Author Topic: SpaceX announce successful activation of Dragon’s CUCU onboard ISS  (Read 3072 times)

Offline Chris Bergin

Article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2010/03/spacex-activation-dragons-cucu-onboard-iss/

Wrote it up as we covered it ahead of STS-129, so it was nice to update things.

I took some content from a SpaceX presser that was sent out about 30 mins ago, located here:
http://spacex.com/press.php?page=20100329
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Offline Sparky

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Does anyone know where on station the CUCU will be located?

Thanks in advance.

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Nice update. Just goes to show how much planning is needed ahead of launches!

The description of the demo tests wasn't very clear to me. Looking on the Falcon 9 Wikipedia article, it'll only be the third demo test that will actually dock with the ISS, right?
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Looking on the Falcon 9 Wikipedia article, it'll only be the third demo test that will actually dock with the ISS, right?

Yes. Demo 2 would just close in to the vicinity of the station and maneuver around.

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 I'm a little surprised they're using half duplex for a relatively simple single channel system.  I suppose there might be a reason I'm not thinking of they wouldn't want to keep the carriers up full time during docking. Maybe the antennas are fairly low gain, so it would take more power than I realize at maximum distance.
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