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SpaceX Dragon v2 Unveil
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| May 29, 2014
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Posted on 05/29/2014 7:48:12 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:50:06 PM PDT
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Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
He's delivered groceries to the ISS. That's something.
/johnny
To: Vince Ferrer
Dragon 2 won’t launch atop a grasshopper first stage. They are going to conduct an abort test atop a grasshopper though. The engines aren’t 3D printed. The engine nozzle is.
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posted on
05/29/2014 7:58:35 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: Vince Ferrer; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...
3-D Printer Ping!
Printed engine!
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:11:49 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Disarm Hollywood! No Guns for Box Office!)
To: Vince Ferrer
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:13:48 PM PDT
by
kitchen
(Even the walls have ears.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
To: null and void
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05/29/2014 8:19:23 PM PDT
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PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: PA Engineer
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05/29/2014 8:22:41 PM PDT
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null and void
(Disarm Hollywood! No Guns for Box Office!)
To: saganite
At 11 minutes into the presentation, he says the engine is printed.
/johnny
To: Vince Ferrer
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:28:41 PM PDT
by
Southack
(The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
To: saganite
The engines aren’t 3D printed. The engine nozzle is.When he talked about it in the video, he said the engines, not just the nozzel. And maybe they have to go a bit slowly, but 3d printing is great for very complicated pieces of machinery that currently have to be made by making hundreds of smaller parts and fusing them together. Printing them all together, joined together, as one part saves a lot of money and effort. Printing just the nozzel wouldn't be of that much benefit.
To: Vince Ferrer
The spacecraft looked very 50's sci-fi to me. Nice clean lines inside, I have to admit. None of that NASA plumbing running through the living room there...
/johnny
To: saganite
Dragon 2 won’t launch atop a grasshopper first stage.Do you have a link for that?
/johnny
To: Vince Ferrer
Really interesting stuff!
This project may bring many in this Nation (and around the world) back to an active interest in the efforts and possibilities of future space activities and space travel.
I hope to see a lot of progress, and a lot of youths wanting to participate, before my time ends here on this blue sphere!
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:58:35 PM PDT
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Col Freeper
(FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
To: null and void
The SuperDraco differs from most rocket engines in that its combustion chamber is 3D printed by direct metal laser sintering (DMLS), where complex metal structures are printed by using a laser to build the object out of metal powders one thin layer at a time. The regeneratively-cooled combustion chamber is made of inconel; a family of nickel-chromium alloy that’s notable for its high strength and toughness, and is also used in the Falcon 9’s Merlin engine.
http://www.gizmag.com/superdraco-test/32292/
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05/29/2014 9:05:27 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Vince Ferrer; NonValueAdded
Doesn’t look like a lot of “piloting” will be required - “spam in a can astronauts”. But it appears to be a versatile, inexpensive people and small cargo transporter to and from the ISS. Plus it’s private enterprise.
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posted on
05/29/2014 9:06:33 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
To: saganite
Dragon 2 won’t launch atop a grasshopper first stage.Yes, the grasshopper is a test vehicle. But it is intended to launch on a reusable Falcon.
To: JRandomFreeper
The spacecraft looked very 50's sci-fi to me. Nice clean lines inside, I have to admit. None of that NASA plumbing running through the living room there... Not many clean lines in a Soyuz either:
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posted on
05/29/2014 9:55:17 PM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
(Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
To: Vince Ferrer
may have better performance and reliability as there will be no welds to fail,or different metals that may react to each other.
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posted on
05/29/2014 10:21:20 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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