Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 / Dragon 2 : SpX-DM1 : March 2, 2019 : DISCUSSION  (Read 601802 times)

Offline kevinof

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Ditto. Got my attention and I then re-assured myself that it's just the ablative tps.

Couple of bits that flew off during reentry... Probably just little particles of TPS or paint, but for obvious reasons I had a bit of a jolt. Things that cannot be unseen...

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No. was way before that.

Couple of bits that flew off during reentry... Probably just little particles of TPS or paint, but for obvious reasons I had a bit of a jolt. Things that cannot be unseen...

Drogue doors coming off, mostly likely.

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No. was way before that.

Couple of bits that flew off during reentry... Probably just little particles of TPS or paint, but for obvious reasons I had a bit of a jolt. Things that cannot be unseen...

Drogue doors coming off, mostly likely.

Hard to tell, the IR made everything glow even after reentry proper. In any case, good outcome.

Am I allowed to say CONGRATS SPACEX AND NASA!!  ?   :D

Edit, stupid autocorrect...
« Last Edit: 03/08/2019 01:33 pm by punder »

Offline EspenU

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Wasn't there a NASA requirement for recovery within 1 hour after splashdown? Only 5 min left of that deadline...

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Bob&Doug now requesting a flotation collar!   ;D

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Time allowance for clearing the snagged chute.

Wasn't there a NASA requirement for recovery within 1 hour after splashdown? Only 5 min left of that deadline...

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Been bobbing in the water for an hour now. I imagine any crew that would be aboard after months in microgravity  might be feeling pretty damn queasy by now.
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Dragon is in the nest. Wow, looks pretty scorched! It's being described as looking like a toasted marshmallow.
« Last Edit: 03/08/2019 03:15 pm by clongton »
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SpaceX: "A lovely toasted marshmallow"... ;D
« Last Edit: 03/08/2019 01:56 pm by Rocket Science »
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So if it would have been a crewed mission it would have been about 75 min from splashdown to crew egress ?

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Dragon is in the nest. Wow, looks pretty scorched! It's being described as looking like a toasted marshmallow.

That it is painted white in the first place does not help. If it was brownish like the Soyuz it would be less obvious.

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Dragon stowed aboard in it's nest.
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Well that was one hell of a week. Way to go Space X (and Nasa). Job well done.

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SpaceX: "A lovely toasted marshmallow"... ;D

Still better than "clean micro-Gs" lol

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So if it would have been a crewed mission it would have been about 75 min from splashdown to crew egress ?

Chute-drape, and they were probably super cautious for this one. They will get faster I bet.

Everything on that "mild sea state" is bobbing like a cork though. Too bad NASA pulled the football on SpaceX propulsive landing.

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On the way down I kept thinking of the 'Vomit Comet'.   Given the extreme care the Russians display with crew removal from the Soyuz, it is hard to imagine how a long duration crew is going to manage this environment.

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Well that was one hell of a week. Way to go Space X (and Nasa). Job well done.

That was incredible; you couldn't ask for anything more. It just seemed like this mission was never going to get off the ground...it finally did!  :)

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So if it would have been a crewed mission it would have been about 75 min from splashdown to crew egress ?
It was a Demo mission. No one was on board.
The following would be different if people were on board.
1) They would not have waited 6 hours after docking to the ISS to open the hatch.
2) Dragon would not have remained on the ISS 14 hours after hatches closed.
3) Dragon crew would not remain in Dragon 75 after splashdown.

Demo mission.
No one on board.

Offline vanoord

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So if it would have been a crewed mission it would have been about 75 min from splashdown to crew egress ?

Chute-drape, and they were probably super cautious for this one. They will get faster I bet.

Everything on that "mild sea state" is bobbing like a cork though. Too bad NASA pulled the football on SpaceX propulsive landing.

Mild sea state but there's enough ocean swell to make it more interesting - that might change if they're closer in to the coast, but the waves get shorter and taller in shallower water.

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The hand-wringing over some really very mild motion on the decent here is... well, typical.

Imagine if these folks had to be in zero gee for a prolonged period, I can't imagine how they would deal with that!

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