JF Mezei wrote on Sun, 26 Aug 2018
23:00:57 -0400:

On 2018-08-26 18:04, Fred J. McCall wrote:

It goes east (when launched on the east coast). Do you never bother
to learn ANYTHING before you ask stupid questions?


On the launch pad, it is pointing straight up. So a capsule being
jettisoned would go straight up, woudln't it?


So payloads get to orbit by going straight up? Uh, no.


So what sort of steering would it have (either with the rockets or with
parachutes) to direct it to water landing? or would it do a ground
landing for such an event ?


Again, do you never bother to learn ANYTHING before you ask stupid
questions? Super Dracos are throttleable, which means you can shape
the trajectory with them. Emergency escapes go for a parachute
landing in water. Everyone but you seems to know this.

"In August 2014, it was announced that the pad abort test would occur
in Florida, at SpaceX's leased pad at SLC-40, and the test was
conducted successfully on 6 May 2015. Dragon landed safely in the
ocean to the east of the launchpad 99 seconds later."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_2#Pad_abort_test


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