Cygnus COTS Demo - Antares-110 - 18.09.2013 - Wallops/MARS LP-0A

[LRV_75]

Товарищи, про клепание союзов на байконуре - это морозовщина 

[Штуцер]

Сергио пишет:
захват - стрелой. бцвм и ОС - содрать с чибиса. кастрыля одноразовая. пуск - не знаю чем.

главное - не усложнять, keep it simple, stupid - KISS. они з не делают с прицелом на автономую стыковку, и тд. прилитела кастрюля, выгрузилась, упала в океан.

Дарю решение проблемы: надо немного нарастить манипулятор.
Захватывать прямо с земли.

[SFN]

LRV_75 пишет:
Молодцы! Честно говоря я был более пессимистично настроен в плане перспектив развития современной космонавтики, но Орбитал и СпейсХ заставляют задуматься и вселяют позитив

Молодцы - это точно. Позитив вселяют. Перспективы развития птички - сделать кастрюлю побольше, а лопухи покрасивше.

[SFN]

Штуцер пишет:
Дарю решение проблемы: надо немного нарастить манипулятор.
Захватывать прямо с земли.

в 20 000 раз

[che wi]

Штуцер пишет:
Дарю решение проблемы: надо немного нарастить манипулятор.
Захватывать прямо с земли.

Можно с крыши этого сооружения :)

[Александр Ч.]

Так вроде ж авторы "ероглифа" и так предполагают запускать с крыши ракеты?

[Salo]

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/asd_10_01_2013_p01-02-622251.xml

NASA Approves Orbital Sciences For ISS Commercial Resupply Missions
By Mark Carreau
Source: Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

October 01, 2013

HOUSTON — Orbital Sciences has satisfied its Commercial Orbital Transportation Systems program requirements with a successful rendezvous of the Cygnus resupply capsule with the International Space Station and is cleared to march ahead with plans to initiate a $1.9 billion, eight-flight Commercial Resupply Services contract in December, Alan Lindenmoyer, NASA's COTS program manager, said Sept. 29.

The first CRS flight is tentatively scheduled to lift off fr om the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia on Dec. 8.

For its part, Orbital plans to step up its mass per mission to 1.5-2 tons on the next three CRS missions, then 2.5 tons on the final deliveries. The Dulles, Va.-based company also plans to reduce the two to three-day baseline rendezvous trajectory to one day over the early CRS flights, said Frank Culbertson, Orbital's executive vice president.

The two men spoke after the unpiloted Cygnus shook off a GPS navigation software mismatch issue with the space station that prevented a planned Sept. 22 rendezvous. The commercial freighter approached ahead of schedule on Sept. 29 for a robot arm capture by ISS astronauts Luca Parmitano, of the European Space Agency, and Karen Nyberg, of NASA, at 7 a.m. EDT. They completed the operation by commanding the Canadian robot arm to place Cygnus and its 1,543-lb. non-critical cargo of crew provisions and science equipment at the U.S. segment Harmony berthing port at 8:44 a.m. EDT, again ahead of schedule.

"They are good to go," Lindenmoyer said. "The station has a spot ready for them in December. We're getting the cargo ready to ship out. They've demonstrated a system that certainly can deliver. There will be no delays in proceeding toward the next mission."

The supply ship, which was named for former NASA astronaut and Orbital executive G. David Low, was opened by the ISS crew early Sept. 30 (about 6 a.m. EDT). Cygnus will remain berthed until Oct. 22, and then depart with trash for a destructive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

Cygnus was launched atop an Orbital two-stage Antares rocket on Sept. 18 on the final demonstration mission flown under the company's $288 million February 2008 COTS program agreement, a qualifier to begin the CRS contract activities agreed to 10 months later, in December 2008.

Orbital now joins SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., in NASA's CRS stable to take on an ISS resupply role filled by NASA's shuttle fleet until the winged orbiters were retired in 2011.

The original rendezvous schedule was postponed by 24 hr. and then until Sept. 29 to await the Sept. 25 launch and docking of Russia's Soyuz TMA-10M with three new ISS crewmembers.

During the delay, Orbital fashioned a one-line software change that was uplinked and verified, allowing Cygnus to march through the final milestones during the last 10 hr. of the rendezvous. They included a successful command exchange from the ISS crew in which Cygnus was instructed to advance from a 250-meter hold point below the station to a separation of 230 meters, wh ere it held for several minutes.

[Сергио]

che wi пишет:

Штуцер пишет:
Дарю решение проблемы: надо немного нарастить манипулятор.
Захватывать прямо с земли.

Можно с крыши этого сооружения  

тогда его на тибет. или памир. в "зведе кэц" оттуда летали.

[morpheus]

http://www.orbital.com/Antares-Cygnus/

Cygnus Status Update | October 7, 2013The Expedition 37 crew aboard the International Space Station has completed unloading the cargo from the Cygnus Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) Cygnus and has loaded the first layer of waste for disposal. The crew will be working this week loading the second layer of trash. The third layer is expected to be loaded the week of 10/14, followed by PCM close out. Unberthing from the station is expected on October 22, with reentry into Earth's atmosphere on October 24.

Таким образом 37 экспедиция полность разгрузила корабль и загрузила первый уровень отходов. На этой неделе загрузит второй, а 14-го - третий. Отчалит Сигнус 22 октября, а 24-го - войдет в плотные слои атмосферы.

[Space Alien]

Американский частный космический грузовой корабль Cygnus будет 22 октября отстыкован от Международной космической станции и в тот же день, не долетев до Земли, сгорит в плотных слоях атмосферы, сообщил РИА Новости представитель НАСА в российском Центре управления полетами (ЦУП).

"Корабль будет отстыкован от станции с помощью манипулятора Canadarm, которым будут управлять астронавт НАСА Карен Найберг и астронавт Европейского космического агентства (ЕКА) Лука Пармитано. Расчетное время начала отстыковки — 11.30 мск", — сказал собеседник агентства.

РИА Новости http://ria.ru/space/20131015/970226932.html

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/37729orbital-moves-cygnus-re-entry-up-a-day-prepares-for-another-cargo-run-in

Orbital Moves Cygnus Re-entry Up a Day, Prepares for Another Cargo Run in December
By Dan Leone | Oct. 16, 2013

WASHINGTON — Orbital Sciences Corp. is planning to end its first cargo delivery mission to the international space station a little early, with the company's now-trash-filled Cygnus spacecraft set for destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean Oct. 23, a spokesman said.

"It used to be Oct. 24, but in looking at the orbital mechanics of release, the team updated their burn schedule and Oct. 24 became Oct. 23," Orbital spokesman Barron Beneski said in a phone interview Oct. 16.

Space station crew members will close Cygnus' hatch Oct. 21. Then, around 5 a.m. Eastern time the next day, the craft will separate from the station's Harmony node and maneuver away from the outpost to perform its deorbit burn.

Cygnus launched Sept. 18 from the state-run Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The expendable cargo ship arrived at the station Sept. 29, a few days later than expected after a communications glitch and the arrival of new crew members aboard a Russian-launched Soyuz spacecraft forced Cygnus into a holding pattern.
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[che wi]

Отстыковка – 22 октября 11:30 UTC
Трансляция с 11:00 UTC – http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

[Lanista]

Это по мск во сколько?

[Salo]

15:30 ЛМВ. Начало трансляции в 15:00.

[Lanista]

Да, уже в планах у вас глянул.

[Space Alien]

[Space Alien]

https://twitter.com/OrbitalSciences/status/392596388288008192

[Space Alien]

Частный космический грузовой корабль Cygnus после 23-дневного пребывания на Международной космической станции (МКС) был отстыкован от американского модуля Harmony и сейчас "висит" на манипуляторе Canadarm, который отпустит его в "свободный полет" около 15.30 мск, сообщает Orbital Sciences, компания-производитель "грузовика".

РИА Новости http://ria.ru/space/20131022/971812576.html

[bavv]

[Space Alien]