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With all this talk about the CEV, I thought I'd try to drag the discussion
over to NASA COTS and ISS resupply. The latest pictures on Space-X's web site of their Dragon capsule look pretty good. I think the baseline CBM is a good thing. Here's their highlights: Dragon Highlights: - Fully Autonomous with Manual Over-ride capability in crewed configuration - Pressurized Cargo/Crew capacity of 3100 kg to ISS orbit - Supports 7 passengers in Crew configuration - Down-cargo capability (equal to up-cargo) - Integral CBM, with LIDS or APAS support if required - Designed for Water Landing under Parachute (Ocean Recovery) - Lifting re-entry for landing precision & low-g's With the integrated CBM, I'd think that the cargo version would be fairly easy to deal with once it's been berthed to ISS. Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) |
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On Feb 9, 10:40 am, "Jeff Findley"
wrote: With all this talk about the CEV, I thought I'd try to drag the discussion over to NASA COTS and ISS resupply. The latest pictures on Space-X's web site of their Dragon capsule look pretty good. I think the baseline CBM is a good thing. Here's their highlights: Dragon Highlights: - Fully Autonomous with Manual Over-ride capability in crewed configuration - Pressurized Cargo/Crew capacity of 3100 kg to ISS orbit - Supports 7 passengers in Crew configuration - Down-cargo capability (equal to up-cargo) - Integral CBM, with LIDS or APAS support if required - Designed for Water Landing under Parachute (Ocean Recovery) - Lifting re-entry for landing precision & low-g's With the integrated CBM, I'd think that the cargo version would be fairly easy to deal with once it's been berthed to ISS. Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) This will be one to watch, (along with T-Space, & Lockheed). The second Falcon test is to be done next month. The Capsule Lockheed shows ontop of the Atlas V, has no Escape tower. Wonder what the crew escape plan will be for it? Carl |
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"Jeff Findley" schreef in bericht ... With all this talk about the CEV, I thought I'd try to drag the discussion over to NASA COTS and ISS resupply. It's nice to have some computer generated pictures and list some nice features, it's something entirely different to build a working spacecraft. NASA is trying to do the latter. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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On 10 Feb, 18:44, "Guy Fawkes"
wrote: "Jeff Findley" schreef in . .. With all this talk about the CEV, I thought I'd try to drag the discussion over to NASA COTS and ISS resupply. It's nice to have some computer generated pictures and list some nice features, it's something entirely different to build a working spacecraft. NASA is trying to do the latter. How far are Spacex to go in the "demonstration"? Are they not also building a working spacecraft. Isn't there a risk that Dragon plus a Service Module could make Orion redundant? |
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In article ,
Guy Fawkes wrote: It's nice to have some computer generated pictures and list some nice features, it's something entirely different to build a working spacecraft. NASA is trying to do the latter. Yes, and lately they haven't done too well at it -- their history in that area has been an unbroken string of failures and canceled projects. These days, they too specialize in computer-generated pictures and lists of nice features. It's not clear that they *know* how to build working spacecraft any more -- the guys who built Saturn and Apollo, and even the shuttle, are gone now. -- spsystems.net is temporarily off the air; | Henry Spencer mail to henry at zoo.utoronto.ca instead. | |
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In article .com,
surfduke wrote: ...The Capsule Lockheed shows ontop of the Atlas V, has no Escape tower. Wonder what the crew escape plan will be for it? Escape rockets can be placed underneath; there's no law of nature that says they have to be on top. -- spsystems.net is temporarily off the air; | Henry Spencer mail to henry at zoo.utoronto.ca instead. | |
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Henry,
Escape rockets can be placed underneath; there's no law of nature that says they have to be on top. And as you have pointed out previously, there are several laws of nature that strongly suggest putting them on the bottom. ~Jon |
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On 11 Feb, 06:46, "Jonathan Goff" wrote:
Henry, Escape rockets can be placed underneath; there's no law of nature that says they have to be on top. And as you have pointed out previously, there are several laws of nature that strongly suggest putting them on the bottom. Though getting rid of them after they've served their purpose is slightly more difficult. |
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"Henry Spencer" schreef in bericht ... In article , Guy Fawkes wrote: It's nice to have some computer generated pictures and list some nice features, it's something entirely different to build a working spacecraft. NASA is trying to do the latter. Yes, and lately they haven't done too well at it -- their history in that area has been an unbroken string of failures and canceled projects. These days, they too specialize in computer-generated pictures and lists of nice features. It's not clear that they *know* how to build working spacecraft any more -- the guys who built Saturn and Apollo, and even the shuttle, are gone now. No faith in the capabillities of today's engineers? I think you'll find that they're just as capable as the ones who built Apollo and Saturn, if not more so. And thanks to today's computer technology they'll be able to build better designs, quicker and cheaper in less time and they'll have been tested and simulated far more streneously than the ones in the Apollo days. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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