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  • Dragon C1 flight post-mortem

    Planetary Radio's show is interesting - it has an interview with Jeff Richichi, SpaceX's Director of Structural Engineering. It starts at about 6:19 and runs about 15 minutes. Notable items;

    - Dragon's lighting is all LED for low current draw & maximum life

    - SpaceX makes its own thermal blankets using a team of seamstresses. They will also be making their own spacesuits.

    - just one failure in the entire flight: a temperature sensor, which was triple-redundant anyhow.

    - the biggie: they're dismantling the COTS-1 capsule for analysis, and from what they've seen so far they could stick it on another Falcon 9 and fly it again as is.

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    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 11 January 2011, 20:47.
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    Nice! WWED
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