CRS-3 Scrub

In cased you missed it, yesterday's early AM SpaceX CRS-3 mission was
scrubbed because of oil "residue" found in non-pressured Dragon trunk.

Rocket was lowered and returned to maintenance facility for checkout.
Next window is March 30 with backup of April 2.

http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/2833937

Dave

David Spain pounded on his keyboard to tell us

Next window is March 30 with backup of April 2.

From their FB timeline:
"SpaceX has confirmed it will target its next cargo mission launch to
the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
in Florida, for 10:50 p.m. EDT, Sunday, March 30"

/dps

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On 3/22/2014 7:05 AM, Snidely wrote:
David Spain pounded on his keyboard to tell us

Next window is March 30 with backup of April 2.

From their FB timeline:
"SpaceX has confirmed it will target its next cargo mission launch to
the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in
Florida, for 10:50 p.m. EDT, Sunday, March 30"

/dps


Another postponement. What SpaceX reports as a "range asset issue".
Speculation is that there was a fire at an AF radar tracking station.

Don't know if this bumps us to beyond April 2 yet. Stay tuned.

Dave

http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/2833937

Latest word: Air Force ground tracking station had a fire and will not
be able to support any launch operations until April 10th at the
earliest. Until then the Eastern Range is closed.

Dave

In article , nospam@
127.0.0.1 says...

Latest word: Air Force ground tracking station had a fire and will not
be able to support any launch operations until April 10th at the
earliest. Until then the Eastern Range is closed.

This is somewhat concerning that the Air Force tracking facilities would
not be redundant enough to handle such a failure.

Jeff
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than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer

Oh, bit embarrassing that one. maybe they needed to fit some low cost smoke
alarms... Brian

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In article , nospam@
127.0.0.1 says...

Latest word: Air Force ground tracking station had a fire and will not
be able to support any launch operations until April 10th at the
earliest. Until then the Eastern Range is closed.

This is somewhat concerning that the Air Force tracking facilities would
not be redundant enough to handle such a failure.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer

"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
...

In article , nospam@
127.0.0.1 says...

Latest word: Air Force ground tracking station had a fire and will not
be able to support any launch operations until April 10th at the
earliest. Until then the Eastern Range is closed.

This is somewhat concerning that the Air Force tracking facilities would
not be redundant enough to handle such a failure.

Jeff


I seem to recall reading a report a number of years back discussing how
underfunded the range was. And I suspect not much has changes since then.


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On 3/31/2014 8:41 AM, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote:

I seem to recall reading a report a number of years back discussing how
underfunded the range was. And I suspect not much has changes since then.


Apparently not:

http://www.patrick.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123403609

A letter to your own Representative and Senators may help.
It can't hurt. Building roads and bridges to Space includes necessary AF
infrastructure....

Dave

Old news, but just in case you missed it, SpaceX CRS-3 has been
rescheduled for a new launch date of April 14 at 4:58pm EDT.

Dave

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/...x-crs-3-april/

Since I am the king of old news, again in case you missed it, NROL-67
was successfully launched on an ATLAS-5 yesterday, thus clearing the way
for Space-X CRS-3 with a still pending NET launch date of April 14.

Video of yesterday's ULA NROL-67/ATLAS-5 launch available he

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt6_UUF0Xus

Dave