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SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: StillTrying on August 02, 2020, 06:59:23 pm ---How come we heard a splash the moment it touched the water when the TV camera is 3 miles away. :-//

https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-splashdown-smoothly-delivers-nasa-astronauts-back-to-earth

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Fake news...   should be used to it by now!

Monkeh:

--- Quote from: paulca on August 02, 2020, 07:38:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: StillTrying on August 02, 2020, 06:59:23 pm ---How come we heard a splash the moment it touched the water when the TV camera is 3 miles away. :-//

https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-splashdown-smoothly-delivers-nasa-astronauts-back-to-earth

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Em... I checked the SpaceX live stream and on it too is the splash at touch down.  WTF?

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Because that wasn't a splash, it was the room mic being unmuted so you could hear applause.

paulca:
I think it was played on the control room PA by someone.

StillTrying:
"Because that wasn't a splash, it was the room mic being unmuted so you could hear applause."

I've re-wound skynews and watched it 6 times, it definitely sounds like a splash to me! :-//
There's a boom 30 sec after the splash, = ~4.8 miles. 5.8 miles. :-//

The 50 years old recovery method is definitely not as neat as a shuttle landing. :)

chris_leyson:
Nothing wrong with touchscreens if you build them to meet or exceed avionics and space qualifications. I think wraper summed it up with the shuttle flight deck photo
--- Quote ---Also do you think this is more practical than 3 touchscreens and a few buttons? If it does the job well, put something that takes minimum space and weight which are quite limited resources in space capsule.
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Also nothing wrong with a web browser HMI, they work well and if the hardware fails over for whatever reason you've still got a backup Ipad or two. The flight sofware and the Draco thrusters worked flawlessly to autonomously fly the Dragon capsule back to earth and get Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken home safely.
SpaceX have renegotiated their contract with NASA to reuse the DM-2 capsule on the first operational Crew Dragon mission due to launch in September. Whereas other human space flight vendors can't even get their flight software right.

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