As I posted to your previous question: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28010.msg888226#msg888226PC/104 is a standard, there are more manufactures and flavors of PC/104 than you can shake a stick at. So your question should be, does spaceX use the same PC/104 vendor as say a particular cube sat. http://www.pc104.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC/104
No, I was questioning whether the PC/104 board used in CubeSATS was the same PC/104 that SpaceX uses for its flight control system. Its hard to imagine that they could be the same class computer.
Does anyone know what SpaceX is paying to use the facilities in Florida?
Quote from: JBF on 04/23/2012 02:16 pmDoes anyone know what SpaceX is paying to use the facilities in Florida?which facilities?
Launch complex 40 and all associated range fees.
Quote from: JBF on 04/24/2012 12:37 pmLaunch complex 40 and all associated range fees. They pay for all range fees. SLC-40 is leased to them at no cost. If Spacex did not lease it, the USAF would have demolished it. Spacex pays for all utilities and mods to the complex.
To what degree, including perhaps none at all, does the current berthing software development for COTS/CRS help SpaceX down the road when they need to write docking software for CCDev?
Has SpaceX put out a press kit for this COTS 2/3 flight yet? I'm not finding it on their website, only the COTS 1 press kit.
I know the COTS 2 mission was supposed to take place as early as 2009 but what was the first launch day reveled to the public (Ex: November 30th, 2011)? Also what kind of boat does SpaceX recover Dragon with?
Quick ignorant question...looked for a better thread to ask this but...
here goesRussia, ESA, China (borrowed tech) have automated docking.Is Space X and Orbital and NASA ever going to adopt this tech too?
Quote from: Hodapp on 05/24/2012 09:16 pmQuick ignorant question...looked for a better thread to ask this but...http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28719.0Quotehere goesRussia, ESA, China (borrowed tech) have automated docking.Is Space X and Orbital and NASA ever going to adopt this tech too?Not for cargo. CRS will continue to use berthing.Commercial Crew Program will use docking. SpaceX, Boeing, SNC, Blue Origin, and Excalibur Almaz are involved in CCP. Orbital is not, at the moment.