Quote from: cuddihy on 06/24/2016 03:34 amIs it time to rename this thread, "Crew Dragon Updates and Discussion"? The "V2" terminology appears to have disappeared entirely from Musk's/ SpaceX's lexicon.Like the purple hatch BTW, very festive....SpaceX or NASA's captions used "Dragon 2" as a generic family name of the vehicles. "Crew Dragon" and "Red Dragon" are, thus, variants of the model. ...
Is it time to rename this thread, "Crew Dragon Updates and Discussion"? The "V2" terminology appears to have disappeared entirely from Musk's/ SpaceX's lexicon.Like the purple hatch BTW, very festive.
Looks slightly lengthened, no?
I am sure they have not redesigned the shape of the pressure vessel since the pad abort. If I remember correctly it was mentioned though, that the amount of fuel would be increased. But that too was decided before the pad abort.
Quote from: guckyfan on 06/26/2016 08:22 pmI am sure they have not redesigned the shape of the pressure vessel since the pad abort. If I remember correctly it was mentioned though, that the amount of fuel would be increased. But that too was decided before the pad abort.From what I remember, the pad abort article was was a dragon 1 pressure vessel with a dragon 2 outer mold line, so the differences could entirely be chalked up to that...
A Crew Dragon test article successfully deployed its four main parachutes as planned during a test that saw the SpaceX-made test article dropped from a C-130 aircraft 26,000 feet above Delamar Dry Lake, Nevada.
The parachute test is just one of an evaluation regimen that is expected to include many additional parachute drops of increasing complexity. SpaceX and NASA engineers will use the results throughout the test program to confirm the system and get it certified for use first on flight tests and then for operational missions.
With a trunk? Looks odd....
(drop test pictures)
This 10 frames per second clip from NASA streaming was altered and stabilized.
Expedition-48 - US Spacewalk (EVA-36) (hosted coverage and commentary)http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9949