FTS is armed. Go for lunch.
Minus 15 seconds.
Send 9876543210 ignition,
liftoff, simplify, aim high.
Range.
Fatal
3 + 30 seconds. Falcon Nine with the crew.
Dragon Capsule is heading East from Pad 39 A.
Everything looking good right now as
we get ready for Max dynamic pressure.
We're not rolling down
the first stage engine's.
Metal.
Everything continues to look good.
We are perching the period of
maximum dynamic pressure.
Vehicle is supersonic and
passing through maximum
dynamic pressure. You heard
where supersonic?
We're through Max Q.
We're getting ready now to throttle the
engine's back up on the first stage.
Stage one throttle up.
There's the kohout OK,
the major activity coming up in
just over 10 seconds shut down and
Dragon escaped from the Falcon 9.
Why?
Miko Dragon Launch Escape initiated.
Wagon train.
And you can hear some really
loud cheering in the room.
OK, you just saw a bright flash there.
It looks like that may
be Falcon 9 breaking up.
We've got some loud cheers here in Hawthorne.
The folks that just watched Live the
dragon separate the next milestone
we have coming up at 2 minutes,
25 seconds.
We're expecting to see the
trunk jettison so that
claw that connects the trunk to
the capsule is going to separate,
allowing dragon to separate from the trunk.
It's coming up in 15 seconds.
And we do have the report loss of
telemetry from Falcon Nine first stage.
And there you just saw the trunk jettison.
Again, some really loud.
Cheers here in Hawthorne, CA.
This test is looking great so far. Nice view
from the back of the
Dragon capsule. We're also
trying to see if we get the view
there on the right hand side from
the aircraft it's orbiting the area.
Now the Dragon Control system is now
going to be reorienting the capsule
where at a high altitude where
the air dynamics are negligible,
so we're going to use the small
Draco thrusters on the Dragon
capsule to reorient it.
That gets it in a position with the
heat shield down to re-enter the
Earth's atmosphere and then later
to deploy the drogue parachutes.
Now those drogue chutes we expect to get
confirmation that those have deployed
at T + 4 minutes and 48 seconds.
So we've got just a little bit of
breathing room before we hear that happen.
Those parachutes are protected during
ascent on orbit and reentry by a panel
that's up near the nose cone of the capsule.
So we're going to jettison the panel,
then the mortars will fire to
deploy those two drogue chutes.
Again, that's coming up in just over a
minute at T + 4 minutes and 48 seconds.
Now those drogue chutes when we see
those come out, those will open.
Those will come out before the
main parachutes that those drogue
parachutes are what we use to begin
to decelerate the Dragon capsule
in preparation for splashdown.
We understand we're getting into the drogue
deploy envelope on the Dragon capsule.
We expect that will happen when
Dragon is at about 20,000 feet.
About 15 seconds to draw drogue chute deploy.
And there they are.
Drogue chutes are out.
Again, some major cheering going on here,
as every stage of this test unfolds.
Now we're going to be getting ready
for the main chutes to deploy.
Now main troops will be
coming up fairly quickly.
There are four main parachutes.
These are the newest mark,
three parachutes.
They reach 116 feet in diameter.
We deploy them about 2
kilometers above sea level,
6500 feet above the Atlantic Ocean.
We're getting good views from
the dragon and the airplane
showing the two drogue chutes.
Now we're just waiting for the main
parachutes to be deployed very shortly.
And we have the
view from a different camera on Dragon
showing the four main parachutes.
Now they are deployed in a reef condition.
That means we're keeping them fairly
shut to avoid shocks, and now we're
slowly opening up the four parachutes.
Great views coming off of the Dragon
Camera on the left and we can also see the
four parachutes.
Run the airplane on the road.
It is a really cool view.
Nice view of the orange and white parachutes
is they're opening up into the second
position and they're going to fully open.
From fully open will be descending about
20 to 25 feet per second down to the
Atlantic. So from that 6500 foot
altitude it's going to take us
a few minutes to splashdown.
Also, right now, now that the mains are out,
a sequence is performed on the
dragon which will reorient the crew
seats into a splashdown position.
Given a little better angle to take
the slow bounce as we hit the ocean.
Now we talked about the parachutes
came out initially at a reef
condition that's fairly standard.
They come out not fully open that
way there minimizing the shock on
the parachutes were also minimizing
the shark on the capsule.
Again, we want to give a smooth
ride to the crew as they are coming
back through the Earth's atmosphere.
Right now the parachutes are
located behind a door that's at the
bottom of the capsule.
It's below the crew hatch,
so Dragon commands the door to
release and as you saw in the video,
the drag parachutes pull the doorway.
And that pulls the four main parachutes out.
Now these are the new mark,
three parachutes we've
completed here at SpaceX.
Over 80 tests of that parachute system,
including ten multi parachute tests
of this particular upgraded parachute
design over the last few months.
To demonstrate that the
design is ready for flight.
An we are about.
We're just inside 2 minutes of when we
expect to see splashdown the recovery.
Teams are already out there in the
Atlantic Ocean standing by ready
with fast boats boats to begin their
initial approach to dragon again.
We mentioned this before,
but the recovery operation we
expect to take a couple of hours.
I've heard a call out where below 500 meters.
And we expect when Dragon
splashes down it's going to be
roughly 32 kilometres offshore.
Again, we're looking at a live view.
So far all things have appeared
to go nominal for this test.
All things looking great so far.
We saw the four main parachutes deploy.
You're looking at them now fully
open and we are coming up on
about a minute until splashdown.
I think we may have heard a
call out of 100 meters to go.
Yeah, I just heard that too.
Now those four parachutes are
actually going to be released
from the capsule after splashdown,
and they'll be recovered too.
And we're down.
Down a little bit early, in fact.
And there you can see the recovery
boat beginning to approach instantly.
Try to talk a little bit louder so
you can hear me over the folks here.
This is fun, really exciting thing
to see because we had the weather.
Weren't really sure if the
weather was going to cooperate.
We were trying to wait, you know,
is it favorable for lunch?
But also is it favorable for
recovery because they really have to
watch the height of those waves in
order to do this operation that that
fast boat is just off screen now,
but there's four fast boats out
there in the area to begin again.
That initial approach to dragon.
The recovery operation from
here takes about 2 hours,
but All in all this looks
like a really great test.
Yeah, lot of fun watching
the dragon come down.
We had great views from the
onboard camera in particular.
Now I think this camera is from
Argo Searcher recovery ship,
which is also the tender for the fast boat.
She saw one of am headed out there
and you can also see it looks still
a little choppy so you understand we
were kind of on the edge of the weather
conditions out in the splashdown area,
but they assess the boat data.
The buoy data.
Looked at the forecast and said
we were go and while we took 2
1/2 hours to get here we finally
got here and it was great.
And that's the summary for today.
It looks like right now,
a great test visually.
Everything happened.
Falcon on you saw the lift off.
We had kind of a long view from the camera.
Dragon did shut down the 9
Merlin 1D engines and separate.
We did see the flash as the
Falcon Nine came apart.
As predicted.
No surprise there dragon.
We saw a great view as it got to apogee it,
deployed the trunk,
separating it,
reoriented then the drug shoots came out.
The main shoots came out and then
we just waited for that nice soft
splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.
And we saw
and it looks like we just lost the
view from out there on the ship,
but you couldn't really see much
from that particular angle.
Again, that recovery operation is
going to take a couple of hours,
so we're not going to stay on the
air for the duration of that.
But we are going to be back for a
news conference coming up at 11:30
Eastern Time this morning that would
be let me do the math real quick.
830 Pacific Time.
We're going to hear from NASA
and SpaceX leaders about.
Their initial thoughts on
this test that you just saw.
Of course everything looked fantastic,
but there's going to be a
lot of data to dig into.
They're going to also
collect those parachutes,
get a lot of data from that,
and then see what the next steps are
on the path to demo two when of course,
we're going to be launching NASA
astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley,
so stay tuned for that news conference.
It will be carried live on NASA TV.
If you're watching on the web
just tuned to nasa.gov/live so
you can see that coverage again.
That's 830 Pacific Time 11:30.
Eastern thanks so much for joining
us for this morning's test.