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another Dragon COTS1 question
At http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/splashdown/ one of the images:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon...wn/chutes1.jpg shows a second, smaller item and chute combination "below" Dragon. Of course, there is no way to know how far from Dragon's tracks they are, but assuming those are the initial drogues, it seems "interesting" that they landed first, and were anywhere near Dragon - it implies they could have "crossed the Dragon's path" as it were no? Probably wouldn't be all that much fun if they tangled with the mains. Or was that perhaps the super-secret payload having ejected, Gagarin-style, prior to splashdown?-) As for this: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon...n/floating.jpg was that a flotation device in Dragon's pocket, or was it just happy to have landed? rick jones -- oxymoron n, commuter in a gas-guzzling luxury SUV with an American flag 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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another Dragon COTS1 question
Rick Jones wrote in
: At http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/splashdown/ one of the images: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon...wn/chutes1.jpg shows a second, smaller item and chute combination "below" Dragon. Of course, there is no way to know how far from Dragon's tracks they are, but assuming those are the initial drogues, it seems "interesting" that they landed first, and were anywhere near Dragon - it implies they could have "crossed the Dragon's path" as it were no? Probably wouldn't be all that much fun if they tangled with the mains. I think that's the drogue chutes and an upper ring/cover jettisoned with the drogues. --Damon |
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another Dragon COTS1 question
On 12/8/2010 3:27 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
At http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/splashdown/ one of the images: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon...wn/chutes1.jpg shows a second, smaller item and chute combination "below" Dragon. Of course, there is no way to know how far from Dragon's tracks they are, but assuming those are the initial drogues, it seems "interesting" that they landed first, and were anywhere near Dragon - it implies they could have "crossed the Dragon's path" as it were no? Probably wouldn't be all that much fun if they tangled with the mains. Dragon did use two drogue chutes, and that looks like them. Dragon needs only one of its three parachutes to do a survivable landing, so with all three deployed it descends pretty slowly. According to SpaceX landing speed was 18 mph. was that a flotation device in Dragon's pocket, or was it just happy to have landed? Some sort of self-deploying liferaft for the crew? Pat |
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