Re: BEAM cargo on Dragon
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Chris in Tampa on 4/12/2016, 9:56 am
A neat video linked from that article:
The Martian probably renewed more interest in space related things.
I didn't realize we're up to $82 million now for each seat. We're getting closer and closer to manned missions at home again. I guess Russia is squeezing all the money they can out of us until then.
I would be a little bit nervous going in the inflatable module on the ISS. I wonder if it will be open the entire time or sealed when not in use.
As for the landing legs, maybe in good conditions they are good enough, but if the boat were rocking more, and/or wind, it would seem you would need them bigger. Bigger drone ship too if the rocket was blown by high surface winds. I guess they are big enough for good conditions and maybe for some reason other factors come into play where bigger legs wouldn't help in poor weather. Maybe bigger lightweight legs simply wouldn't cut it for landing with rough seas or high winds. Maybe they would simply snap. I was wondering how it could be captured by the drone ship to keep from tipping, but probably too complex. Magnets would be too heavy and capturing it somehow given the fact it will not always be centered would be hard, I'm not sure how it would be done. If you had bigger legs though, you would need a bigger drone ship. It would have a larger footprint, so you would need a bigger target to land on. I guess the best thing, wait for good weather, both at the launch site and the landing site when you try to land on the drone ship.
A look at one of the failed landing attempts with a good shot of the legs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#/media/File:CRS-6_first_stage_booster_landing_attempt.jpg
From Falcon 9 article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9
They look like big legs when you get to see them compared to the size of a person:
http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/03/26/landing-leg
The landed rocket is back to the coast:
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2016/04/11/port-awaits-return-spacex-rocket/82896330/
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