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See: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...pdate_999.html The original text *with* pictures is at http://www.spacex.com/updates.php Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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Jochem Huhmann wrote:
writes: See: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...pdate_999.html The original text *with* pictures is at http://www.spacex.com/updates.php Finally some real excitement is returning to our space program. And it isn't just SpaceX. Dawn will be at Vesta in two years. The destroyed remains of an asteroid planet. Wow. Jochem |
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Jochem Huhmann wrote:
writes: See: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...pdate_999.html The original text *with* pictures is at http://www.spacex.com/updates.php Since the Dragon won't have any engine systems aboard, are they just going to let it decay from orbit, or is this flight suborbital? Pat |
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Pat Flannery writes:
Jochem Huhmann wrote: writes: See: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...pdate_999.html The original text *with* pictures is at http://www.spacex.com/updates.php Since the Dragon won't have any engine systems aboard, are they just going to let it decay from orbit, or is this flight suborbital? I don't think it's intended to be suborbital. But if they even won't bother to separate the thing from the second stage it will probably decay fast. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
going to let it decay from orbit, or is this flight suborbital? ocean-sychronous |
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:14:12 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote: Jochem Huhmann wrote: writes: See: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...pdate_999.html The original text *with* pictures is at http://www.spacex.com/updates.php Since the Dragon won't have any engine systems aboard, are they just going to let it decay from orbit, or is this flight suborbital? ??? It's supposed to have an RCS , no? http://www.spacex.com/dragon.php |
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:14:12 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote: Jochem Huhmann wrote: writes: See: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...pdate_999.html The original text *with* pictures is at http://www.spacex.com/updates.php Since the Dragon won't have any engine systems aboard, are they just going to let it decay from orbit, or is this flight suborbital? ??? It's supposed to have an RCS , no? http://www.spacex.com/dragon.php The actual Dragon is supposed to have an RCS - but they are launching the qualification model, and it's not entirely clear how close to completely operational it will be. (from: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0909/24falcon/): :"This is the actual article used to qualify Dragon for flight loads, :so it is identical to the flight article as far as the core structure :and mold line, but will not carry engines or avionics, therefore it is :lighter," said Elon Musk, SpaceX's billionaire founder. Which strikes me as *very* odd, because one of the reasons for doing this was given as: (from the same source) :"This gives us the best flight data in advance of our first COTS mission," :Musk said. "It also removes the (payload) fairing from the schedule critical ath and allows us to spend more time on making the fairing lighter and more :reliable." Which sounds fishy as hell... Almost like there is a problem with the fairing, and thus they are unable to launch the (as yet unannounced) originally intended payload. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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me wrote:
Since the Dragon won't have any engine systems aboard, are they just going to let it decay from orbit, or is this flight suborbital? ??? It's supposed to have an RCS , no? http://www.spacex.com/dragon.php From what I read, this first one will be pretty much inert, and the second one will have a operational RCS. Pat |
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Derek Lyons wrote:
(from the same source) :"This gives us the best flight data in advance of our first COTS mission," :Musk said. "It also removes the (payload) fairing from the schedule critical ath and allows us to spend more time on making the fairing lighter and more :reliable." Which sounds fishy as hell... Almost like there is a problem with the fairing, and thus they are unable to launch the (as yet unannounced) originally intended payload. Hmm, now that you mention it, that does sound odd...but they probably want to get Dragon up and running ASAP, so they can get a major lead over Orbital Sciences. Pat |
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