Dragon SpX-13 (CRS-13) – Falcon 9 – Canaveral SLC-40 – 15.12.2017 15:36 UTC

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Making Fiber Optics in Space

NASA Johnson

Опубликовано: 6 дек. 2017 г.

To demonstrate potential scientific and commercial merits of manufacturing exotic optical fibers in space, a private company is working with NASA on an investigation headed to the International Space Station on the next Dragon cargo ship. Matthew Napoli, vice president of In-Space Operations for Made In Space, explains how the Optical Fiber Production in Microgravity investigation could lead to the production of materials with better properties, setting the stage for large scale manufacturing of high-quality fiber in space. This investigation follows up on research conducted in the 1990s by scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/06/test-firing-at-repaired-launch-pad-clears-way-for-spacex-cargo-flight-next-week/

Test-firing at repaired launch pad clears way for SpaceX cargo flight next week
December 6, 2017 Stephen Clark


The Falcon 9 rocket's previously-flown first stage fired its engines at pad 40 Wednesday. Credit: Steven Young/Spaceflight Now

SpaceX ignited a reused Falcon 9 first stage booster at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Wednesday ahead of a planned space station resupply launch Dec. 12, a major step in restoring the repaired facility to service after a catastrophic explosion interrupted operations there last year.

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Nine Merlin 1D engines on the Falcon 9's first stage ignited at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) Wednesday, sending a plume of exhaust out of the flame trench at pad 40. It was the first time a rocket has fired at pad 40, a former Titan rocket launch facility now operated by SpaceX, since a rocket exploded during fueling before a pre-flight static fire test Sept. 1, 2016.

SpaceX confirmed the completion of the customary pre-launch static fire test on Twitter.

The Falcon 9 will be returned to SpaceX's hangar at pad 40 for attachment of a Dragon cargo capsule loaded with several tons of supplies and experiments heading to the International Space Station.

The fully-assembled launcher will return to pad 40 next week for liftoff, which is currently targeted for Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 11:46 a.m. EST (1646 GMT).

The launch slipped four days fr om its previous target to complete preparations on pad 40, among other concerns.

"This new launch date takes into account pad readiness, requirements for science payloads, space station crew availability, and orbital mechanics," NASA said in a statement.

SpaceX will have a backup day Dec. 13 to launch if the countdown Dec. 12 is scrubbed.

Mission managers will have to work in SpaceX's cargo launch around other space station traffic.

Space station commander Randy Bresnik and crewmates Sergey Ryazanskiy and Paolo Nespoli are scheduled to depart the station in their Soyuz MS-05 early Dec. 14. The trio will land in Kazakhstan several hours later to wrap up a 139-day flight, leaving behind new station commander Alexander Misurkin and astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba.

Three new crew members are set for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 17, and will reach the orbiting research complex two days later.

NASA and its space station partners prohibit cargo and crew ships arriving and departing from the station on the same day, leaving limited launch opportunities for SpaceX's resupply mission in mid-December.

Assuming the Dragon cargo capsule launches Dec. 12, it will reach the space station Dec. 15 for a month-long stay.

The upcoming cargo launch is the 13th resupply mission mounted by SpaceX under contract to NASA, and the first in which the space agency has agreed to fly its equipment on a previously-used Falcon 9 first stage. The booster assigned to next week's mission first flew June 3 on another space station resupply launch.

The Dragon capsule's pressurized module is also reused. SpaceX refurbished the spacecraft after a round-trip flight to the station in April and May of 2015.

Pad 40's return to service frees up nearby pad 39A, wh ere SpaceX has based all its East Coast launches so far this year, for final upgrades and modifications to accommodate the maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket, a huge triple-body launcher made of up three Falcon 9 first stages mated together.

The Falcon Heavy's first test launch could occur next month, a few weeks after its own static fire test at pad 39A.

SpaceX also confirmed Wednesday the launch of a mysterious U.S. government payload named Zuma is slated to occur from pad 40 in early January, next in line after the Dec. 12 cargo launch. Zuma's launch was postponed from mid-November to study a technical concern with the Falcon 9's payload fairing, a structure that shields satellites during liftoff.

The Zuma mission was originally supposed to launch from pad 39A, but pad 40's reactivation allows SpaceX to move it there, clearing the former Apollo- and shuttle-era launch pad for the Falcon Heavy.

The Dragon cargo capsule does not use a fairing like other Falcon 9 payloads, allowing the resupply flight to go forward.

The last SpaceX launch of the year is scheduled for Dec. 22 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 Iridium voice and data relay satellites.

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SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 20 мин. назад

Rocket and spacecraft for CRS-13 are flight-proven. Falcon 9's first stage previously launched SpaceX's eleventh resupply mission for @NASA, and Dragon flew to the @Space_Station in support of our sixth cargo resupply mission.

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О телетрансляции миссии CRS-13 (обновление)

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-to-air-launch-of-next-space-station-resupply-mission-2

Dec. 6, 2017
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-145

NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Space Station Resupply Mission

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is now targeting its 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 11:46 a.m. EST Tuesday, Dec. 12.
Mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website Monday, Dec. 11 with two news briefings.

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Packed with almost 4,800 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

NASA TV mission coverage is as follows:

Monday, Dec. 11
 

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• 11 a.m. – Prelaunch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program, SpaceX, and the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base
• 3:30 p.m. – "What's on Board" science briefing, highlighting research testing: fiber optic filaments, how plants respond to microgravity, the accuracy of a biosensor used for diabetes management, a drug delivery system for combatting muscle atrophy and instruments to measure the Sun's energy input to Earth and orbital debris.
  

Tuesday, Dec. 12
 

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• 11:15 a.m. – Launch commentary coverage begins
• 1:15 p.m. – Post-launch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX
  

Friday, Dec. 15
 

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• 4:30 a.m. – Dragon rendezvous at the space station and capture
• 7 a.m. – Installation coverage
  

About 10 minutes after launch on Dec. 12, Dragon will reach its preliminary orbit and deploy its solar arrays. A carefully choreographed series of thruster firings are scheduled to bring the spacecraft to rendezvous with the space station. NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba will capture Dragon using the space station's robotic arm. Ground controllers will then send commands to robotically install the spacecraft on the station's Harmony module.

The Dragon spacecraft will spend approximately one month attached to the space station, returning to Earth on Jan. 13 with results of previous experiments.

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Last Updated: Dec. 7, 2017
Editor: Katherine Brown
 

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SpaceX - Pad 40 Returns to Life - CRS13 Static Fire Test 12-06-2017

USLaunchReport

Опубликовано: 6 дек. 2017 г.

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Seeing the Sun in 1,000 different colors with NASA's TSIS-1

NASA Goddard

Опубликовано: 6 дек. 2017 г.

The composition of that light that falls on Earth matters to understanding Earth's energy budget. In December 2017, NASA is launching a new instrument called the Total Solar and Spectral Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1) designed to study this question. NASA's TSIS-1 will measure the Sun's energy in 1,000 different wavelengths, including the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared, known as solar spectral irradiance. Find out more in this short narrated video.

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[Oleg]

а прожигали то с полезной нагрузкой
и на площадке, где потеряли эту самую нагрузку во время прожига год назад.
ничего не боятся.

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Oleg пишет:
а прожигали то с полезной нагрузкой
и на площадке, где потеряли эту самую нагрузку во время прожига год назад.
ничего не боятся.

По-моему нет там Дракона.

[Зловредный]

Oleg пишет:
а прожигали то с полезной нагрузкой

С чего вы взяли?

[Astro Cat]

То 4го, то 8го пуск. Теперь уже 12го? Так и за Новый Год уползет.

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Переобъявлена

Airspace Closure Area

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Переобъявлена

Launch Hazard Area

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Выпущен новый NOTAM

YMMM

F3949/17 - ROCKET LAUNCH WILL TAKE PLACE
FLW RECEIVED FROM GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS WILL BE CONDUCTED SURFACE TO UNLIMITED FOR
ATMOSPHERIC RE-ENTRY AND SPLASHDOWN OF LAUNCH VEHICLE FALCON 9 AND
PARTICIPATING SUPPORT AIRCRAFT WITHIN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
FROM 5106S 15704E
 TO 4702S 12957E
 TO 4017S 11010E
 TO 1653S 08001E
 TO 1934S 07639E
 TO 3051S 08509E
 TO 4709S 11010E
 TO 5216S 13011E
 TO 5354S 15629E
 TO BEGINNING. SFC - UNL, 1712121719 TO 1712121843 1712131657 TO 1712131821
PRI 20171212 1719 TO 1843 BACKUP 20171213 1657 TO 1821, 12 DEC 17:19 2017 UNTIL
13 DEC 18:21 2017. CREATED: 06 DEC 20:06 2017

Координаты закрытой зоны те же, что указаны в #62.

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NOTMAR

lnm07492017.pdf, стр 4

[К.А.]

tnt22 пишет:
НАСА выпустила обзор миссии CRS-13

 spacex_crs-13_mision_overview_low_res8.pdf - 372988 B, 3 стр, 2017-12-03 20:30:07 UTC

 
 

Из чего следует, стартовый вес Дракона около - 7695 кг.

[Apollo13]

К.А. пишет:

tnt22 пишет:
НАСА выпустила обзор миссии CRS-13

 spacex_crs-13_mision_overview_low_res8.pdf - 372988 B, 3 стр, 2017-12-03 20:30:07 UTC

 
 

Из чего следует, стартовый вес Дракона около - 7695 кг.

Вопрос полной массы Дракона уже обсуждался здесь. Она гораздо больше.

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Еще

http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum10/topic14743/message1497464/#message1497464

Patron пишет: 
Для любителей статистики: масса Dragon (CRS - 8 после подстыковки к МКС около 10260 кг. Расход рабочего тела до стыковки около 300 кг (затраты Vx порядка 95-100 м/с без учета НШС). Итого: масса корабля на старте около 10600 кг. "Недостающий" до максимального значения Мст 13100 кг резерв (2500 кг) предназначен для пилотируемой модификации корабля: САС, СОЖ, новый СтА, четырехкупольная ПС, увеличение заправки до 1530 кг и.т.д. Сомневаюсь, что экипаж составит 4 человека...

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NOTMAR (к #114)

 

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Прогноз погоды L-4

L-4 Falcon Launch Forecast

80% GO

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http://spacenews.com/new-and-improved-florida-pad-ready-to-resume-falcon-9-launches/

New and improved Florida pad ready to resume Falcon 9 launches
by Jeff Foust — December 8, 2017


SpaceX's Space Launch Complex 40 prior to the September 2016 pad explosion. SpaceX has rebuilt SLC-40 with improvements that will support higher launch rates. Credit: SpaceX

WASHINGTON — More than a year after suffering significant damage in a Falcon 9 explosion, a Florida launch pad is ready to return to service, incorporating improvements that will allow a higher flight rate.

The first launch fr om Space Launch Complex (SLC) 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, since a September 2016 pad explosion is scheduled for Dec. 12, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 launches a Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. The rocket's first stage performed a successful static fire test there Dec. 6, the first major activity at the pad since the accident.

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SpaceX spent about $50 million rebuilding the launch pad after the accident, in the process incorporating improvements to the pad based on lessons learned from launches there and at two other launch pads in Florida in California that will support "many years" of Falcon 9 launches, a company official said.

"We really looked at this as an opportunity to not only rebuild the pad, but to make it better," said John Muratore, director of SLC-40 at SpaceX, in a call with reporters Dec. 8.

That work, he said, included taking steps to make hardware on the pad more robust and thus less likely to suffer damage during a launch. Much of the support equipment that was above ground and exposed to launches has been moved below ground, protected by concrete and steel and thus less likely to be damaged in a launch or even in the event of an explosion.

"That's critical to our rapid flight strategy," he said. "If you don't take damage on the pad then you can fly more often." It should be possible, he said, to turn the pad around between launches in a week or less.

Among the changes to the pad is a "really augmented" water system to protect the pad from damage to the launch, and improvements to the flame trench to lim it erosion of the concrete there. Those particular changes, he said, can allow for much longer static-fire tests there, which would enable the company to do things like testing a previously-flown first stage after replacing one of its engines.

Muratore said another change at SLC-40 was making the pad interfaces common with those at neighboring Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, as well as SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. "That is a really a big advantage for us since we can move people around as we hit normal surges of lots of activity, or gaps in activity," he said.

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With SLC-40 in service, the company will have flexibility to schedule launches both there and at LC-39A. Some missions, such as Falcon Heavy launches and those of the Dragon v2 spacecraft, will only take place at 39A. SLC-40 will only host "single-stick" Falcon 9 missions, with no plans to add support for the Falcon Heavy.

"[Pad] 40 will be set to just run single-stick missions as fast as we can," he said.

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