To: iowamark
So...they delivered a half a pickup truck full of stuff!
13 posted on
05/25/2012 5:24:24 AM PDT by
montomike
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To: montomike
Two points. It hasn’t been delivered yet. Capture should occur in less than an hour. Secondly, this is a test flight. They have approx. 1500 lbs of cargo onboard but the Dragon can deliver up to 7,000 lbs.
14 posted on
05/25/2012 5:32:36 AM PDT by
saganite
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To: montomike
Payload weight for the Dragon can be up to 13,228 lbs for a ferry flight. A lot of what they are taking is high volume, low mass soft goods like clothing.
Probably appropriate for the first test flight not to load up the spacecraft with max weight of expensive equipment.
/johnny
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