The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Cosimo · 14 Sep 2013 at 07:16

Cosimo · 14 Sep 2013 at 10:18

Maiden flight of the Japanese Epsilon rocket this morning which has placed the SPRINT-A Space Observatory into orbit:

Cosimo · 16 Sep 2013 at 06:44

Orbital Sciences have delayed the launch of Antares/Cygnus because of the need to change out a faulty cable. Launch is now on September 18 at 15:50 BST (10:50 EDT).

Cosimo · 16 Sep 2013 at 09:25

Some more on Cygnus:

Although we have a launch delay, arrival at the space station is still scheduled for the 22nd.

Mission information from Orbital Sciences:

http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/MissionUpdates/Orb-D1/

Cosimo · 16 Sep 2013 at 09:31

Glaucus said:
F9v1.1 cassiope is delayed after several anomalies on the hot fire were found. New hot fire schedualed for wensday, no official launch date now, but its usually about 3 days after a sucesful hot fire. Assuming they can get launch permision and no other space launches are schedualed and of course weather peritting.

From Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 23h:

Will do another static fire of rocket to make sure all is good & AF needs to test ICBMs, so probable launch Sept 29/30.

Cosimo · 17 Sep 2013 at 10:18

How time flies and budget permitting we should see a manned flight service to the ISS in 2017.

Cosimo · 17 Sep 2013 at 15:34

Launch at 15:50 BST tomorrow.

Cosimo · 18 Sep 2013 at 07:16

Looking good for 15:50 BST today.

Cosimo · 18 Sep 2013 at 15:21

Cygnus Mission launch (15:58 BST) now streaming live:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-media-channel

Cosimo · 18 Sep 2013 at 15:47

We are GO for launch.

Cosimo · 18 Sep 2013 at 15:59

Looking good!

Cosimo · 18 Sep 2013 at 16:01

Cosimo · 18 Sep 2013 at 16:05

Stage One separation:

Cosimo · 18 Sep 2013 at 16:55

Cosimo · 19 Sep 2013 at 08:36

ISS capture is on the 22nd at 12:25 BST.

Cosimo · 19 Sep 2013 at 08:40

Busy day yesterday:

An Atlas V rocket carrying the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-3) satellite for the United States Air Force.

Cosimo · 20 Sep 2013 at 10:16

Cosimo · 20 Sep 2013 at 10:25

Meanwhile on Mars some auto navigation....

Cosimo · 21 Sep 2013 at 08:35

Cosimo · 22 Sep 2013 at 14:39

The rendezvous of Cygnus with the ISS has been called off due to problems with its navigation system. A second attempt is planned for Tuesday morning:

7:45 a.m. Sunday, September 22, 2013

Following the discovery of a data format discrepancy between an on-board International Space Station (ISS) navigation system and a similar system on Cygnus at around 1:30 a.m. this morning, today's rendezvous with the station was postponed. At this time, NASA and Orbital are developing a detailed plan for a second rendezvous attempt early Tuesday morning.

A software update has been developed and will be tested on a ground-based simulator during the day on Sunday. Upload to Cygnus and in-orbit testing of the software "patch" is planned for Sunday night and into Monday morning. Once this has been accomplished and verified, the current plan is for Cygnus to begin a second rendezvous approach late Monday night, with final approach to the ISS and grapple taking place early Tuesday morning. The Cygnus spacecraft remains healthy, with all major subsystems operating as expected.

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