Dragon v2 unmanned test (SpX-DM1) - Falcon 9 (B1051) - Kennedy LC-39A - 02.03.2019, 07:49 UTC

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 Trevor Mahlmann‏ @TrevorMahlmann 0:19 - 2 мар. 2019 г.

We're about to launch people from American soil again. On a beautiful March night, @SpaceX's Crew Dragon has become the first commercially developed crew-capable spacecraft to reach orbit, ever. Here's my long exposure of the flight looked like! #SpaceX #DM1

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Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist 0:45 - 2 мар. 2019 г.

That was a beautiful launch @elonmusk!

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John Kraus‏ @johnkrausphotos 23:57 - 1 мар. 2019 г.

Falcon 9 and the first Crew Dragon capsule lift off from Launch Complex 39A at 2:49 A.M. EST, tracing a stunning reflection along the shores of Merritt Island, Florida. The uncrewed Demo-1 flight marks the first mission of NASA's Commercial Crew Program!

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Pauline Acalin‏ @w00ki33 0:56 - 2 мар. 2019 г.

The launch of Crew Dragon demo (DM-1) as seen from the roof of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building. What a powerful and moving mission. Another step closer! #spacex #nasa #CrewDragon

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Elon Musk talks about Crew Dragon Demo-1 Mission

SciNews

Опубликовано: 2 мар. 2019 г.

At the Post-launch news conference, Elon Musk talked about SpaceX's Demo-1 Mission. The Demo-1 is SpaceX's first uncrewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station and was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from the Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 2 March 2019, at 07:49 UTC (02:49 EST).
Credit: NASA

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Elon Musk & Team Discuss SpaceX Dragon 2 Launch Success

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Опубликовано: 2 мар. 2019 г.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 2 ч. назад

And like that, Dragon 2 is on her way to the ISS!

Article - by William Graham - updated:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/03/spacex-historic-dm-1-dragon-2s-maiden-flight-iss/ ...

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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Demo-1 Interview

NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 2 мар. 2019 г.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is interviewed before the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon onboard for Demo-1, the first uncrewed flight test by SpaceX under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon Onboard Launches on Demo-1

NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 2 мар. 2019 г.

Countdown and liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon onboard on Demo-1, the first uncrewed flight test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Launch was at 2:49 a.m. EST on March 2, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Demo-1 is the first time a commercially built and operated American spacecraft designed for humans will dock to the International Space Station.

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Crew Dragon Separates from Space X Falcon 9 Second Stage

NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 2 мар. 2019 г.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon separates from the second stage of the company's Falcon 9 rocket and is on its way to the International Space Station.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2019/03/02/demo-1-launch-ushers-in-new-era-in-spaceflight/

Demo-1 Launch Ushers in 'New Era in Spaceflight'

Anna Heiney
Posted Mar 2, 2019 at 5:03 am


A two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for Demo-1, the first uncrewed mission of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. The on-time liftoff occurred at 2:49 a.m., Saturday, March 2, 2019.
Photo credit: NASA

The Demo-1 uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station, SpaceX's inaugural flight with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, is underway following the successful launch Saturday morning of the company's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft. The first-of-its-kind mission, planned to be a full demonstration of the spacecraft and its systems, launched on time at 2:49 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Demo-1 is the first flight test of a space system designed for humans built and operated by a commercial company through a public-private partnership. The mission also marks a significant step toward returning to the nation the capability to launch astronauts on a U.S.-built spacecraft from U.S. soil.

"It's an exciting evening," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said after the launch. "What today really represents is a new era in spaceflight. We're looking forward to being one of many customers in a robust commercial marketplace in low-Earth orbit."

Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO and lead designer, expressed his thanks to the SpaceX team and reported that the Crew Dragon spacecraft performed as expected through launch and ascent.

"We're only partway through the mission, but the system thus far has passed an exhaustive set of reviews, and the launch itself," Musk said. "The launch went as expected and so far everything is nominal."

In addition to 400 pounds of supplies and equipment, Crew Dragon is carrying Ripley, an anthropomorphic test device outfitted with sensors to gather important data about what an astronaut flying aboard the spacecraft would experience throughout the mission.

NASA and SpaceX will use data from Demo-1 to further prepare for Demo-2, the crewed flight test that will carry NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station. NASA will validate the performance of SpaceX's systems before putting crew on board for the Demo-2 flight, currently targeted for July.

Crew Dragon will carry out a series of phasing maneuvers as it pursues the space station during approach. The spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously dock to the station's Harmony module forward port tomorrow, March 3, at about 6 a.m. EST. It will remain docked until approximately 2:30 a.m. on Friday, March 8. Crew Dragon is expected to return to Earth with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean at approximately 8:45 a.m. on Friday, March 8, a little more than six hours after departing the space station.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/03/02/spacex-launches-first-crew-dragon-ferry-ship/

SpaceX launches first Crew Dragon ferry ship
March 2, 2019 | William Harwood

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION


SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket fires away from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center with the first space-bound Crew Dragon capsule. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now

Opening a new era in American spaceflight, a Falcon 9 rocket streaked into space early Saturday, boosting the company's first Crew Dragon spacecraft into orbit on an unpiloted test flight, the first launch of a commercially developed capsule intended to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

Lighting up the deep overnight sky for miles around, the rocket's nine first stage engines ignited and throttled up to full thrust at 2:49 a.m. EST (GMT-5), generating 1.7 million pounds of thrust and quickly thundering skyward from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Trailing a long jet of brilliant exhaust, the 215-foot-tall rocket smoothly accelerated as it shot away to the northeast, climbing directly into the plane of the International Space Station's orbit. The lab complex passed over Florida 26 minutes before liftoff and was sailing 258 miles above Iraq at the moment of launch.

Looking on 3.2 miles from the launch pad in the SpaceX launch control room were astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken, who plan to be aboard the next Crew Dragon when it takes off on the program's second test flight in the mid-summer timeframe. That will be the first launch of American astronauts aboard a U.S. rocket since the shuttle program ended in 2011.

"I can't begin to explain to you how exciting it is for a test pilot to be on a first flight of a vehicle," Hurley, a shuttle veteran and former Marine Corps F/A-18 test pilot, told reporters before launch. "We'll be ready when SpaceX and NASA are ready for us to fly it."

That will depend on how the unpiloted Crew Dragon does this week during the Commercial Crew Program's initial launch, a flight intended to thoroughly test the spacecraft's myriad systems before trusting it to carry astronauts.

Along with enduring the rigors of launch, the capsule must autonomously rendezvous and dock with the space station early Sunday and then return to Earth Friday with a hypersonic plunge back into the atmosphere and splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Canaveral.

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"We're going to test its navigation capabilities, we're going to test avionics, telemetry, we're going to test the reaction control system, its ability to dock, its ability to re-enter," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "We're going to make assessments based on this about how it might need to be tweaked or changed.

"Eventually, we're going to do a launch abort test as well. And then depending on how all of these tests go, we want to launch American astronauts on American rockets from American soil for the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle (in 2011)."


A diagram of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX

While many hurdles remain before that goal is achieved, Elon Musk, founder and chief designer at SpaceX, said he was relieved the mission got off to such a trouble-free start, with all of the capsule's major systems operating normally after the climb to orbit.

"I'd like to express a very strong note of appreciation to the SpaceX team," he said at a post-launch news conference. "It's been 17 years to get to this point, from 2002 to now, an incredible amount of hard work and sacrifice from a lot of people to have gotten to this point.

"To be frank, I'm a little emotionally exhausted. That was super stressful, but it worked, so far. We have to dock with the station, we have to come back, but so far, it has worked. We've passed some of the riskiest items."

In a post-launch tweet, Bridenstine said the flight marked "a new chapter in American excellence, getting us closer to once again flying American astronauts on American rockets from American soil. Congratulations to the @SpaceX and @NASA teams for this major milestone in our nation's history."

The mission got off to a spectacular start, thrilling thousands of tourists and area residents expected to gather along Florida's "Space Coast."

The first stage engines powered the Falcon 9 out of the thick lower atmosphere, shutting down about two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff. The stage then fell away and headed for landing on an off-shore droneship while the single engine powering the Falcon 9's second stage continued the Crew Dragon's climb to orbit.

The second stage engine shut down about nine minutes after launch, about a minute before the first stage settled to a pinpoint landing on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship, chalking up SpaceX's 35th successful booster recovery.


NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, backdropped by astronauts Bob Behnken, Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover (left to right), speaks to reporters Friday ahead of the Crew Dragon spacecraft's first orbital test flight. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

A few moments later, the Crew Dragon capsule was released from the second stage, kicking off an automated 27-hour rendezvous with the space station.

If all goes well, the stubby capsule, carrying about 400 pounds of supplies and an instrumented astronaut test dummy nicknamed Ripley, after the heroine of the sci-fi thriller "Alien," will catch up with the lab complex early Sunday, approaching from behind and below before looping up to a point directly ahead of the station.

ISS commander Oleg Kononenko, flight engineer Anne McClain and Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will be standing by inside the outpost, closely monitoring the Crew Dragon's trajectory and velocity to make sure it is performing as expected. They also plan to send commands to verify a station crew can abort an approach if necessary.

Once all of that is complete, the spacecraft will move in for a docking at the station's forward port around 6 a.m. as the two vehicles pass over the Pacific Ocean northwest of Samoa at nearly five miles per second. Hatches will be opened about two hours later.

The ship will remain attached to the station until next Friday when it will undock, fire its braking rockets and head for a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean 230 miles east of Cape Canaveral. Recovery crews will be stationed nearby to haul the capsule back to shore for extensive post-flight inspections.

A successful test flight, along with a critical in-flight test of the Falcon 9/Crew Dragon launch abort system in April, will help pave the way toward the first piloted test flight in the mid-July timeframe, ending an eight-year hiatus in NASA's human space launch capability.

"This is an invaluable exercise for us to learn in the space environment how these systems will be working, and then making sure that these systems are ready to go for when we're going to put our crews on," Kathy Lueders, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, told reporters Thursday. "We instrumented the crap out of this vehicle."

The Commercial Crew Program is the end result of a series of NASA-funded industry competitions in the wake of the shuttle's retirement to develop a new American spacecraft to carry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit.

NASA has awarded Boeing multiple contracts totaling $4.82 billion to develop a commercial crew ship now known as the CST-100 Starliner, a capsule that will launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.

SpaceX also won a series of contracts totaling some $3.1 billion to date to develop a piloted version of the company's Dragon cargo ship. The company holds a separate cargo contract valued at $3.04 billion for 20 space station resupply flights and another contract for an unspecified amount for at least six additional flights through 2024.

The NASA commercial crew contracts required both companies to provide funding of their own.

The Crew Dragon and CST-100 Starliner both will carry supplies and four astronauts at a time to the space station and both will approach the lab from directly ahead or above, docking at recently modified ports at the front end of the complex. The Starliner will return to a touchdown in the western United States while the Crew Dragon splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Canaveral.

Boeing plans to launch its CST-100 Starliner on an unpiloted test flight in the April-May timeframe. Assuming the uncrewed flights go well, along with remaining tests of each company's launch abort system, SpaceX plans to launch Behnken and Hurley aboard another Crew Dragon in the mid-summer timeframe. That mission is known as Demo 2.

Boeing's first piloted flight, carrying a crew of three, is expected this fall. If no major problems develop, operational crew rotation flights could begin before the end of the year, ending NASA's sole reliance on Russian Soyuz spacecraft for rides to and from the station.

But NASA is hedging its bets. The final two U.S.-contracted seats on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft will be used in July to launch NASA astronaut Drew Morgan and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano. NASA managers are exploring an option to buy two more Soyuz seats, one for use this fall and another next spring.

That would ensure American-sponsored astronauts in orbit aboard the station through most of next year even if the commercial crew program runs into major problems or delays in the test program.

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https://tass.ru/kosmos/6177582

2 МАР, 03:18
ЦУП поручил космонавту РФ обеспечить безопасность экипажа МКС при стыковке Crew Dragon

Российскую сторону больше всего беспокоит момент сближения с американским кораблем, отметил руководитель полета Владимир Соловьев

МОСКВА, 2 марта. /ТАСС/. Руководитель полета российского сегмента Международной космической станции (МКС) Владимир Соловьев рассказал космонавту Олегу Кононенко, как действовать в случае нештатной ситуации с новым американским кораблем Crew Dragon, который должен пристыковаться к станции 3 марта. Об этом сообщается в записи переговоров Соловьева из Центра управления полетами (ЦУП) со станцией.

"Тебе нужно находиться в районе Функционально-грузового блока "Заря", рядом с "Союзом", как спасательным кораблем, и быть готовым к проведению немедленных действий в случае любой опасности", - распорядился Соловьев.

Руководитель полета подчеркнул, что задача Кононенко - при любых непредвиденных обстоятельствах обеспечить присутствие всего экипажа МКС на российском сегменте в корабле "Союз". По словам Соловьева, РКК "Энергия" подготовила соответствующую радиограмму с описанием действий экипажа, которая будет направлена на борт.

Он уточнил, что российскую сторону больше всего беспокоит момент сближения Crew Dragon, когда на расстоянии нескольких десятков метров от борта МКС корабль должен сбросить скорость с 30 см/с до 8 см/с. Соловьев отметил, скорость 8 см/с довольно безопасна. Однако если "машина в 10 т [Crew Dragon] на скорости 0,3 м/с перестанет слушаться команд, то причина только одна - отказ компьютеров, а резервного режима нет", добавил руководитель полета (в российских "Союзах" есть резервный ручной режим, когда кораблем управляет космонавт со станции).

Соловьев сообщил Кононенко, что астронавты США в момент сближения нового корабля с МКС будут находиться на американском сегменте и следить за процессом. Они задраят люки на своем сегменте, к которому должен причалить Crew Dragon, при признаках нештатной ситуации.

Как сообщил в пятницу ТАСС исполнительный директор Роскосмоса по пилотируемым программам Сергей Крикалев, окончательная траектория стыковки Crew Dragon выбрана так, чтобы представлять наименьшую угрозу в случае отказов. В Роскосмосе также отмечали, что стыковка американского корабля Crew Dragon с МКС будет прервана в случае отклонения режима сближения от штатного.

О корабле Crew Dragon и составе экипажа МКС

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С 2011 года к МКС из пилотируемых кораблей летают только российские "Союзы". Они доставляют российских, американских и других членов экипажа МКС. В США новые космические корабли для пилотируемых полетов разрабатывают компании SpaceX и Boeing. SpaceX представила пилотируемую версию корабля Crew Dragon (другое название - Dragon v2) в мае 2014 года. Его первый старт к МКС намечен на 2 марта.

Сейчас на борту Международной космической станции находятся космонавт Олег Кононенко (Роскосмос) и астронавты Энн Макклейн (NASA) и Давид Сен-Жак (Канадское космическое агентство).

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Thomas Burghardt‏ @TGMetsFan98 3 ч. назад

One last tweet before sleep: achievement unlocked!

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Dr.DahaNoob‏ @Mimikry_ 14 мин. назад

And another one combining 4 lightning shots in one. Easy made with my @MiopsTrigger .

Looks epic!

#SpaceX #DM1 #Falcon9

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Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist 13 мин. назад

Liftoff of DM-1! Paving the way to return American astronauts to the ISS from American soil. #DM1 See the full launch gallery and support NASAspaceflight by subscribing to L2: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/l2/ 





John Kraus‏ @johnkrausphotos 17 мин. назад

Falcon 9's first stage Merlin 1D engines soar past the Crew Access Arm at Launch Complex 39A during liftoff of the Demo-1 mission at 2:49 A.M. today. Later this year, NASA astronauts will use this arm to board Crew Dragon for crewed flights to the International Space Station! – Launch Pad 39A (LC-39A)

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https://www.spacex.com/webcast

CREW DEMO-1 MISSION

On 2:49 a.m. EST on March 2, SpaceX launched Crew Dragon's first demonstration mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This test flight without crew on board the spacecraft is intended to demonstrate SpaceX's capabilities to safely and reliably fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Following stage separation, SpaceX landed Falcon 9's first stage on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 30 мин. назад

Falcon 9 launches Crew Dragon on its first test flight to the @space_station