DM-2

CCtCap Demo Mission 2

Demo Mission - 2

Contents of this page

• Information
• Telemetry
• Mission timeline
• Support me
• Contact
• API

i spent a lot of days updating this page

Information

• Mission name : CCtCap Demo Mission 2

• Launch date UNIX : 1590611580

• Launch date UTC : 2020-05-27T20:33:00.000Z

• Launch date local : 2020-05-27T16:33:00-04:00

• Site name : KSC LC 39A

• Site name long : Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A

• Reddit campaign : url
• Vessels

  • Go Quest position tracker : vesselfinder
  • Hawk position tracker : vesselfinder
• Rocket : Falcon 9 Block 5

• First stage

  • Core serial : B1058

  • Landing type : ASDS (Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship)

  • Landing vehicle : OCISLY (Of Course I Still Love You)

• Second stage

  • Payload id : CCtCap Demo Mission 2

  • Payload type : Crew Dragon

  • Customers : NASA (CCtCap)

  • Orbit : ISS

    • Reference system : geocentric

    • Regime : low-earth

• Other statistics

  • First crewed SpaceX mission!

  • Flight N°94

  • After a decade humans will fly again from U.S. , last was in 2011.

• Recent Twitter news

  • The Crew Dragon has arrived to Launch Complex 39A! 🐉 May 18, 2020

  • Tomorrow, @NASA astronauts @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug will fly from their home base at @NASA_Johnson to @NASAKennedy aboard an agency Gulfstream aircraft. ✈️🚀 May 19, 2020

  • Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 in the hangar at Launch Complex 39A, May 21, 2020

  • Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon are vertical on the launch pad, May 21, 2020

  • The Flight Readiness Review has concluded! NASA's SpaceX Crew Dragon mission is cleared to proceed toward liftoff. May 22, 2020

  • Static fire of Falcon 9 complete – targeting Wednesday, May 27 at 4:33 p.m. EDT for Crew Dragon’s launch May 22, 2020

  • Today, officials from @NASA and @SpaceX are meeting for the Launch Readiness Review – the final review prior to the #LaunchAmerica mission. 🚀 May 25, 2020

  • Team is performing additional pre-flight checkouts of Falcon 9, Crew Dragon, and the ground support system ahead of tomorrow’s Demo-2 mission. Weather forecast for launch is 60% favorable. May 26, 2020

  • Targeting 4:33 p.m. EDT today for Falcon 9’s launch of Crew Dragon with @NASA astronauts on board. Teams are closely monitoring launch and downrange weather. May 27, 2020

  • Standing down from launch today due to unfavorable weather in the flight path. Our next launch opportunity is Saturday, May 30 at 3:22 p.m. EDT, or 19:22 UTC— May 27, 2020

  • All systems go for Crew Dragon’s test flight with @NASA astronauts @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug. Teams are keeping an eye on weather. May 30, 2020

Details :

SpaceX will launch the second demonstration mission of its Crew Dragon vehicle as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability Program (CCtCap), carrying two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. Barring unexpected developments, this mission will be the first crewed flight to launch from the United States since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. DM-2 demonstrates the Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon's ability to safely transport crew to the space station and back to Earth and it is the last major milestone for certification of Crew Dragon. Initially, the mission duration was planned to be no longer than two weeks; however, NASA has been considering an extension to as much as six weeks or three months. The astronauts have been undergoing additional training for the possible longer mission.

Also a pretty cool photo taken during the launch

Timezones Africa

Zone	Date	Relative to UTC/GMT
Casablanca	May 30 2020 20:22:00	GMT +01:00
Cairo	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Freetown	May 30 2020 19:22:00	GMT +00:00
Johannesburg	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Lagos	May 30 2020 20:22:00	GMT +01:00
Tripoli	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Tunis	May 30 2020 20:22:00	GMT +01:00
Dakar	May 30 2020 19:22:00	GMT +00:00

Timezones America

Zone	Date	Relative to UTC/GMT
Argentina/Buenos Aires	May 30 2020 16:22:00	GMT -03:00
Chicago	May 30 2020 14:22:00	GMT -05:00
Detroit	May 30 2020 15:22:00	GMT -04:00
Glace Bay	May 30 2020 16:22:00	GMT -03:00
Los Angeles	May 30 2020 12:22:00	GMT -07:00
Mexico City	May 30 2020 14:22:00	GMT -05:00
New York	May 30 2020 15:22:00	GMT -04:00
Toronto	May 30 2020 15:22:00	GMT -04:00
Vancouver	May 30 2020 12:22:00	GMT -07:00
Sao Paulo	May 30 2020 16:22:00	GMT -03:00

Timezones Asia

Zone	Date	Relative to UTC/GMT
Baghdad	May 30 2020 22:22:00	GMT +03:00
Bangkok	May 31 2020 02:22:00	GMT +07:00
Damascus	May 30 2020 22:22:00	GMT +03:00
Dubai	May 30 2020 23:22:00	GMT +04:00
Gaza	May 30 2020 22:22:00	GMT +03:00
Hong Kong	May 31 2020 03:22:00	GMT +08:00
Kolkata	May 31 2020 00:52:00	GMT +05:30
Kuwait	May 30 2020 22:22:00	GMT+03:00
Qatar	May 30 2020 22:22:00	GMT +03:00
Seoul	May 31 2020 04:22:00	GMT +09:00
Shanghai	May 31 2020 03:22:00	GMT +08:00
Singapore	May 31 2020 03:22:00	GMT +08:00
Tokyo	May 31 2020 04:22:00	GMT +09:00
Vladivostok	May 31 2020 05:22:00	GMT +10:00

Timezones Australia

Zone	Date	Relative to UTC/GMT
Sydney	May 31 2020 05:22:00	GMT +10:00
Melbourne	May 31 2020 05:22:00	GMT +10:00

Timezones Europa

Zone	Date	Relative to UTC/GMT
Amsterdam	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Athens	May 30 2020 22:22:00	GMT +03:00
Berlin	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Bucharest	May 30 2020 22:22:00	GMT +03:00
Copenhagen	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Dublin	May 30 2020 20:22:00	GMT +01:00
Helsinki	May 30 2020 22:22:00	GMT +03:00
Istanbul	May 30 2020 22:22:00	GMT +03:00
Kaliningrad	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
London	May 30 2020 20:22:00	GMT +01:00
Madrid	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Monaco	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Moscow	May 30 2020 22:22:00	GMT +03:00
Oslo	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Paris	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Rome	May 30 2020 21:22:00	GMT +02:00
Volgograd	May 30 2020 23:22:00	GMT +04:00

Telemetry

To extract this telemetry more than 2 GigaBytes were analysed and spent more than 5 hours

The entiere Telemetry of the launch has been extracted using SpaceXTelemetry (program that i wrote, not open source now)

SXT reads data frame by frame and it uses the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and sometimes this OCR could give wrong results because it isn't perfect, so some numbers are faked a little, with all the extracted data i started making comparisons and graphs

• Telemetry file in CSV or JSON
• Phases file in CSV or JSON

ISA Calculations (International Standard Altitude) these calculations are valid just in the first 80.000 meters of altitude

• Pressure file in CSV or JSON, in hPa
• Speed of sound file in CSV or JSON, in
• Temperature file in CSV or JSON, in kelvin
• Density file in CSV or JSON, in kg/m^3

Predicted calculations predicted calculations done to the launch ( not everytime they are accurate)

• Vertical speed file in CSV or JSON,
• Horizontal speed file in CSV or JSON,
• Downrange file in CSV or JSON,
• Acceleration file in CSV or JSON,
• Analysis file in CSV or JSON, (contains all the data above except the acceleration)

Graphs

ISA Calculations graphs (International Standard Altitude)

these calculations are valid just in the first 80.000 meters of altitude

Predicted calculations

Mission Timeline

• 00:01:01 MAX Q : MAXIMUM DYNAMIC PRESSURE THIS IS THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF AERODYNAMIC STRESS EXERTED ON THE VEHICLE

• 00:02:38 MECO : MAIN ENGINE CUTOFF

• 00:02:41 STAGE SEPARATION : STAGE 1 HAS SEPARATED FROM STAGE 2

• 00:02:52 SES-1 : SES-1 SECOND ENGINE STARTUP 1

• 00:07:23 Stage 1: STAGE 1 IS STARTING ITS ENTRY BURN SLOWING IT DOWN FOR ENTRY INTO THE ATMOSPHERE

• 00:08:50 SECO 1 : SECOND ENGINE CUTOFF 1

• 00:08:58 STAGE 1 LANDING : STAGE 1 HAS BEGUN ITS LANDING BURN SLOWING IT FOR TOUCHOUWN AT SEA

• 00:12:08 Crew Dragon separation : Crew Dragon separated from the second stage and began a course for the International Space Station

• 17:54:00 Crew Dragon reached Waypoint 1 for docking with the ISS.

• 18:54:40 Docking : Initial docking with the ISS.

• 21:39:00 Hatch Opening : Hatch opening

API

The api is published and documentated SpaceXTelemetry-API

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