CCDev - NASA Commercial Crew Development

[Apollo13]

6 одинаковых картинок подряд это кажется рекорд

[Frontm]

Горшочек на вари!

не вопрос

Пин-Код. Горшочек, не вари!

Формула Эйнштейна, закон сохранения энергии, скорость света, перемещение во времени.



пардон за оффтоп

 :oops:

[Lamort]

Интересно, кто-нибудь может объяснить смысл этого теста?

 http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=145064741

 Проверка не развалится ли корабль если его переставить с помощью вертолёта?

[Петр Зайцев]

Проверка не развалится ли корабль если его переставить с помощью вертолёта?

Мне тоже не совсем понятно, зачем нужен такой тест, но тем не менее это проплачиваемый шаг, и его нужно было сделать (а то денег не дадут).

[Lamort]

Проверка не развалится ли корабль если его переставить с помощью вертолёта?

Мне тоже не совсем понятно, зачем нужен такой тест, но тем не менее это проплачиваемый шаг, и его нужно было сделать (а то денег не дадут).

По результатам теста можно сделать вывод что аппарат, в общем, устойчивый, что было и так ясно, и больше, в общем, ничего.

[SFN]

Интересно, кто-нибудь может объяснить смысл этого теста?

 http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=145064741

 Проверка не развалится ли корабль если его переставить с помощью вертолёта?

вертолет N164AC "Incredible Hulk" - герой борьбы с пожарами в Австралии.

[ronatu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgwlh0nA2yI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[LG]

Проверка не развалится ли корабль если его переставить с помощью вертолёта?

Мне тоже не совсем понятно, зачем нужен такой тест, но тем не менее это проплачиваемый шаг, и его нужно было сделать (а то денег не дадут).

собсно ИМХО предполааю такой вариант
Сбос на парашютах где-то на 10 км.
Парашюты отстреливаются где-то на 9 км (проседание при выбросе).
С 1.5 км - все как в настоящем.

[ronatu]

Orbital Sciences Corp., like SpaceX, has been receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to support the development of an unmanned cargo resupply system.
Orbital is developing a new rocket called the Antares as well as its Cygnus cargo capsule to do the job.
Last month, Orbital, Aerojet and NASA oversaw a full-duration hot-fire test of the AJ26 engine that will be used on the Antares.
The first test launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia is planned sometime in the next few months, and if all goes according to plan, cargo flights to the space station could begin by early next year under the terms of a $1.9 billion contract.

Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos, is working on a spacecraft that could carry astronauts to the space station, with United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket to be used as the launch vehicle.
On Thursday, Blue Origin reported that it successfully completed a systems requirement review of its orbital Space Vehicle.
Blue Origin's president and program manager, Rob Meyerson, said in a statement that the review "paves the way to finalize our Space Vehicle design." Representatives from NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration took part in the review.

The Boeing Co. is developing its CST-100 capsule for NASA's potential use as a taxi for space station astronauts, to be launched by the Atlas 5.
The company carried out drop tests in April and May to check the workability of its parachute-plus-airbag landing system.
The most recent test involved dropping a CST-100 test vehicle from a helicopter, 14,000 feet above Nevada's Delamar Dry Lake Bed.
Boeing's John Mulholland said the test validated the landing system design. Further ground tests of CST-100 components lie ahead, and test flights could begin in 2015-2016, Boeing says.

[Salo]

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_06_05_2012_p0-465094.xml

House Chairman Eases Commercial Crew Restriction[/size]
By Frank Morring, Jr. morring@aviationweek.com
Source: AWIN First

June 05, 2012

NASA will get a little slack from Congress on how it may procure commercial crew transportation for astronauts headed to the International Space Station (ISS), but apparently no more money.

Administrator Charles Bolden and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), who chairs the House Appropriations subcommittee that handles NASA funding, have negotiated a deal that lets the U.S. space agency pick "2.5 program partners" — two proposals for a full share of federal seed money to develop commercial crew vehicles, plus another company that will receive a "partial award."

That is a change from earlier language from Wolf's panel directing NASA to pick one competitor and at most a partially funded backup, in an effort to save money. But the new agreement — reflected in an exchange of letters released June 5 — does not include more money for the work.

Wolf's letter to Bolden proposes a slight boost in fiscal 2013 funding for the commercial crew program (CCP) from the $500 million the House approved, but only to the $525 million level set by the Senate. Bolden's response urges the Senate-House conference committee that will reconcile the two NASA funding bills to approve "a conference funding outcome for the CCP above the Senate-proposed level and closer to the president's FY 2013 request." That request called for $836 million in CCP funds for the coming fiscal year, and Bolden told Wolf in his June 4 letter that "it is important to note that the CCP will require increased annual funding in future years to accomplish the current program plan."

The lawmaker and the NASA administrator also agreed that future commercial crew contracting will be handled under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) rules instead of less-restrictive Space Act Agreements (SAAs). Last year NASA shifted gears and opted for SAAs instead of FAR procurements for the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) phase of the commercial crew development that NASA is evaluating.

Under the agreement, the 2.5 CCiCap winners announced this summer will work under FAR rules, and NASA will handle the FAR procurements "in a manner that will minimize substantive delays and programmatic risks." The agreement, as stated by Wolf in a May 31 letter to Bolden, calls for the space agency to collect and evaluate financial data on CCiCap winners "to provide confidence that these partners are capable of meeting their obligations under the program."

Wolf's letter was dated the day a Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX) Dragon cargo carrier splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean with a load of cargo from the ISS after becoming the first commercial vehicle to reach the orbiting laboratory. In his response to Wolf, Bolden said NASA is at work planning the transition to FAR-based contracts and expects to have it "substantively complete" before the CCiCap awards are announced.[/size]

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Before the SpaceX Dragon can begin carrying crews to the International Space Station (ISS), it must deliver a new docking mechanism that astronauts will affix permanently in the spot where space shuttles once connected to the orbiting laboratory.

That is good news and bad news or SpaceX.

The company can add 750-1,000 lb. of payload to its commercial cargo manifest for the ISS. But any competitor with a docking mechanism that meets the emerging International Docking System Standard (IDSS) will also be able to use it.

The cargo version of Dragon that last month became the first commercial vehicle to reach the ISS includes a "trunk" for unpressurized cargo—a unique capability that will find a market niche that NASA once filled with the space shuttle's payload bay (AW&ST May 21, p. 24).

But before it can begin flying astronauts in Dragon's pressurized compartment, SpaceX engineers must change the way their vehicle connects with the space station—from the grapple-and-berth technique used May 25 to a shuttle-style docking.

"In the event that the crew needs to leave for some reason, you don't want to be dependent on a system on the ISS like the arm," says Skip Hatfield, manager of the development projects office for the ISS program at Johnson Space Center (JSC). "You want to be able to jump in the thing and just depart, in case you're having a bad day, so to speak."

To reach the station in its demonstration flight, the inaugural cargo Dragon flew in formation 10 meters (33 ft.) below it while NASA astronaut Don Pettit manipulated the 17.6-meter-long Canadarm2 to grapple the unpiloted vehicle from the robotic control station in the ISS cupola.

Aided by Andrew Kuipers of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Joe Acaba of NASA, Pettit maneuvered the vehicle to a common berthing mechanism (CBM) on the Harmony node for a hard mate and unloading across the pressurized interface. The process was reversed May 31, when the Dragon left the station to reenter the atmosphere and parachute to a splashdown landing 560 mi. off the coast of Baja California.

The crew version of Dragon also will be designed to link with the station at Harmony, which is nestled between the main European, Japanese and U.S. laboratory modules and attached to them with CBMs that contain the interior hatches. But the Dragon—and other commercial crew vehicles docking with the station—will use a new International Docking Adapter (IDA) that fits onto the Russian-built Androgynous Peripheral Attach System (APAS) at the forward end of Harmony.

Integrated into the Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA), the Russian system was designed to perform either the passive or active function in a vehicle docking. It mechanically damps out oscillations as the vehicles make contact and then cranks them into a structural connection.

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SN: Wolf Gives Ground on Commercial Crew[/size]

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NASA, FAA Sign Pact on Human Spaceflight Regulation

WASHINGTON — When privately operated spacecraft begin ferrying NASA astronauts to the international space station, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will license launch and re-entry but leave it to NASA to decide whether the vehicles are fit to dock with the station and carry astronauts in the first place, the heads of the two agencies said June 18 in a joint press briefing.

NASA and FAA held the briefing to discuss a memorandum of understanding (MOU) they signed June 4. The document lays the foundation for developing the federal regulations that will govern crewed flights of privately operated spacecraft.

"This MOU is intended to support the transition to commercial transport of government and non-government passengers to low-Earth orbit in a manner that avoids conflicting requirements and multiple sets of standards," the document states.

FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation is the licensing and permitting body for all U.S. commercial space transportation.

"On the FAA side, the licensing requirements and our assurance of public safety is the same, whether it's a NASA mission or a pure commercial mission," Acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said. "It's all just to maintain the safe environment during launch and reentry."

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said NASA will have no jurisdiction over commercial human space transportation unless the vehicles are carrying NASA personnel or visiting NASA destinations, such as the space station.

"The FAA is always involved," Bolden said during the briefing. "NASA is only involved when there is a NASA fee being paid for the service because there are NASA crew members aboard."

The first privately operated, passenger-carrying spacecraft likely to reach orbit are being developed in part with NASA funding for the purpose of getting NASA astronauts to and from the international space station.

At least four companies are vying for funding under the third round of NASA's Commercial Crew Program: ATK Aerospace, Magna, Utah; Boeing Space Exploration, Houston; Sierra Nevada Space Systems, Louisville, Colo.; and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, Calif.

The companies are competing for awards worth $300 million to $500 million apiece over a 21-month technology development period. NASA's goal is to get designs for at least two competing systems, including a crew vehicle and a launcher, ready to enter production in time to begin crewed flights by 2017. The agency will pick three winners around mid-July, Bolden said during the teleconference.

One of those three will be funded at half the level of the other two winners, Bolden said.

"Two companies will get full funding at whatever level is decided based upon the amount in the NASA appropriation for commercial crew," Bolden said. "The third company would get about half of that."

This arrangement is part of a compromise NASA reached with Rep. Frank Wolf, chairman of the House Appropriations commerce, justice, science subcommittee, as a condition of Wolf dropping his insistence that NASA immediately pick a single company to build an astronaut taxi system.

Although only three companies will be eligible for funding, NASA wants to keep "upwards of three companies" involved in the third round of the Commercial Crew Program, which is known as the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability phase.

In the Commercial Crew Program's previous round, which is set to wrap up in August, NASA gave financial assistance to four companies working on crewed spacecraft. Three other companies, however, got unfunded Space Act agreements. The latter type of agreement provides access to NASA facilities, documents and technical expertise, but no NASA funding.

The Commercial Crew Program has encountered resistance among congressional appropriators, who have yet to appropriate anything close to the more-than $800 billion in annual funding the White House has sought for the past two years. The program got $406 million last year. This year, spending bills in the House and Senate provide $500 million and $525 million, respectively, for 2013. Wolf has agreed to fund the program at the Senate-approved level, but that will not become official until legislators in both chambers gather in conference to iron out the differences in the two spending bills.

While Bolden praised the compromise, he once again warned that the Commercial Crew Program will need more cash soon to meet its goal of producing a domestic astronaut transportation system by 2017. He said NASA will seek a "significant increase" in commercial crew funds in 2014.

"Ideally, I would say that what we want is to see the president's [2013] request, which was the $850 million," Bolden said during the briefing.

http://www.spacenews.com/civil/120618nasa-faa-spaceflight-regulation.html

[Salo]

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/06/18/bolden-commercial-crew-announcement-expected-in-mid-july/#more-39903

Bolden: Commercial Crew Awards Expected in Mid-July[/size]
Posted by Doug Messier on June 18, 2012, at 9:30 am in News

By Douglas Messier
Parabolic Arc Managing Editor

During a press conference this morning about a NASA-FAA agreement on commercial crew oversight, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was asked about the agency's plans for awarding the next phase of the program.

Bolden said the agency fully expects to announce the winners of the Commercial Crew integrated
 Capability (CCiCap) round in mid-July. The awards, which will cover all aspects of commercial vehicle development, will last for 21 months.

Two companies will receive full awards to develop their systems while a third will receive half of an award. This approach was worked out between Bolden and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), who wanted NASA to immediately down-select to one provider.

At the end of the 21-month period, NASA will put out a request for proposals open to all bidders to provide commercial crew services under Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Bolden said. FAR includes much more rigorous government oversight than the Space Act Agreements that NASA is now using for the commercial crew program.

Bolden said that NASA would prefer that Congress fully fund the President's request for commercial crew at $830 million for Fiscal Year 2013. NASA will ask for significantly more funding in future years to keep to a 2017 schedule for commercial crew flights.[/size]

[ronatu]

А действительно - сколько их?

на вскидку:

1. SpaceX
2. Orbital
3. CST-100
4. Orion Havy
5. Orion Light
6. Dearm Chaser Orbital
7. Excalibur Almaz
8. ПТК лунный
9. ПТК околоземный
10.Шэньчжоу
11.Blue Origin
12.ATK composite
13.ISRO
14.ESA
15.JAXA

16.Space Operations

....Space Operations, Inc. (SpaceOps) has formed a team of highly motivated aerospace companies for this purpose.

The three companies involved with the effort are WestWind Technologies, Inc., Advanced Solutions, Inc., and Southern Aerospace Company.  SpaceOps, will use the technology developed on the Gemini Program to be the basis for the 21st century, two-seat, ECLIPSE spacecraft.

"Since this is an existing and proven design we could begin construction six to eight weeks after funding and complete a flying prototype ten to thirteen months later," said WestWind President Bill Jolly.

U.S. built rocket boosters are currently available and could launch the ECLIPSE plus a significant amount of cargo into orbit.....

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gemini-to-fly-again-159561815.html

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http://www.spacenews.com/civil/120620-nasa-commercial-crew-grow-iss-pop.html

Wed, 20 June, 2012
NASA Banking on Commercial Crew To Grow Space Station's Population[/size]
By Dan Leone

    WASHINGTON — NASA is banking on its Commercial Crew Program to increase international space station (ISS) crew capacity to seven from the current six — something that could happen as soon as 2017 if Congress is willing to dramatically increase the program's budget, the agency's top human spaceflight official said.

    "We would definitely increase the crew size on ISS to seven crew members," William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate said June 20 during a hearing before the Senate Commerce science and space subcommittee. "We think that will increase the research capability onboard station and allow us to do more national lab research and be more effective in utilizing space station."

    To do that, and to ensure that the privately operated astronaut taxis NASA is helping industry develop are flying by 2017, the Commercial Crew Program will need more than $800 million in annual funding from 2014 to 2017. Congress gave the program $406 million for 2012, less than half what NASA requested. The program is poised to fare somewhat better in 2013, with key lawmakers pledging $525 million of the $830 million the agency requested.

    NASA currently pays the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, about $60 million a seat to ferry crew members to the international space station aboard Soyuz spacecraft. The U.S. companies competing to develop a domestic alternative to Soyuz are expected to beat that price, Gerstenmaier said.

    "We expect there to be a cost reduction, but I think it's a little too early for us to pick a particular value for a cost reduction," Gerstenamier said. He added that NASA plans to buy seats on two commercial crew flights a year. The agency would book four seats on each flight, he said.

    Congress and the White House have frequently disagreed about how to run the Commercial Crew Program. Earlier this year, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chairman of the House Appropriations commerce, justice, science subcommittee, drafted legislation calling for NASA to immediately pick a single provider to build a crew transportation system rather than prolong competition with multiple large awards.

    Wolf announced June 5 that he had dropped that demand after NASA agreed to fund no more than three providers, one of which would get half as much funding as the others. Wolf also insisted that the agency shift away from funded Space Act Agreements to more traditional government contracts once the next 21-month phase of the program concludes.

    So-called Commercial Crew Integrated Capability awards are expected in mid-July, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said June 18. At least four companies are competing for an award: ATK Aerospace, Magna, Utah; Boeing Space Exploration, Houston; Sierra Nevada Space Systems, Louisville, Colo.; and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, Calif.

    Meanwhile, an industry witness at the June 20 hearing said space transportation prices will have to fall substantially before any business plan involving a payload — crew or cargo — becomes palatable to private enterprise.

    "Those prices must come down from the sixty-plus-million-dollar range," said Mike Gold, director of Washington operations and business growth for Bigelow Aerospace, North Las Vegas, Nev. "They must come down dramatically for there to be a business case from the private sector."

    Bigelow is developing inflatable space habitats that it wants to market primarily to foreign governments. The company has sent two prototype modules into space on Russian rockets but says it cannot afford to develop or fly an operational habitat until cheaper space transportation is available. Gold said Bigelow needs a domestic transportation option because it is too expensive to comply with U.S. export control policies; Bigelow spent about $1 million on export control compliance for the two Russian launches it bought.

    Michael Lopez-Alegria, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation here, told lawmakers that the companies developing commercial crew taxis are counting on ISS service contracts to make their business cases close.

    "We sort of need the [international space station] to be there for us," Lopez-Alegria said. "We support whatever is necessary to ensure future use of the space station."

    Lopez-Alegria called on Congress to renew NASA's waiver to provisions in the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act that bar the agency from buying space station-related goods and services from Russia. The current waiver expires in 2016 and, in addition to letting NASA buy Soyuz seats, allows the agency to barter with Russia for engineering and data analysis critical to keeping the station operational.

    Gerstenmaier said without a new waiver, the United States will have to depend on Russian goodwill to secure needed engineering services.

    "Maybe they would donate that engineering service and that research service without bartering for it, I don't know if that's the case or not," Gerstenmaier said.

    Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), chairman of the Senate Commerce science and space subcommittee, offered strong support for granting such a waiver.

    "We don't have any choice, we have to pass that," Nelson said at the hearing. "We simply can't let that get in the way of us moving ahead with the space program." He did not say whether the waiver would appear as stand-alone legislation or as part of another bill.[/size]

[Apollo13]

something that could happen as soon as 2017 if Congress is willing to dramatically increase the program's budget

НННШ!

[Salo]

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/06/21/composite-crew-module-undergoes-vacuum-testing-at-marshall/#more-40049

Composite Crew Module Undergoes Vacuum Testing at Marshall[/size]
Posted by Doug Messier
on June 21, 2012, at 5:02 pm


The Composite Crew Module being rolled into the vacuum chamber at Marshall's Environmental Test Facility. The test will continue through the end of the summer. (Credit: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given)

Huntsville, Ala. (NASA PR — This week, engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., moved a Composite Crew Module (CCM) into the Environmental Test Facility vacuum chamber to gauge how well a space structure fabricated with composite materials will react in a simulated space environment. Data gained during this test series will aid in the design and development of future in-space composite habitable structures.

During the vacuum test, the chamber is sealed and purged to a level a vehicle would encounter on orbit to evaluate the composite material's integrity. The crew module is filled with helium gas to allow engineers to detect any leaks that may occur as pressure increases. Vacuum testing will yield a leak rate for the entire structure, then the team works to repair small leaks that may arise to improve the hardware's performance.

The test team includes members from the Marshall Center; NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.; Goddard Space Flight Center in Md.; Kennedy Space Center in Fla.; and the Boeing Company in Huntsville. To date, the team has completed ten tests and will continue testing through the end of the summer.

The crew module was designed to test new materials and fabrication techniques that may be used in future space structures, which will be constructed of both metals and composites. The Composite Crew Module Project is led by NASA's Engineering and Safety Center at Langley.

Fabricated at Alliant Techsystems in Iuka, Miss., the CCM was constructed in two parts using a hand layup technique, which combines carbon fiber epoxy and an aluminum honeycomb core. The two parts were joined together and then bonded in a unique process developed at the Marshall Center for the crew module. The project team is a partnership between NASA and industry and includes design, manufacturing, testing, inspection, and tooling expertise.[/size]

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тема "П......и к.......ы" постепенно оживает ))))

[Александр Ч.]

Меня слегка заспамили ссылками на видео  :lol:
CCP Breakout SNC
CCP: ATK Breakout Video
CCP: SpaceX Breakout Video
CCP Breakout Boeing
CCP: ULA Breakout Video