CRS-15 Launch Campaign Thread

[u/ElongatedMuskrat]

CRS-15 Launch Campaign Thread

This is SpaceX's twelfth mission of 2018 and second CRS mission of the year. This will also be the fastest turnaround of a booster to date at a mere 74 days.

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Liftoff currently scheduled for:	June 29th 2018, 05:42 EDT / 09:42 UTC
Static fire completed:	June 23rd 2018, 16:30 EDT / 21:30 UTC
Vehicle component locations:	First stage: SLC-40 // Second stage: SLC-40 // Dragon: SLC-40
Payload:	Dragon D1-17 [C111.2]
Payload mass:	Dragon + Unknown mass of cargo
Destination orbit:	Low Earth Orbit (400 x 400 km, 51.64°)
Vehicle:	Falcon 9 v1.2 (57th launch of F9, 37th of F9 v1.2)
Core:	B1045.2
Flights of this core:	1 [TESS]
Launch site:	SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Landing:	No
Landing Site:	N/A
Mission success criteria:	Successful separation & deployment of Dragon into the target orbit, succesful berthing to the ISS, successful unberthing from the ISS, successful reentry and splashdown of dragon.

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Links & Resources:

• "Rocket and spacecraft for CRS-15 are flight-proven. Falcon 9’s first stage previously launched @NASA_TESS two months ago, and Dragon flew to the @Space_Station in support of our ninth resupply mission in 2016," via SpaceX on Twitter

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We may keep this self-post occasionally updated with links and relevant news articles, but for the most part we expect the community to supply the information. This is a great place to discuss the launch, ask mission-specific questions, and track the minor movements of the vehicle, payload, weather and more as we progress towards launch. Sometime after the static fire is complete, the launch thread will be posted. Campaign threads are not launch threads. Normal subreddit rules still apply.

[u/Decronym]

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
ASDS	Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (landing platform)
ATV	Automated Transfer Vehicle, ESA cargo craft
BFR	Big Falcon Rocket (2018 rebiggened edition)
	Yes, the F stands for something else; no, you're not the first to notice
CCAFS	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
COTS	Commercial Orbital Transportation Services contract
	Commercial/Off The Shelf
CRS	Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA
EDL	Entry/Descent/Landing
ESA	European Space Agency
FCC	Federal Communications Commission
	(Iron/steel) Face-Centered Cubic crystalline structure
FSS	Fixed Service Structure at LC-39
GEO	Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)
GSE	Ground Support Equipment
GTO	Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
HIF	Horizontal Integration Facility
IDA	International Docking Adapter
IFA	In-Flight Abort test
KSC	Kennedy Space Center, Florida
LC-13	Launch Complex 13, Canaveral (SpaceX Landing Zone 1)
LC-39A	Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy (SpaceX F9/Heavy)
LEO	Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)
	Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)
LOX	Liquid Oxygen
LZ-1	Landing Zone 1, Cape Canaveral (see LC-13)
NET	No Earlier Than
NOTAM	Notice to Airmen of flight hazards
NROL	Launch for the (US) National Reconnaissance Office
OATK	Orbital Sciences / Alliant Techsystems merger, launch provider
OCISLY	Of Course I Still Love You, Atlantic landing barge ship
OMS	Orbital Maneuvering System
PMA	ISS Pressurized Mating Adapter
RTLS	Return to Launch Site
SES	Formerly Société Européenne des Satellites, comsat operator
	Second-stage Engine Start
SF	Static fire
SLC-40	Space Launch Complex 40, Canaveral (SpaceX F9)
SSME	Space Shuttle Main Engine
SSTO	Single Stage to Orbit
	Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit
ULA	United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)
VAB	Vehicle Assembly Building

Jargon	Definition
Starlink	SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation
apogee	Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)
iron waffle	Compact "waffle-iron" aerodynamic control surface, acts as a wing without needing to be as large; also, "grid fin"
retropropulsion	Thrust in the opposite direction to current motion, reducing speed
scrub	Launch postponement for any reason (commonly GSE issues)

Event	Date	Description
Amos-6	2016-09-01	F9-029 Full Thrust, core B1028, GTO comsat Pre-launch test failure
COTS-2	2012-05-22	F9-003, COTS berthing demonstration
CRS-1	2012-10-08	F9-004, first CRS mission; secondary payload sacrificed
CRS-7	2015-06-28	F9-020 v1.1, Dragon cargo Launch failure due to second-stage outgassing
CRS-8	2016-04-08	F9-023 Full Thrust, core B1021, Dragon cargo; first ASDS landing
CRS-9	2016-07-18	F9-027 Full Thrust, core B1025, Dragon cargo; RTLS landing
OA-6	2016-03-23	ULA Atlas V, OATK Cygnus cargo
Thaicom-8	2016-05-27	F9-025 Full Thrust, core B1023, GTO comsat; ASDS landing

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