Dragon SpX-12 (CRS-12), CREAM - Falcon 9 - Kennedy LC-39A - 14.08.2017 16:31 UTC

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T.S. Kelso‏ @TSKelso 13 ч. назад

CelesTrak has TLEs for 3 objects from DRAGON CRS-12 launch (2017-045)

NORAD IDs : 42904, 42905, 42906.

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http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx12/photos-falcon-9-blasts-off-with-dragon-resupply-craft/

Photos: Falcon 9 blasts off with Dragon Resupply Craft
August 14, 2017

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A at 16:31:37 UTC on August 14, 2017 with the twelfth operational Dragon spacecraft headed to the International Space Station for a critical science-enabling cargo delivery. Debuting the Block 4 upgrades on both Falcon 9 stages, the vehicle successfully delivered the 10,600-Kilogram spacecraft to orbit via a two and a half-minute burn of the first stage and six and a half-minute second stage burn. Stage 1 made a rocket-powered U-turn after sending the upper stage on its way, successfully touching down at Cape Canaveral's Landing Zone 1 for SpaceX's sixth land-based rocket landing.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/08/14/spacex-launches-cargo-capsule-full-of-science-experiments/

SpaceX launches cargo capsule full of science experiments
August 14, 2017 Stephen Clark

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbed into space Monday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center atop a column of gleaming exhaust, shooting a commercial resupply vessel toward the International Space Station with research projects looking into cosmic rays, the origin of Parkinson's disease, the utility of small satellites and an experimental radiation-tolerant supercomputer.

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Crammed with more than 6,400 pounds (2,900 kilograms) of supplies, the Dragon capsule bolted on top of the Falcon 9 rocket also carried computer and camera gear, components to maintain the station's life support system and medical equipment, and provisions for the station's six-person crew, including clothing, fresh food and ice cream.

The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket took off from pad 39A at the Florida spaceport at 12:31:37 p.m. EDT (1631:37 GMT), pitched toward the northeast to align with the space station's orbit, and roared through scattered clouds before disappearing into a blue summertime sky.

Nine Merlin 1D main engines at the base of the booster generated 1.7 million pounds of thrust, pushing the rocket into the stratosphere before the first stage switched off and fell away at an altitude of 40 miles (65 kilometers).

A single Merlin engine fired on the Falcon 9's upper stage to power the Dragon capsule into orbit. Glowing red-hot, the second stage engine throttled up to more than 200,000 pounds of thrust for its six-and-a-half minute firing.

Meanwhile, in a maneuver now common during SpaceX launches, the first stage flipped around with guided pulses of cold nitrogen gas to point tail first, then reignited three of its Merlin engines to boost itself back forward Cape Canaveral.

Two more braking maneuvers were needed to slow down the descending rocket, steering it back to the coast with the help of aerodynamic fins before extending four landing legs and settling on a concrete target at Landing Zone 1 less than eight minutes after liftoff, around 9 miles (15 kilometers) south of the Falcon 9's departure point at pad 39A.

"From what I've heard, it's right on the bullseye and (had a) very soft touchdown, so it's a great pre-flown booster ready to go for the next time," said Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX's vice president of flight reliability.

SpaceX has reused two of its recovered first stage boosters to date, and engineers are prepping another previously-flown rocket for a mission with an SES communications satellite this fall.

The rocket launched Monday was a fresh vehicle, but its landing legs were scavenged from a vehicle flown on a previous mission, Koenigsmann said.


Credit: Tim Dodd/Spaceflight Now

The upper stage continued rocketing into orbit, turning off its engine just after the nine-minute point in the flight, then deploying the Dragon capsule into an on-target slightly egg-shaped orbit averaging around 175 miles (280 kilometers) above the planet.

"The second stage went into a near-perfect orbit (and) deployed Dragon," Koenigsmann said in a media briefing around two hours after the launch.

"Dragon primed propellant and has performed the first co-elliptic burn at this point in time," he said, referring to the first in a series of thruster firings on tap to guide the capsule toward the space station.

The supply ship's power-generating solar arrays extended shortly after it arrived in space, while the Falcon 9's second stage reignited for a de-orbit maneuver to avoid the creation of space junk.

With Monday's launch, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket family has accomplished 39 missions since debuting in 2010, and 38 of them have succeeded in their primary objectives. Those statistics do not include a Falcon 9 rocket that exploded before takeoff during testing on the launch pad, destroying an Israeli communications satellite.

SpaceX has landed the Falcon 9's first stage intact 14 times in 19 tries since the company attempted its first rocket landing on a barge at sea in 2015. Six of those touchdowns have occurred at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral.

The automated cargo freighter will reach its destination Wednesday, when astronaut Jack Fischer will take command of the space station's Canadian-built robotic arm to capture the commercial spaceship around 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).

The robotic arm will install Dragon on the space station's Harmony module for a planned 32-day stay.

While astronauts inside the station will unpack cargo inside Dragon's internal cabin, the Canadian and Japanese robotic arms will transfer a NASA-funded cosmic ray sensor to a mounting post outside the Kibo laboratory.


The Dragon spacecraft separates from the Falcon 9's upper stage in this on-board camera view. The CREAM cosmic ray detection instrument is seen inside Dragon's cargo bay. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now

Derived from an instrument carried aloft on high-altitude balloons, the Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass, or CREAM, payload will spend at least three years sampling particles sent speeding through the universe by cataclysmic supernova explosions, and perhaps other exotic phenomena like dark matter.

Scientists think the subatomic particles could hold the key to unlocking mysteries about the universe.

One experiment stowed inside the capsule's pressurized section will investigate the origins of Parkinson's disease in a bid to find a therapy that could slow or halt its development, and another will study the affects of spaceflight on the development of bioengineered lung tissue, potentially helping scientists lessen the chance of organ rejection in transplant patients.

A supercomputer developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise will spend at least a year on the space station, helping engineers gauge the ruggedness of commercial computer components in the harsh conditions of space.

Most computers sent into space are physically hardened to withstand radiation, cosmic rays, and other rigors of spaceflight. Hewlett Packard said its "spaceborne computer" experiment was hardened with software, reducing the time, money and weight of the supercomputer.

The experimental computer passed at least 146 safety tests and certifications to win NASA approval for the trip to the space station. If it works, Hewlett Packard officials said it could help future space missions, including a human expedition to Mars, have the latest computer technology.

Four small satellites inside the Dragon capsule will be moved inside the space station for deployment later this year.

The biggest of the bunch, named Kestrel Eye 2M, is a pathfinder for a potential constellation of Earth-imaging spacecraft for the U.S. military. About the size of a dorm room refrigerator, the Kestrel Eye 2M satellite was developed by the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command over the last five years.


The Kestrel Eye 2M satellite during ground testing. Credit: U.S. Army

Three CubeSats sponsored by NASA will test technologies for compact telescopes that could help astronomers observe stars and search for exoplanets, demonstrate a more reliable small satellite design, and study space weather.

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Monday's Falcon 9 flight was the first of three launches scheduled from Cape Canaveral in the next 11 days.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is scheduled to roll out Wednesday to pad 41 at the Cape ahead of liftoff Friday at 8:03 a.m. EDT (1203 GMT) with a NASA satellite designed to track rockets climbing into space and relay communications between scientific spacecraft in orbit around Earth.

An Orbital ATK Minotaur 4 rocket is being readied for launch at 11:15 p.m. EDT Aug. 25 (0315 GMT Aug. 26) from Cape Canaveral's pad 46 with a military space surveillance mission.

The next mission on SpaceX's manifest is scheduled for Aug. 24 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A Falcon 9 rocket will haul the Taiwanese Formosat 5 Earth observation satellite into a polar orbit, and its first stage will attempt a return to a barge downrange in the Pacific Ocean.

SpaceX's team at the Kennedy Space Center will prepare a Falcon 9 to deploy the U.S. Air Force's reusable X-37B spaceplane no earlier than Sept. 7.

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Talking Space‏ @talkingspace 13 ч. назад

Here's a gif made out of a compilation of our own @thenasaman's photos of the #Falcon9 first stage landing #CRS12

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SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 7 ч. назад

More photos of today's Falcon 9 launch of Dragon to the @Space_Station, and first stage landing → http://flickr.com/spacex 

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[Вячеслав Землянский]

Мне померещилось, или ступень тормозила боком, с аэродинамикой? Еще закоптилась нассиметрично как-будто.

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tnt22 пишет:

T.S. Kelso ‏ @ TSKelso 13 ч. назад

CelesTrak has TLEs for 3 objects from DRAGON CRS-12 launch (2017-045)

NORAD IDs : 42904, 42905, 42906.

Вторую ступень не топили ? И почему три объекта - створка обтекателя на орбиту вышла ? ))

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Вячеслав Землянский пишет:
Мне померещилось, или ступень тормозила боком, с аэродинамикой? Еще закоптилась нассиметрично как-будто.

не померещилось. про это давно рассказывали и она давно это делает. просто съемки хорошей до этого не было.

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тавот пишет:

tnt22 пишет:

T.S. Kelso ‏ @ TSKelso 13 ч. назад

CelesTrak has TLEs for 3 objects from DRAGON CRS-12 launch (2017-045)

NORAD IDs : 42904, 42905, 42906.

Вторую ступень не топили ? И почему три объекта - створка обтекателя на орбиту вышла ? ))

Дракон с обтекателем?!

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tnt22 пишет:
12й полет в этом году.

Вроде 11 было.
Один суперсекретный был?

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тавот пишет:

tnt22 пишет:

T.S. Kelso ‏ @ TSKelso 13 ч. назад

CelesTrak has TLEs for 3 objects from DRAGON CRS-12 launch (2017-045)

NORAD IDs : 42904, 42905, 42906.

Вторую ступень не топили ? И почему три объекта - створка обтекателя на орбиту вышла ? ))

Крышки СБ скорее всего.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/08/15/expedition-52-awaits-wednesday-dragon-arrival-thursday-spacewalk/

Expedition 52 Awaits Wednesday Dragon Arrival, Thursday Spacewalk
Posted on August 15, 2017 at 10:56 am by Mark Garcia.

The SpaceX Dragon is hauling advanced space research for delivery Wednesday morning to the International Space Station. Two cosmonauts are also gearing up for the seventh station spacewalk this year set to begin Thursday morning.

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Dragon is less than 24 hours from its approach and rendezvous with the space station for SpaceX's third resupply mission this year. Astronauts Jack Fischer and Paolo Nespoli will be in the Cupola commanding the Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple Dragon at 7 a.m. EDT Wednesday. NASA TV will begin live coverage of Dragon's arrival at 5:30 a.m.

Dragon will stay open at the station's Harmony module for a month of cargo swaps. The astronauts will offload new life science studies to improve therapies against Parkinson's disease and explore ways to grow lung tissue as well as other research. A new pair of external experiments will also be deployed including a cosmic ray study to be installed outside of the Kibo lab module and a nanosatellite technology demonstration.

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This entry was posted in Expedition 52 and tagged dragon, European Space Agency, International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos, science, spacewalk, spacex on August 15, 2017 by Mark Garcia.

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тавот пишет:
Вторую ступень не топили ?

2-я ст затоплена южнее Австралии около 20:30 ДМВ

tnt22 пишет:
F9-40 stage 2 deorbited south of Australia about 1730 UTC

- см #298

тавот пишет:
И почему три объекта

Сам Дракон и 2 крышки СБ - их первичные наборы TLE почти идентичны. Крышки будут крутиться почти неделю, по крайней мере, так было на CRS-11 - объекты 42744 (Дракон CRS-11), 42745 и 42746 (крышки СБ). На CRS-10 тоже 3 объекта - 42053 (Дракон CRS-10), 42054 и 42055 (крышки СБ, крутились около 4-х дней). Более ранние запуски не пересматривал.

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Ещё про крышки СБ.
При запуске Дракона (CRS-11) в июне с.г. над Англией засняли - #297 (ветка Dragon SpX-11 (CRS-11), ROSA, MUSES, NICER - Falcon 9 - Kennedy LC-39A - март 2017)

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-cargo-launches-to-space-station-aboard-spacex-resupply-mission

Aug. 14, 2017
RELEASE 17-072

NASA Cargo Launches to Space Station Aboard SpaceX Resupply Mission

Experiments seeking a better understanding of Parkinson's disease and the origin of cosmic rays are on their way to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft following today's 12:31 p.m. EDT launch.

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SpaceX launched its 12th resupply mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:31 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.
Credits: NASA Television

Carrying more than 6,400 pounds of research equipment, cargo and supplies, the spacecraft lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the company's 12th commercial resupply mission. It will arrive at the space station Wednesday, Aug. 16, at which time astronauts Jack Fischer of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency) will use the space station's robotic arm to capture it.

NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of spacecraft rendezvous and capture beginning at 5:30 a.m., followed by installation coverage at 8:30 a.m.

Research materials flying inside the Dragon's pressurized area include an experiment to grow large crystals of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), a protein believed to be the greatest genetic contributor to Parkinson's disease. Gravity keeps Earth-grown versions of this protein too small and too compact to study. This experiment, developed by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, Anatrace and Com-Pac International, will exploit the benefits of microgravity to grow larger, more perfectly-shaped LRRK2 crystals for analysis on Earth. Results from this study could help scientists better understand Parkinson's and aid in the development of therapies.

The Kestrel Eye (NanoRacks-KE IIM) investigation is a microsatellite carrying an optical imaging payload, including a commercially available telescope. This investigation, sponsored by the U.S. National Laboratory, tests the concept of using microsatellites in low-Earth orbit to support critical operations, such as lowering the cost of Earth imagery in time-sensitive situations such as tracking severe weather and detecting natural disasters.

The Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass instrument will be attached to the Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility on the space station, and measure the charges of cosmic rays. The data collected from its three-year mission will address fundamental questions about the origins and histories of cosmic rays, building a stronger understanding of the basic structure of the universe.

Dragon is scheduled to depart the space station in mid-September, returning more than 3,300 pounds of science, hardware and crew supplies to Earth.

For more than 16 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and demonstrating new technologies, making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth to enable long-duration human and robotic exploration into deep space. A global endeavor, more than 200 people from 18 countries have visited the unique microgravity laboratory that has hosted more than 1,900 research investigations from researchers in more than 95 countries.

Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram and Twitter at:

http://instagram.com/iss

and

http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station

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Tabatha Thompson
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100
tabatha.t.thompson@nasa.gov

Dan Huot
 Johnson Space Center, Houston
 281-483-5111
daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov

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Last Updated: Aug. 14, 2017
Editor: Karen Northon

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https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/6ttxhy/crs12_telemetry/

Телеметрия с вебкаста. Вроде ничего нового.

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Jack Fischer‏Подлинная учетная запись @Astro2fish 37 мин. назад

The arm is out and ready to capture a @SpaceX Dragon by the tail. Can't wait to get to work on 2 tons of science! https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/science_crs12 ...

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Вячеслав Землянский пишет:
Мне померещилось, или ступень тормозила боком, с аэродинамикой? Еще закоптилась нассиметрично как-будто.

drzerg пишет:

Вячеслав Землянский пишет:
Мне померещилось, или ступень тормозила боком, с аэродинамикой? Еще закоптилась нассиметрично как-будто.

не померещилось. про это давно рассказывали и она давно это делает. просто съемки хорошей до этого не было.

Ступень на спуске в плотных слоях атмосферы - это, в основном, аэродинамически управляемый объект.
Газодинамический способ используется в вакууме, и на конечном этапе посадки.

Самая лучшая съёмка была при "военном" запуске.

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Красиво. Маск, может, и не инженерный гений, но команда у него мощная.

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Зловредный пишет:
Если и дальше так пойдёт, то моё предсказание не сбудется, так как за этот год SpaceX запустит не столько, сколько вся Россия, а немного больше...

Количество запусков СпейсИкс с.г. определяется не только готовностью РН, но и готовностью ПН.
Няз, уже несколько пусков перенесено вправо по этой причине.
Да ещё Хэви... Без готовности 40-й площадки, 39-ю утилизировать не будут.