Dragon SpX-9 – Falcon 9 FT – Canaveral SLC-40 – 18.07.2016 04:45 ГЕС

[Alex_II]

Штуцер пишет:
Баки с компонентами размещаются в багажнике Дракона.
На баках - разъемы, совместимые с топливными разъемами нашего стыковочного узла.

И место для захвата манипулятором. Извлекаем из багажника манипулятором, стыкуем к трубопроводам нашего узла... Можно и вручную (при ВКД) но можно и автоматический вариант продумать...

[Pirat5]

Подтвержнена дата пуска - 18 июля

(00:45 EDT) = 0445 UTC = 0745 мск

прожиг, скорее всего, за 2 суток - 16 июля

Dragon (4,200 kg) + Pressurized Cargo (2,023 kg) + IDA-2 (550 kg) = 6,773 kg

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4ksedl

Посадка на землю - LZ1

[Pirat5]

прожиг, скорее всего, за 2 суток - 16 июля

подтверждение - прожиг 16 июля вечером (по мск)

Chris B - NSF ‏@NASASpaceflight  3 ч.3 часа назад
Chris B - NSF Ретвитнул(а) 45th Space Wing
SpaceX Falcon 9 with CRS-9 Dragon. Static Fire on Saturday morning (subject to change), LRR and then Launch Day.

[triage]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/spacex-crs-9-carrying-crucial-port-to-station

Спойлер

A metallic ring big enough for astronauts and cargo to fit through is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station in July as part of the cargo aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft loaded with materials for the orbiting laboratory and its crew. The ring is known as an International Docking Adapter, or IDA, and its main purpose is to provide a port for spacecraft bringing astronauts to the station in the future.

The Dragon and its cargo will fly into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will take about 10 minutes to lift the spacecraft fr om its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to an orbit to catch up with the station. It will take about two days for the Dragon to reach the station. Once within reach of the station's robotic arm, the Dragon will be berthed to the orbital complex by the astronauts already on the station.
Outfitted with a host of sensors and systems, the adapter is built so spacecraft systems can automatically perform all the steps of rendezvous and dock with the station without input from the astronauts. Manual backup systems will be in place on the spacecraft to allow the crew to take over steering duties, if needed.

"It's a passive system which means it doesn't take any action by the crew to allow docking to happen and I think that's really the key," said David Clemen Boeing's director of Development/Modifications for the space station.

The IDA stands about 42 inches tall and is 63 inches in diameter on the inside. Sensors and other fittings ring the perimeter of the adapter and give it an overall diameter of about 94 inches. Spacecraft flying to the station will use the sensors on the IDA to track to and help the spacecraft's navigation system steer the spacecraft to a safe docking without astronaut involvement.

The adapter also represents the first on-orbit element built to the docking measurements that are standardized for all the spacecraft builders across the world. Its first users are expected to be the Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft now in development in partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Because the adapter is designed to an international standard, future spacecraft will be able to dock there, too.

"It's really good we have an international standard now that anybody can build against and come dock to the station or to anything that has the same standard," Clemen said.

The companies are competitors in delivering astronauts to the station, but they both play a large role in the IDA project, with Boeing having built the docking port and SpaceX ferrying it into orbit.

The IDA is comprised of parts from 25 states in the United States. The main element was built by Russian company RSC-Energia, which built the primary structures of the adapter.

While the crew will be able to move the supplies out of the interior, pressurized compartment of the Dragon without leaving the station, the robotic arm will be called on to pull the IDA from the trunk and maneuver it near the port wh ere it will be connected. NASA astronauts currently living aboard the station will perform a spacewalk later this summer to make the final connection of the IDA to the Harmony module.

This adapter will be one of two at the station. Another already being assembled at Kennedy will be carried into orbit during a future SpaceX cargo resupply mission and attached to another open port on the station, giving the station two docking areas for the new generation of human-rated spacecraft. Both of the IDAs are identical.

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With the IDA loaded in the rear trunk of the Dragon, the interior of the spacecraft will hold about 3,800 pounds of material including experiment supplies for dozens of the 250 research projects taking place on the station during Expeditions 48 and 49. The payloads are vital elements for the crew on the station to conduct its research for those on the Earth as well as to help advance the knowledge needed for a future journey to Mars by astronauts.

Included in the payload is the TangoLab-1, a research rack that will run small-sized experiments in orbit in a wide range of scientific fields. The rack is tailored to self-contained research that can be accomplished inside canisters about the size of a tissue box. The rack can hold two dozen experiments at once and those can be changed out for fresh research with each arriving cargo spacecraft. According to Space Tango CEO Twyman Clements, the lab is meant to give researchers a new avenue to conduct science affordably in orbit.

"We specialize in doing really complex work in really small space," Clements said. The idea to design the lab to uniform canister sizes came about from the company's work in CubeSats and space station projects. "This way we don't have to re-invent the wheel every time" for a new experiment.

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http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-9_mission_overview.pdf


Что-то тут про мышей не написали для экспериментов в японском модуле, про эксперимент рассказывали тут   11:31

[Salo]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2016/07/12/expanded-crew-trains-for-spacex-dragon-capture/

Expanded Crew Trains for SpaceX Dragon Capture                             
Posted on July 12, 2016 at 12:08 pm by Mark Garcia.                

The newly-expanded Expedition 48 crew is preparing for next week's arrival of the ninth SpaceX mission. In the meantime, the International Space Station's newest trio is getting used to their new home in space and conducting science and maintenance with their crewmates.
New astronauts Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi joined Commander Jeff Williams and trained for the robotic capture of the SpaceX Dragon. The Dragon cargo craft is scheduled to launch early July 18 from Florida and arrive at the station two days later. Dragon will deliver an international docking adapter and new science experiments to sequence DNA and understand bone loss.

[Salo]

CRS-9 Launch Hazard Areas Visualization
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1H3pbysdIKjJE7htHeqgV0FqohUA

[Pirat5]

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-9_mission_overview.pdf

что-то немножко не сходится, на 28кг
930+370+280+127+1+54=1762 kg
ерунда, конечно, но это ж официальный пресс-релиз.

[triage]

там написано with packaging - может 28 кг это упаковка для упаковки?

[Salo]

http://www.mcc.rsa.ru/new_ss.htm#1

Грузовик Dragon доставит на МКС международный стыковочный адаптер IDA
РИА Новости, 14.07.2016г  

Грузовой корабль Dragon на следующей неделе доставит на Международную космическую станцию (МКС) первый из двух стандартизированных международных адаптеров IDA для стыковки космических кораблей со станцией, сообщили в НАСА в среду.
 Грузовой корабль Dragon компании SpaceX стартует на МКС на ракете-носителе Falcon 9 в понедельник 18 июля в 07.45 мск с космодрома на мысе Канаверал. Помимо провианта, предметов первой необходимости и материалов для научных экспериментов, на станцию прибудет первый из двух новых адаптеров, предназначенных для стыковки разрабатываемых США космических кораблей и орбитальной станции. Как подчеркивают в НАСА, адаптер станет первым созданным по стандартизированным международным стандартам.
 "Прекрасно, что теперь у нас есть международный стандарт для того, чтобы любой мог строить (космические корабли — ред.) в соответствии с ними и стыковаться со станцией", — сказал представитель компании Boeing Дэвид Клемен, создавшей адаптер (International Docking Adapter, IDA) по контракту с НАСА.
 По его словам, "раньше такого адаптера не было, теперь мы его создали". "Русские были частью этой работы, японцы... все остальные согласились с этими стандартами, и теперь любой сможет стыковаться с МКС", — сообщил Клеменс. Согласно планам НАСА, первую стыковку с новым адаптером совершит корабль Starliner, разрабатываемый компанией Boeing или Crew Dragon, принадлежащий SpaceX. Обе компании планируют совершить первый пилотируемый полет на МКС не раньше конца 2017 года.
 Как пояснили в НАСА, благодаря техническим возможностям новый адаптеров, все космические корабли будут осуществлять стыковку через адаптер в автоматическом режиме, участие экипажа будет необходимо только в экстренных случаях. По данным американского ведомства, основной элемент и несущая конструкция адаптера IDA создается российской РКК "Энергия".
 После стыковки корабля Dragon с МКС, которая должна состояться через два дня после старта, манипулятор станции перенесет адаптер к месту будущей стыковки. Планируется, что его инсталляция к модулю Гармония (Harmony) будет завершена позднее летом в ходе планового выхода астронавтов НАСА в открытый космос.
 Ожидается, что второй из пары адаптеров будет доставлен на орбиту в 2017 году. Ранее в июне 2015 года в результате крушения во время отправки груза к МКС ракеты Falcon 9 НАСА потеряло первый из планируемых к отправке на МКС адаптеров.

[Salo]

James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean  1 ч.1 час назад  
First forecast: 90% "go" for SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon launch now scheduled for 12:44am ET Monday from LC40 at Cape Canaveral AFS.

[Salo]

James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean  1 ч.1 час назад
If there's a scrub early Monday, apparently there's no 24-hour turnaround option; next attempt would be very late Tuesday ET.

[Pirat5]

pnetmon пишет:
там написано with packaging - может 28 кг это упаковка для упаковки?

Да, скорее всего это так.

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Pirat5 пишет:

pnetmon пишет:
там написано with packaging - может 28 кг это упаковка для упаковки?

Да, скорее всего это так.

Вспомнив их косяк при подсчете итоговой массы при запуске IDA-1 задумался - РН другой, более грузоподъемный, а вот масса доставляемая на МКС тут не увеличилась.

  http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-7_mission_overview.pdf
Unpressurized Cargo International Docking Adapter #1 - 526 kg
Total weight of cargo with packaging - 2477 kg

 http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-9_mission_overview.pdf
UNPRESSURIZED International Docking Adapter (IDA) - 467 kg
TOTAL CARGO - 2257 kg

[silentpom]

этот более грузоподъемный РН охренел и собирается улететь туда, откуда взлетал. ну и грузоподъемность дракона больше ограничивается объемом

[Pirat5]

[Salo]

http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/07/15/weather-looks-favorable-for-falcon-9-launch-and-landing/

Weather looks favorable for Falcon 9 launch and landing             
 July 15, 2016 Stephen Clark
 File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft before a previous launch. Credit: SpaceX

Forecasters predict mostly clear skies and light winds at the surface and aloft for Monday's launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a resupply mission to the International Space Station, favorable conditions for the booster's liftoff and landing at Cape Canaveral.
The official launch weather forecast released Friday by the U.S. Air Force's 45th Weather Squadron calls for a 90 percent of acceptable conditions for liftoff at 12:45:29 a.m. EDT (0445:29 GMT) Monday.
A weather axis draped over Central Florida will lift north over the weekend, setting up generally good weather Monday.
"This will result in moderate temperatures and morning showers over the spaceport, but mostly clear afternoons as sea breeze storms move inland," Air Force forecasters wrote. "The main weather threat on launch day will be cumulus clouds and flight through precipitation with these showers. Maximum winds will be from the northeast at 30 knots at 36,000 feet."
The predicted conditions also look good for a landing attempt by the Falcon 9's 15-story first stage booster about 10 minutes after liftoff. Using engine power and aerodynamic grid fins, the first stage will head for a vertical rocket-assisted touchdown at Landing Zone 1, a former Atlas launch pad leased from the Air Force by SpaceX.
The landing target sits just north of the eastern tip of Cape Canaveral, a few miles south of the Falcon 9's Complex 40 launch pad near the northern perimeter of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The Falcon 9 booster's return to landing at Cape Canaveral will mark the second time SpaceX has tried recovering a first stage onshore. All other first stage landing attempts have occurred on a barge positioned several miles offshore in the Atlantic or Pacific.
 SpaceX recovered its first used Falcon 9 booster stage Dec. 21 after liftoff with 11 Orbcomm communications satellites. Credit: SpaceX

A Falcon 9 rocket returned to Cape Canaveral for the first time Dec. 21 a few minutes after blastoff with 11 Orbcomm communications satellites, putting on a first-of-its-kind display of light and sound that played out like a launch in reverse, with the brilliant exhaust from the booster's center Merlin engine appearing as a bright ball of orange falling toward the beachfront landing zone.
Thundering sonic booms heralded the rocket's descent, rattling windows for miles around.
A similar nighttime spectacle is expected early Monday.
SpaceX released a statement Friday warning residents on Florida's Space Coast of the landing.
"As with the return of the first stage from the Orbcomm-2 mission, there is the possibility that residents of northern and central Brevard County, Fla. may hear one or more sonic booms during landing," the statement said. "A sonic boom is a brief thunder-like noise a person on the ground hears when an aircraft or other vehicle flies overhead faster than the speed of sound."
The rocket will soar toward the northeast from Cape Canaveral, the trajectory necessary to reach the International Space Station, and return to the Florida coast from the same direction, heading northeast-to-southwest.
"Residents of the communities of Cape Canaveral, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Courtenay, Merritt Island, Mims, Port Canaveral, Port St. John, Rockledge, Scottsmoor, Sharpes, and Titusville in Brevard County, Fla. are most likely to hear a sonic boom, although what residents experience will depend on weather conditions and other factors," SpaceX said.
The rocket recovery attempt at Cape Canaveral early Monday comes nearly seven months after the last touchdown on land. In the meantime, SpaceX has launched six Falcon 9 rockets and tried landing all the boosters at sea.
After two crash landings in January and March, the Falcon 9 boosters nailed three touchdowns in a row following a string of launches April 8, May 6 and May 27. The rocket used on the last Falcon 9 launch June 15 suffered another faulty landing at sea.
SpaceX hopes to fly a used Falcon 9 first stage again later this year. Engineers planned to subject a separate flown Falcon 9 booster stage — one that will not launch again — through a battery of intense testing to confirm the structure can withstand a second mission.
Monday's launch will be the 27th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and the 32nd space launch attempt by SpaceX in its history. It is also the seventh launch of the latest upgraded version of the Falcon 9 with higher-performance Merlin engines, larger fuel tanks, and super-chilled cryogenic propellants.
The Dragon spacecraft mounted atop the 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket is packed with nearly 5,000 pounds of cargo, crew provisions and experiments for the space station's six residents. The upcoming Dragon mission will be the ninth of 20 commercial resupply missions through 2019 NASA has awarded to SpaceX under a nearly $3 billion contract first signed in 2008.
NASA originally signed SpaceX to 12 missions for $1.6 billion, but in a rare move under NASA contracting, neither the space agency nor SpaceX will disclose the value of several contract extensions that added eight more Falcon 9/Dragon flights to the contract.
SpaceX is also guaranteed at least six additional cargo deliveries, and possibly more, under a separate follow-on resupply contract signed earlier this year, which covers the space station's logistics needs from 2019 through 2024.
The Hawthorne, California-based space transportation provider is also working on a Crew Dragon capsule to ferry astronauts to and from the space station. Boeing won a similar contract for its CST-100 Starliner crew carrier.

[Pirat5]

Chris B - NSF ‏@NASASpaceflight  2 ч.2 часа назад

SpaceX Falcon 9 conducts successful Static Fire test ahead of Dragon CRS-9 mission:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/07/spacex-static-fire-falcon-9-rocket-crs-9-launch/

[Max Andriyahov]

Точки - четыре успешных посадки?

[Max Andriyahov]

- 930 кг различных образцов для исследований полетят наверх, 580 кг спустится на Землю на этом корабле Dragon.
- В том числе на корабле находятся токсичные вещества, из-за этого журналистов и публику отодвинули от стартовой площадки дальше, чем обычно, на всякий случай.
 
А кто-нибудь знает что за "токсичные вещества" и для чего они на МКС?