Dragon v2 (SpX-DM2) – Falcon 9 (B1058.1) – Kennedy LC-39A – 27.05.2020, 20:32 UTC

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 Jeff Foust @jeff_foust 10 ч. назад

So, yeah, if Demo-2 splashes down Sunday, it won't be off Florida's Atlantic coast.

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А по точнее можно время расстановки и приводнения по UTC?

Пока НАСА планирует так:

Расстыковка  - 23:34 UTC 01.08.2020
Приводнение - 18:42 UTC 02.08.2020

Благодарю!

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Началась трансляция "ISS Expedition 63 on-orbit crew news conference with Station Commander Chris Cassidy and astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken" - youtu.be/21X5lGlDOfg

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 Chris G - NSF @ChrisG_NSF 9 мин. назад

Have I mentioned how much I love Florida....

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Цитата: undefined Цитата  NASA @NASA 13 мин. назад

What happens after splashdown?

@Astro_Doug explains step by step how the @SpaceX Dragon Endeavour will be recovered after he and @AstroBehnken arrive back to Earth after two months aboard the @Space_Station:
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Цитата: undefined Цитата  NASA @NASA 10 мин. назад

"We won't leave the @Space_Station without some good landing opportunities in front of us."

@AstroBehnken explains how #LaunchAmerica teams on the ground are monitoring the weather closely to ensure a safe splashdown.
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Live Q&A with NASA Astronauts in Space

 NASA

Трансляция началась 30 минут назад

youtu.be/bhVdsCqLJho

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 Port Canaveral @PortCanaveral 2 ч. назад

Port Canaveral at "Condition X-Ray" in Advance of Hurricane Isaias: The U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port (COTP) has set hurricane condition "X-RAY" for Port Canaveral: Sustained gale force winds are predicted within 48hours.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2020/07/31/nasas-spacex-demo-2-behnken-and-hurley-look-forward-to-return-to-earth/
https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2020/07/31/nasas-spacex-demo-2-behnken-and-hurley-look-forward-to-return-to-earth/

NASA's SpaceX Demo-2: Behnken and Hurley Look Forward to Return to Earth

Anna Heiney
Posted Jul 31, 2020 at 1:14 pm


NASA astronauts (from left) Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley and Chris Cassidy are the U.S. members of the Expedition 63 crew aboard the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are looking forward to their return to Earth following more than two months at the International Space Station during the agency's SpaceX Demo-2 mission. The crewmates discussed their upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon departure and splashdown during a news conference alongside fellow NASA astronaut and current Expedition 63 commander Chris Cassidy on Friday, July 31, from the orbiting laboratory.

Behnken and Hurley are wrapping up a successful mission to the station with a sense of satisfaction.

"Just to be able to live and work aboard the space station – a facility that the three of us all helped to build during shuttle flights – and to be a crew member with Chris and Bob on a day-to-day basis, supporting station operations, supporting science, supporting maintenance, the four spacewalks that these guys did, the robotics that we did, was just an incredible experience," Hurley said.

Weather permitting, undocking remains scheduled for approximately 7:34 p.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 1, and splashdown at 2:42 p.m. EDT on Sunday. This will mark the first return of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft carrying astronauts from the space station.

"As we get closer, we focus more and more on our preparations to be ready for the splashdown activities," Behnken said. "We spent today working through the onboard training that will refamiliarize us with the splashdown activities, what our responsibilities will be, the things that we'll monitor."

Teams are keeping a watchful eye on Hurricane Isaias and will continue to evaluate impacts to weather around the Florida peninsula, including the potential splashdown sites in the Gulf of Mexico and along the state's Atlantic coast. NASA and SpaceX will make a decision on a primary splashdown target approximately 6 hours before undocking Saturday.

"We're watching [forecasts] closely, mostly to maintain awareness and see the trends, and understand what the timeline would be if our recovery out of the water, for example, was delayed a little bit. But we have confidence that the teams on the ground are of course watching that much more closely than we are," Behnken said. "We don't control the weather, and we know we can stay up here longer – there's more chow, and I know the space station program has more work that we can do for the [principal investigators] and other folks who have sent science up to the space station."

The Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying Hurley and Behnken lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30 and arrived at the space station the following day. The Demo-2 test flight is helping NASA certify SpaceX's crew transportation system for regular flights carrying astronauts to and from the orbiting laboratory. SpaceX is readying the hardware for the first rotational mission, which would follow NASA certification.

"It's a simple math equation: There was one, and then there were three. We effectively tripled our ability to get work done, and with all three of us having been here before, in short order, we were running at full steam and getting as many science objectives completed as we could," Cassidy said. "These last two months, it's been fantastic to have buddies at the chow table to reflect on the day, think about tomorrow, and talk about world events and that sort of thing. I'll definitely miss them when they head back."

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 Eric Berger @SciGuySpace 25 мин. назад

Latest run of European model shows a TS Isaias near Kennedy Space Center on Sunday afternoon. Winds may be acceptable at Pensacola and Panama City landing sites though.

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 Thomas Burghardt @TGMetsFan98 58 мин. назад

A NASA Gulfstream V has departed Houston for Pensacola. #Demo2 #BringThemHome

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 Julia @julia_bergeron 2 ч. назад

Need a handy reference guide for splashdown criteria? @NASA has you covered. These are the criteria that the joint teams review when making the decision to proceed. #Endeavor #DM2

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https://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=535707&lang=RU

Новый пилотируемый космический корабль США расстыкуется с МКС перед предстоящим приводнением
01.08.2020 0:00:11

Вашингтон. 1 августа. ИНТЕРФАКС - Новый американский пилотируемый корабль Crew Dragon компании SpaceX с астронавтами Дагласом Харли и Робертом Бенкеном в субботу по времени Восточного побережья США, когда в Москве уже наступит воскресенье, расстыкуется с Международной космической станцией (МКС), сообщает NASA.

Расстыковка планируется 1 августа в 19:34 по времени Восточного побережья США (2 августа в 02:34 мск). Затем через семь часов спускаемый аппарат с астронавтами должен будет совершить приводнение в Атлантике около берегов штата Флорида.

Это будет первое приводнение американского спускаемого корабля, совершенное за последние 45 лет после завершения программы полетов "Аполлонов" в 1975 году.

Первый после почти девятилетнего перерыва вслед за окончанием программы шаттлов пилотируемый космический корабль США Crew Dragon, разработанный компанией SpaceX в рамках коммерческого контракта с NASA, стартовал к МКС 30 мая.

В рамках тестового полета корабль доставил на МКС Харли и Бенкена, которые проработали там более двух месяцев вместе с российскими космонавтами Анатолием Иванишины и Иваном Вагнером и американскими астронавтом Крисом Кэссиди.

За это время Кэссиди и Бенкен совершили четыре выхода в открытый космос с борта МКС для выполнения работ по модернизации ее энергетической системы, в частности, для замены устаревших никель-водородных аккумуляторов, которые накапливают и распределяют энергию, собранную от солнечных батарей, на новые, более мощные литий-ионные.

Нынешняя миссия Crew Dragon является последним крупным испытанием корабля перед его сертификацией NASA для осуществления регулярных коммерческих пилотируемых полетов на МКС. В марте 2019 года такой же корабль совершил первый успешный испытательный полет на станцию в беспилотном режиме.

С 2011 года астронавты NASA доставляются на МКС российскими кораблями "Союз", за места на котором американское космическое агентство платит России. В частности, в мае NASA договорилось с Роскосмосом о покупке за 90,2 млн долл. одного места на "Союзе", который в октябре стартует к МКС, в связи с возможными задержками в пусках следующих миссий Crew Dragon к МКС. По данным NASA, следующий полет такого пилотируемого корабля к МКС планируется осуществить в конце сентября.

v2 - https://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=535709

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 Col. Doug Hurley @Astro_Doug 5 мин. назад

This photo of Hurricane Isaias was taken a few hours ago as it travels northwest between Cuba and the Bahamas. I hope the people in its path stay safe and I hope it doesn't disrupt our return to Earth on Sunday.

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 Chris G - NSF @ChrisG_NSF 1 ч. назад

YAY.  Landfall now!

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В целом пока определились - залив, Пенсакола или Панама-Сити

 Gavin - SpaceXFleet.com @SpaceXFleet 1 ч. назад

Temporary flight restrictions have been posted for Demo-2 splashdown - Aug 2nd - at the Pensacola and Panama City locations.

https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_0_7073.html...
https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_0_7071.html

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NASA Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley Are Coming Home!

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31 июл. 2020 г.

youtu.be/J3VuLKFnvlQ

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2020/07/31/nasas-spacex-demo-2-weather-remains-go-for-return-live-coverage-tomorrow/

NASA's SpaceX Demo-2: Weather Remains 'GO' for Return, Live Coverage Tomorrow

Tori Mclendon
Posted Jul 31, 2020 at 9:11 pm


On Monday, March 30, 2020 at a SpaceX processing facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, SpaceX successfully completed a fully integrated test of critical crew flight hardware ahead of Crew Dragon's second demonstration mission to the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program; the first flight test with astronauts onboard the spacecraft. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley participated in the test, which included flight suit leak checks, spacecraft sound verification, display panel and cargo bin inspections, seat hardware rotations, and more.

Teams from NASA and SpaceX are proceeding with preparations to bring NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley home to Earth on Sunday, Aug. 2, after receiving a weather briefing this evening from the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron.

Conditions remain "Go" at several of the needed target locations for splashdown and recovery off the Florida coast on Sunday aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Endeavour" spacecraft. NASA and SpaceX will make a decision on a primary splashdown target approximately 6 hours before undocking Saturday.

Teams continue to closely monitor Hurricane Isaias and evaluate impacts to the landing sites in the Gulf of Mexico along the Florida Panhandle. Teams have several weather decision milestones ahead of and after undocking to adjust the splashdown location and time based on the forecasted conditions for recovery.

Undocking remains scheduled for approximately 7:34 p.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 1, and splashdown at 2:42 p.m. EDT on Sunday. This will mark the first return of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft carrying astronauts from the space station, and it will wrap up NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission after more than two months at the International Space Station.

NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 return coverage is as follows (all times Eastern):

Saturday, Aug. 1

• 9:10 a.m. – SpaceX Dragon Demo-2 Farewell Ceremony aboard the International Space Station (ceremony begins about 9:15 a.m.)
• 5:15 p.m. – NASA TV undocking coverage begins for the 7:34 p.m. undocking (NASA Television will have continuous coverage from undocking to splashdown)

Sunday, Aug. 2

• 2:42 p.m. – Splashdown
• 5 p.m. – Administrator post-splashdown news conference from the Johnson Space Center, with the following participants:
  
  • NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
  • Steve Stich, manager, NASA's Commercial Crew Program
  • International Space Station representative
  • Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer, SpaceX
  • NASA Astronaut Office representative

Tuesday, Aug. 4 

• 4:30 p.m. – Demo-2 crew news conference at Johnson, with the following participants:
  
  • NASA astronaut Bob Behnken
  • NASA astronaut Doug Hurley

The Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying Hurley and Behnken lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30 and arrived at the space station the following day. The Demo-2 test flight is helping NASA certify SpaceX's crew transportation system for regular flights carrying astronauts to and from the orbiting laboratory. SpaceX is readying the hardware for the first rotational mission, which would occur following NASA certification.

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 Julia @julia_bergeron 6 ч. назад

It is looking likely that GO Navigator will get the first recovery mission in the Gulf of Mexico. They are docked and awaiting finalization of the primary and backup splashdown zones. Those zones will be announced six hours before Bob and Doug undock from the ISS. #DM2Splashdown

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https://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=535707&lang=RU

Новый пилотируемый космический корабль США расстыкуется с МКС перед предстоящим приводнением
01.08.2020 0:00:11

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