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

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SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 1 мин назад

Now targeting Dec. 13 for launch of CRS-13 from SLC-40 to allow for additional time for pre-launch ground systems checks.

[Чебурашка]

13-ый Драгон, 13-ого числа.

Почти как 13-ый Аполлон 13-ого числа 


 

[Pirat5]

Да лучше уж не ой.

Это, я так понимаю, запасной вариант - 13е число?
про другие попытки, вроде, слышно не было.
далее ISS будет занята прибытием Союза МС-07.
а Beta angle плохой в какой период?

[Pirat5]

а, нашёл

have one more attempt on 15th before having to stand down until at least Dec. 25.

[tnt22]

SpaceXDragon CRS-13 Prelaunch News Conference

NASA Video

Опубликовано: 11 дек. 2017 г.

On Dec. 11, NASA held a briefing at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide an overview of the next SpaceX mission to the International Space Station.

(52:40)

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SpaceX/Dragon CRS-13 What's on Board Science Briefing

NASA Video

Опубликовано: 11 дек. 2017 г.

On Dec 11, NASA held a briefing at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the science, research and technology payloads being transported to the International Space Station aboard the next SpaceX mission to the ISS.

(1:22:38 )

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/2017/12/12/launch-no-earlier-than-dec-13/

Anna Heiney
Posted on December 12, 2017

Launch No Earlier Than Dec. 13

NASA and SpaceX are now targeting no earlier than 11:24 a.m. EST Wednesday, Dec. 13th, for the company's 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX requested additional time for prelaunch ground systems checks.

A Dragon spacecraft will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Dragon is now scheduled to arrive at the space station on Saturday, Dec. 16.

NASA Television coverage for launch is as follows:

Wednesday, Dec. 13
 

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• 10:45 a.m. – Launch commentary coverage begins
• 12:30 p.m. – Post-launch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX
  

Saturday, Dec. 16
 

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

Join us here, on NASA Television or at www.nasa.gov/live for updates from the countdown.

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Прогноз погоды L-1 на 2017-12-13

L-1 Falcon Launch Forecast

90% GO

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Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist 18 мин. назад

@NASASpaceflight Sooty is still horizontal as of about an hour ago. We have remote reset in a few hours so I'm hoping to get a few more shots then.

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 2 мин. назад

Waiting on official confirmation, but multiple sources now saying #SpaceX #CRS13 is slipping again to either Thursday or Friday. #Dragon

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SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 34 мин назад

Taking additional time for the team to conduct full inspections and cleanings due to detection of particles in 2nd stage fuel system. Now targeting CRS-13 launch from SLC-40 on Dec. 15. Next launch opportunity would be no earlier than late December.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2017/12/12/spacex-crs-13-update-launch-no-earlier-than-dec-15/

Anna Heiney
Posted on December 12, 2017

SpaceX CRS-13 Update: Launch No Earlier Than Dec. 15

NASA and SpaceX are now targeting no earlier than 10:35 a.m. EST Friday, Dec. 15, for the company's 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX is taking additional time for the team to conduct full inspections and cleanings due to detection of particles in the second stage fuel system. The next launch opportunity would be no earlier than late December.

A Dragon spacecraft will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Dragon is now scheduled to arrive at the space station on Sunday, Dec. 17.

On Sunday, Scott Tingle of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are also scheduled to launch at 2:21 a.m. (1:21 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station.

NASA Television coverage for launch and arrival activities are as follows:

Friday, Dec. 15

 ● 10 a.m. – Launch commentary coverage begins
 ● 12 p.m. – Post-launch news conference with representatives from NASA's International Space Station Program and SpaceX

Sunday, Dec. 17

 ● 1:15 a.m. – Soyuz MS-07 launch coverage begins
 ● 4:30 a.m. – Dragon rendezvous at the space station and capture coverage begins
 ● 7:30 a.m. – Installation coverage begins

Watch live on NASA Television and the agency's website: www.nasa.gov/live.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/13/spacex-cargo-launch-slips-to-friday-allowing-for-additional-rocket-inspections/

SpaceX cargo launch slips to Friday, allowing for additional rocket inspections
December 13, 2017 Stephen Clark


SpaceX's mission patch for the CRS-13 cargo mission. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX has delayed liftoff of its next cargo ship bound for the International Space Station until Friday, setting up a one-shot attempt to launch the commercial supply carrier from Cape Canaveral before a potential slip to late December due to high solar angles in orbit.

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The company confirmed multiple reports that the flight would be pushed back until Friday in a tweet Tuesday evening, blaming the delay on the discovery of unexpected particles in the Falcon 9 rocket's second stage fuel system.

"Taking additional time for the team to conduct full inspections and cleanings due to detection of particles in 2nd stage fuel system," the company tweeted. "Now targeting CRS-13 launch from SLC-40 on Dec. 15. Next launch opportunity would be no earlier than late December."

SpaceX's 13th resupply launch to the International Space Station, known as CRS-13, is set to deliver 4,861 pounds (2,205 kilograms) of cargo and experiments to the research outpost, including biomedical investigations and scientific instruments to study the sun's total energy output and space junk in the space station's orbit.

Liftoff from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Friday is set for 10:35 a.m. EST (1535 GMT), roughly the moment Florida's Space Coast rotates under the space station's orbital plane.

The launch was set for Tuesday, but SpaceX announced a one-day delay Monday night to give workers additional time for pre-launch ground system checks.

SpaceX is readying for its first launch from pad 40 since August 2016.

A catastrophic rocket explosion at pad 40 on Sept. 1, 2016, left the launch complex unusable, and it took SpaceX more than a year to clean up, repair and upgrade the facility. Falcon 9 launches from Florida were based from nearby pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center once SpaceX cleared the rocket to resume flying early this year.

The Falcon 9 launcher awaiting liftoff from pad 40 will be powered by a reused first stage booster, on the first flight in which NASA has agreed to put its cargo on a recycled commercial rocket. The Dragon supply ship's pressurized module is also a spaceflight veteran, having flown to and from the space station on a cargo mission in 2015.

Assuming the robotic cargo mission takes off Friday, the Dragon capsule should arrive at the space station Sunday. Capture of the automated cargo carrier by the space station's Canadian-built robotic arm is expected at 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT), less than four hours after three new crew members heading for the outpost are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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If SpaceX is forced to delay the cargo launch again, the next chance to send the supply shipment to the space station will not come until late December. A period of constant sunlight in the space station's orbit, known as a high solar beta angle, will prevent the outpost from receiving the Dragon cargo craft.

"In a high solar beta, or a high solar angle regime, basically the ISS doesn't see a sunset or a sunrise," said Kirk Shireman, NASA's space station program manager, in a briefing with reporters Monday. "It's basically one long, long day, and it puts a lot of thermal constraints on the vehicle, so we try to avoid critical operations — dynamic operations — like spacewalks and vehicle dockings and undockings during this high solar beta."

Shireman said launch opportunities could open back up for SpaceX around Dec. 25, but it's not clear if SpaceX or NASA would attempt to launch the mission on Christmas Day.

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[Lesobaza]

Чебурашка пишет:
13-ый Драгон, 13-ого числа.

Почти как 13-ый Аполлон 13-ого числа


 

Прислушались к голосу разума ))))

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Прогноз погоды L-2 на 2017-12-15

L-2 Falcon Launch Forecast
 
80% GO

[Astro Cat]

И че? Cнова перенос? Теперь уже на 15е?

[tnt22]

Обновлена (на 2017-12-15)

Airspace Closure Area

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Переобъявлена (на 2017-12-15)

Launch Hazard Area

[Max Andriyahov]

Что то они забили уже на перекраску ступени. Даже не отмыли толком от копоти.

[SGS_67]

Max Andriyahov пишет:
Что то они забили уже на перекраску ступени. Даже не отмыли толком от копоти. 

Теперь у Маска инсталляции такие.