Dragon SpX-8 (CRS8), BEAM - Falcon 9 v1.1 - Canaveral SLC-40 - 08.04.2016 20:43 UTC

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SpaceX - CRS8 - Static Fire Test 04-05-2016

 http://www.americaspace.com/?p=92752
Про будущий запуск и историю.
С ссылками на форум НК

[Not]

Василий Ратников пишет:
 
как это было раньше

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 Entering its third Static Fire countdown, Falcon 9 completed a number of systems tests before loading of propellants began.

народ тогда в волю по издевался ))

Ох, Василилй, ох! Говорите ваша мама учительница? Очевидно, что не русского языка!

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James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean  2 ч.2 часа назад  
KSC's Veggie team sending Chinese cabbage, red romaine lettuce seeds to ISS; same crops recently were planted in White House garden.
 
  James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Scale models of Bigelow Aerospace's BEAM and B330 modules.
   
 

James Dean Подлинная учетная запись ‏@flatoday_jdean
NASA says space station managers today gave "go" for SpaceX Dragon to rendezvous with ISS Sunday morning (assuming Friday launch).
 8:12 - 7 апр. 2016 г.
 
  James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean 5 ч.5 часов назад
L-1 forecast remains 90% "go" for 4:43pm Friday launch of SpaceX Falcon 9, Dragon to ISS.

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Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  1 ч.1 час назад  
Robert Bigelow: BEAM has been bound up for more than a year awaiting launch. We're not 100% sure of its behavior once in space.

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‏@SpaceflightNow 25 мин.
VIDEOS: Previewing SpaceX's eighth International Space Station resupply launch http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/04/07/videos-previewing-spacexs-eighth-international-space-station-resupply-launch/ ...
 

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@NASA 9 мин.
Discover the @ISS_Research launching to @Space_Station on Friday on @SpaceX #Dragon: http://nasa.tumblr.com/post/142407305679/spacex-dragon-whats-onboard ...
 

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@SpaceX 1 мин.
Today Dragon was loaded with "late load" cargo in advance of tomorrow's 4:43pm ET launch → http://www.spacex.com/webcast

 

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PRESS KIT: CRS-8 DRAGON MISSION

April 07, 2016

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Dragon spacecraft to low Earth orbit to deliver critical cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA.

SpaceX is targeting an afternoon launch of its eighth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS- 8)  from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The instantaneous launch window opens on April 8th at 4:43pm ET, and a backup launch window opens at 4:20pm ET on April 9th. Dragon will be deployed about 10 minutes after liftoff and attach to the ISS about two days later.

Download a mission press kit here.

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[TimKaz]

Если верить этому , то попытаются спасти корабль в случае "бабаха".

[ken_park]

#BEAM is all packed for its voyage. Ready #ToBoldlyGo to the @ISS. @NASA @NASAKennedy #BEAMmeupNASA

[Apollo13]

http://spacenews.com/spacex-ready-to-resume-cargo-missions-to-the-space-station/

SpaceX ready to resume cargo missions to the space station

PHOENIX — SpaceX is prepared to launch its first cargo mission to the International Space Station since a June 2015 launch failure, a mission that will bring to the station both experiments and a prototype expandable module.

At a pre-launch press conference at NASA's Kennedy Space Center April 7, officials with NASA and SpaceX said there were no issues preventing a launch of an upgraded Falcon 9 at 4:43 p.m. Eastern April 8 on the company's eighth commercial resupply mission to the station.

Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of flight reliability at SpaceX, said the company had completed a launch readiness review for the mission and was not working any problems. Forecasts predict a 90 percent chance of acceptable weather at launch time, as well as if the launch slips to Saturday.

The Dragon is carrying more than 3,100 kilograms of cargo for the ISS, including a mix of crew supplies, science experiments and station hardware. The experiments carried to the station, some of which will return to Earth on the Dragon in May, include a particular emphasis on various biological experiments. The mission, said Kirt Costello, deputy chief scientist of the ISS at NASA, "is an amazing bonanza for the biological sciences."

The largest single item on the mission, though, is the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), a prototype expandable module developed by Bigelow Aerospace. While NASA plans to use BEAM to test expandable technologies for potential future use in deep-space habitats or Mars missions, Bigelow sees BEAM as a testbed for its much larger expandable habitat modules it is developing.

"It is an important step for us, it really is, that NASA has the confidence in our little company to be able to do this," said Robert Bigelow, president of Bigelow Aerospace, at a NASA briefing. "We are excited about this opportunity."

Bigelow said that a successful test of BEAM on the ISS would keep the company on track to deploy its first space station by 2020. That facility would consist of two of the company's B330 modules, each with 330 cubic meters of volume, docked to each other. The company would lease the station to companies or countries that want to perform research or other activities in low Earth orbit.

While BEAM is designed primarily for NASA's use to test the environment inside the expandable module, Bigelow suggested that the module, about five percent the size of a B330, might also be used for commercial activities.

"We have four different groups today that want to fly experiments and different payloads to BEAM," he said. Two of those are companies and two are national agencies, although he did not identify them. "We hoping that, maybe in half a year or something, we can get permission fr om NASA to accommodate these people in some way."

For SpaceX, the launch is another opportunity to attempt to recover the Falcon 9 first stage with a landing on a "drone ship" in the Atlantic Ocean downrange fr om the launch site. Four previous attempts to land the stage on the ship, including on two launches earlier this year, have all failed.

Koenigsmann said they've worked to improve the odds of a successful landing, including making fixes to the landing legs to avoid a repeat of a January landing attempt wh ere the stage touched down on the ship, only to fall over and explode after one of the legs collapsed. "I certainly hope that we're going to nail the landing this time," he said.

He added SpaceX had the option of trying to bring the stage all the way back to Cape Canaveral, similar to the successful landing the company performed on a December launch. "On this particular flight, we decided we wanted to go to the drone ship and see if we can get a successful landing on the drone ship," he said, in part because upcoming launches only have the option of a drone ship landing given the nature of their missions. "It's a good opportunity for us to refine our drone ship landing capabilities."

Koenigsmann added that he believed SpaceX had worked out issues with the use of "densified" propellants in the upgraded Falcon 9, wh ere liquid oxygen and kerosene are cooled to increase their density and improve the vehicle's performance. Problems with liquid oxygen in particular contributed to several delays in the previous Falcon 9 launch.

"I'm pretty sure we've learned the most of it," he said. "I feel like we've got this relatively well under control in this point in time."

Проведены доработки для повышения шансов успешной посадки, включая доработку ног, чтобы избежать повторения январской аварии.

Была возможность посадить ступень на землю, но решили сажать на баржу, чтобы отработать посадку, поскольку для далее пойдут пуски, в которых посадка возможна только на баржу.

[ВВК]

Вроде через 6 часов?

[Not]

I certainly hope

Красиво выразился

[Зловредный]

Not пишет:

I certainly hope

Красиво выразился  

Интересно, как это будет по-русски?

Кстати, "контринтуитивный" я нашёл в книге российского автора, изданной в России 10 лет назад.

[Not]

Зловредный пишет:

Not пишет:

I certainly hope

Красиво выразился    

Интересно, как это будет по-русски?

-Я определенно надеюсь

[Apollo13]

Гораздо интереснее как нормально перевести "nail the landing"