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Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Re: Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Post by 6ren »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #14
est wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

anyone got a Youtube Live stream link? UStream is very slow here.

Someone here submitted this last night as the low-def nasa-tv link. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-mobile

This is the only one which gives me actual video (though it's just of a computer screen atm, a deathstar-like graphic) - the others had voices, and no video but a small blinking light and vertical bands near the bottom of the screen).

uh oh, now it's also showing a blinking light and bands...

EDIT at last, Dragon sliding across the earth, from the ISS. Amazing seeing one spacecraft from another. Later, a thermal image of ISS from Dragon. But they're mostly showing people in front of computers...

Re: Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Post by aptwebapps »

6ren wrote: post #23
waterlesscloud wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone here submitted this last night as the low-def nasa-tv link. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-mobile

This is the only one which gives me actual video (though it's just of a computer screen atm, a deathstar-like graphic) - the others had voices, and no video but a small blinking light and vertical bands near the bottom of the screen). uh oh, now it's also showing a blinking light and bands... EDIT at last, Dragon sliding across the earth, from the ISS. Amazing seeing one spacecraft from another. Later, a thermal imag…

That's the same feed. That graphic was the exclusion zone around the ISS, now we're back to the blinking light.

Re: Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Post by Tim-Boss »

From https://spacex.com/updates.php

"FRIDAY MORNING - Final Approach, Dragon Grapple

Around 2:00 AM Pacific/5:00 AM Eastern NASA will decide if Dragon is GO to move into the approach ellipsoid 1.4 kilometers around the space station. If Dragon is GO, after approximately one hour Dragon will move to a location 250 meters directly below the station. Dragon will then perform a series of maneuvers to show systems are operating as expected. If NASA is satisfied with the results of these many tests, Dragon will be allowed to perform the final approach to the space station.

Sometime around 6:00 AM Pacific/9:00 AM Eastern, astronauts on the space station will grapple Dragon with the space station’s robotic arm and the spacecraft will attach to the station."

Re: Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Post by tim_hutton »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #14
est wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

anyone got a Youtube Live stream link? UStream is very slow here.

Someone here submitted this last night as the low-def nasa-tv link. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-mobile

You'll see the Earth behind in a few minutes when the ISS crosses back into day: http://www.isstracker.com/ http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html

Re: Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Post by jurjenh »

Looking at the screen with the cross-hairs it seems like the bottom right set of figures shows the distance to ISS, which was sitting at around 255m, and should go down to 235m (EDIT: was originally supposed to be 220m) before the crew on ISS tells dragon to head back to the 250m mark.

Here's hoping that they keep showing these shots from the ISS monitors throughout - kinda like watching someone coding but on a whole different level!

Re: Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Post by jurjenh »

jeffool wrote: post #21
aptwebapps wrote: post #20

Anyone have any sort of commentary or chat? I can only stare at a blinking light for so long ...

They pipe up occasionally, just not so much idle banter, as they don't want to be talking when someone vital says something, and step all over it.

Like... (and i quote) "That's dragon passing over LA"
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