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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending Historic Test Flight
"The world's first commercial space
cargo ship dove through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean early Thursday (May 31), ending an historic test flight to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon capsule made a water landing off the coast of Baja California, Mexico at 11:42 a.m. EDT (1542 GMT). Recovery ships have spotted the capsule and are en route to collect the vehicle to tow to Los Angeles." See: http://www.space.com/15939-spacex-dr...g-pacific.html |
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending Historic Test Flight
SpaceX have an image up on their website in the Updates section now.
I guess the expectation is someone will clean-up Dragons with a scrub-brush for re-use? The thing looks just as scorched as a Soyuz to my peanut gallery eyes. -- The glass is neither half-empty nor half-full. The glass has a leak. The real question is "Can it be patched?" these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... |
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending HistoricTest Flight
On 1/06/2012 6:38 AM, Rick Jones wrote:
SpaceX have an image up on their website in the Updates section now. I guess the expectation is someone will clean-up Dragons with a scrub-brush for re-use? The thing looks just as scorched as a Soyuz to my peanut gallery eyes. Presumably residue from the heat shield. Aesthetics apart, does it matter if a less than pristine capsule is launched when it's reused? Sylvia. |
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending HistoricTest Flight
On 1/06/2012 11:52 AM, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 1/06/2012 6:38 AM, Rick Jones wrote: SpaceX have an image up on their website in the Updates section now. I guess the expectation is someone will clean-up Dragons with a scrub-brush for re-use? The thing looks just as scorched as a Soyuz to my peanut gallery eyes. Presumably residue from the heat shield. Aesthetics apart, does it matter if a less than pristine capsule is launched when it's reused? Sylvia. I remember the 'rust' (oxidation) on the Shuttles too. Hardly pristine. |
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending Historic Test Flight
Sylvia Else writes:
Presumably residue from the heat shield. Aesthetics apart, does it matter if a less than pristine capsule is launched when it's reused? No, but I'm also sure that the outer covers (it's not the pressure vessel you're seeing there) will not be reused anyway. And if they will be reused they will get a fresh coat of paint. You surely don't want even pieces of peeling-off paint floating around at the ISS. 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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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending HistoricTest Flight
On Jun 1, 6:25*am, Jochem Huhmann wrote:
Sylvia Else writes: Presumably residue from the heat shield. Aesthetics apart, does it matter if a less than pristine capsule is launched when it's reused? No, but I'm also sure that the outer covers (it's not the pressure vessel you're seeing there) will not be reused anyway. And if they will be reused they will get a fresh coat of paint. You surely don't want even pieces of peeling-off paint floating around at the ISS. * * * * 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 can space x put advertising on the boosters and capsules for added bucks? |
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending Historic Test Flight
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 03:40:34 -0700 (PDT), bob haller
wrote: can space x put advertising on the boosters and capsules for added bucks? It is their rocket to do with as they please. How lucrative that would be, I don't know, as most rocket launches these days get no media coverage. After the next Falcon 9 or two and the Falcon Heavy debut, there won't be much coverage of Falcon launches either. Brian |
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending Historic Test Flight
Sylvia Else wrote:
On 1/06/2012 6:38 AM, Rick Jones wrote: SpaceX have an image up on their website in the Updates section now. I guess the expectation is someone will clean-up Dragons with a scrub-brush for re-use? The thing looks just as scorched as a Soyuz to my peanut gallery eyes. Presumably residue from the heat shield. Aesthetics apart, does it matter if a less than pristine capsule is launched when it's reused? Only from an emotional standpoint I suppose and the effect it has (or not) on a potential passenger's willingness to board (once we get past the point of flying steeley-eyed missile-men). Still, I don't recall Shuttle's looking all that soiled at launch. rick jones -- No need to believe in either side, or any side. There is no cause. There's only yourself. The belief is in your own precision. - Joubert these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... |
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending Historic Test Flight
Jeff Findley writes:
The shuttle's tiles did show some "streaking" after several flights, but it wasn't as prominent as what is seen on Dragon. The bottom of Dragon is protected by an ablative heat shield which deposited some of its soot higher up on the craft. If you've ever seen a "flown" Apollo capsule in a museum, you'll see they look quite similar to a flown Dragon. No doubt SpaceX will want to clean and paint the upper surface (or simply replace the outer panels with new ones) before reusing a Dragon so the soot does not change the thermal properties of the craft in orbit. That and it looks better to launch a shiny spacecraft than a dirty one. :-) Another thing to consider ist just scale. The "streaking" on the shuttle looks much less prominent compared to the size of the craft. Dragon is much smaller though. Look at this picture of a landed shuttle: http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/03/42/63.../3/628x471.jpg It looks not much better than Dragon if you look closely. And then: some photos of the current Dragon were from a side that was very sooted -- look at this photo, it doesn't look half as bad http://pic.twitter.com/OqF7ghXZ 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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