Dragon zmierza do ISS 05.12. o 17:29:24,521 z Cape Canaveral wystartowała RN Falcon-
9. Wyniosła ona na orbitę statek transportowy
DragonSpX-19 (CRS-19). Jego uchwycenie i przyłączenie do ISS wykonane zostało 08.12.2019 o 10:05/12:47.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n191201.htm#01Udany początek misji CRS-19 BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 6 GRUDNIA 2019
Początek misji CRS-19 / Credits - SpaceXPiątego grudnia doszło do startu rakiety Falcon 9 z kapsułą Dragon. Celem tej misji o oznaczeniu CRS-19 jest Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna.
Start rakiety Falcon 9 nastąpił 5 grudnia 2019 o godzinie 18:29 CET z wyrzutni LC-40 na Florydzie. Na pokładzie rakiety Falcon 9 znalazła się bezzałogowa kapsuła Dragon. Celem tej misji zaopatrzeniowej jest Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna (ISS). Oznaczenie tej misji to CRS-19.
Lot rakiety Falcon 9 przebiegł bez problemów i kapsuła Dragon została wprowadzona na odpowiednią orbitę początkową. Stąd Dragon przez kolejne kilkadziesiąt godzin będzie “gonić” ISS. Dotarcie do Stacji planowane jest na 8 grudnia około południa (czasu CET).
Początek misji CRS-19 / Credits – SpaceX
Po wykonanej pracy pierwszy stopień rakiety Falcon 9 z powodzeniem wylądował na platformie morskiej.
Na pokładzie Dragona znalazł się duży zestaw eksperymentów naukowych – w tym małe zwięrzęta. NASA podsumowała część z tych eksperymentów na poniższym nagraniu. Ponadto, w sekcji nieciśnieniowej Dragona zainstalowano dwa ładunki o łącznej masie 924 kg – hiperspektralną kamerę HISUI oraz zestaw akumulatorów litowych.
Ładunek naukowy misji CRS-19 / Credits – NASA Johnson
Misja CRS-19 jest planowana na około 30 dni.
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https://kosmonauta.net/2019/12/udany-poczatek-misji-crs-19/#prettyPhotoPhotos: Falcon 9 in the starting blocks for space station resupply runDecember 4, 2019 Stephen Clark
Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Nowhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2019/12/04/photos-falcon-9-in-the-starting-blocks-for-space-station-resupply-run/Dragon soars on research and resupply flight to International Space StationDecember 5, 2019 Stephen Clark
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket soared into space Thursday on a resupply flight to the International Space Station. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now(...) Scientists loaded 40 genetically-engineered into the Dragon capsule to help gauge the effectiveness of an experimental drug to combat muscle and bone atrophy. There’s also an experiment sponsored by Anheuser-Busch to study the malting of barley in microgravity, which could lead to the brewing of beer in space, the company says.
A combustion experiment to be delivered to the station will guide research into the behavior of flames in confined spaces in microgravity. NASA and commercial teams have disclosed seven CubeSats stowed inside the Dragon spacecraft for deployment in orbit, including the first nanosatellite built in Mexico to fly to the space station.
And there are a few holiday treats in store for the space station’s six-person crew.
“As far as presents and so forth, I’m not sure I want to divulge anything, but I think I would tell you that Santa’s sleigh is certified for the vacuum of space,” joked Kenny Todd, manager of space station operations and integration at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Crammed full of 5,769 pounds (2,617 kilograms) of equipment, the automated cargo freighter blasted off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:29:24 p.m. EST (1729:24 GMT) Thursday to kick off a three-day trek to the space station. (...)
A forward-facing video camera on-board the Falcon 9’s second stage showed the Dragon capsule separating from the rocket nearly 10 minutes after liftoff. Credit: SpaceX(...) After releasing the Dragon spacecraft, the Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage was expected to continue on an extended-duration coast lasting nearly six hours. SpaceX intended to collect thermal data and other information on the performance of the stage during several orbits of the Earth, before the Merlin engine reignites for a long disposal burn to drive the rocket body back into Earth’s atmosphere for a destructive re-entry over the far southern Indian Ocean.
SpaceX said the long-duration experiment is necessary to verify the upper stage’s readiness to support future missions that might require the rocket to coast in the extreme environment of space for up to six hours. Missions that require that capability include high-altitude orbital injections for U.S. military and National Reconnaissance Office satellites.
The extended flight of the upper stage was expected to take up some of the Falcon 9’s excess fuel capacity, leaving insufficient propellant in the first stage to allow the booster to return to a landing at Cape Canaveral. Instead, SpaceX landed the rocket at sea. (...)
Here is a break-down of the Dragon spacecraft’s 5,769-pound (2,617-kilogram) supply load. The figures below do not include the mass of cargo packaging, which is included in NASA’s overall payload mass:
Science Investigations: 2,154 pounds (977 kilograms)
Vehicle Hardware: 675 pounds (306 kilograms)
Crew Supplies: 564 pounds (256 kilograms)
Spacewalk Equipment: 141 pounds (65 kilograms)
Computer Resources: 33 pounds (15 kilograms)
Unpressurized Payloads: 2,037 pounds (924 kilograms)
Eight of the 40 mice launched toward the space station Thursday have been genetically-engineered to lack myostatin, a protein that acts to limit muscle growth in animals. The muscle-bound, myostatin-free mice — or “mighty mice” — are joined by four other groups of rodents, including groups that will be given an experimental drug in space to block myostatin activity and promote muscle growth.
All 40 mice will return to Earth alive on the Dragon capsule in early January. Scientists will administer the same myostatin protein blocker to some of the mice after they are back on the ground to assess how the drug affects their rate of recovery. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/12/05/dragon-soars-on-research-and-resupply-flight-to-international-space-station/https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/12/03/spacex-cargo-mission-combines-mighty-mice-fires-and-beer/https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/12/03/long-duration-coast-experiment-on-tap-after-falcon-9-launch-wednesday/SpaceX Sends 19th Resupply to Space Station, Makes 20th Rocket LandingBy Ben Evans, on December 5th, 2019
(...) However, the notion of “three-times-lucky” would not evade CRS-19 entirely. SpaceX announced that the mission would utilize the Dragon cargo ship serial numbered “C106”, which previously supported the CRS-4 flight in September 2014 and more recently CRS-11 in June 2017. When it completed its second voyage to the ISS, more than two years ago, it became the first Dragon to fly twice.
Sadly, C106 has since lost the opportunity to become first to fly three times. That crown went to its Dragon sister-ship C108, which flew CRS-6 in April 2015, CRS-13 in December 2017 and last July’s CRS-18. Yet with 64 days of flight time under its belt, C106 promises to another month to its in-space tally by the time it returns to Earth, sometime early in January. (...)
Housed in Dragon’s unpressurized “trunk” for CRS-19 is the 1,100-pound (500 kg) Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) instrument, provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Shortly after the spacecraft arrives at the station, HISUI will be robotically extracted from the trunk and installed onto the Exposed Facility (EF) of Japan’s Kibo lab, where it will spend around three years observing the Home Planet at high resolution across all colors of the light spectrum, from visible to shortwave infrared.
In so doing, HISUI will afford an in-flight demonstration for future “hyperspectral” remote-sensing systems, which carries benefits from agriculture to forestry and from oil and gas exploration to understanding coastal erosion. HISUI has a long heritage, extending back to the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard NASA’s 1999-launched Terra satellite.
The instrument will permit detailed inspections of rocks, soil, vegetation, snow and ice, as well as manmade objects to better understand their unique reflectance spectra. It will be plucked from Dragon’s trunk by the 57.7-foot-long (17.6-meter) Canadarm2 robotic arm, and handed off via the Dextre “hand” to the Kibo lab’s own robotic arm for installation in an Earth-facing (or “nadir”) orientation onto Port 8 of the EF. The HISUI data-storage system will be housed aboard the Kibo pressurized lab. Additionally, a limited quantity of HISUI data will be transmitted to ground stations in near-real-time. It is anticipated that up to 10 GB (equivalent to 18,000 square miles, or 30,000 square kilometers of ground coverage) will be downlinked daily, with a further 300 GB per day, roughly 560,000 square miles or 900,000 square kilometers, physically returned to Earth three or four times per year aboard Dragon cargo vehicles.
Although HISUI is perhaps the most visible aspect of the CRS-19 payload, a wide range of other investigations are packed aboard for Dragon’s ride uphill. All told, it is expected that some 7,300 pounds (3,310 kg) will be hauled to orbit on this mission, with an estimated 5,500 pounds (2,500 kg) returning to Earth in January 2020. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2019/12/05/spacex-sends-19th-resupply-to-space-station-makes-20th-rocket-landing/Falcon 9 launches Dragon cargo spacecraft to ISSby Jeff Foust — December 5, 2019
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Dec. 5 carrying a Dragon spacecraft that will deliver cargo to the ISS. Credit: NASA TVWASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched a Dragon cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station Dec. 5 on a mission that will also perform a test of the rocket’s upper stage.
The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 12:29 p.m. Eastern after a one-day delay caused by high upper-level winds. The Dragon spacecraft, flying a mission designated CRS-19 by SpaceX, separated from the upper stage about 10 minutes after liftoff, shortly after the rocket’s first stage landed on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
This Dragon is making its third flight to the ISS, after the CRS-4 mission launched in September 2014 and CRS-11 in June 2017. This is the second time a Dragon spacecraft has been flown three times, and the eighth mission involving a reused Dragon.
CRS-19 is the penultimate mission in SpaceX’s original Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. SpaceX will transition to its follow-on CRS contract with the CRS-21 mission in the fall of 2020. Those missions will use a cargo version of the Crew Dragon spacecraft with increased payload volume and the ability to be flown on up to five missions each.
Unlike many recent Dragon cargo launches, where the Falcon 9 first stage makes a landing back at Cape Canaveral, the Falcon 9 for this mission landed on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic east of Jacksonville, Florida. Jessica Jensen, director of Dragon mission management at SpaceX, said the droneship landing was because of plans to use the rocket’s second stage for a “thermal demonstration” experiment after deploying the Dragon spacecraft.
“It’s going to be a long six-hour coast that then results in a disposal burn,” she said at a Dec. 3 press conference. “We need extra performance for that demonstration, so basically what we have to do is burn the first stage for a longer period of time so the second stage can have its performance reserved for that demo.” That, in turn, limited the ability of the first stage to return to Cape Canaveral, requiring the droneship landing.
Jensen said that demonstration was for “some of our other customers for longer demonstration missions that we’re going to have to fly in the future.” She didn’t identify those customers, but some national security missions, such as those that place payloads directly into geostationary orbit, do require long coast periods.
The Dragon is carrying 2,617 kilograms of cargo in the form of science experiments, crew supplies and hardware. They include a Japanese hyperspectral imager, a rodent research payload, an experiment studying the behavior of flames in microgavity and a “robot hotel” for storing robotic tools outside the station. It will arrive at the station early Dec. 8.
At the Dec. 3 press conference, Kenny Todd, NASA ISS operations integration manager, demurred when asked if the cargo included any holiday presents for the crew. “There’s always goodies on the flight in general,” he said. “As far as presents and so forth, I’m not sure I want to divulge anything, but I would tell you that Santa’s sleigh is, I think, certified for the vacuum of space.”
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