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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 43 мин. назад

CIMON (AI going to Station tomorrow) responds when an astro says, "Cimon."

Question: What happens if an astro is also named Simon?

Joke answer: The astro needs to be renamed.#SpaceX
#Falcon9 #NASA #Dragon

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LEE (запасной)

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 12 мин. назад

#CRS15 #Dragon will be the 30th vehicle grappled by @csa_asc Canada Arm-2.
#Canada #CSA

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 8 мин. назад

Lewis: bending metal on the Bishop airlock module now, scheduled to launch to the ISS on the SpX-19 cargo mission next year.
#NewSpace2018

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 19 мин. назад

Andrew Rush, Made In Space: in-space manufacturing is transformative both for making space-based assets as well as products for use back on Earth. #NewSpace2018

7 мин. назад

Rush: third flight of our pilot ZBLAN optical fiber facility is on the Dragon spacecraft launching to the ISS tomorrow. #NewSpace2018

3 мин. назад

Rush: our goal in 10 years is to have a factory in space that can serve as the anchor tenant for a commercial space station. #NewSpace2018

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НАСА выпустила обзор миссии CRS-15

spacex_crs-15_mision_overview_rev2_high_res7.pdf - 430.7 KB, 3 стр, 2018-06-27 14:57:26 UTC

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Science on Board CRS-15

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Трансляция началась 3 часа назад

Original air date: Thursday, June 28 at 8 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET, 1500 UTC)

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NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting no earlier than 5:42 a.m. EDT Friday, June 29, for the launch of its 15th resupply mission to the International Space Station. Live coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency's website Thursday, June 28, with prelaunch events.

Packed with more than 5,900 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.

About 10 minutes after launch, Dragon will reach its preliminary orbit. It then will deploy its solar arrays and begin a carefully choreographed series of thruster firings to reach the space station.

It will reach the space station Monday, July 2. NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold, backed up by fellow NASA astronaut Drew Feustel, will supervise the operation of the Canadarm2 robotic arm for Dragon's capture while NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor monitors the spacecraft's systems. After Dragon capture, ground commands will be sent from mission control in Houston for the station's arm to rotate and install it on the bottom of the station's Harmony module.

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Full mission NASA TV coverage is as follows:

What's on Board science briefing from Kennedy

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• Christian Karrasch, project lead at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and Philipp Schulien, project engineer at Airbus, will discuss the Crew Interactive Mobile companion (CIMON) study into crew efficiency and acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) support for future use on long-duration missions.
• Principal investigators Richard Grugel at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Oliver Steinbock at Florida State University, will discuss Chemical Gardens studying the physics of nanotube growth.
• Simon Hook, principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Woody Turner, program scientist in the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters, will discuss the ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) investigation. This study will answer several key science questions related to water stress in plants and how sel ected regions may respond to future changes in climate.
• Paolo Luzzatto-Fegi, principal investigator at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Richard Dickinson, director of the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems at the National Science Foundation, will discuss Quantifying Cohesive Sediment Dynamics for Advanced Environmental Modeling (BCAT-CS), which focuses on the study of forces between particles that cluster together by studying sediments of quartz and clay particles.
• Ken Podwalski, director of Space Exploration Operations and Infrastructure for the Canadian Space Agency, will discuss the spare Canadarm2 Latching End Effector (LEE) being launched.
  

12:45 p.m. – Prelaunch news conference from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida with representatives fr om NASA's International Space Station Program, SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing.

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LIVE – CSA's ISS Program Manager details Canadian cargo heading to space this Friday

Canadian Space Agency

Трансляция началась 3 часа назад

2018-06-28 - Ken Podwalski, CSA's ISS Program Manager, shares details about the Canadian cargo that will be sent to space on the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship, including food for David Saint-Jacques' mission and a new "hand" for Canadarm2.

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Horizons mission – Getting a good GRASP on gravity

European Space Agency, ESA

Опубликовано: 28 июн. 2018 г.

Unbound by a traditional up or down, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is getting a handle on how microgravity affects our ability to grab and manipulate objects in space. It's all part of the French Gravitational References for Sensimotor Performance: Reaching and Grasping experiment (or GRASP) designed to give researchers a better understanding of how our brains draw information from different sources – like sight, sound, and most importantly in this case, gravity – to aid hand-eye coordination.

This investigation will help researchers better treat disorders relating to vertigo and dizziness, balance, spatial orientation and other aspects of the vestibular system here on Earth. It will also be helpful in guiding astronauts during spacewalks and developing the most effective ways of controlling robots remotely. This is not only applicable to astronauts exploring new solar landscapes, but also surgeons who may need to operate on patients remotely and other professionals who need to operate equipment from afar.

While our astronauts are pretty quick, in reality, GRASP experiment sessions aren't quite as speedy as what you see here. In fact, 20 minutes of real-time footage has been condensed to create this shortened clip.

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Human Spaceflight‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaspaceflight 10 ч. назад

Science and art on a Dragon! A European package will launch on the @SpaceX rocket to aid more science on the @Space_Station with @Astro_Alex. Launch is scheduled for Friday, June 29 at 09:41 GMT (11:41 CEST). #Columbus10Years More on the blog: http://blogs.esa.int/alexander-gerst/2018/06/28/science-and-art-on-a-dragon/ ...

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/06/28/commercial-spacex-cargo-capsule-readied-for-launch-friday/

Commercial SpaceX cargo capsule readied for launch Friday
June 28, 2018 Stephen Clark


SpaceX's mission patch for the CRS-15 cargo mission. Credit: SpaceX

A Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon supply ship, primarily using previously-flown hardware, are scheduled for liftoff before dawn Friday at Cape Canaveral on SpaceX's 15th cargo launch to the International Space Station under contract to NASA.

The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) liquid-fueled rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad at 5:42:42 a.m. EDT (0942:42 GMT), around 45 minutes before sunrise on Florida's Space Coast.

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If the mission gets off the ground on time Friday, the Dragon capsule is set to reach the space station Monday. The station's Canadian-built robotic arm will grapple the free-flying capsule around 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT), then place the spacecraft on a berthing port on the Harmony module.

Astronauts will manually unpack the contents of Dragon's pressurized cargo module, which SpaceX is reusing from a previous resupply mission that launched in July 2016.

The mission is slated to deliver 5,946 pounds (2,697 kilograms) of equipment, experiments and provisions to the orbiting research laboratory. About 3,774 pounds (1,712 kilograms) of that tally will be carried inside Dragon's internal cabin, including:

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• 2,718 pounds (1,233 kilograms) of scientific investigations
• 452 pounds (205 kilograms) of crew supplies
• 392 pounds (178 kilograms) of vehicle hardware
• 139 pounds (63 kilograms) of spacewalk equipment
• 46 pounds (21 kilograms) of computer resources
• 27 pounds (12 kilograms) of Russian hardware
  

The equipment launching to the space station inside the Dragon's trunk includes a spare Canadian-built latching end effector for the research lab's robotic arm, plus a 1,213-pound (550-kilogram) instrument developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be mounted outside the station's Japanese Kibo lab module to measure the temperature of plants from space.

The temperature measurements will tell scientists about the health of the plants, how much water they are using, and the resiliency of crops to extreme conditions like heat waves and droughts.

"When a plant is so stressed that it turns brown, it's often too late for it to recover," said Simon Hook, ECOSTRESS principal investigator at JPL. "But measuring the temperature of the plant lets you see that a plant is stressed before it reaches that point."

Developed under a cost cap of $30 million, the ECOSTRESS instrument is a pathfinder for future missions, and it will collect data from its mounting fixture outside the space station for about one year.

"ECOSTRESS will allow us to monitor rapid changes in crop stress at the field level, enabling earlier and more accurate estimates of how yields will be impacted," said Martha Anderson, an ECOSTRESS science team member with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland. "Even short-term moisture stress, if it occurs during a critical stage of crop growth, can significantly impact productivity."

The Dragon spacecraft will depart the space station Aug. 2 and return to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with nearly two tons of equipment, cargo and research specimens for analysis by engineers and scientists on the ground.

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SpaceX's CRS-15 Mission to the Space Station: What's On Board?

NASA

Опубликовано: 28 июн. 2018 г.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 50 мин. назад

LAUNCH! Falcon 9 B1045.2 launches with the CRS-15 Dragon to the ISS!

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Intl. Space Station‏Подлинная учетная запись @Space_Station 43 мин. назад

The @SpaceX #Dragon is now in Earth orbit and on a three-day trip to the station where @Astro_Ricky will capture cargo craft with the @CSA_ASC #Canadarm2 robotic arm Monday at 7am ET.