04/2018 13:45 Stephen Clark

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.

ЦитироватьAstronauts Capture Dragon Resupply Ship

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Apr 4, 2018 at 6:50 am

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The SpaceX Dragon was grappled by the Canadarm2 robotic arm today as the space station orbited above the continent of Africa. Credit: NASA TV

While the International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/station) was traveling more than 250 miles over the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Norishige Kanai and NASA astronaut Scott Tingle captured the Dragon spacecraft at 6:40 a.m. EDT using the space station's Canadarm2 robotic arm.

Ground controllers will now send commands to begin the robotic installation of the spacecraft on the station's Harmony module. NASA Television coverage of installation will begin at 8:30 a.m. Watch online at www.nasa.gov/live (http://www.nasa.gov/live).

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The Dragon lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Monday, April 2 with more than 5,800 pounds of research investigations (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/SpX-14_research_launch_feature) and equipment, cargo and supplies to support dozens of the more than 250 investigations aboard the space station during Expeditions 55 and 56.

Among the research arriving on Dragon is a new facility to test materials, coatings and components, or other large experiments, in the harsh environment of space. Designed by Alpha Space and sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, the Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility (MISSE-FF) (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/Alpha_Space_Small_Business_Makes_Big_Strides) provides a platform for testing how materials react to exposure to ultraviolet radiation, atomic oxygen, ionizing radiation, ultrahigh vacuum, charged particles, thermal cycles, electromagnetic radiation, and micro-meteoroids in the low-Earth orbit environment.

The Canadian Space Agency's study Bone Marrow Adipose Reaction: Red or White (MARROW (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1673)) will look at the effects of microgravity on bone marrow and the blood cells it produces – an effect likened to that of long-term bed rest on Earth. The extent of this effect, and bone marrow's ability to recover when back on Earth, are of interest to space researchers and healthcare providers alike.

Dragon also is carrying an Earth observatory (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1822) that will study severe thunderstorms and their role in the Earth's atmosphere and climate, as well as upgrade equipment for the station's carbon dioxide removal system, external high-definition camera components, and a new printer for the station's crew.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/981517091147845632)

And now installed!. Unloading will begin later today or tomorrow. (They usually plan for the next day, but they usually get ahead of the timeline, via "astro eagerness" to unpack the goodies sent from Earth. A lot of required upmass, but also personal items).
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 9 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/981517346677370880)

Dragon CRS-14 has arrived at the ISS. It parked itself floating 10 metres off the station; the Canadarm-2 grabbed it at 1040 UTC and berthed it on the Harmony module's nadir port at 1300 UTC

ЦитироватьDragon Bolted to Station's Harmony Module

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Apr 4, 2018 at 9:14 am

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Four spaceships are docked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon space freighter, the Progress 69 resupply ship and the Soyuz MS-07 and MS-08 crew ships.

Two days after its launch from Florida, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was installed on the Harmony module of the International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/station) at 9:00 a.m. EDT.

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The 14th contracted commercial resupply mission from SpaceX (CRS-14) delivered about 5,800 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-14_mision_overview_high_res.pdf) to the orbiting laboratory.

Among the research arriving to the U.S. National Laboratory is a Metabolic Tracking (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7517) investigation to evaluate the use of a new method to test, in microgravity, the metabolic impacts of pharmaceutical drugs. This could lead to more effective, less expensive medicines on Earth. The Multi-use Variable-g Platform (MVP) (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=1777) will serve as a new test bed aboard the space station, able to host 12 separate experiment modules with samples such as plants, cells, protein crystals and fruit flies. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS (http://www.iss-casis.org/)), which manages the U.S. National Laboratory, is sponsoring the investigation and the MVP.

Dragon will remain attached to the space station until May, when it will return to Earth with more than 3,500 pounds of research, hardware and crew supplies.

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ЦитироватьSpaceX CRS-14: Dragon capture, 4 April 2018

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ЦитироватьSpaceX CRS-14: Dragon berthing to the ISS, 4 April 2018

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Опубликовано: 4 апр. 2018 г.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185496.jpg)Anton Shkaplerov‏ @Anton_Astrey (https://twitter.com/Anton_Astrey) 6 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/Anton_Astrey/status/981464324123262977)

"Дракон" на подлете, скоро будет его захват манипулятором. «Захватчик» - @Astro_Kanai (https://twitter.com/Astro_Kanai)! // #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) is getting ready to be captured by @Astro_Kanai (https://twitter.com/Astro_Kanai)!
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186158.jpg)金井 宣茂‏Подлинная учетная запись @Astro_Kanai (https://twitter.com/Astro_Kanai) 3 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/Astro_Kanai/status/981512299860123650)
捕獲成功。
おとなしくて、美しい白竜でした。
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ЦитироватьУспешный захват.
Это был тихий и красивый белый дракон.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185441.jpg)Ricky Arnold‏Подлинная учетная запись @astro_ricky (https://twitter.com/astro_ricky) 50 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/astro_ricky/status/981545898416181248)

Welcome @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 14 – packed with science and hopefully a few goodies for us too!
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ЦитироватьDragon cargo capsule reaches space station for second time
April 4, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft arrives at the International Space Station Wednesday. Credit: NASA/JAXA/Norishige Kanai

A commercial Dragon spacecraft glacially approached the International Space Station on Wednesday, allowing a robotic arm controlled by Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai to reach out and grapple the supply ship as it soared 250 miles over Africa, completing SpaceX's 14th mission to the research complex, and the second by the same capsule.

Taking navigation cues fr om laser ranging and thermal sensors, the Dragon spacecraft approached the space station fr om below, pausing at pre-planned points to allow ground controllers and station astronauts to assess the ship's performance.

The rendezvous ran about 20 minutes ahead of schedule, and Kanai, a first-time space flier more than 100 days into his crew's station expedition, unlimbered the lab's Canadian-built robotic arm to snare the free-flying Dragon capsule at 6:40 a.m. EDT (1040 GMT).

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"Capture complete," radioed station astronaut Scott Tingle, who assisted Kanai in Wednesday's operations. "I don't think it gets any better than that."

Ground controllers in Houston and Canada took command of the robotic arm to maneuver the Dragon capsule to a berthing port on the station's Harmony module. Sixteen bolts closed to firmly attach the supply ship to the space station at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).

Wednesday's arrival came a day-and-a-half after the Dragon spacecraft blasted off fr om Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Monday's launch flew with a previously-used Falcon 9 first stage booster, along with the recycled Dragon capsule.

The Dragon capsule that arrived at the station Wednesday first flew on a round-trip mission to the orbiting outpost in April and May of 2016. It's the 14th time a SpaceX supply ship has reached the space station, including a demonstration mission in 2012, and the SpaceX's 14th full-up revenue-earning cargo mission under a more than $2 billion contract with NASA.

One of those cargo flights failed during launch in 2015.

The Dragon capsule delivered 5,836 pounds (2,647 kilograms) of cargo and experiments, including around two tons of hardware for research investigations and scientific instruments. Here's a breakdown of the Dragon's cargo manifest:

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• 2,041 pounds (926 kilograms of hardware in Dragon's unpressurized trunk
• 758 pounds (344 kilograms) of crew supplies
• 326 pounds (148 kilograms) of vehicle hardware
• 218 pounds (99 kilograms) of spacewalking gear
• 108 pounds (49 kilograms) of computer resources
• 24 pounds (11 kilograms) of Russian cargo
  

Astronauts inside the station planned to open hatches between the Harmony module and the Dragon's pressurized compartment Thursday to begin unpacking the roughly 1.9 tons of cargo inside. The space station's Canadarm 2 arm and Dextre robot will extract three payloads from Dragon's external cargo bay.

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Artist's illustration of the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor's observing method from its mounting platform on the space station's Columbus module. Credit: Terma/DTU/ESA/Jan Rasmussen

The experiments carried in Dragon's pressurized module include a robotic testbed satellite that will be released from the space station in the next few months to study the effectiveness of techniques to capture a chunk of space junk and move it out of Earth orbit.

Developed in a public-private partnership between the European Commission and European industry, the RemoveDebris mission will test the utility of nets and harpoons to capture tumbling objects in space, repurposing devices commonly used in fishing to pluck debris out of orbit and bring them into Earth's atmosphere to burn up.

Guglielmo Aglietti, principal investigator for the RemoveDebris mission, calls the project a "proof-of-concept."

Scientists also developed experiments to look at the effects of microgravity on bone marrow and wound healing. Lessons from those studies could help researchers develop ways to counteract negative health effects of long-duration spaceflight or bedrest, and investigate treatments for wounds soldiers suffer in combat.

The Dragon capsule also carried frozen human and bull sperm samples to the space station, wh ere astronauts will thaw the specimens, then add chemicals to activate the cells and allow them to become more mobile, a step required before the sperm can fuse with an egg for fertilization.

"Previous experiments with sea urchin and bull sperm suggest that activating movement happens more quickly in microgravity, while the steps leading up to fusion happen more slowly, or not at all," NASA wrote in an overview of the sperm experiment, known as Micro-11. "Delays or problems at this stage could prevent fertilization from happening in space."

"Researchers will use video to assess how well the space sperm move," scientists wrote. "Finally, the samples will be mixed with preservatives and returned to Earth, wh ere they'll be analyzed to see whether the steps necessary for fusion occurred and whether the samples from space differ from sperm samples activated on the ground."

Scientists prepared a new method of delivering nutrients to vegetables grown on the space station to supplement the astronaut's diet. Seven new plant growth modules, developed in partnership between NASA and Tupperware Brands Corp., were delivered by the Dragon spacecraft Wednesday for testing with red romaine lettuce.

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Leafy greens grown on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

There is also an experiment in sintering that could help engineers fabricate or repair tools and spacecraft components on future missions. New high-definition cameras and a custom HP printer for station astronauts also launched inside the Dragon capsule that reached the space station Wednesday.

Payloads mounted inside the Dragon's trunk included the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, or ASIM, an instrument funded by the European Space Agency and led by Danish scientists to study lightning from the space station.

The instrument's optical, X-ray and gamma ray sensors will observe electrical discharges high above thunderstorms — with names like blue jets, red sprites and elves — that extend up to the edge of space.

Scientists know little about how the discharges are triggered, said Torsten Neubert, ASIM science team coordinator at the Technical University of Denmark.

Lightning processes are slowed at high altitude, Neubert said, making it a good laboratory for studying how electrical discharges emanate through the atmosphere.

"They are really lightning, except they are lightning processes in the upper atmosphere," Neubert said of sprites and jets. "So they look a little bit different, but if we understand them, we'll also understand normal lightning much better."

Once mounted outside the European Columbus module, the lightning monitor may help scientists pinpoint the sources of flashes of gamma rays detected coming from Earth's atmosphere by some astronomical instruments in space. Scientists also hope to study lightning's effects on ozone and other gases in the atmosphere during the instrument's two-year observing campaign.

Also inside the trunk: A platform to expose materials like polymers, coatings, fabrics, computer chips, and solar cells to the harsh environment of space, helping engineers design future spacecraft. The Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility, or MISSE-FF, was developed by Alpha Space, a Houston-based company that wants to offer the platform to companies seeking to test the resilience of materials to extreme temperatures, ionizing radiation, space junk and other hazards of spaceflight.

NASA is also sending up a refurbished coolant pump for staging outside the space station as a spare for the orbiting lab's huge power truss segments.

The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to remain at the space station until May 2, when it will depart bring around two tons of scientific specimens back to Earth.

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Robonaut aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

Also hitching a ride back home with the Dragon will be NASA's Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot launched on the final flight of the space shuttle Discovery in February 2011.

"Robonaut has had some issues with being able to power up on-orbit ... and after a lot of troubleshooting on-orbit and a lot of analysis on the ground, they've concluded pretty conclusively that there's a short of some sort on one of the circuitboards, and they need to bring it home in order to repair that," said Pete Hasbrook, NASA's associate space station program scientist.

Engineers developed Robotnaut as a testbed to see whether robots could help astronauts clean and maintain the space station, an objective aimed at freeing up crew time for more intensive tasks. A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule delivered legs for Robonaut in 2014.

Robonaut could be re-launched on a future mission after the repairs are finished.

"The plan is to bring this one down, understand why it failed, and then make the decision of wh ere we want to go in the future," said Joel Montalbano, NASA's deputy space station program manager.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/34363.jpg)Oleg Artemyev‏Подлинная учетная запись @OlegMKS (https://twitter.com/OlegMKS) 20 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/OlegMKS/status/981843198636101637)

Вчера на Международную космическую станцию @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) прилетел #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) CRS-14 — американский грузовой корабль @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) . Доставил он нам 2,5 тонны научной техники и различных грузов.
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The @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) CRS-14 cargo spacecraft was captured with the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2 on 4 April 2018. The spacecraft delivered more than 2.5 tons of supplies to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station)
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ЦитироватьSpaceX CRS-14 Launch - April 2, 2018

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Опубликовано: 5 апр. 2018 г.

ЦитироватьSpaceX CRS-14 Grapple - April 4, 2018

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ЦитироватьSpaceX CRS-14 Berthing - April 4, 2018

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ЦитироватьApril 25, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY M18-068

US Cargo Spaceship Set for Departure fr om International Space Station

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SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station April 4, 2018, on the company's 14th station resupply mission. After delivering more than 5,800 pounds of science investigations and crew supplies, the Dragon is scheduled to depart the station May 2, 2018, returning to Earth with more than 4,000 pounds of cargo, including science samples from human and animal research, biology and biotechnology studies, physical science investigations and education activities.
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After delivering more than 5,800 pounds of science investigations (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/SpX-14_research_launch_feature) and cargo for NASA, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to depart the International Space Station on Wednesday, May 2. NASA Television and the agency's website (https://www.nasa.gov/live) will provide live coverage of Dragon's departure beginning at 10 a.m. EDT.

Flight controllers on Earth will use the Canadarm2 robotic arm to detach the Dragon capsule, which arrived April 4, from the Earth-facing side of the station's Harmony module. After maneuvering Dragon into place, they will give the command to release the spacecraft as Expedition 55 Flight Engineer Scott Tingle (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/scott-d-tingle) of NASA monitors its departure at 10:22 a.m.

Dragon's thrusters will be fired to move the spacecraft a safe distance from the station before SpaceX flight controllers in Hawthorne, California, command its deorbit burn. The capsule will splash down about 4:02 p.m. in the Pacific Ocean, wh ere recovery forces will retrieve the capsule and more than 4,000 pounds of cargo, including science samples from human and animal research, biology and biotechnology studies, physical science investigations and education activities. The deorbit burn and splashdown will not be broadcast on NASA TV.

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NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization that manages research conducted aboard the station's U.S. National Laboratory (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/nlab/index.html), will receive time-sensitive samples and begin working with researchers to process and distribute them within 48 hours of splashdown. In the event of adverse weather conditions in the splashdown zone in the Pacific, the departure and splashdown will occur on the backup date of May 5.

Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft able to return to Earth intact. SpaceX launched (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/new-research-heading-to-space-station-aboard-14th-spacex-resupply-mission) its 14th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station April 2 on a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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Editor: Karen Northon

ЦитироватьNAVAREA XII 176/2018 (18 )

EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS SPACE DEBRIS:
   A. 021935Z TO 022005Z MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
   30-16.98N 121-49.80W, 30-34.32N 122-12.00W,
   30-53.04N 122-34.80W, 31-12.78N 122-58.20W,
   31-33.12N 123-22.20W, 31-53.76N 123-46.20W,
   32-04.08N 123-58.20W, 33-02.40N 122-41.40W,
   32-52.08N 122-29.40W, 32-30.72N 122-05.40W,
   32-09.00N 121-42.60W, 31-47.22N 121-21.00W,
   31-25.74N 121-01.20W, 31-04.98N 120-43.20W.
   B. ALTERNATE 051835Z TO 051905Z MAY
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   28-57.90N 122-51.00W, 29-15.48N 123-12.60W,
   29-34.44N 123-34.80W, 29-54.42N 123-57.60W,
   30-15.06N 124-21.00W, 30-35.94N 124-44.40W,
   30-46.38N 124-55.80W, 31-43.68N 123-39.00W,
   31-33.18N 123-27.00W, 31-11.64N 123-04.20W,
   30-49.68N 122-42.00W, 30-27.72N 122-21.00W,
   30-06.06N 122-01.80W, 29-45.18N 121-45.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 052005Z MAY 18.

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ЦитироватьCrew Packs Dragon With Science While Continuing More Space Research

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Apr 30, 2018 at 1:38 pm

The Expedition 55 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition55/index.html) crew members are packing up the SpaceX Dragon (http://www.nasa.gov/spacex) cargo craft today for its return to Earth on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the six International Space Station residents continue operating a multitude of space experiments while ensuring the orbital lab remains in tip-top shape.

NASA astronauts Scott Tingle (http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/scott-d-tingle) and Ricky Arnold (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/richard-r-arnold) transferred an array of biological samples from station science freezers to specialized freezers stowed inside Dragon. The research samples are for analysis by scientists and are among a variety of cargo, including station hardware for refurbishment, returning to Earth inside Dragon Wednesday.

NASA TV (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html) begins its live coverage of the Dragon departure at 10 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. Robotics controllers on the ground will command the Canadarm2 to release Dragon at 10:22 a.m. Tingle will be in the Cupola monitoring the release and departure activities. Dragon will fire its engines for the final time at 3:06 p.m. beginning its descent back into Earth's atmosphere before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean around 4 p.m. NASA TV will not cover Dragon's splashdown about 260 miles southwest of Long Beach, Calif.
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Dragon Cargo Transfer: The crew continued transferring cargo to the Dragon vehicle today. Samples were moved from Minus Eighty Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI)-2 and MELFI-3 to the Polar freezers identified for return. Tomorrow, the crew will load the center stack cargo as well as close out and egress the vehicle. While release of Dragon is currently scheduled for Wednesday, 2 May, the weather forecast at the Prime Recovery site is marginal. Teams continue to evaluate weather conditions and planners will rescheduled cargo operations if necessary to support a slip to the backup landing date of 5 May.
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ЦитироватьMay 1, 2018

NASA Science to Return to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft

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The SpaceX Dragon splashes down in the Pacific Ocean in May of 2016 after resupplying the Expedition 47 mission.
Credits: SpaceX
Read more about SpaceX Dragon missions to the space station (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/spacex-dragon-launches-arrivals-and-departures).

SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, May 5, west of Baja California, with more than 4,000 pounds of NASA cargo, science and technology demonstration samples fr om the International Space Station.

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The Dragon spacecraft will be taken by ship to Long Beach, wh ere some cargo will be removed immediately for return to NASA. Dragon then will be prepared for a return trip to SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas, for final processing.

A variety of technological and biological studies are returning in Dragon.

Samples from the Metabolic Tracking (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7517) study will help researchers understand the effects of microgravity on the metabolic impact of five different therapeutic compounds. This investigation determines the feasibility of developing improved pharmaceuticals in microgravity using a new method to test the metabolic impacts of drug compounds. This could lead to more effective, less expensive drugs.

The APEX-06 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7524) investigation studied the growth, development, and gene expression profiles of seedlings from the monocot Brachypodium distachyon. Most major cereal grain crops used to produce food belong to a class of plants called monocotyledons or monocots, flowering plants whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf. This investigation will lead to a better understanding of the molecular and developmental mechanisms that contribute to adaptation to spaceflight conditions. In the long term, results may also lead to the development of strategies aimed at improving monocot adaptability to spaceflight parameters, which would be beneficial for future human space exploration as monocots provide many food staples.

Fruit Fly Lab–03 (https://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/fruit-fly-lab-03-spacex-14) is the third mission of the Fruit Fly Lab aboard the station using the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila are used for research because approximately //77%20percent%20of%20human%20disease%20genes[MOU1] (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-science-to-return-to-earth-aboard-spacex-dragon-spacecraft-1#_msocom_1) have analogs in the fruit fly genome. This mission studied the effects of the space environment on innate immunity, which is the branch of the immune system responsible for quick, non-specific responses to infection. This subject is important for preparing for future exploration as immune system dysfunction and infections are potential risks for astronauts on long-duration space exploration missions.

Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft currently capable of returning cargo to Earth, and this was the second trip to the orbiting laboratory for this spacecraft, which completed its first mission (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/critical-nasa-science-returns-to-earth-aboard-spacex-dragon-spacecraft) nearly two years ago. SpaceX launched (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/new-research-heading-to-space-station-aboard-14th-spacex-resupply-mission) its 14th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station April 2 from Space Launch Complex 40 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket that also previously launched (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-cargo-launches-to-space-station-aboard-spacex-resupply-mission) its 12th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station.

For more than 17 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/station), advancing scientific knowledge and demonstrating new technologies, making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth that will enable long-duration human and robotic exploration into deep space. A global endeavor, more than 200 people from 18 countries have visited the unique microgravity laboratory that has hosted more than 2,300 research investigations from researchers in more than 100 countries.

[MOU1] (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-science-to-return-to-earth-aboard-spacex-dragon-spacecraft-1#_msoanchor_1)So in the video of Sharmila for the other ftuit fly experiment, she says 75, so maybe this one should match that, even though that video won't be public until the following week...

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Editor: Mark Garcia

ЦитироватьDragon Packed with NASA Science Experiments for Saturday Return

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted May 1, 2018 at 2:54 pm

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The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship was gripped by the Canadarm2 robotic arm on April 27, 2018 in preparation for its detachment from the Harmony module and its release back to Earth for splashdown and retrieval in the Pacific Ocean.

The SpaceX Dragon (http://www.nasa.gov/spacex) resupply ship is packed with International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/spacex) hardware and scientific samples ready for return to Earth on Saturday. ...

Dragon's departure was pushed back from Wednesday after SpaceX personnel observed high sea states in the Pacific Ocean splashdown zone southwest of Long Beach, California. Its remotely controlled release from the Canadarm2 is now scheduled for Saturday at 9:30 a.m. EDT with live NASA TV (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html) coverage beginning at 9 a.m. Dragon's splashdown is targeted at about 3 p.m. but will not be seen on NASA TV.
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ЦитироватьDragon cargo craft's return to Earth delayed to Saturday
May 1, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/05/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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The Dragon cargo craft was grappled by the space station's robotic arm April 27 in preparation for its departure. Credit: NASA

A commercial Dragon cargo capsule will remain at the International Space Station until Saturday, three days later than previously planned due to high sea states observed by the SpaceX recovery team in the spaceship's splashdown zone in the Pacific Ocean.

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The automated spacecraft is set to return to Earth with more than 4,000 pounds of cargo and experiment specimens, including frozen biological samples such as plants, insects and human tissue. The SpaceX Dragon cargo carrier will also bring back Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot launched on the final flight of the space shuttle Discovery in February 2011, for repairs.

SpaceX launched the Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral on April 2, and it reached the space station two days later, delivering 5,836 pounds (2,647 kilograms) of cargo and experiments.

Dragon's departure was scheduled for Wednesday, but SpaceX and NASA officials decided Tuesday to keep the spacecraft at the space station until Saturday, when a backup landing opportunity is available.

"Dragon's departure was pushed back from Wednesday after SpaceX personnel observed high sea states in the Pacific Ocean splashdown zone southwest of Long Beach, California," NASA said in an update posted on the space station's website.

Over the last several days, astronauts living on the space station have transferred equipment tagged for return to Earth. The crew placed samples into freezers inside Dragon's pressurized cabin, packed Robonaut 2, and moved mice into specialized habitats inside the SpaceX supply ship for examination by researchers on Earth to study how their bones and muscles responded to microgravity.

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Ground controllers will detach the Dragon spacecraft from its berthing location on the station's Harmony module, then command release of the cargo capsule from the station's Canadian-built robotic arm around 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT) Saturday.

After maneuvering a few miles away from the space station, the Dragon spacecraft will fire its Draco thrusters around 2:04 p.m. EDT (1804 GMT) for a deorbit burn, then jettison its disposable trunk section to burn up in the atmosphere.

Dragon's main capsule will fall into the atmosphere, protected by a heat shield, before deploying parachutes to slow its descent for splashdown in the Pacific Ocean around 403 miles (650 kilometers) southwest of Long Beach, California, at approximately 3 p.m. EDT (12 p.m. PDT; 1900 GMT), according to NASA.

Saturday's return will mark the conclusion of SpaceX's 14th resupply mission to the space station under a contract valued at more than $3 billion, which covers 20 flights through early 2020. All but one of the missions have been successful.

ЦитироватьDragon Preparation for Return:
Weather at the prime Recovery Zone will not support Dragon return tomorrow; release has slipped to the backup date of Saturday, 5 May. With guidance from stowage experts, the crew re-configured already transferred Dragon cargo and all assets, to include cold stowage, are in a good configuration. Tomorrow, the crew will relocate payloads and cold stowage from Dragon to ISS as required. Based on the modified timeline, the crew will resume loading activities, and complete preparations for Dragon for unberth, this Friday. Dragon release is now scheduled at 10:40 AM CDT on Saturday.

ЦитироватьStation Readies Dragon for Departure Ahead of Upcoming Spacewalk

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted May 2, 2018 at 12:31 pm

The SpaceX Dragon (http://www.nasa.gov/spacex) resupply ship's stay at the International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/spacex)has been extended until Saturday after unfavorable conditions were reported at the splashdown zone in the Pacific Ocean. In the meantime, time-sensitive payloads are still being readied for return to Earth as the crew wraps up final cargo packing.

Robotics controllers will operate the Canadarm2 to detach Dragon from the International Space Station's Harmony module on Friday. It will be remotely released into Earth orbit Saturday at 9:24 a.m. EDT before finally splashing down in the Pacific Ocean around 3 p.m. Flight Engineer Scott Tingle (http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/scott-d-tingle) will be in the Cupola monitoring Dragon as it slowly backs away from the space station.

NASA TV's live coverage of Dragon's departure begins Saturday at 9 a.m. The space freighter's parachuted splashdown 403 miles off the coast of Long Beach, Calif. will not be televised. ...

ЦитироватьISS Daily Summary Report – 5/02/2018

SpaceX (SpX)-14 Dragon Operations:
Yesterday, SpaceX reported unfavorable conditions at the landing site and the decision was made to slip to the alternate release date of May 5th. Today the crew relocated payloads and cold stowage from Dragon to ISS as required. Based on the modified timeline, the crew will resume loading activities, and complete preparing Dragon for unberth on Friday. Dragon release is scheduled at approximately 08:24 AM CDT on Saturday.

ЦитироватьAstronauts Assembling Gear for Installation During Upcoming Spacewalk

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted May 3, 2018 at 1:54 pm

... The Dragon cargo craft from SpaceX (http://www.nasa.gov/spacex) is nearly loaded with NASA science and gear ahead of its Saturday return to Earth.
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Final packing is taking place inside the Dragon space freighter today as Tingle loads critical time-sensitive research samples inside the Earth-bound resupply ship. Robotics controllers will detach Dragon from the Harmony module Friday before releasing it Saturday at 9:24 a.m. from the grips of the Canadarm2. NASA TV will begin its live broadcast of the departure at 9 a.m. but will not televise its 3 p.m. splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/992735965436366848)

While NASA TV is in "chat" mode during this coast. CRS-14 Dragon is waiting to be released. About 90 mins to release.

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Цитировать05/05/2018 15:08 Stephen Clark

A SpaceX Dragon capsule will wrap up a month-long mission Saturday with departure from the International Space Station and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with around two tons of experiment specimens and hardware, including a habitat of mice and Robonaut 2, an experimental humanoid robot in need of repairs.

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The unpiloted cargo capsule was detached from its berthing port on the space station's Harmony module Friday, and maneuvered with the station's robotic arm to an "overnight park" position under commands from the ground.

Ground controllers are moving the Dragon capsule to a release position about 30 feet (10 meters) below the station this morning. Release of the Dragon spacecraft is expected around 9:24 a.m. EDT (1324 GMT).

The Dragon arrived at the station April 4, two days after launching from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket with 2.9 tons of cargo on-board.

The automated spacecraft is set to return to Earth with more than 4,000 pounds of cargo and experiment specimens, including frozen biological samples such as plants, insects and human tissue. The SpaceX Dragon cargo carrier will also bring back Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot launched on the final flight of the space shuttle Discovery in February 2011.

A de-orbit burn is expected around 2:06 p.m. EDT (1806 GMT), and the Dragon capsule is scheduled to parachute into the Pacific Ocean around 400 mile southwest of Long Beach, California, around 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT; 12 p.m. PDT).

A recovery team is on standby to retrieve the Dragon spaceship and return to port in Southern California.

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Цитировать05/05/2018 16:04 Stephen Clark

Grasped by the robotic arm, the Dragon spacecraft is at its planned release point below the space station.

Ground controllers in Houston will command the arm to release the capsule at 9:24 a.m. EDT (1324 GMT).

Astronauts aboard the station will stand by at a communications panel and a robotic arm control console inside the lab's cupola module to issue commands to Dragon or take charge of the arm if necessary.

The crew will monitor the spacecraft until it exits the so-called keep-out sphere 200 meters (660 feet) around the space station.

Цитировать05/05/2018 16:13 Stephen Clark

A strobe light on Dragon has been activated in preparation for departure.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/992754272000466944)

Final poll for Dragon release underway at Station Flight Control room. #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash) #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 43 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/992756535989325826)

Dragon release CONFIRMED! The free-flying Dragon will now pulse its thrusters to back away from the ISS to a safe distance. #NASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASA?src=hash) #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 12 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/992756861286993921)

Dragon CRS-14 released by Canadarm-2 at 1323 UTC, now orbiting separately from ISS prior to its deorbit burn later today

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 11 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/992759593028734976)

Third departure burn by Dragon at 1334 UTC , now leaving ISS vicinity

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 22 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/992757673690005505)

Dragon Departure Burn #1 has commenced. Dragon will now set up for a deorbit burn at 14:06 EDT (18:06 UTC) and splashdown in the Pacific at ~15:00 EDT (19:00 UTC).

ЦитироватьSpaceX CRS-14: Dragon departure from the ISS

SciNews (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjU6ZwoTQtKWfz1urL7XcbA)

Опубликовано: 5 мая 2018 г.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 12 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/992764569385762816)

Dragon will re-enter Earth's atmosphere in ~5 hours. Splashdown at 12:00 p.m. PDT.

ЦитироватьDragon Heads Home After Month Long Stay at Station

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted May 5, 2018 at 10:02 am

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Cameras on the Canadarm2 robotic arm monitored the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship as it departed the space station Saturday morning.

Robotic flight controllers released the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft fr om the International Space Station's (http://www.nasa.gov/station) robotic arm at 9:23 a.m. EDT, and Expedition 55 Flight Engineer Scott Tingle (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/scott-d-tingle) of NASA is monitoring its departure.

Спойлер

Dragon's thrusters will be fired to move the spacecraft a safe distance from the station before SpaceX flight controllers in Hawthorne, California, command its deorbit burn about 2:06 p.m. The capsule will splashdown about 3 p.m. in the Pacific Ocean, wh ere recovery forces will retrieve the capsule and its more than 4,000 pounds of cargo, including a variety of technological and biological studies (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-science-to-return-to-earth-aboard-spacex-dragon-spacecraft-1).

The deorbit burn and splashdown will not be broadcast on NASA TV.

NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the non-profit organization that manages research aboard the U.S. National Laboratory portion of the space station, will receive time-sensitive samples and begin working with researchers to process and distribute them within 48 hours of splashdown.

Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft currently capable of returning cargo to Earth, and this was the second trip to the orbiting laboratory for this spacecraft, which completed its first mission (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/critical-nasa-science-returns-to-earth-aboard-spacex-dragon-spacecraft) nearly two years ago. SpaceX launched (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/new-research-heading-to-space-station-aboard-14th-spacex-resupply-mission) its 14th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station April 2 from Space Launch Complex 40 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket that also previously launched (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-cargo-launches-to-space-station-aboard-spacex-resupply-mission) its 12th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station.

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Цитировать05/05/2018 18:07 Stephen Clark

Coming up in a couple of hours, the Dragon spacecraft will close the door to its guidance, navigation and control bay around 12:58 p.m. EDT (1658 GMT).

Ignition of the capsule's thrusters is set for approximately 2:06 p.m. EDT (1806 GMT) for an approximately 13-minute deorbit burn. Splashdown around 400 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, is scheduled around 3 p.m. EDT (12 p.m. PDT; 1900 GMT).

ЦитироватьSpaceX Dragon CRS-14 Departs Space Station

Space Videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdF5d0UwSJJunRcRVzP1uDg)

Трансляция началась 3 часа назад

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185496.jpg)Anton Shkaplerov‏ @Anton_Astrey (https://twitter.com/Anton_Astrey) 4 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/Anton_Astrey/status/992763350374338560)

#Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) CRS-14 успешно отстыковался от Международной космической станции и начал свой полет к Земле. Через несколько часов он должен приводниться в акватории Тихого океана.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/34363.jpg)Oleg Artemyev‏Подлинная учетная запись @OlegMKS (https://twitter.com/OlegMKS) 39 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/OlegMKS/status/992818610392502273)

Сегодня от нас улетел #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) миссии CRS-14. Кстати говоря, этот корабль второй раз посещает станцию, в первый раз он использовался в рамках миссии CRS-8 в 2016 году.

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Today the @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) CRS-14 cargo ship undocked from the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) . By the way, it was the second mission to successfully reuse a Dragon capsule, previously flown on CRS-8 in 2016.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/34363.jpg)Oleg Artemyev‏Подлинная учетная запись @OlegMKS (https://twitter.com/OlegMKS) 41 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/OlegMKS/status/992819720943489025)

На этих фото #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) миссии CRS-14 уже отстыковался и готовится к выдаче тормозного импульса, его путь до Земли займет почти 5,5 часов. На его борту — примерно 2 тонны образцов научных экспериментов и исследований, которые были выполнены на борту Международной космической станции

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Bringing back thousands of pounds of experiments and equipment for recovery the @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) spacecraft will splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California around 19:00 UTC.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 19 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/992827944363085824)

SpaceX recovery support vessel NRC Quest is in position off the coast of Baja California to recovery the #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) Dragon capsule from the #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) mission in about an hour.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/992833344973893633)

Dragon's de-orbit burn is complete and trunk has been jettisoned. Pacific Ocean splashdown in ~30 minutes.

Цитировать05/05/2018 21:28 Stephen Clark

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SpaceX confirms the completion of Dragon's deorbit burn, and the spacecraft has jettisoned its disposable unpressurized trunk segment. The capsule will dip into the atmosphere on a trajectory flying from northwest to southeast over the Pacific Ocean, heading for splashdown at 3 p.m. EDT (12 p.m. PDT; 1900 GMT).

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 1 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/992836244890701824)

Many passengers also enjoying this ride home, including Robonaut-2 and a gang of astromice.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 1 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/992841103714873344)

Dragon's drogue chutes and three main parachutes deployed nominally.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 19 сек. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/992842234427990016)

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

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/992842638402482178)

Welcome Home CRS-14 Dragon! (The second time for this Dragon).

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https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/05/dragons-crs-14-conclude-splashdown-pacific-ocean/ ... (https://t.co/JPUClU6JqI)

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Splashdown. Semi-routine recovery of @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX)'s dragon cargo vessel return from @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) now underway 400-500 miles southwest of Port LA.

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ЦитироватьReused Dragon cargo carrier splashes down in Pacific Ocean
May 5, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/05/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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The Dragon supply ship departs the space station Saturday during an orbital night. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev captured this view of the Dragon spacecraft during its departure. Credit: Oleg Artemyev/Roscosmos

An automated SpaceX supply ship parachuted into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, bringing more than 3,800 pounds of cargo — including a NASA robot requiring repair — back to Earth after a month-long mission at the International Space Station.

The Dragon cargo capsule splashed down at about 3 p.m. EDT (12 p.m. PDT; 1900 GMT) in the Pacific around 400 miles (650 kilometers) southwest of Long Beach, California, where a SpaceX recovery team was in position to retrieve the spacecraft, pull it onto a boat, and return it to the Port of Los Angeles.

The successful splashdown Saturday marked the conclusion of SpaceX's 14th resupply mission to the space station under the space transport company's more than $3 billion, 20-launch cargo contract with NASA. It was the third round-trip cargo flight with a reused Dragon capsule.

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The SpaceX recovery crew planned to return the spacecraft to port by early Monday, hand over time-critical experiment specimens to NASA and other research groups, then transport the Dragon to a facility in McGregor, Texas, for servicing and refurbishment for a possible future mission, according to NASA spokesperson Rob Navias, who provided commentary during the ship's departure fr om the space station early Saturday.

The Canadian-built robotic arm on the space station released Dragon at 9:23 a.m. EDT (1323 GMT) Saturday, and the commercial cargo carrier fired its thrusters to fly a safe distance from the orbiting complex.

Draco rocket jets on the supply ship fired at 2:06 p.m. EDT (1806 GMT) for a deorbit burn, and the Dragon's disposable trunk segment detached to burn up during re-entry in Earth's atmosphere.

The pressurized component of the Dragon spacecraft, packed with 3,843 pounds (1,743 kilograms) of equipment and research samples, was protected by a heat shield and deployed parachutes to slow its descent.

Hitching a ride back home with the Dragon was NASA's Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot launched on the final flight of the space shuttle Discovery in February 2011.

"Robonaut has had some issues with being able to power up on-orbit ... and after a lot of troubleshooting on-orbit and a lot of analysis on the ground, they've concluded pretty conclusively that there's a short of some sort on one of the circuitboards, and they need to bring it home in order to repair that," said Pete Hasbrook, NASA's associate space station program scientist, before the Dragon mission's launch.

Engineers developed Robotnaut as a testbed to see whether robots could help astronauts clean and maintain the space station, an objective aimed at freeing up crew time for more intensive tasks. A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule delivered legs for Robonaut in 2014.

Robonaut could be re-launched on a future mission after the repairs are finished.

"The plan is to bring this one down, understand why it failed, and then make the decision of wh ere we want to go in the future," said Joel Montalbano, NASA's deputy space station program manager.

Mice rode back to Earth on Saturday inside special habitats aboard Dragon, and freezers carried biological samples collected on the station for analysis by scientists on the ground.

The spacecraft's expendable external cargo bay was loaded with a failed pump flow control subassembly, which regulated the flow of ammonia coolant through the space station's thermal control system. The pump was tagged for disposal inside the Dragon trunk.

SpaceX launched the Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral on April 2, and it reached the space station two days later, delivering 5,836 pounds (2,647 kilograms) of cargo and experiments.

Dragon's departure was scheduled for Wednesday, but high sea states in the splashdown zone prompted SpaceX and NASA officials to keep the spacecraft at the space station until Saturday, when a backup landing opportunity was available.

Saturday's return of the SpaceX supply ship cleared the space station's Harmony berthing port for the arrival of an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo craft later this month. The Cygnus resupply mission is scheduled for launch May 20 aboard an Antares booster from Wallops Island, Virginia.

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Many passengers also enjoying this ride home, including Robonaut-2 and a gang of astromice.
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ЦитироватьMAY 05, 2018

DRAGON RESUPPLY MISSION (CRS-14)

Welcome home, Dragon! Bringing back more than 4,000 pounds of NASA cargo, science and technology demonstration samples fr om the International Space Station, the Dragon spacecraft successfully returned to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean today at about 11:59 a.m. PDT.

The spacecraft will be taken by ship to Long Beach, California wh ere some cargo will be removed immediately for return to NASA. Dragon then will be prepared for a return trip to SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas for final processing.

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Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft currently capable of returning cargo to Earth, and this was the second trip to the space station for this spacecraft, which completed its first mission nearly two years ago. SpaceX launched its 14th Dragon resupply mission to the station April 2, 2018 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket that previously supported SpaceX's12th space station resupply mission.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186323.jpg)Cowboy Dan‏ @CowboyDanPaasch (https://twitter.com/CowboyDanPaasch) 7 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/CowboyDanPaasch/status/993351936534564865)

Heads up Port LA! Just showing up on Santa Barbara's terrestrial AIS tracking station. #DragonRecovery (https://twitter.com/hashtag/DragonRecovery?src=hash) #ISSResupply (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISSResupply?src=hash)

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 12 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/993503368889929736)

#SpaceXFleet (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceXFleet?src=hash) watch:

- NRC Quest arrived at the Port of LA this morning with the #CRS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRS14?src=hash) Dragon.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185909.jpg)Megan Barnes‏Подлинная учетная запись @meg_barnes (https://twitter.com/meg_barnes) 38 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/meg_barnes/status/993504988390346752)

Here's the SpaceX Dragon capsule that came back to Earth over the weekend being unloaded in San Pedro's Outer Harbor this morning. Photo by Chuck Bennett.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185725.jpg)NASA Ames‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASAAmes (https://twitter.com/NASAAmes) 13 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/NASAAmes/status/993654085252517889)

Our bugs are back! Hundreds of tiny flies hitched a ride to Earth aboard a @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) #Dragon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dragon?src=hash) capsule this weekend. Their time on the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) will help us better understand the effects of spaceflight on the human immune system: https://go.nasa.gov/2rqRqiu  (https://t.co/FTWGKOIjls)
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