Name: SpaceX CRS-2 Full Webcast
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T17:30:38.000Z
Duration: 54 min 11 s
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You're looking at a live view of the space X launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

You can see the Falcon nine rocket with the Dragon Sierra's two spacecraft sitting on top waiting.

Launch in just under 40 minutes from now.

I'm Kiko Dodge of a spacecraft engineer here at Space Sex Webcasting.

You live from Space six Headquarters Beautiful Hawthorne, California, where you design and build the Falcon nine Rocket and Dragon spacecraft.

Today we're located high above are composites manufacturing room right near Space X Mission Control.

This launch should be the fifth flight of the Falcon nine rocket and the second Dragon Resupply mission for NASA.

Now, just over four months ago, in October 2012 R Dragon spacecraft performed its second visit to the space station and the first ever commercial cargo delivery.

Now today's launch will deliver more cargo and more science experiments.

And in addition, we're playing to stay in orbit for as long as 25 days to support these experiments.

The end of the Mission Dragon will return cargo in experiments to Earth splashing down in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of Southern California.

Now I'm the newcomer to the Webcast programs.

First, we have John Innsbruck, product director for Falcon nine Launch Vehicle program.

Good Morning, Kiko and welcome to the Webcast team.

As you mentioned today, will be the fifth Falcon nine launch for Space six.

It's been an exciting seven plus years since we started the Falcon nine program, and I've had the opportunity to be part of it.

For the 6.5 years I've worked at Space X, today's launch is from our Cape can ever launchpad.

We're currently working to activate our new West Coast launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, about three hours north of us here in our factory.

It's a place I know well, having worked at the very same launchpad some 30 years ago as a young captain in the Air Force, we'll show you some of the work going on at the new Vanderburgh launch site.

A little bit later in the Webcast for today is I've said before Launch is always the most exciting part of the job for the Space X team and We'll hopefully see the payoff of all our hard work in just a little while, but no guarantees.

During the just over nine minutes, it'll take Falcon nine to get Dragon into low earth orbit.

The entire Space X team has been checking and re checking to make sure that everything is go for launch this morning.

We'll have you tell us about the Falcon nine on the launch pad in Florida right now.

So also with us is another veteran Webcast host Jessica Jensen.

Everyone, you recently had a change of jobs here at Space six.

After six years as manager of dynamic Environments, analyzing and testing our vehicles for vibrations, I've joined the mission management team.

Now I work with NASA planning all of our future cargo resupply mission.

I started to music just after the first launch of Falcon one.

Back when the company was a lot smaller than it was today.

Um, in the past few years, I concentrated on Falcon nine now it's really great to be working with their NASA customer on our space.

Dragon Team's preparing for the upcoming missions going to the space station that several coming months and years.

Kiko has also been doing some pretty cool dragon stuff.

So why don't you tell the viewers about that?

I've been at Space X for almost three years now, and I started by designing and testing the batteries that are flying today on both Falcon nine and Dragon.

Recently, I joined the team developing our crew caring version of Dragon.

The goal of taking our first space six astronauts to orbit in just a couple of years.

Of course, we represent just three of the more than 3000 team members here at Space six.

We're working hard to support NASA and are many commercial customers around the world with the ultimate goal of making humans a multi planet species.

It's true, Kiko, what do you think about going to Mars?

I think I do that visiting large for a couple years sounds like fun, and it could be pretty awesome.

All right, well, let's get back down to Earth.

So if all goes as planned, today's Webcast is gonna last roughly an hour.

First, we'll be checking in on launched at us with John.

Then we'll find out what we're carrying to and from the International Space Station.

We'll also take a quick look at some of the really exciting activities happening at Space X.

Finally, the most exciting part which are all here for today, is we're gonna watch the vehicle cameras live video feed from lift off all the way to orbit.

So on that note, John, give us our first launch update.

Sure, Jessica, as with previous flights, were watching four major systems involved in this morning's launch.

First, we have the Falcon nine launch vehicle, which is ready and waiting on the pad in Florida.

The career olfaction nine with dragon out of the hangar almost 24 hours ago.

Last night, about 14 hours before launch, we finished loading what we call the late cargo into Dragon.

This is NASA's last minute items that may be time sensitive going to the space station.

We hook up to the pants systems and raise the vehicle the vertical Last night we cleared the area around the vehicle this morning so that we could begin propellant loading of kerosene and liquid oxygen into the first and second stages of the Falcon nine that started about the three hours ago and finished up about 90 minutes later.

The flight safety systems have completed their checks between the Air Force Range Safety folks in the Space six team in the rocket Now, Currently, we're topping off the liquid oxygen.

On the first and second stages, you can see a white plume of gaseous oxygen coming off of the rocket.

The liquid oxygen continues to boil off slowly and we replenish it during the countdown.

Will stop doing that in the last few minutes before lift off when we pressurize the tanks for flight.

We're also currently topping off the helium pressurization gas stored in bottles on the vehicle, squeezing the last little bits of helium into the bottle before we're ready for flight.

So Space six launch control in Florida reports right now the vehicle is looking good for flight.

Second, we have the dragon spacecraft, which is operated from space.

Sex is Mission Control Center right here in Hawthorne, California.

You can see here on the Webcast, the Space six flight crew team will monitor Dragon 24 hours a day while it is in space.

Mission Control Center reports that Dragon is ready and it's waiting for terminal countdown in T minus 10 minutes.

They're working no major issues on Dragon.

The last major activity that dragon has is going to internal power at about T minus eight minutes.

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station supports us with flight safety radar and long range cameras.

They currently indicate they're ready to support the launch.

They have the primary and the redundant systems ready to go to track us as we head into orbit and watch over the rocket.

We've also done a collision avoidance analysis that shows there are no orbital hazards in the flight path of Falcon nine and Dragon.

As we had the orbit, we take a look at the flight path to make sure that there aren't any spacecraft debris in the way and that could normally cause us to have to move the launch time.

The runway is clear to space, so we're gonna launch on time just a little bit after 10 minutes after the hour.

The range also monitors factor number four, and that's the weather.

Now the weather report from the weather folks continues the Showa 20% probability of violation of the launch constraints for weather or being an optimist.

It's saying that's an 80% probability of good weather this morning.

Now take that in the launch business right now, the thing they're most looking at is the possibility of thick clouds over the vehicle, near or at lift off.

Also, we're looking at the winds at ground level.

It's chilly in Cape today temperatures, not an issue, but the winds were looking at.

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