03/19/2017 20:49
Splashdown confirmed! The Dragon craft has came back to Earth with around three,600 pounds of orbiter load, ending its tenth operational load flight to the complicated.
03/19/2017 20:47
The 3 main parachutes have deployed, SpaceX says. Standing by for landing a number of hundred miles west of peninsula.
03/19/2017 20:46
After deploying 2 drogue parachutes for stability, Dragon ought to currently be downward through ten,000 feet underneath 3 116-foot main parachutes, that ar designed to slow the craft's speed to a delicate eleven mph at the time of landing.
03/19/2017 20:33
Temperatures outside the Dragon craft ar expected to achieve up to three,000 degrees physicist throughout re-entry.
03/19/2017 20:32
As with its previous missions, SpaceX isn't providing live coverage of the re-entry and landing of the Dragon tender. We'll post updates here as we tend to get them.
Dragon ought to currently be encountering the higher reaches of the atmosphere - some extent called entry interface - over the Pacific. officers expect a communications blackout within the next jiffy, followed by preparation of the capsule's parachutes starting at 10:46 a.m. EDT (1446 GMT).
03/19/2017 20:18
SpaceX confirms the completion of Dragon's deorbit burn, and also the craft has jettisoned its disposable unpressurized trunk section. The capsule can read the atmosphere on a mechanical phenomenon flying from northwest to southeast over the Pacific, heading for landing at 10:54 a.m. EDT (1454 GMT).
03/19/2017 20:06
Flying high on top of the ocean, the Dragon craft ought to have discharged its Draco thrusters for the deorbit burn by currently, committing the capsule for come back to Earth. The burn was expected to last around ten minutes.
Dragon is carrying quite three,600 pounds of load from the orbiter in its controlled cabin. The capsule is that the solely robotic load merchantman able to retrieve instrumentality from the orbiter and come back it to Earth for analysis or repairs.
03/19/2017 15:36
Thomas Pesquet, a eu house Agency aircrewman on the station, radioed his congratulations to the Dragon team shortly when the craft's departure.
"Houston, it's like it is time to mention bye to Dragon," Pesquet same. "There's an area people that may return to right down to Earth together with her, and that i mean that virtually as a result of it carries immeasurable vital scientific samples, and a few obtained directly from the crew.
"I recognize scientists cannot wait to urge their hands on their results, and due to come back vehicles like Dragon, the ISS is ready to meet its mission of science and discovery. From all the crew of Expedition fifty, several thanks and congratulations to any or all the groups concerned during this CRS-10 mission."
Michael Hopkins, associate traveller service as craft somebody in mission management in Houston, replied: "Thanks for those words, Thomas, and congratulations to the crew additionally. You guys did an incredible job, as well, invariably staying earlier than the timeline, and it's reaching to be nice to urge Dragon back on Earth."
03/19/2017 15:33
Coming up in an exceedingly few hours, the Dragon craft can shut the door to its steerage, navigation and management bay shortly before nine a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).
Ignition of the capsule's thrusters is ready for 9:55 a.m. EDT (1355 GMT) for associate appoximately 10-minute deorbit burn. landing a number of hundred miles west of peninsula is scheduled for 10:54 a.m. EDT (1454 GMT).
NASA tv coverage of the Dragon resupply flight has concluded. SpaceX doesn't commit to give live coverage of landing, however you'll be able to check back here for updates on the standing of the mission as we tend to receive info
03/19/2017 15:23
Dragon's third and final departure burn is complete, moving the craft on the far side the 200-meter keep-out sphere, associate notional bubble round the orbiter.
03/19/2017 15:15
The Dragon craft has finished its second departure burn. A yaw maneuver is developing at concerning 5:21 a.m. EDT (0921 GMT), then a final departure maneuver is planned a couple of minute later.
03/19/2017 15:15
The robotic arm has backed away to a distance of quite ten feet. the primary of 3 rocket burns to guide Dragon far from the orbiter is complete.
03/19/2017 15:13 Dragon unleash
Dragon is currently flying on its own, having been free from the grasp of the orbiter robotic arm at 5:11 a.m. EDT (0911 GMT) because the craft flew 257 miles on top of the ocean simply south of Australia.
03/19/2017 15:02
Mission management in Houston simply gave the station crew a "go" for unleash of the Dragon craft by the robotic arm.
03/19/2017 14:59
NASA and SpaceX report they're in good condition for the departure of Dragon with quite five,400 pounds of load for the come back trip to Earth. the things embrace euthanized mice specimens, vegetative cell samples, and 3 obsolete experiment packages labelled for disposal within the spacecraft's trunk, which can use up on re-entry.
03/19/2017 14:56
More than five,400 pounds of load, vehicle hardware and experiment samples ar packed within the Dragon capsule's controlled cabin and also the ship's disposable trunk.
03/19/2017 14:54
Grasped by the robotic arm, the Dragon craft is at its planned unleash purpose below the orbiter.
Astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough can command the arm to unleash the capsule at 5:11 a.m. EDT (0911 GMT). The couple can stand by at a communications panel to issue commands to Dragon if necessary.
The crew can monitor the craft till it exits the questionable keep-out sphere two hundred meters (660 feet) round the orbiter.
03/19/2017 10:16
After twenty four days at the International orbiter, SpaceX's Dragon tender is ready to move back to Earth on Sunday with quite five,400 pounds of load, human and animal analysis specimens, and alternative gear labelled for the trip home.
The business load craft are going to be detached from the house station's Harmony module with the analysis lab's Canadian-built mechanism arm, then maneuvered to a location around thirty feet, or ten meters, below the complicated.
Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet within the station's windowed cupola, that offers wide views of the outpost, can command the mechanism arm to unleash the machine-controlled load carrier at 5:11 a.m. EDT (0911 GMT).
The Dragon craft can fireplace its thrusters to depart the locality of the orbiter, moving bent on a secure distance many miles away to shut and latch the door to its navigation bay and begin a ten-minute de-orbit burn with its Draco thrusters around 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT).
The spacecraft can jettison its unpressurized trunk section and star panels a number of minutes later to use up within the atmosphere, whereas the most module re-enters cocooned within a specialised ablative protective covering developed by NASA and SpaceX to resist temperatures reaching up to three,000 degrees physicist on its hypersonic approach to a landing zone a number of hundred miles off the coast of peninsula.
Dual drogue parachutes can deploy once the capsule passes associate altitude of concerning forty five,000 feet, then 3 116-foot-diameter (35-meter) main chutes can hospitable bog down the craft's descent to a delicate ten mph for landing at 10:54 a.m. EDT (1454 GMT).
NASA TV can broadcast the departure events live, however the de-orbit burn and landing won't be televised.
A maritime recovery team are going to be on standby to recover the capsule from the Pacific and ferry it back to port in metropolis, California, wherever SpaceX can fork out time-sensitive samples to NASA for delivery to science groups round the world.
"This load can embrace science samples from human and animal analysis, external payloads, biology and biotechnology studies, natural philosophy investigations and education activities," NASA same in an exceedingly statement.
SpaceX Dragon craft is that the solely vehicle presently capable of returning massive amounts of load from the orbiter to Earth intact.
This mission is SpaceX's tenth operational resupply flight to the orbiter. one amongst those ten missions resulted in a launch failure.
The Dragon tender launched February. nineteen atop a Falcon nine rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy house Center in American state. It found out the orbiter February. 23.
Astronauts unpacked three,373 pounds (1,530 kilograms) of load within the ship's controlled compartment over the previous couple of weeks.
The station’s artificial intelligence systems force 2 massive analysis platforms from the Dragon’s unpressurized trunk and mounted them on platforms outside the complicated.
One of the external payloads can live the condition of Earth’s ozonosphere, and also the alternative could be a conglomeration of quite a dozen NASA and U.S. military experiments, as well as a lightning camera and a navigation testbed designed to collect information for future satellite service missions.
Officials report each major experiments ar in physiological state.
Cargo returning home within Dragon's internal cabin embrace specimens from forty euthanized mice launched within the capsule last month. Scientists sent forty mice into orbit to look at however bone fractures heal within the absence of gravity, and look for the biological reasons why most animals, as well as humans, cannot produce lost limbs.
Materials from a vegetative cell experiment geared toward serving to researchers learn the way human cancers begin and unfold also are coming to Earth.
Several things were loaded into the Dragon capsule's trunk for disposal throughout its destructure re-entry, as well as obsolete hardware from NASA's Robotic provision Mission, associate experiment that tested technologies and techniques for future satellite service missions.
Other gear labelled for disposal embrace OPALS, associate external payload developed by NASA's reaction propulsion Laboratory, that found out the station in April 2014 and tested a high-speed optical maser communications link between the orbiter and ground stations on Earth.
Another package that was fastened outside the orbiter to be discarded Sunday is one in an exceedingly series of Materials on International orbiter Experiments, or MISSE payloads, that tested the radiation tolerance of a replacement system engineered for long-duration spacefaring.
02/23/2017 20:04
All sixteen bolts within the common berthing mechanism have driven to form a firm affiliation between Dragon and also the Harmony module. The business craft is currently a part of the International orbiter.
