Cygnus OA-5 - Antares-230 - MARS LP-0A - 17.10.2016 23:45 UTC

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Перенесли оказывается из-за станции слежения на Бермутских островах.

 https://blogs.nasa.gov/orbital/2016/10/11/atlantic-storm-system-delays-nasa-resupply-launch-to-space-station/
Atlantic Storm System Delays NASA Resupply Launch to Space Station
Posted on October 11, 2016 at 5:29 pm by Rob Garner.
NASA and its partner Orbital ATK have postponed the launch of the company's next commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station to no earlier than Sunday, Oct. 16, as the agency prepares for Tropical Storm Nicole at its tracking site in Bermuda.
A Sunday launch would occur at 8:03 p.m. EDT from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, with a five-minute window.

Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft arrived on Oct. 2, 2016 at the Horizontal Integration Facility at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for mating with the Antares rocket. Cygnus is scheduled to launch on the Antares rocket at 8:03 p.m. EDT, Oct. 16, 2016, carrying about 5,100 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

As the spacecraft's trajectory takes it from Wallops and past Bermuda on its flight into orbit, the Bermuda tracking station provides downrange tracking, telemetry and flight termination support. Tropical Storm Nicole is expected to reach Bermuda as a hurricane Thursday, Oct. 13.

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Forecast from the National Hurricane Center of Hurricane Nicole's path, as of the afternoon of Oct. 11. Credit: NHC/NOAA

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"The tracking station at Bermuda is required to conduct the Antares launch from Wallops," said Steven Kremer, chief of the Wallops Range and Mission Management Office. "The ability to support a launch will depend on the impact the storm has on not only our systems, but also the overall Bermuda infrastructure."
After the storm system has passed Bermuda, the Wallops team will conduct a damage assessment, perform mission readiness testing, and bring the site back up to operational status.

По НАСА ТВ показывают ускоренные записи подготовки и загрузки  

[Apollo13]

Orbital ATKVerified account‏@OrbitalATK

#Cygnus has been encapsulated in the #Antares payload & we are ready for today's roll-out to the launch pad! @NASA_Wallops @VCSFA_MARS

[vogel]

http://blogs.nasa.gov/orbital/2016/10/14/upd%20ate-on-bermuda-tracking-station/?linkId=29951743

Update on Bermuda Tracking Station
Posted on October 14, 2016 at 2:55 pm by Rob Garner.

The NASA Wallops Flight Facility and Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport are se t to support the launch of Orbital ATK's Antares rocket at 8:03 p.m. EDT, Oct. 16.
The NASA tracking station in Bermuda received minor damage from Hurricane Nicole when it passed over the island Oct. 13, 2016. Repairs to the station have been made and the team is currently readying to support the launch.

The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft aboard. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls


The Bermuda site provides tracking, telemetry and flight terminations support for Antares launches from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Final testing is scheduled to be conducted the morning of Oct. 15 prior to the launch readiness review later that day.
Orbital ATK's Antares rocket will launch the company's Cygnus cargo spacecraft, loaded with some 5,100 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware bound for the International Space Station. Antares will launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport pad 0A at Wallops.
As of 3:30 p.m. EDT on Oct. 14, the latest forecast from the Wallops Weather Office has conditions for the Sunday evening launch at 95 percent "go."
The launch may be visible, weather permitting, to residents throughout the east coast of the United States. Local public viewing of the launch will be available at the NASA Visitor Center at Wallops and Robert Reed Park on Chincoteague Island or Beach Road spanning the area between Chincoteague and Assateague Islands. Assateague Island National Seashore/Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia will not be open for viewing the launch.

Всё готово к пуску)

[Salo]

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/orbital_atk_crs-5_mission_overview.pdf

[А.Фарафонов]

Запуск 17 октября в 03:03 по московскому времени.
Трансляция: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

[Lesobaza]

А.Фарафонов пишет:
Запуск 17 октября в 03:03 по московскому времени.
Трансляция: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

Как же всё плотно!!
В 2:30 (ДМВ) китайские товарищи стартуют, а через полчаса миссия к МКС.

[vogel]

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/787700408126812160

Statement just emailed on today's #OA5 scrub due to ground support equipment issue.

Теперь не плотно. 

18 октября 02:40 ДМВ.

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Для непонимающих английский без компьютерного переводчика 

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/orbital.html
https://blogs.nasa.gov/orbital/

Statement on Antares Slip to October 17, 2016
Posted on October 16, 2016 at 1:30 pm by khille.
Today's launch of Orbital ATK's Antares rocket is postponed  24 hours  due to a ground support equipment (GSE) cable that did not perform as expected during the pre-launch check out. We have spares on hand and rework procedures are in process. The Antares and Cygnus teams are not currently working any technical issues with the rocket or the spacecraft.
The launch is now scheduled for October 17 at 7:40 p.m. EDT.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/orbital/2016/10/16/meet-the-engines-of-the-new-antares-rocket/
Meet the New Engines of the Antares Rocket
Posted on October 16, 2016 at 11:52 am by khille.
For the Antares Return to Flight, Orbital ATK will rely on the Energomash RD-181 rocket motor. It is an all-new engine based on other successful liquid rocket engines Energomash designed and produced. The engines use an oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle that can be throttled, and has a variable mixture ratio for controlling relative flow rates of oxidizer and fuel.

The Energomash RD-181 is an all new engine based on successful models.


The Antares second stage is powered by a CASTOR 30XL solid rocket motor produced and tested at Orbital ATK facilities in Utah. The CASTOR 30XL is based on the CASTOR 120, used in more than a dozen missions. The OA-5 mission will be the first use of this motor, allowing Antares to significantly increase its payload capability.

The CASTOR 30XL solid rocket motor will help boost Cygnus payload capacity.

The Antares 230 rocket for this mission is a two-stage launch vehicle consisting of a liquid-fueled Liquid Oxygen/Refined Petroleum (LOX/RP) first stage powered by two Energomash RD-181s that will burn about 209 seconds. Antares employs a 9.9 m (32.5 ft.) long fairing to protect Cygnus as Antares accelerates through Earth's atmosphere. It will separate at 250 seconds into flight, after which the second stage will burn about 163 seconds. The Cygnus cargo capsule will reach its initial orbit about 9 minutes after launch.

Для второй ступени это первый раз... но эта новая модификация не успела отработать в свой предыдущий первый раз - в октябре 2014 года.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/orbital/2016/10/15/whats-on-board/
What's On Board?
Posted on October 15, 2016 at 4:41 pm by khille.

On the OA-5 mission, Cygnus will carry supplies and equipment to the International Space Station, as well as science payloads. The total mass of the cargo is approximately 2,425 kg (5,346 lb.), which includes 56 cargo bags of multiple sizes.
Payloads:

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•  Spacecraft Fire Experiment-II (Saffire-II)
•  Fast Neuron Spectrometer
•  ACM and Experiment Tray
•  SLMMD
  

Cargo:

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• ISS Experiment Hardware
• EVA Equipment– EMU Repair Kit– EVA Supplies
• Emergency Equipment
• Photo/TV and Computer Resources– Computer – iPad Air 2
  – Laptop – T61P and Connectors – Camera – Nikon D4
• ISS Hardware and Spare ORUs – Cupola Scratch Panes
  – Water ORU
• Food, Crew Supplies and Crew Provisions
• Flight Crew Equipment
• Cargo Environment SensorsAdditional payload details can be found at www.nasa.gov/iss-science.
  

The Saffire-II experiment will start a controlled fire on the Cygnus capsule after it departs the station to observe and measure how the fire behaves in micro-gravity.
"One of the least understood risks in space is how a fire starts, how it propagates, how you will detect the fire and how you put it out," said Jintendra Joshi, Saffire technology integration lead for the Advanced Exploration Systems Division at NASA Headquarters.

The first Saffire experiment showed slower than expected spread of fire in a convective air flow environment in the experiment capsule, Joshi said. Further exploration "will help us make space travel safer," he said.
Future experiments will try burning in different conditions, then investigate strategies for putting fires out.

The Cool Flames experiment will investigate why some combustible materials seem to burn at a lower-than-expected temperature in micro-gravity. "In certain cases with certain fuels something unexpected happens that can't be replicated on the ground," said Jesse Robins of NASA's Glenn Research Center.
What you see, he said, is after an initial hot burn the visible flame extinquishes but the fuel droplet size diminishes at a faster rate than evaporation would suggest. Sometimes the fuel can re-ignite, he said, "like a trick birthday candle."

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Фоточки на Фликере - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/72157675077859356
Оттуда некоторые превьюшки (там есть в большем разрешении)

[Lesobaza]

vogel пишет:
 Теперь не плотно.

18 октября 02:40 ДМВ.

Увы...

Две ночи не спать (((

[Димитър]

Новости ?

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/orbital/
Antares Countdown Begins
Posted on October 17, 2016 at 1:53 pm by Rob Garner.
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Orbital ATK's Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft teams have reported to their stations, and the formal countdown has begun. Antares is on schedule for launch tonight, Oct. 17, at 7:40 p.m. EDT, and Orbital ATK reports conditions are nominal. The Wallops Weather Office forecast (issued at L-minus 24 hours) is 95 percent go: "As our weather continues to be influenced by high pressure, we will see a great weather setup once again for the launch attempt on Monday, with only a very slight chance of thick clouds expected."

7:40 p.m. EDT - 23:40  UTC - 2:40 по Москве

Wallops и Восточный что общего - перенос запуска из-за кабеля  

https://www.orbitalatk.com/news-room/feature-stories/OA5-Mission-Page/Documents/D16_06867%20Launch%20Viewing%20Handout.pdf

[Salo]

Stephen Clark ‏@StephenClark1  36 мин.36 минут назад  
Antares launch from Wallops tonight set for 7:40:40pm EDT (2340:40 GMT), a few seconds later than originally planned due to COLA.
 
  Orbital ATK ‏@OrbitalATK  52 мин.52 минуты назад    Virginia, USA  
Weather is go for launch tonight! @NASA_Wallops
 
  Orbital ATK ‏@OrbitalATK  1 ч.1 час назад  
As the #OA5 #Antares rocket prepares for launch, the next core stage was moved today to the HIF to be integrated for the next mission
 

[Lesobaza]

Ночной марафон продолжаем??

Вчера китайцы. Сегодня американцы.

to go!

[Прол]

Какие жизнерадостные девушки ведут репортаж .

[Lesobaza]

Everything looking good!

[Прол]

Lesobaza пишет:
Everything looking good!

И погода хорошая.

[Lesobaza]

[Lesobaza]

[Lesobaza]

Прол пишет:

Lesobaza пишет:
Everything looking good!

И погода хорошая.

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