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  • Falcon 9: Dragon CRS-11 to ISS (re-flown Dragon, neutron star interior explorer)

    This will be the first Flight Proven Dragon mission, its first mission being Dragon CRS-4.*

    Pad: LC-39A
    Orbit: ISS logistics
    Date: NET June 1
    Time: **1755 Eastern, 2155 GMT
    Stage landing: LZ-1

    Major payloads

    MUSES (Multi-User System for Earth Sensing)*

    https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/s...ents/1282.html

    Teledyne Brown is developing the Multiple User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES), an Earth imaging platform, as part of the companys new commercial space-based digital imaging business. MUSES hosts earth-viewing instruments (Hosted Payloads), such as high-resolution digital cameras, hyperspectral imagers, and provides precision pointing and other accommodations. It hosts up to four instruments at the same time, and offers the ability to change, upgrade, and robotically service those instruments.
    NASA Kennedy / KSC ✔ @NASAKennedy
    The Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) is will test physical changes to the array in space during the CRS-11 mission.

    ROSA unrolled



    NASA Kennedy / KSC ✔ @NASAKennedy
    The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) will see into neutron stars -the most powerful cosmic particle accelerators known.

    A new NASA mission is headed for the International Space Station next month to observe one of the strangest observable objects in the universe.


    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 28 May 2017, 12:30.
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    Rolled out, preparing to go vertical.

    Presser

    Dr. Mordrid
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    I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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      Dr. Mordrid
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      An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

      I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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        Dr. Mordrid
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        An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

        I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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          Lightning Flight Rule violation. Scrub to Saturday.
          Dr. Mordrid
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          An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

          I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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            If weather cooperates and this launch goes...

            Dr. Mordrid
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            An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

            I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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              Dr. Mordrid
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              An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

              I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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                Still counting.....

                Exact launch time adjusted to 1707;38 EDT.
                Dr. Mordrid
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                An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

                I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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                  NASA YouTube Event at 1730;00 EDT



                  NASA webcast reports 90% GO!
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                  I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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