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3 minutes ago, YNM said:

Wonder how are they getting comms issue but camera works ?

Dragon can talk with the ground, or radio the station, but is having trouble connecting the CAT-5 cable to connect "hard line" with the station.

 

As with most aerospace problems, "I could probably solve this with my boot if I could GET TO the problem."

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17 minutes ago, Rakaydos said:

trouble connecting the CAT-5 cable to connect "hard line" with the station.

Ah well. I hope the engineers looked that up and fix it for the next one... or maybe they'll fix it on this one given the thing's going to stay there for quite a while.

 

Are they snacking now ?

EDIT : Probably not, but seems like they were finding stuff in the packages they carried of sorts.

EDIT 2 : They kinda did.

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4 minutes ago, YNM said:

I wonder how much of it has to do with new hardware/old hardware problem XD

Possible. Connectors do break/wear out over time and use.

Looks like they are busy working.

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18 minutes ago, YNM said:

Are they snacking now ?

They were cleaning up their empty food bags from all that they ate in flight. 

I find it odd that they have actual water bottles in Dragon, I would think that it'd be pretty hard to drink out of a water bottle in space.

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11 minutes ago, Nightside said:

How long since that port was last used?

IDA adapter is new, but the PMA connection hasn't been since 2011 I guess. Don't know whether it went well on DM-1 or not.

10 minutes ago, cubinator said:

I find it odd that they have actual water bottles in Dragon, I would think that it'd be pretty hard to drink out of a water bottle in space.

Pretty sure they do on the ISS as well ! As long as you can generate enough suction, you can still drink well from an enclosed bottle.

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45 minutes ago, tater said:

CO2 scrubber, maybe, since they are now borrowing ISS ECLSS?

Could be for the big foam box... but I saw something else kinda like shrink-wrapped... batteries ?

44 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:
Siri  :cool:

Given how much touch screen has been involved it wouldn't surprise me any longer if they have such equivalents on space stations from this point on.

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1 minute ago, YNM said:

Given how much touch screen has been involved it wouldn't surprise me any longer if they have such equivalents on space stations from this point on.

Who knows? Maybe Gateway will. You can't operate space stations with 90s tech forever.

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