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I'm not aware of any "static test" to be done at the Cape. I'm sure SpaceX has been doing static tests at their Texas test facility though.Isn't there a static test of the Dragon's escape system using the Supper Dracos coming up soon?
Heh, I was using the "nothing moves" definition of static -- like the Static Fire tests of Falcon 9 rockets prior to their launches, when the rocket is held to the pad and not released. But yes this will be a LAS test from a non-moving platform, as opposed to the follow-on LAS test from a rocket while in flight.You have a funy way of saying no , "no Static" test, yes "Static test"! Using the super draco's to blast off from a truss structure, is a static test! A dynamic test would be to do it from a moving rocket....
Anybody know of when this is planned and if it will be broadcast live?
Scott
Got it! ;-)
Be nice to watch it if SpaceX or Nasa provide live video! I think I read that this "truss based" test will use a parachute and land in the water vs using the thusters to land it on land.
Still waiting for news about testing the abort/landing system being used on Dragon2? Are they testing it in Texas under wraps?
Isn't there a static test of the Dragon's escape system using the Supper Dracos coming up soon?
I would think that SpaceX would really want to recover their first stage for the Dragon V2 test. It would save them a whole lot of money. So I would expect that this test would happen after the resupply mission and the first test landing of the first stage Falcon 9 on the floating platform.
Pretty sure that in all abort cases, parachutes will be used to land on water -- since you've already used up most of your propellant to shoot away from the rocket in the first place.That is the later test for the in-flight abort. The one this thread is talking about is the launch-abort test for which they aren't even using a real first/second stage rocket. They are just sticking the capsule on top of a static pillar and the test is to have the capsule shoot itself away from the pillar and land safely on the ground nearby.
Pretty sure that in all abort cases, parachutes will be used to land on water -- since you've already used up most of your propellant to shoot away from the rocket in the first place.