SpaceX has successfully tested the alarm system Dragon

Today, the private company SpaceX successfully tested the emergency rescue crew transport spacecraft Dragon. The tests took place at a private launch complex, located on Cape Canaveral in the U.S. state of Florida. The launch is SpaceX manned flights into space.

In the course of the testing SpaceX lifted the Dragon with the mannequins in the air, then after 15 seconds after starting activated at an altitude of about 1 500 meters of the emergency rescue system of the crew, took the capsule to a safe distance and with 3 parachutes put her in the Atlantic ocean at a distance of about two kilometers from the launch site.

In contrast to existing solutions that alarm system SpaceX eight engine built into the hull of a ship, may at any time catapulting the crew during the preparation for the launch, and already launched into orbit rocket, and the duration of the flight. Emergency rescue of astronauts are similar to the ejection seat of the pilot, but here with a booster thrown the ship itself (capsule).





The engines can raise the Dragon at a height of 100 meters in 2 seconds. After 5 seconds, the ship is at a height of more than 0.5 km above the Ground.

As previously noted, the tests do not have to be perfect, the main thing – to collect as much data as possible that will help better prepare Dragon for manned flight in 2017.published

Source: hi-news.ru