Dragon Crew v.2.0

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http://ria.ru/space/20160409/1405766617.html#ixzz45Jfl1LcJ

Глава компании SpaceX Илон Маск подтвердил, что первый тестовый пилотируемый полет нового корабля Dragon состоится в конце 2017 года.
"Первый пилотируемый полет мы надеемся осуществить в конце 2017 года, это будет испытательный полет", — сказал Маск журналистам.

[Salo]

 
  Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk  27 апр.  
Dragon 2 is designed to be able to land anywhere in the solar system. Red Dragon Mars mission is the first test flight.

  Elon Musk Подлинная учетная запись ‏@elonmusk  
But wouldn't recommend transporting astronauts beyond Earth-moon region. Wouldn't be fun for longer journeys. Internal volume ~size of SUV.
  9:45 - 27 апр. 2016 г.

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James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean 4 ч.4 часа назад
Lisa Colloredo, CCP associate manager at KSC, touts program's cost effectiveness.
 

[SFN]

Бдишь! Это застрелился зам по маркетигу Спейсекса. Обещал, что ценовых конкурентов не будет.

[Salo]

James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean 3 ч.3 часа назад
Former NASA astronaut Scott Altman asks if rockets have any abort black zones during ascent. Boeing, SpaceX both say no. #SpaceCongress2016
 
  James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean 4 ч.4 часа назад
Upcoming SpaceX milestones include delta CDR2 and Launch Site Operational Readiness Review for crew (like crew arm). #SpaceCongress2016
 
  James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean 4 ч.4 часа назад
SpaceX's Reed: Looking forward to having a launch out of KSC's pad 39A towards the end of this year. #SpaceCongress2016
 
  James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean 4 ч.4 часа назад
SpaceX's Ben Reed shows video of 1st Falcon landing, says excitement will be that "times 10" when launch astronauts. #SpaceCongress2016

  James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean  5 ч.5 часов назад  
Cabana: Hope Boeing, SpaceX flying test flights in 2017, contracted flights 2018. [Boeing has already said '18] #SpaceCongress2016

[Валерий Жилинский]

Работа над пилотируемой версией Дракона отстаёт от графика более, чем на год.
 

SpaceX Running More Than One Year Behind Schedule on Commercial Crew



Garrett Reisman, SpaceX's Director of Crew Operations, said on Tuesday that an automated flight test of the Crew Dragon vehicle to the International Space Station (ISS) has slipped into the second quarter of 2016. It was scheduled to occur in March 2016 under the contract NASA awarded to SpaceX in September 2014.

During an appearance at the Space Tech Expo in Pasadena, Calif. Reisman showed a slide that INDICATED SpaceX had completely roughly half of the 18 milestones required to complete the Crew Dragon development program..

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2016/05/25/spacex-running-year-schedule-commercial-crew/

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http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/05/25/spacex-on-track-to-launch-astronauts-in-late-2017/

SpaceX 'on track' to launch astronauts in late 2017             
 May 25, 2016 Stephen Clark
 
Artist's concept of the Crew Dragon spacecraft in orbit. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX is on schedule to fly two NASA astronauts on a test flight to the International Space Station by the end of 2017, but there is a lot of work to do to ensure the company's new Crew Dragon spaceship is up to the task and ready in time, a SpaceX manager said Tuesday.
Benjamin Reed, director of SpaceX's commercial crew program, said Tuesday that construction workers will install a crew access arm and other infrastructure for human spaceflights at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A this summer.
The seaside launch facility — last used for the final space shuttle launch in 2011 — is being leased by SpaceX to support flights by the company's future Falcon Heavy rocket, commercial satellite launches and piloted space sorties, which will blast off on the smaller Falcon 9.
Meanwhile, SpaceX has finished qualification of the company's own docking system to connect the Crew Dragon to Boeing-made docking adapters on the space station, and began testing of the capsule's propulsion system, according to a presentation by Reed at the Space Congress 2016 industry conference in Cape Canaveral.
Still to come: Full-up integrated tests of the Crew Dragon's environmental control and life support system, qualification of the capsule's four-parachute recovery system, and qualification of the spacesuits to be worn by astronauts flying on the SpaceX craft.
"We've got a lot to do by next year, but we're looking good," Reed told reporters Tuesday. "We're on track."
 
SpaceX dropped a mass simulator from a C-130 cargo plane earlier this year to test the Crew Dragon's four main parachutes. Credit: NASA

NASA awarded Boeing and SpaceX contracts in 2014 to complete development of the CST-100 Starliner and Crew Dragon spacecraft to ferry astronauts to and from the space station, eyeing a start of operational flights by the end of 2017.
Boeing won up to $4.2 billion for the effort, which will send astronauts to space on CST-100 capsules from Florida atop United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets and return them to landings in the Western United States, likely in New Mexico or Utah, with the aid of parachutes and airbags.
SpaceX's contract has a maximum value of $2.6 billion.
Each contractor is guaranteed at least two "post-certification" missions after they complete two orbital test flights to the space station, one without astronauts and one with two crew members. Boeing and SpaceX could each receive firm orders for up to six missions under the guidelines of the contracts.
So far, NASA has ordered the first two operational crew rotation missions from Boeing, and one from SpaceX. The CST-100 and Crew Dragon capsules will carry at least four astronauts on normal revenue-earning crew rotation flights, and they will stay docked with the complex for up to 210 days.
 
Astronauts Eric Boe, center, and Sunita Williams participate in a ground test last year at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: NASA

Boeing announced earlier this month that its first piloted CST-100 Starliner flight with two test astronauts on-board has slipped from October 2017 to February 2018. That will be preceded by an abort test using the capsule's pusher escape engines at White Sands, New Mexico, in October 2017 and a trip to the space station by an unoccupied CST-100 in December 2017, Boeing officials said.
Reed was less specific Tuesday on a timetable for Crew Dragon test flights.
Earlier this year, SpaceX quietly delayed its initial Crew Dragon mission without astronauts from late 2016 to May 2017. A NASA official confirmed the updated schedule in a March presentation to the agency's advisory council.
SpaceX demonstrated the Crew Dragon's ability to rapidly dispatch astronauts away from a catastrophic mishap on the launch pad in May 2015. The company plans an in-flight abort demo next year some time after the uncrewed orbital test flight, using the same vehicle after it returns from space.
"This time, we'll put the Dragon test vehicle on top of a Falcon 9, launch it and then do an abort mid-ascent," Reed said.
"Then of course, the biggie, Demonstration No. 2 to ISS with crew," Reed said. "Two of the members of the NASA cadre will be on-board, and we're looking forward to bringing them up and bringing them home safely."
NASA has named astronauts Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams as the first four crew members to train for CST-100 and Crew Dragon missions. The agency has not announced the astronauts who will fly on each spacecraft.
 
A prototype Crew Dragon spacecraft undergoes a hover test at SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas. Credit: SpaceX

Reed said SpaceX hopes to certify the Crew Dragon's propulsive landing capability, which will allow for helicopter-like touchdowns on a landing pad, some time after spacecraft begins flying astronauts.
"That's certainly the plan, and we'll work closely with NASA to decide the right time to introduce propulsive landing," Reed said.
The initial missions in 2017 will return to Earth to an ocean splashdown like the cargo version of Dragon, but with an extra fourth parachute to carry the added weight of the human-rated capsule.
SpaceX released a video in January of a five-second hover test using the Crew Dragon's powerful hydrazine-fueled SuperDraco jetpack at a development facility in Central Texas.
The propulsive landing technique is a key enabler for a commercial robotic "Red Dragon" mission SpaceX intends to launch to Mars in 2018.
"We're still working (on propulsive landing) right now, but the first thing is to make sure were certified to get the crew up and bring them back safely," he said.

[Max Andriyahov]

*пошёл учить английский(

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http://www.nasa.gov/feature/2016-advances-mark-commercial-crews-path-to-flight-0

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Eric Berger Подлинная учетная запись ‏@SciGuySpace  
The consoles of Starliner (left) and Dragon v2 seem to reflect the digital divide between traditional and new space.
 
  14:39 - 22 июн. 2016 г.  

[Alex_II]

Мда... Красиво, конечно, но внушает бааальшие опасения (я про Дракона)...

[Max Andriyahov]

Статичные тесты на прочность (или вибрацию?):

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/746052988964200448

*не получается картинку вставить

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Salo пишет:
Eric Berger Подлинная учетная запись ‏@ SciGuySpace

Ну зачем эту каку сюда тащить. У спайсов другой пульт и уже давно.

 http://www.nasa.gov/feature/astronauts-provide-vital-feedback-for-new-commercial-spacecraft/

Astronauts Suni Williams and Doug Hurley evaluate the flight deck of a SpaceX Crew Dragon in a spacecraft mockup at the company's Hawthorne, California, headquarters.
Credits: SpaceX

 https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/06/spacex-progress-human-missions-dragonfalcon-9/
SpaceX discusses progress toward human missions of Dragon/Falcon 9
June 23, 2016 by Chris Gebhardt

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http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/crew-dragon-pressure-vessel-put-to-the-test

Pressure vessels built by SpaceX to test its Crew Dragon designs are going through structural testing, so engineers can analyze the spacecraft's ability to withstand the harsh conditions of launch and spaceflight. A pressure vessel is the area of the spacecraft where astronauts will sit during their ride to the International Space Station. It makes up the majority of the Crew Dragon's structure but does not include the outer shell, heat shield, thrusters or other systems.

Even without those systems in place, however, SpaceX and NASA can learn enormous amounts about the design's strength by placing the pressure vessel in special fixtures that stress the structure. SpaceX completed two pressure vessels that will be used for ground tests and two more are in manufacturing right now to fly in space during demonstration missions for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

After the ground testing, the pressure vessels will be outfitted with all the systems they would need to be fully functional spacecraft.

Image Credit: SpaceX

Last Updated: June 29, 2016

более ранние источники фотографии
 https://www.instagram.com/spacex/

еще фото

в очень большом размере
 https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4pia59/backbone_of_dragon_2_spacecraft_undergoing/

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Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  
Updated timeline of major commercial crew milestones. SpaceX certification review Oct 2017; Boeing in May 2018.
 
  7:10 - 25 июл. 2016 г.

[silentpom]

интересно, а почему нету полета в космос с человеком, но без МКС?

[Max Andriyahov]

silentpom, а смысл?

[silentpom]

ну раньше так корабли испытывали

[Alex_II]

silentpom пишет:
ну раньше так корабли испытывали

А смысл сейчас? Его предназначение - летать на орбитальные станции, вот пусть и выполняет. Толку с него как с автономно летающего пилотируемого корабля немного. Разве что Сайдвиндеры подвесить и зайти в атаку на МКС?

[Paleopulo]

silentpom пишет:
ну раньше так корабли испытывали

При наличии действующей орбитальной станции? Когда это?