Jarvitä
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Any updates on the Dragon? This is only supposed to be a 2-orbit mission.
Did anyone see a fireball around the fuel umbilical during launch? Look at the top of the tower at about 0:08 into this video:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/space.flight/?hpt=T2
Did anyone see a fireball around the fuel umbilical during launch? Look at the top of the tower at about 0:08 into this video:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/space.flight/?hpt=T2
Did anyone see a fireball around the fuel umbilical during launch? Look at the top of the tower at about 0:08 into this video:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/space.flight/?hpt=T2
And here's launch recorded from the SpaceX stream:The launch on youtube:
COTS Demo F1 288 X 301 km
1 71200U 10342.71031904 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 08
2 71200 34.5300 180.0200 0009741 214.0000 143.0000 15.94000000 03
DE-ORBIT BURN UNDERWAY. Four Draco thrusters are firing to slow the Dragon spacecraft's velocity to fall from orbit.
4 Draco thrusters performing deorbit burn now.
De-orbit burn complete!
Dragon is in reentry attitude
The Dragon spacecraft's main chute is scheduled to deploy in about 20-minutes.
drogue chutes deployed
THREE MAIN PARACHUTES DEPLOYED!!!!
SPLASHDOWN!!!
SpaceX is the first commercial company to reenter a spacecraft from space!
Did anyone see a fireball around the fuel umbilical during launch? Look at the top of the tower at about 0:08 into this video:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/space.flight/?hpt=T2