Wystartował pierwszy Dragon-2! 02.03. o 07:49:03 z KSC wystrzelona została RN Falcon 9R, która wyniosła w T+8' 57" na orbitę pierwszy egzemplarz
statku kosmicznego
Dragon 2 do misji DM-1. Połączył się on z ISS 03.03.2019 o 10:51. W T+9' 37" pierwszy stopień RN
wylądował na barce ASDS OCISLY na Atlantyku.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n190301.htm
Udany start SpX-DM1 BY REDAKCJA ON 2 MARCA 2019
Falcon 9 z kapsułą Dragon 2 startuje do misji SpX-DM1 / Credits - NASA TV, SpaceX
Pierwszy stopień Falcona 9 po udanym lądowaniu / Credits – NASA TV, SpaceXhttps://kosmonauta.net/2019/03/udany-start-spx-dm1/#prettyPhotoNASA, SpaceX Launch First Flight Test of Space System Designed for CrewMarch 2, 2019 RELEASE 19-014
Crowd gathers to watch as NASA and SpaceX make history by launching the first commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and rocket to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 2:49 a.m. EST Saturday on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credits: NASAFor the first time in history, a commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and rocket, which launched from American soil, is on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 2:49 a.m. EST Saturday on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
“Today’s successful launch marks a new chapter in American excellence, getting us closer to once again flying American astronauts on American rockets from American soil,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “I proudly congratulate the SpaceX and NASA teams for this major milestone in our nation’s space history. This first launch of a space system designed for humans, and built and operated by a commercial company through a public-private partnership, is a revolutionary step on our path to get humans to the Moon, Mars and beyond.”
Known as Demo-1, SpaceX’s inaugural flight with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is an important uncrewed mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the new system. It brings the nation one-step closer to the return of human launches to the space station from the United States for the first time since 2011 – the last space shuttle mission. Teams still have work to do after this flight to prepare the spacecraft to fly astronauts. The best way to advance the system design was to fly this spacecraft and uncover any other areas or integrated flight changes that might be required. (...)
The docking phase, as well as the return and recovery of Crew Dragon, include many first-time events that cannot be totally modeled on the ground and, thus, are critical to understanding the design and systems ability to support crew flights. Previous cargo Dragon vehicles have been attached to the space station after capture by the station’s robotic arm. The Crew Dragon will approach to dock using new sensor systems, new propulsion systems and the new international docking mechanism to attach to the station’s Harmony module forward port, fitted with a new international docking adapter. Astronauts installed the adapter during a spacewalk in August 2016, following its delivery to the station in the trunk of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on its ninth commercial resupply services mission. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spacex-launch-first-flight-test-of-space-system-designed-for-crewSpaceX launches historic DM-1 mission, Dragon 2 on maiden flight to the ISSwritten by William Graham March 1, 2019
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/03/spacex-historic-dm-1-dragon-2s-maiden-flight-iss/Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon stand tall at pad 39AMarch 1, 2019 Stephen Clark
Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Nowhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2019/03/01/photos-falcon-9-and-crew-dragon-stand-tall-at-pad-39a/Astronauts eager to see results of Crew Dragon test flightMarch 1, 2019 Stephen Clark
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(...) “I think, as a team, we would all agree that we probably aren’t ready for the Demo-2 mission,” Behnken said. “We expect to get a lot of data from this one that will provide us with a better understanding of what we face when we jump into that actual test flight in preparation for expedition crews that come after us.” (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/03/01/astronauts-eager-to-see-results-of-crew-dragon-test-flight/(...) SpaceX says the nose cone on the Crew Dragon spacecraft has opened, exposing the ship's docking mechanism to the vacuum of space for the first time. This is a critical milestone for a new system not on the previous-generation Dragon that allows the forward end of the capsule to open and close after launch and before re-entry.
Here's an artist's concept of what the Crew Dragon will look like as it docks with the space station at 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT) Sunday. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/03/01/falcon-9-crew-dragon-demo-1-mission-status-center/SpaceX launches first Crew Dragon ferry shipMarch 2, 2019 William Harwood
(...) 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.
“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).”
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.” (...)
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. (...)
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. (...)
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.” (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/03/02/spacex-launches-first-crew-dragon-ferry-ship/
Jim Bridenstine@JimBridenstine 1 mar 2019
I always enjoy speaking to our #NASASocial folks! They help show the world the great things happening at @NASA. #LaunchAmerica
https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1101600227075809280
Jim Bridenstine@JimBridenstine 1 mar 2019
Thanks for the behind the scenes look at #CrewDragon and Launch Complex 39A, @elonmusk. Looking forward to a successful launch. Ad astra!
https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1101635395937284101
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