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NASA is broadcasting: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html Anyone know what time it's expecte
by j_col 14y ago
NASA is broadcasting:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
Anyone know what time it's expected to dock at?
- jluxenberg 14y ago4:12AM CT according to the NASA broadcast
- j_col 14y agoPerfect, I haven't missed it yet!
- johnchristopher 14y agoWhich is 09:12 UTC.
- hammock 14y agoWow, it's 4:07ct and I just woke up (insomnia)...great timing. All I see is a small blinking light though.
- someperson 14y agoWhen will it happen? Is it behind schedule or is the 4:12 CT time wrong???
- est 14y agoanyone got a Youtube Live stream link? UStream is very slow here.
- carbocation 14y agohttp://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=station http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=stati... works for me, even though the ustream one did not. It also appears that the docking isn't really supposed to start for another 2 hours.
- jurjenh 14y agoThanks for the update - where'd you get that snippet of information? I tried to find a schedule of sorts but had no luck...
- carbocation 14y agoAccording to the image that's currently on https://spacex.com/ https://spacex.com/ , coverage begins at 4:30am PT.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoSomeone here submitted this last night as the low-def nasa-tv link. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-mobile http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-mobile
- 6ren 14y agoThis is the only one which gives me actual video (though it's just of a computer screen atm, a deathstar-like graphic) - the others had voices, and no video but a small blinking light and vertical bands near the bottom of the screen). uh oh, now it's also showing a blinking light and bands... EDIT at last, Dragon sliding across the earth, from the ISS. Amazing seeing one spacecraft from another. Later, a thermal image of ISS from Dragon. But they're mostly showing people in front of computers...
- aptwebapps 14y agoThat's the same feed. That graphic was the exclusion zone around the ISS, now we're back to the blinking light.
- jurjenh 14y agoWatching dragon sliding over those clouds is pretty hypnotic. You can see why they say watching earth from space makes the boundaries between countries disappear.
- tim_hutton 14y agoYou'll see the Earth behind in a few minutes when the ISS crosses back into day: http://www.isstracker.com/ http://www.isstracker.com/ http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html
- 6ren 14y agospaceX says "coverage begins at 4:30 PT" http://www.spacex.com/ http://www.spacex.com/ Here is that in your local time: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4%3A30am+pt+in+local+time http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4%3A30am+pt+in+local+ti... It's in 1 hour 48 minutes from the timestamp of this comment
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- mih 14y agoWhat are the tiny objects that seemed to be criss-crossing all over the background of the blinking light (visible clearly in fullscreen) ? Other satellites?
- mkramlich 14y agoeither a city or another satellite. The first "mysterious light" I saw, which I thought was another lit satellite, was eventually described by the channel narrator as the city of Los Angeles going by far below. It was late at night, and we were seeing the lights from the LA metro area.
- throwaway01638 14y agoThey just announced an 8:10 am central time for robotic capture. After the arm makes the capture it's about 3 hours until it is fully docked to the station.
- asmithmd1 14y agoDocking in orbit is harder than it appears. Speed and altitude are linked so you can't just thrust towards the station or you will wind up in a different orbit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rendezvous#Methods_of_approach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rendezvous#Methods_of_app...
- throwaway01638 14y agoDragon doesn't autonomously dock. It flies within range of the space station's robotic arm, is grappled, and then is slowly berthed to a docking port.
- onedev 14y agoThe NASA guy is using Windows XP, its pretty funny, he just screen-shared in the stream. I'm sure its some super custom software though.
- throwaway01638 14y agoIf NASA had switched to Vista, station would have deorbited.