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Dragon/Falcon launch
Oct. 7th, 2012 09:01 pmSitting here watching the Dragon/Falcon launch on NASA Select TV. Nighttime launches are pretty dramatic. This one was pretty, as well.
I would have liked to have known the ISS ground track at the time of launch. I used to have that URL at my fingertips, but haven't checked in a couple of years. (Got it. The site is N2YO.COM, pretty well laid out -- You can string NORAD numbers together to see Dragon and ISS together. http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544|38846 )
Meanwhile, after the visual part of the launch was over (and we only got to watch the Control Center personnel, I used my screen's magnifier to peer over their shoulders at their monitor screens. They have pretty intricate layouts, and I couldn't even make a good guess at what all the tables were showing.
But the big screen on the wall, that was 25% taken up by the NASA 'meatball' Logo.
I am pretty happy with the Dragon program, just impatient for manned launch operations to restart.
Meanwhile, it has spread its 'wings', the solar panels, and is heading to the station.
Go, little robot!
I would have liked to have known the ISS ground track at the time of launch. I used to have that URL at my fingertips, but haven't checked in a couple of years. (Got it. The site is N2YO.COM, pretty well laid out -- You can string NORAD numbers together to see Dragon and ISS together. http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544|38846 )
Meanwhile, after the visual part of the launch was over (and we only got to watch the Control Center personnel, I used my screen's magnifier to peer over their shoulders at their monitor screens. They have pretty intricate layouts, and I couldn't even make a good guess at what all the tables were showing.
But the big screen on the wall, that was 25% taken up by the NASA 'meatball' Logo.
I am pretty happy with the Dragon program, just impatient for manned launch operations to restart.
Meanwhile, it has spread its 'wings', the solar panels, and is heading to the station.
Go, little robot!
