SpaceX CRS-1 Mission Timeline
UPDATE FINAL: Beautiful Launch!
UPDATE 8:19 PM: t Minus 15 min -all systems go
UPDATE 7:34 PM: T Minus 1 Hour until launch
Weather- 80% chance of favorable conditions
UPDATE 7PM: NASA Live Coverage has begun
UPDATE 6:15 PM: Fueling is complete
UPDATE 6PM : Current Live video at Spaceflight Now
NASAÂ Live Coverage begins at 7 HERE
UPDATE 5PM : Countdown continues 3:34:00 remaining
Time-lapse of rollout HERE
UPDATE 2PM : Falcon vertical at pad
Vertical at Pad 10-7 – image credit: SpaceX
Times and dates are subject to change
Day 1: LAUNCH
Launch is scheduled for 8:34 p.m. EDT
COUNTDOWN
Hour/Min/Sec Events
- 7:30:30 Vehicles are powered on
- 3:50:00 Commence loading liquid oxygen (LOX)
- 3:40:00 Commence loading RP-1 (rocket grade kerosene)
- 3:15:00 LOX and RP-1 loading complete
- 0:10:00 Falcon 9 and Dragon terminal count autosequence started
- 0:02:30 SpaceX Launch Director verifies go for launch
- 0:02:00 Range Control Officer (USAF) verifies range is go for launch
- 0:01:00 Command flight computer to begin final prelaunch checks. Turn on pad deck and Niagara water
- 0:00:40 Pressurize propellant tanks
- 0:00:03 Engine controller commands engine ignition sequence to start
- 0:00:00 Falcon 9 launch
LAUNCH
Hour/Min/Sec Events
0:01:25 Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket)
0:03:00 1st stage engine shutdown/main engine cutoff (MECO)
0:03:05 1st and 2nd stages separate
0:03:12 2nd stage engine starts
0:03:52 Dragon nose cone jettisoned
0:09:11 2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO)
0:09:46 Dragon separates from 2nd stage
DRAGON ON-ORBIT OPERATIONS IN THE FAR FIELD
Hour/Min/Sec Events
0:11:45 Start sequence to deploy solar arrays
2:26:49 Start GNC (guidance and navigation control) bay door deployment—this door holds sensors
necessary for rendezvous
