Dragon SpX-17 (CRS-17), OCO-3, STP-H6 - Falcon 9-071 (B1056.1) - CCAFS SLC-40 - 04.05.2019 06:48 UTC

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NASA‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA 6 ч. назад

After launching Saturday, @SpaceX's #Dragon spacecraft is set to deliver science, supplies and hardware to the @Space_Station on Monday morning.
Join us starting at 5:30am ET as it rendezvous with the orbiting laboratory. Capture set for 7:30am ET. Watch: https://go.nasa.gov/2PWxH5n 

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2019/05/06/nasa-tv-coverage-begins-of-the-spacex-dragon-approaching-station/

NASA TV Coverage Begins of the SpaceX Dragon Approaching Station

Norah Moran
Posted May 6, 2019 at 5:52 am


The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft approaches the International Space Station for a robotic capture

Flight control teams for the International Space Station and SpaceX are proceeding toward grapple of the Dragon cargo spacecraft this morning. Capture is expected around 7 a.m. EDT. NASA Television coverage has begun. Watch live at http://www.nasa.gov/live.

Expedition 59 astronauts David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Nick Hague of NASA will use the space station's robotic arm to grapple Dragon around 7 a.m. Coverage of robotic installation to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module will begin at 9 a.m.

The Dragon lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Saturday, May 4 with more than 5,500 pounds of research, equipment, cargo and supplies that will support dozens of investigations aboard the orbiting laboratory.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 6 мин. назад

There's the ISS symbol on the C113.2 Dragon, earned during her previous flight on CRS-12.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 4 мин. назад

So there's a cable - as people spotted in earlier views - running down the side of Dragon that is now causing some interest to MCC-H.


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You can see this cable here. No idea where it's from....either from Falcon 9 or Dragon itself.




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MCC-H say it is off-nominal, but shouldn't be an issue for ROBO ops at this time.

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05/06/2019 13:26 Stephen Clark

Engineers in NASA's space station flight control room in Houston just informed the space station crew that a cable or line coming out of the Dragon capsule is not expected to interfere with today's capture of the ship using the station's robotic arm.

"We noticed a line on Dragon that we weren't expecting to be there," spacecraft communicator Brandon Lloyd just radioed the station crew from Houston. "Our initial looks at it is that we don't expect any interference with the operations today."

"We noticed," said Nick Hague, a flight engineer on the station. "It looks like a cable that's maybe 6-to-10 feet in length running down from maybe the bottom of the capsule down into the service module."

Mission control says the assessment of engineers on the ground is that the line is not interfering with the grapple fixture, which is needed for the robotic arm to capture the Dragon cargo craft.

"We haven't seen any gross motion out of it," Hague said. "Looks like it's connected close to the grapple fixture (and) maybe loose on the other end. If we see anything squirrelly happen, we'll let you know."


05/06/2019 13:28 Stephen Clark

Mission control has instructed the station crew to abort the capture of the Dragon cargo craft of the loose line on Dragon drifts into the path of the robotic arm during the grapple sequence.

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05/06/2019 13:31 Stephen Clark

The Dragon spacecraft has resumed its automated approach toward the capture box around 10 meters, or 32, feet from the space station.

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