Dragon SpX-11 (CRS-11), ROSA, MUSES, NICER - Falcon 9 - Kennedy LC-39A - 03.06.2017 21:07 UTC

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Kam Bahrami‏ @Kam_Bahrami 16 мин. назад

Just finished demating @SpaceX Dragon and parking it in prep for the Release team. Here's 9h timelapse of me on console @csa_asc in 30sec!

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SSRMS с Драконом установлена и готова к его освобождению.

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2017-07-03 05:41 ДМВ
 

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Jack Fischer‏Подлинная учетная запись @Astro2fish 5 ч. назад

Monday its goodbye #Dragon 11 after working through 6,000 lbs of science/cargo-can't wait to see what breakthroughs those samples may hold!

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07/03/2017 06:25
Running a day later than scheduled to dodge rough seas in the Pacific Ocean, a Dragon supply ship owned and operated by SpaceX will depart the International Space Station early Monday and head for a predawn splashdown a few hundred miles southwest of Los Angeles.

Packed with scientific specimens and equipment, including tissue from rodents sent into space to gauge the effectiveness of a new drug to treat osteoporosis, the robotic cargo capsule was removed from its attachment port on the space station's Harmony module Sunday with the lab's Canadian-built robotic arm.

Astronaut Jack Fischer will take command of the robotic arm to release the Dragon capsule at 2:41 a.m. EDT (0641 GMT), and the supply freighter will fire its thrusters several times to maneuver a safe distance away from the station for a de-orbit burn.

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A parachute-assisted splashdown of the pressurized cargo capsule is planned a few hours after departure from the space station. A SpaceX recovery team is on station in the Pacific Ocean to safe and retrieve the capsule, then bring it to the Port of Los Angeles around two days after its return.

The spacecraft has spent four weeks at the space station since it arrived June 5, two days after blasting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket.

The automated spaceship delivered nearly 6,000 pounds of supplies and experiments, including a NASA instrument to study neutron stars, an Air Force-sponsored experimental solar array, and other investigations.

The Dragon capsule is concluding SpaceX's 11th resupply mission to the space station. The Hawthorne, California-based company has two cargo delivery contracts with NASA for at least 26 unpiloted logistics flights to the orbiting research complex through 2024.

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07/03/2017 09:27

Grasped by the robotic arm, the Dragon spacecraft is at its planned release point below the space station.

Astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson will command the arm to release the capsule at 2:41 a.m. EDT (0641 GMT). The duo will stand by at a communications panel to issue commands to Dragon if necessary.

The crew will monitor the spacecraft until it exits the so-called keep-out sphere 200 meters (660 feet) around the space station.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 23 сек. назад

10 mins to release, CRS-11 Dragon over the South China Sea.

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07/03/2017 09:30
Mission control in Houston has given the station crew a "go" for release of the Dragon spacecraft by the robotic arm once the window opens.

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Маленькие огоньки, как  вспышки фонариков, видны в маневровых соплах Дракона.

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Свободен! С этого момента Дракон - самостоятельный космический космический объект