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CatastrophicFailure Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 (edited) Cloudy with a chance of tweets... Edited December 30, 2019 by CatastrophicFailure Man, I coulda milked this tweetstorm for a lot more likes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 @CatastrophicFailure they are totally UFOs o_o! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tater Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 8pm Jan 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RealKerbal3x Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 (edited) Cool new Crew Dragon animation video: Edited December 30, 2019 by RealKerbal3x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Nice. Very nice. Hopefully soon we will see it live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Could Dragon ever be caught in a net like the fairings? Or is it just too heavy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Geonovast said: Could Dragon ever be caught in a net like the fairings? Or is it just too heavy? Probably too heavy...the Wikipedia article says it's something like 9 metric tons with the trunk. Even without the trunk, you'd need an impractically large and heavy net. Edited December 30, 2019 by RealKerbal3x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinimumSky5 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 How big a net are you willing to make, and how big of a ship are you willing to use? You definatly could make a big enough net, but I doubt that it'd be work it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 25 minutes ago, MinimumSky5 said: How big a net are you willing to make, and how big of a ship are you willing to use? You definatly could make a big enough net, but I doubt that it'd be work it. Well, there was once a plan to catch an Orion capsule with a helicopter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jim Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 30 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Well, there was once a plan to catch an Orion capsule with a helicopter... Sounds like a KSP challenge to me... lmao.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 30 minutes ago, Just Jim said: Sounds like a KSP challenge to me... lmao.... Sure, we’ve got helicopters now, we just need the grappling hooks. Get on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Industries Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 What's the touchdown speed for the Dragon Capsule? If it's low enough, perhaps you could just land on the recovery ship's helipad.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jim Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Raven Industries said: What's the touchdown speed for the Dragon Capsule? If it's low enough, perhaps you could just land on the recovery ship's helipad.. You just need a "helicopter" big enough to come with it's own landing pad... Hey, Elon... build one of these!!!!! Edited December 30, 2019 by Just Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Relevant: Also: 1 hour ago, Raven Industries said: What's the touchdown speed for the Dragon Capsule? If it's low enough, perhaps you could just land on the recovery ship's helipad.. Soyuz needs retros and Starliner needs airbags... turns out that last bump is a doozy. That’s why SpaceX was originally thinking propulsive landings, better precision and a much softer touchdown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jim Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Raven Industries said: What's the touchdown speed for the Dragon Capsule? If it's low enough, perhaps you could just land on the recovery ship's helipad.. 37 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Soyuz needs retros and Starliner needs airbags... turns out that last bump is a doozy. That’s why SpaceX was originally thinking propulsive landings, better precision and a much softer touchdown I watched the Starliner landing the other day, and I thought the airbags were a pretty good idea. But I can't deny it would look amazingly cool to see a dragon capsule do a propulsive landing on Of Course I Still Love You Edited December 31, 2019 by Just Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 (edited) Spoiler It can just land on a pad. P.S. For comfy splashing make an upper deck pool. Edited December 31, 2019 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 I still think they should have kept the propulsive landing idea. It allows easier reuse (as there's no salt water to worry about) and it's just really darn cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 5 minutes ago, RealKerbal3x said: I still think they should have kept the propulsive landing idea. It allows easier reuse (as there's no salt water to worry about) and it's just really darn cool. Much harder to get it certified by NASA. One option might be parachutes and then use the super drakos to slow down to safe landing speeds kind of like Soyuz uses but liquid fuel. However not sure this is much easier to certify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 I think there may still be a case for development of the propulsive landing potential of the Crew Dragon capsule, but no need to rush it since Crew Dragon could be superseded by Starship and if so that development time and money will probably be a waste. ...same as the SLS amirite if Crew Dragon was still viable to run post Starship then they could keep improving it sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 (edited) Me thinks, they should start using reusable Crew Dragon do deliver payloads and prove the crewable capsule propulsive landing. Anyway what do they loose? Just a tonne of "equipment from ISS", But I still can't remember even hop tests of the Dragon rocket landing, say, dropped from a plane. Edited December 31, 2019 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wjolcz Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 (edited) 7 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: Me thinks, they should start using reusable Crew Dragon do deliver payloads and prove the crewable capsule propulsive landing. The capsule would need legs though. So they would either have to certify it with legs from the start or modify each one of them after the first flight (since crew is going to fly only once on each of them). As cool as that would be I'd rather see them focus on Starship instead of retrofitting Dragon to do a cool hoverslam trick over the land (besides, there's very little R&D value in that since they already proved they can recover things propulsively). They are making enough money landing it in the sea anyway. There's probably little need to minimize recovery costs or the savings wouldn't be that significant. It seems to me that doing this would be just a costly, albeit very spectacular, flex on other companies. Edited December 31, 2019 by Wjolcz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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