Quote from: BrianNH on 08/19/2016 04:47 pmnew parachute testhttps://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2016/08/19/spacex-conducts-successful-crew-dragon-parachute-system-test/Dragon is hard to make out in the pictures. Is the trunk still attached???It looks like an oddly shaped Dragon mass simulator - Presumably to make it fit inside the cargo plane?
new parachute testhttps://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2016/08/19/spacex-conducts-successful-crew-dragon-parachute-system-test/Dragon is hard to make out in the pictures. Is the trunk still attached???
That seems like an unfortunate location for the mass simulator to end up in, heading straight for a large hill / small 'mountain'!
I was wondering:Will there be a future Dragon mission that will intentionally splash down using only two main chutes? I ask that because, like Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule, Dragon can safely land with a minimum of two chutes. The third one is for redundancy.If that type of chute test will be conducted in the near future, I'm guessing that SpX-10 would do such a thing.
Quote from: ZachS09 on 08/26/2016 10:04 pmI was wondering:Will there be a future Dragon mission that will intentionally splash down using only two main chutes? I ask that because, like Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule, Dragon can safely land with a minimum of two chutes. The third one is for redundancy.If that type of chute test will be conducted in the near future, I'm guessing that SpX-10 would do such a thing.Crew dragon will nominally use four chutes, so one chute out would probably be pretty similar to the current Dragon with three. The four chute test was just recently discussed here.Quote from: BrianNH on 08/19/2016 04:47 pmnew parachute testhttps://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2016/08/19/spacex-conducts-successful-crew-dragon-parachute-system-test/Dragon is hard to make out in the pictures. Is the trunk still attached???
Quote from: IntoTheVoid on 08/26/2016 10:15 pmQuote from: ZachS09 on 08/26/2016 10:04 pmI was wondering:Will there be a future Dragon mission that will intentionally splash down using only two main chutes? I ask that because, like Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule, Dragon can safely land with a minimum of two chutes. The third one is for redundancy.If that type of chute test will be conducted in the near future, I'm guessing that SpX-10 would do such a thing.Crew dragon will nominally use four chutes, so one chute out would probably be pretty similar to the current Dragon with three. The four chute test was just recently discussed here.Sorry, but I was referring to the unmanned cargo Dragon when I asked about the two-chute only splashdown.
Quote from: ZachS09 on 08/26/2016 10:04 pmI was wondering:Will there be a future Dragon mission that will intentionally splash down using only two main chutes? I ask that because, like Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule, Dragon can safely land with a minimum of two chutes. The third one is for redundancy.If that type of chute test will be conducted in the near future, I'm guessing that SpX-10 would do such a thing.Crew dragon will nominally use four chutes, so one chute out would probably be pretty similar to the current Dragon with three. The four chute test was just recently discussed here.