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

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Объявлена

Launch Hazard Area

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NOTAM (на 2-ю ст РН)

YMMM

F3837/17 - 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, 1712081853 TO 1712082017 1712091830 TO 1712091954
PRI 20171208 1853 TO 2017 BACKUP 20171209 1830 TO 1954, 08 DEC 18:53 2017 UNTIL
09 DEC 19:54 2017. CREATED: 28 NOV 22:13 2017

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Зона затопления 2-й ст
 

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/11/30/next-crew-in-russia-as-station-preps-for-cargo-missions/

Catherine Williams
Posted on November 30, 2017

Next Crew in Russia as Station Preps for Cargo Missions

... the Expedition 53 crew is preparing for the departure and arrival of a pair of cargo ships next week.

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SpaceX is getting ready to replenish the station with its Dragon cargo craft scheduled to deliver about 4,800 pounds of crew supplies and science gear. Dragon is targeted to launch Dec. 8 fr om Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket and take a two-day trip to the station. Vande Hei and Acaba are training to capture Dragon with the Canadarm2 when it reaches a point 10 meters from the station. Ground controllers will them remotely install Dragon to the Harmony module wh ere it will stay until Jan. 6.

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Что-то необычайно рано оповещают...

http://www.spacex.com/webcast

DRAGON RESUPPLY MISSION

SpaceX is targeting launch of the Commercial Resupply Services 13 (CRS-13) mission from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than 10:20 a.m. PST (1:20 p.m. EST) on Friday, Dec. 8, 2017.

Dragon will deliver about 4,800 pounds of cargo and material to support science investigations aboard the space station. After about one month attached to the space station, Dragon will return with results of earlier experiments, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.

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И о трансляции пуска...

spacex.com/webcast

youtube.com/watch?v=OPHbqY9LHCs

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/11/30/nasa-agrees-to-launch-station-supplies-on-reused-spacex-rocket/

NASA agrees to launch station supplies on reused SpaceX rocket
November 30, 2017 Stephen Clark


A Falcon 9 rocket's first stage booster returns to landing at at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on June 3 following launch of a Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX will launch a space station-bound cargo ship with nearly 2.5 tons of supplies and experiments next Friday, Dec. 8, with a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket booster after winning NASA approval for the reuse plan, agency officials said Wednesday.

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Managers confirmed reports in the last few weeks that the resupply mission would likely use a recycled Falcon 9 first stage.

Sam Scimemi, director of the International Space Station program at NASA Headquarters, told Spaceflight Now on Wednesday that agency officials received a final briefing on SpaceX's rocket reuse plan in the last few weeks. He said NASA made a final decision on the matter in the last few days.

NASA joins several of SpaceX's commercial customers — SES, Space Systems/Loral, Iridium and Israel's Spacecom Ltd. — in agreeing to fly their payloads on a reused booster.

Liftoff of SpaceX's 13th resupply flight to the space station is scheduled for 1:20 p.m. EST (1820 GMT) on Dec. 8 from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

The launch will mark the first liftoff from pad 40 since August 2016. A Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the pad on Sept. 1, 2016, during a pre-launch fueling test, knocking the facility offline. When the Falcon 9 returned to service early this year, SpaceX based all its East Coast launches from nearby pad 39A, an Apollo- and shuttle-era launch complex at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Scimemi said the Dec. 8 launch date remains tentative, and it depends on pad 40's readiness for the mission.

NASA engineers in Florida and at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston carefully studied SpaceX's refurbishment and test processes before approving SpaceX's proposal to launch the Dragon cargo craft on a previously-flown booster, according to Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator of NASA's human exploration and operations directorate.

"Some components are removed and some new components are added," Gerstenmaier said in a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council's human spaceflight committee in Florida on Wednesday. "There's a detailed list of what inspections need to be done. They did a detailed test program. They did a detailed plan."

The upcoming cargo launch, known as CRS-13 in NASA and SpaceX's manifest parlance, will use the same 15-story first stage as the CRS-11 resupply flight that lifted off from Florida's Space Coast on June 3. SpaceX will attempt to land the rocket again at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral following next week's liftoff.

It will be the fourth time SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket powered by a reused first stage. The Dragon capsule heading for the space station will also make its second flight, following a round-trip orbital mission that launched in April 2015.

"We reviewed their requirements, and we basically looked at it and (asked) do we get the equivalent reliability from the reused booster that we would expect from a new booster, and the answer to that was yes," Gerstenmaier said. "That's why we accepted it.

"In this case, we accepted it only on this particular flight. We did not accept it in a generic sense," Gerstenmaier said. "We'll look at each one on a case-by-case basis, look at the history of the booster, look at the reuse review process that SpaceX does to make sure that the hardware we're getting (is reliable)."

NASA's Commercial Resupply Services, or CRS, contract with SpaceX is structured differently than launch contracts for the agency's robotic science missions.

"For CRS, we don't actually purchase the launch vehicle," Scimemi said. "We're actually purchasing the service ... The requirements for station were (for cargo) delivery on orbit, and it had to meet station requirements, so there are no real launch requirements."

For most of NASA's science probes, and for commercial crew launches with astronauts on-board, the space agency levies standards for all phases of the mission.

According to a presentation by Scimemi, SpaceX prepared a new Falcon 9 booster for the CRS-13 launch in case NASA decided against flying on a reused rocket. The stage was test-fired at SpaceX's Central Texas test facility earlier this month, and the company will presumably use it on another future mission.

"SpaceX did a test program and did an analysis program to determine which seals or pieces should be replaced, and which should not be replaced," Gerstenmaier said of the rocket's refurbishment. "So it wasnt just pick these particular components. They did it based on analysis that they have. We reviewed that analysis and (those) tests, and determined that they were looking at the appropriate items and that they took the appropriate action to go change them out."

All three of SpaceX's launches using reused Falcon 9 booster airframes have been successful.
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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 3 мин. назад

ARTICLE: SLC-40 comes back to life with CRS-13 static fire campaign - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/12/slc-40-comes-back-with-crs-13-static-fire/ ...

By Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF)

SLC-40 comes back to life with CRS-13 static fire campaign

December 1, 2017 by Chris Gebhardt

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-to-air-launch-of-next-space-station-resupply-mission-1

Dec. 1, 2017
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-142

NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Space Station Resupply Mission


A SpaceX Dragon will deliver about 4,800 pounds of research, hardware and crew supplies to the International Space Station during the company's 13th commercial resupply services mission for NASA. Dragon will lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida no earlier than 1:20 p.m. EST, Dec. 8.
Credits: NASA

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting its 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 1:20 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 8.

Mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website Thursday, Dec. 7, 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:

Thursday, Dec. 7

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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.
  

Friday, Dec. 8

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

Sunday, Dec. 10

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

About 10 minutes after launch on Dec. 8, 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 Jan. 6, with results of previous experiments.

The deadline for media to apply for accreditation for this launch has passed, but more information about media accreditation is available by contacting Jennifer Horner at 321-867-6598 or jennifer.p.horner@nasa.gov.

For the latest schedule of prelaunch briefings, events and NASA TV coverage, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/spacex-crs-13-briefings-and-events

Learn more about the SpaceX CRS-13 mission at:

https://www.nasa.gov/spacex

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Cheryl Warner
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100
cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov

Amanda Griffin
 Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
 321-867-2468
amanda.griffin@nasa.gov

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Last Updated: Dec. 1, 2017
Editor: Katherine Brown

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 2 ч. назад

And just to update so everyone's on the same page, static fire is now Monday. There is no change to the Friday launch date at this time. #SpaceX #CRS13 #Dragon #Falcon9 #SpaceStation #NASA #SLC40

SFT -> 2017-12-04 (EST)

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 2 ч. назад

Still working on the new TEL at SLC-40 today. Back to vertical. Needs to be lowered to horizontal, rolled back and then the Falcon 9 booster is mated in the HIF. Rollout. Power On. Prop Load. Ignition. Still NET Monday for the Static Fire test for CRS-13. NSF Member photo.

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Ken Kremer‏ @ken_kremer 9 ч. назад

The @SpaceX TEL at #pad40 now lowered, as of Sun 12/3 not visible. Hope this represents checkout prog & techs can roll it into HIF & attach booster for static fire test Mon & target liftoff on Fri Dec 8 to @Space_Station. ...

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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

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 12 мин. назад

SpaceX Falcon 9 (CRS-13) Static Fire now NET Tuesday. No change to the launch date at this time (but worth keeping an eye on as it's tight based on previous CRS flow timelines).

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The FAA‏Подлинная учетная запись @FAANews 16 мин. назад

The @SpaceX rocket launch on Dec. 8 at @45thSpaceWing is licensed by @FAANews. #FAASpace.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/12/04/station-ramps-up-for-december-cargo-and-crew-swaps/

Mark Garcia
Posted on December 4, 2017

Station Ramps Up for December Cargo and Crew Swaps

A pair of commercial resupply missions are coming and going this week at the International Space Station. Meanwhile, a new crew has arrived at its launch site to prepare for a Dec. 17 liftoff to the orbital laboratory. All missions to and fr om the station this month will be televised live on NASA TV.
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Just two days later on Friday, the SpaceX Dragon will launch at 1:20 p.m. from the Kennedy Space Center wh ere it will begin a two-day trip to the space station. Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli is cleaning up a pair of modules today to make way for the nearly 4,800 pounds of crew supplies and research gear Dragon is delivering to the station. Dragon is due to arrive Sunday at 6 a.m. when it will be captured by Vande Hei and Acaba once again operating the Canadarm2.
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https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

NET Dec. 9 • Falcon 9 • SpaceX CRS 13
 Launch time: Approx. 1757 GMT (12:57 p.m. EST)

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SpaceX-13 Payload Overview: Made In Space

Center for the Advancement of Science In Space (CASIS)

Опубликовано: 1 дек. 2017 г.

High-performance optical fiber is used extensively for the manufacture of efficient and compact ultraviolet, visible, and infrared fiber lasers due to its low intrinsic loss, wide transparency window, and small phonon energy. This technology enables advances in many different sectors, including medical devices such as laser scalpels and endoscopes, sensors for the aerospace and defense industry, and telecommunications applications. The optical fiber ZBLAN has the potential to far exceed the performance of other fibers in common use. Despite this, the terrestrially produced fiber suffers from physical impurities which contribute to light scattering and absorption loss, reducing performance. Microgravity has been shown to significantly reduce these imperfections, and production of fibers in space may enable not only improved materials but also new frontiers for manufacturing in space.

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Видеобонус к #36

SpaceX-13 Payload Overview: Budweiser

Center for the Advancement of Science In Space (CASIS)

Опубликовано: 1 дек. 2017 г.

Budweiser's innovation team selected barley, one of its core ingredients, to be the focus of the first two experiments in space. The spaceflight research on the International Space Station will unveil how the barley seeds react in a unique microgravity environment. One of the experiments will focus on barley seed exposure with the second testing barley germination. The research could provide valuable information on the production of barley and the larger agricultural community here on earth.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 9 мин. назад

Rollout of the CRS-13 booster. She's the CRS-11 booster and......she still has the soot from that landing. They've 'drawn' pinstripes in the soot. Asked SpaceX, comms people weren't sure, but the info was mentioned again by a local observation. Can't wait for photos!