Visitor tail-draggin' another 3 days, at least
on 5/19/2012, Snidely supposed :
Falcon 9 launch of Dragon capsule delayed a minimum of 3 days after chamber
pressure issues at T - 1/2 sec.
If the in-flight testing sequence isn't changed, and the catch-up orbit isn't
faster, that means a 3-day delay for arrival at ISS (to state the obvious).
Today's launch window was approx 1 min; I haven't heard if Tuesday's will be
any different; I seem to remember 5 minute windows for some of the Shuttle's
rendezvous flights, but I'm not sure what the most flexible orbital dynamics
constraint for SpaceX is.
See
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/003/status.html
of course.
/dps
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