SpaceX passes the test flight software for SpaceX Dragon gets ready for the first launch cargo to t

While it is engaged in the preparation of the launch of the Falcon 9 vector for commercial activities planned in the coming months, the American space company SpaceX has submitted plans to the test abort during the launch of the Dragon capsule designed to transport crew, scheduled for June , 2014.
SpaceX is developing the manned version of the Dragon capsule, which is currently used in verisone cargo to supply the International Space Station (ISS), within the program of the Commercial Crew Ahgenzia American Space (NASA), where it competes with Boeing and Sierra Nevada Corporation provide NASA with the new transport system of American astronauts into low Earth orbit (LEO) and the International Space Station after the end of the Space Shuttle program.
Among the milestones of the current phase of the development program, there is that of defining and testing the system rescue capsule as a result of abnormalities during jura the launch phase, by means of an adequate system of abort.
Technicians (NASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have met the technical space of the company founded by Elon Musk last September 17, 2013, at the headquarters SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to participate in the review of the test plan abort flight of Dragon capsule, which were evaluated SuperDraco of new engines which will be equipped with the software that will guide the steps of ignition and separation of emergency and the interface between the capsule and the carrier that the Falcon 9 will launch in orbit.
After about 73 seconds after takeoff, when the capsule and the carrier will be subject to the maximum aerodynamic stress of being launched, will be sent to the capsule of the launch abort the command that will result in the posting of emergency from the carrier rocket and the immediate switch to full power of the 8 rocket engines SuperDraco, placed in pairs on the conical surface of the lateral capsule, which will allow the rapid removal of the Falcon 9 Dragon.
The capsule will carry subsequently a controlled descent by parachute jura that will lead her to gently touch the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, where a support ship will be waiting to simulate the recovery phases of the capsule and the occupants.
Obviously, for this test, the capsule jura will be without a human crew, but with dummies similar to those used for automotive crash tests which will verify the conditions under which it would be subject to the astronauts in case you were effttuare an abort maneuver during the toss.
The excess jura of the review of the plan to abort the test in flight represents the eighth stage of 15 agreed jura between NASA and SpaceX within the current stage of development jura of launch systems under the program Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap), the third phase of the program NASA's Commercial Crew.
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