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Old July 28th 11, 04:15 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Anthony Frost
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Default NASA, SpaceX agree on space station flight

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Jeff Findley wrote:

From what I can tell, Dragon will be
grappled by the SSRMS and berthed to a CBM port on an MPLM. So Dragon
has to hold still enough to be grabbed.

This is the same sort of operation that the Japanese H-2 Transfer
Vehicle (HTV) performed back in 2009, so it's not going to be a "first".
But if it's successful, this should be huge news for the US spacecraft
industry.


Errr, why? Other than the arm being on the passive vehicle rather than
the active one, surely it's no different to any of the Hubble servicing
missions or any other time the shuttle went up to park next to something
else and grab it with the arm.

Anthony

 




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