Author Topic: OMG it's the SpaceX Party Thread! (Read 478936 times)

Jason1701 · « **Reply #980 on:** 05/25/2012 01:21 pm »

Quote from: jongoff on 05/25/2012 01:18 pm

It's kind of funny seeing Dragon that close and realizing that the Sticky Boom solution I'm currently working on might actually be able to grab it at this point (if it were fully-developed and qualified flight hardware on the station)...

Can sticky boom generate enough torque on the spacecraft to orient it for berthing? I imagined the boom as somewhat flimsy.

thomson · « **Reply #981 on:** 05/25/2012 01:25 pm »

What happens if the don't manage to get into 10m range and capture Dragon during a daytime? They will just wait for then next sunrise, right? There's 16 of them during every 24 hours, so we that would just be like 90 minutes delay?

Also, how much fuel Dragon consumes for maintaining the position and alignment? I assume not much. How long time does it have before propellant is depleted?

krytek · « **Reply #982 on:** 05/25/2012 01:26 pm »

SpaceX launch control looked much sleeker than the NASA mission control.
Look at those paperwork cabinets behind them.

Duck · « **Reply #983 on:** 05/25/2012 01:27 pm »

Quote from: thomson on 05/25/2012 01:25 pm

What happens if the don't manage to get into 10m range and capture Dragon during a daytime? They will just wait for then next sunrise, right? There's 16 of them during every 24 hours, so we that would just be like 90 minutes delay?

Also, how much fuel Dragon consumes for maintaining the position and alignment? I assume not much. How long time does it have before propellant is depleted?

I would imagine that the closer it's centre of mass is to the ISS' centre of mass, the less propellant it will use up in station keeping.

-Iain

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #984 on:** 05/25/2012 01:28 pm »

Reach out and touch (Dragon):

Beemer · « **Reply #985 on:** 05/25/2012 01:29 pm »

Quote from: thomson on 05/25/2012 01:25 pm

What happens if the don't manage to get into 10m range and capture Dragon during a daytime? They will just wait for then next sunrise, right? There's 16 of them during every 24 hours, so we that would just be like 90 minutes delay?

Also, how much fuel Dragon consumes for maintaining the position and alignment? I assume not much. How long time does it have before propellant is depleted?

Misson Control said they do not want to try berthing a new vehicle in darkness so they will be doing it in sunlight.

sojourner · « **Reply #986 on:** 05/25/2012 01:29 pm »

Really seems odd not to have live SpaceX feed by now.

krytek · « **Reply #987 on:** 05/25/2012 01:30 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 05/25/2012 01:28 pm

Reach out and touch (Dragon):

-removed video-

Hell yeah!

mikes · « **Reply #988 on:** 05/25/2012 01:30 pm »

Quote from: thomson on 05/25/2012 01:25 pm

What happens if the don't manage to get into 10m range and capture Dragon during a daytime? They will just wait for then next sunrise, right? There's 16 of them during every 24 hours, so we that would just be like 90 minutes delay?

45 minute delay - half the orbit is in sunlight

corrodedNut · « **Reply #989 on:** 05/25/2012 01:31 pm »

Steady, steady......

Beemer · « **Reply #990 on:** 05/25/2012 01:32 pm »

I haven't watched anything spaceflight related here at work in a long time. My poor colleagues thought they were done listening to this kind of thing lol

jongoff · « **Reply #991 on:** 05/25/2012 01:33 pm »

Quote from: Jason1701 on 05/25/2012 01:21 pm

Quote from: jongoff on 05/25/2012 01:18 pm
It's kind of funny seeing Dragon that close and realizing that the Sticky Boom solution I'm currently working on might actually be able to grab it at this point (if it were fully-developed and qualified flight hardware on the station)...

Can sticky boom generate enough torque on the spacecraft to orient it for berthing? I imagined the boom as somewhat flimsy.

Honestly, I haven't run all the numbers, but I actually wouldn't be surprised if it could once you had pulled it back closer in. It's not a design case I'm seriously looking at though. More focused on stuff 100kg and below for now.

~Jon