Five, four, three, two, one.
And liftoff
of the Falcon nine and upgraded Cargo Dragon, the first cargo capsule
to dock to the International Space Station.
Stage one Propulsion.
T minus ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one.
Engine full power and lift off
of CRS-26. Go Falcon and Happy Thanksgiving ISS.
That's right.
Lift off of SpaceX's Falcon nine rocket for the 26th cargo resupply mission.
T-minus ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one.
Engine full power and lift off of CRS-26.
Go Falcon and happy Thanksgiving ISS.
That's right.
Liftoff of Space X's Falcon nine rocket for the 26th cargo resupply mission,
Bringing new science experiments and solar arrays to the International Space
Station.
There T-minus ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one.
Engine full power and liftoff of CRS-26.
Go, Falcon. And Happy Thanksgiving ISS.
That's right.
Liftoff of Space X's Falcon nine rocket for the 26th cargo resupply mission,
bringing new science experiments and solar arrays to the International Space
Station.
There you see
Falcon nine carrying CRS-26 on its way to International Space Station.
We are throttling down the engines on the first stage.
This helps us prepare for max q, which is maximum dynamic pressure.
That's the largest structure load that the vehicle sees on ascent.
Slowly passing through that period
should be passing through that period in a few seconds.
Max q.
There's that call out that
we passed through max q.
Great views there of Falcon
nine carrying NASA's CRS-26 mission.
We are coming up on a few events happening back to back
that's going to be MECO or main engine cutoff as the first event.
That's where all nine of the M1D engines shut down on that first stage.
All nine of those engines that you see lit up on your screen there.
And that's in preparation for the next event, which is stage separation.
That's where the first and second stage separate first stage will flip around
and make its way back down to earth and land on our droneship named
“Just Read the Instructions” while the second stage ignites
its Merlin and back engine to boost drag into low earth orbit
during SES one or second stage engine start one.
Then the last event is the boost back burn
to reduce the velocity of the first stage
in preparation for atmospheric reentry.
Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three two, one.
Engine, ignition
and liftoff.
Liftoff of Space X's Falcon nine rocket launching Dragon
on the 25th mission to resupply the International Space Station
with cool science and a new advanced instrument
to more effectively study our planet's climate.
Power and telemetry nominal.
We are 50 seconds into flight.
Successful liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center launch complex.
39A. Falcon nine is heading towards its next major milestone.
That's the point of maximum aerodynamic pressure
for the point
highest stresses the vehicle will experience during ascent.
There's the call out for maximum dynamic pressure.
Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three, two, one.
Engine ignition
and liftoff.
Liftoff of
Space Agency's Falcon nine rocket.
Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three, two, one.
Engine, ignition
and liftoff.
Liftoff of Space Agency's Falcon nine rocket
launching Dragon 26, Mission and resupply the International Space Station
with cool science and a new advanced instrument
for effectively study our planet's climate.
Dragon separation confirmed.
Phenomenal.
So with that CRS 25 gently
floating away from Falcon nine’s second stage
again, coming up next, we've got some service section
Draco checkouts as well as nosecone opening,
You are looking at a live view into the trunk of the Dragon.
Dragon separation confirmed.
And as you can see,
as you can see there on your screen and hearing those call outs as well,
Dragon is drifting away from Falcon nine, second stage.
Incredible view there.
And we
just received confirmation that the Dragon i-link is successful.
That is now going to be
the primary method of Dragon navigating to the space station.
This is a very precise LIDAR
based system. LIDAR stands for light detection and ranging.
These are lasers that are going to be pinging off
of different reflectors on the space station.
It's going to give the spacecraft high fidelity data on its distance
and rate of closure.
During this approach
Dragon not trying to stay perfectly lined up with the station.
It essentially has a range that the crew's watching
and there's kind of a cone that gets drawn out where we want to make sure
our dragon staying inside of that cone before it hits that final waypoint to
and we do the final alignment. The teams here in Houston and out at MCC
going to do a kind of a final go, no go
and a little less than 7 minutes, that'll be the last one.
We do essentially give any authority to proceed with docking.
of ten meters away. Ten meters, all areas less than half a degree.
Copy all.
Woody Hoburg confirming
less than ten meters away and talking the air band's all green.
So that's essentially just meaning Dragon continues to be well in control of itself
and a good alignment as it approaches this docking port.
Expecting docking in about 90 seconds,
Dragon contact and soft capture complete
And capture confirmed at 6:31 a.m.
Central time, 7:31 a.m.
Eastern, while Dragon and Station flew 261 statute
miles
All hooks are open.
Station Houston all hooks open.
Copy.
Dragon separation confirmed
Copy.
And Dragon
is currently drifting away from the station and you can see
some burns here from their thrusters pushing them back
slowly away from the International Space Station.
Dragon departure was confirmed at 10:05 a.m.
as Dragon and the International Space Station was flying
259 statute miles above earth of above the South Pacific Ocean
off the coast of Hawaii.
Station Houston Dragon
Departure Burn zero complete.
Copy.
And dragon separation is confirmed.
Dragon separation is confirmed at 11:05 a.m.
Eastern time at 10:05 a.m. Central Time.
Over the Indian Ocean, 260 miles an altitude above Earth,
you can see some beautiful views as the dragon spacecraft
is departing the International Space Station.
The spacecraft,
Dragon departure burn zero is complete.