Dragon C1 - Falcon 9 - 8.12.10 18:43 ДМВ - Canaveral

[Agent]

Впрочем, вам это, видимо, неинтересно.

Да наверно...
Я сразу не понял, что вы тут потороллить решили.
Если вы такой умный, то должны были прекрасно понять мой первый пост по фотографии. Но "не поняли"

ЗЫ: не поленился посчитать. ваш обьектив (85мм) имеет поле зрения 23 градуса, 50мм - 38 градусов. 18, как на снимке, 88 градусов.
Как ваш портредник "ближе" к человеческому глазу чем 50мм - совершенно непонятно. Разве что вы видите мир както альтернативно.

[Dio]

Прекрасная иллюстрация того факта, что читать лекции перед органчиками и аналогичными устройствами бесполезно. Андрей, я вам это еще в теме про ГфЯРД говорил. Не мечите бисер где попало.

[SpaceR]

"Даже после установки всей системы хранения груза, в Драконе полно места."

Конечно, полно. Я тут пока ни одного взлетно-посадочного кресла реально не вижу. Да и одеты они пока далеко не в шаттловские скафандры.


Вот когда поставят кресла для, хотя бы, пятерых - см рисунок справа:
 - тогда и можно будет всерьез продолжить разговор о наличии места.

[Salo]

На NSF уже дискутируют о дате старта:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=22769.msg651208#msg651208

Looks like SpaceX C-1 launch date is now NET 11/18/2010.   This will be a busy November at the Cape with STS 11/1, Delta H 11/15 and SpaceX 11/18.   The hotels and restaurants are going to love this.

I predicted at the beginning of this month that if we don't see a static fire test before the end of October, then the likely launch window will be Nov 15-18.  So I'm still looking alright, but vulnerable to weather.  I have a feeling this is the last vehicle delay. My amateur prediction is holding at Nov 18 weather permitting.  But anyone considering airline tickets might want to wait for guidance from the oracle known as Jim.

I don't. Until we get to within a week of scheduled launch without the date moving further to the right, I won't consider that date as likely. For a while it looked like it might really go on the 8th or thereabouts, having not slipped for a while, but it looks like we're still more or less at the one-month-to-go phase.

[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=8184.msg651273#msg651273

We'll be visiting the Cape on Nov. 1 for STS-133.  I see that there are two other launches by mid-November: an NRO payload by Delta IV (SLC-37B) on Nov. 15 and the Dragon demo flight by Falcon 9 (SLC-40) on Nov. 18.

Видимо ушёл вправо на 18 ноября.

[Salo]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html

Nov. 18     Falcon 9  •  Dragon C1
Launch window: TBD
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the first active Dragon spacecraft, called Dragon C1. The mission will demonstrate the capabilities of the Dragon in a four-and-a-half hour test flight named COTS 1. The company is building the Dragon to fly on resupply missions to the International Space Station. Delayed from 2nd Quarter. Delayed from July 21, August, Sept. 9, Oct. 23 and Nov. 8. [Oct. 23]

[Bell]

А какая программа полета?

[Salo]

Пуск, маневрирование, посадка.

[ronatu]

А какая программа полета?

MuHuMa/\bHaR... :wink:

[Lev]

Прикольная статья хоть и старовата...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18688-us-space-companies-present-soyuzbusting-price-plans.html
Я круто прикололся от этого пассажа:  

With NASA's Constellation programme axed and the US private sector not yet ready to get the nation's astronauts into space, Shotwell said that the US should worry about its reliance on Soyuz: "After the shuttle is retired, it is not apparent what price Russia may demand for rides to the American-built portion of the ISS," she said.

[МиГ-31]

А какая программа полета?

Вроде трехвитковый полет.

[zeaman]

Ну что  -  на 10 дней направо. 18 ноября.

[Salo]

http://cybersecurity.ru/space/106302.html

SpaceX на 10 дней откладывает запуск космической капсулы Dragon[/size]

(05:15) 26.10.2010

Частная космическая компания Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) перенесла запланированный запуск ракеты-носителя Falcon 8 с тестовой капсулой Dragon с 8 ноября на 10 дней позже. "SpaceX теперь ориентируется на 18 ноября как на дату для следующего запуска. 19 и 20 ноября мы рассматриваем как запасные даты", - говорит Кирстин Брасс, пресс-секретарь SpaceX.

Предстоящий полет, являющийся демонстрацией ракеты среднего класса Falcon 9 с грузовой космической капсулой Dragon, проводится в рамках программы НАСА Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS), стартовавшей в сентябре 2008 года. Первый же контракт на создание космических аппаратов по контрактам с НАСА был подписан со SpaceX еще в 2006 году.

Позже текст документа был модифицирован, чтобы он отражал успешно проведенный в июне 2009 года демонстрационный полет. В НАСА предполагают, что капсула Dragon после предстоящего старта должна будет отстыковаться от ракеты-носителя и совершить 4-часовой автономный полет, во время которого будут сделаны 4 витка вокруг Земли. Во время полета Dragon будет передавать телеметрические данные, получать команды по маневрированию, войдет в атмосферу и упадет в заданном районе в океан для ее последующего извлечения.

Напомним, что SpaceX - это лишь одна из компаний, которые рассматриваются НАСА в качестве поставщиков космических услуг после списания шаттлов. Другая компания - Orbital Sciences Corp создает роботизированный аппарата Cygnus и ракету-носитель для него Taurus 2, которые также могут доставлять грузы к МКС. Ранее Orbital Sciences получила от НАСА 1,9 млрд долларов на развитие этой программы.

Летом этого года SpaceX провела первый успешный запуск ракеты Falcon 9, когда на ракете был поднят макет капсулы Dragon.

[Salo]

Видимо первоисточник: http://www.spacenews.com/launch/101025-spacex-demo-slips.html

[Salo]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/101026launchdate/

SpaceX reschedules next Falcon 9 launch for Nov. 18[/size]
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: October 26, 2010

SpaceX has reset the launch of a crucial test flight of the Dragon capsule for no earlier than Nov. 18, giving engineers extra time to simulate the ship's brief but ambitious mission.


The second Falcon 9 rocket undergoes a fueling test in September. Credit: SpaceX
 
The 10-day slip from the flight's last liftoff date, Nov. 8, is geared toward ensuring the mission has a better chance at success, according to SpaceX.

"We will launch when we believe the vehicle is ready and there is more testing that would yield a meaningful improvement in mission success," the company said Monday in a statement released to Spaceflight Now.

The launch window on Nov. 8 was between 1430 GMT (9:30 a.m. EST) and 1752 GMT (12:52 p.m. EST).

According to SpaceX, the Falcon 9 rocket has backup launch opportunities on Nov. 19 and Nov. 20. The schedule move leapfrogged a Nov. 15 Delta 4-Heavy rocket launch with a national security payload.

If launch remains scheduled for Nov. 18, engineers plan to roll the 154-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket to the launch pad for a preflight engine firing Nov. 13.

The SpaceX launch team completed a fueling test of the two-stage rocket Sept. 15.

But officials are not ruling out another delay.

"Dragon is an entirely new vehicle, making it impossible to predict exactly when all tests and verification of test data will be complete," the SpaceX statement said.

SpaceX is processing their first payload with toxic hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellants at launch pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Officials say they are taking extra precautions with the introduction of hypergolic fuel.

The schedule uncertainty is focused on maximizing the odds of success on the Dragon test flight, which is slated to complete between one and three orbits of Earth, or last roughly two to five hours.

"We would like to do more integrated system testing including another in-depth round of hardware in the loop mission simulations to see if we can uncover any corner case problems," the statement said. "So far, it looks good, but we want to triple check."

The upcoming flight follows a wildly successful first launch of the Falcon 9 rocket in June. That launcher carried a dummy Dragon capsule into orbit.


The Dragon spacecraft mounted on a processing fixture inside the SpaceX hangar at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Credit: Brian Attiyeh/SpaceX
 
Speaking to reporters Monday at Kennedy Space Center, NASA's chief space operations official said SpaceX is working on verifying the interaction of the vehicle's software and hardware.

"They have some hardware integration tests where they check out their hardware with their software," said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator of space operations. "They wanted some additional time to do that, so that's why they moved from the 8th to the 18th."

SpaceX is developing the Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket under an agreement with NASA. The design was completed using a mix of federal and private investment in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, an initiative to procure U.S. spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.

"They are doing all the right things," Gerstenmaier said. "They have got the right attitude of how to get ready for flight."

Next month's mission is an all-in test flight of the Dragon, demonstrating for the first time its guidance and navigation system, orbit maneuvering thrusters, flight software, heat shield and parachutes.

After launching into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket and circling Earth a handful of times, the Dragon will drop back into the atmosphere and parachute into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles.

"They have a pretty aggressive first flight," Gerstenmaier said.

The mission's success will determine whether NASA approves a SpaceX proposal to combine the next two Dragon demonstration flights in 2011. The baseline Dragon manifest calls for a second mission to approach the space station to check the craft's rendezvous systems, then a third Dragon spacecraft would be grappled by the outpost's robotic arm and berthed to the complex.

SpaceX hopes to send the second Dragon flight all the way to the space station, accomplishing both flights' test objectives and expediting the first operational mission to delivery supplies.

Dennis Stone, the manager of integration in NASA's commercial crew and cargo office, said the space agency will decide whether to consolidate the next two Dragon flights after reviewing the results of the November mission.

The company has a contract with NASA for up to 12 cargo flights valued at up to $1.6 billion.

[Salo]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html

Nov. 18    Falcon 9  •  Dragon C1
Launch window: 1355-1705 GMT (8:55 a.m.-12:05 p.m. EST)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the first active Dragon spacecraft, called Dragon C1. The mission will demonstrate the capabilities of the Dragon in a four-and-a-half hour test flight named COTS 1. The company is building the Dragon to fly on resupply missions to the International Space Station. Delayed from 2nd Quarter. Delayed from July 21, August, Sept. 9, Oct. 23 and Nov. 8. [Nov. 1]

[zeaman]

Еще на один день сдвинулись -  на 19 Ноября 2010.

[Космос-3794]

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval to launch its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo vessel as soon as Nov. 20. The first COTS demonstration mission is now scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., no earlier than Nov. 20. FAA is still reviewing a number of key pieces of information about the re-entry that it requested in June 2009 but did not receive until Oct. 29, 2010.

http://www.spacenews.com/venture_space/111005-spacex-awaiting-faa-approval-license.html

[Петр Зайцев]

Умора, ну прямо как с FTS было в прошлый раз. Ведь знают же, что нужны разрешения, и все равно не чешутся с получением.

[SpaceR]

Ну так не первый же раз, зачем же лишать себя такой железной "отмазки"?