Dragon splashes down

Congrats to SpaceX for the completion of another successful mission of
Dragon to the ISS. The mission wasn't completely glitch free, but the
issues were resolved and the mission was completed.

Jeff
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On Mar 26, 1:33*pm, Jeff Findley wrote:
Congrats to SpaceX for the completion of another successful mission of
Dragon to the ISS. *The mission wasn't completely glitch free, but the
issues were resolved and the mission was completed.

Jeff
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"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer

the design appears resilent, problems come up and thje mission is
still completed. the unmanned delivery is really excellent to get the
bugs out before flying people

Jeff Findley formulated the question :
Congrats to SpaceX for the completion of another successful mission of
Dragon to the ISS. The mission wasn't completely glitch free, but the
issues were resolved and the mission was completed.

http://SpaceXLaunch.zenfolio.com/p190296859/e5973dd98

/dps

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Jeff Findley wrote:
Congrats to SpaceX for the completion of another successful mission
of Dragon to the ISS. The mission wasn't completely glitch free,
but the issues were resolved and the mission was completed.

Indeed.

Did the capsule go para-surfing this time? If I recall correctly, the
last mission (?), SpaceX released a photo showing the capsule being
dragged through the ocean by two of its chutes. It even left
something of a non-trivial wake behind it

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Rick Jones wrote:
Did the capsule go para-surfing this time? If I recall correctly,
the last mission (?), SpaceX released a photo showing the capsule
being dragged through the ocean by two of its chutes. It even left
something of a non-trivial wake behind it

Here is the image I was thinking of:

http://cdn.zenfolio.net/zf/img/null.gif

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Rick Jones wrote:
Here is the image I was thinking of:

http://cdn.zenfolio.net/zf/img/null.gif

This may work better:

http://spacexlaunch.zenfolio.com/p20...01f1#h37af01f1

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Rick Jones writes:

Jeff Findley wrote:
Congrats to SpaceX for the completion of another successful mission
of Dragon to the ISS. The mission wasn't completely glitch free,
but the issues were resolved and the mission was completed.

Indeed.

Did the capsule go para-surfing this time? If I recall correctly, the
last mission (?), SpaceX released a photo showing the capsule being
dragged through the ocean by two of its chutes. It even left
something of a non-trivial wake behind it

In last mission's landing they even got seawater into the capsule which
ruined a returned NASA experiment (frozen samples) due to a loss of
power:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/...le-challenges/

As always you hear basically nothing about any problems or technical
details from SpaceX as long as it isn't directly connected to something
NASA is involved with (and then you hear about it from NASA). This
is one serious disadvantage of private spaceflight: Other than NASA
they're in no way willing (or obligated) to publish anything but press
releases. For anyone seriously interested in spaceflight this means
there's only very little interesting stuff available.


Jochem

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